FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2009

Today is Friday, March 6, the 65th day of 2009. There are 300 days left in the year.

1521 _ Magellan discovers Guam

1799 _ Napoleon captures Jaffa Palestine

1831 _ Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy

1836 _ 3,000 Mexicans beat 182 Texans at the Alamo, after 13-day fight

1836 _ HMS Beagle/Darwin reaches King George's Sound, Australia

1853 _ Giuseppe Verdi's Opera ``La Traviata" premieres in Venice

1865 _ President Lincoln's second Inaugural Ball

1926 _ China asks for a seat in the Security council

1955 _ Dutch premiere of Samuel Becketts' ``Waiting for Godot"

1970 _ Beatles release ``Let it Be" in U.K.