March 6: This Day in History

 

• 1521 : Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.

• 1820 : The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe.  The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.

 

• 1836 : The Battle of the Alamo ends with all 187 Texas volunteers killed and the fort captured by the Mexican troops.

• 1869 : Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society

• 1899 : Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.

• 1912 : The Oreo cookie is introduced by Nabisco

• 1957 : Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain Independence from the British.

• 2008 : The discovery of the Rings of Saturnian moon Rhea, the first known rings around a moon, is announced.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_6