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SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 2010

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Today is Saturday, March 6, the 65th day of 2010. There are 300 days left in the year.

1521 _ Magellan discovers Guam

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

1921 _ Police in Sunbury, Pa., issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least four inches below the knee

1964 _ Liz Taylor's third divorce (Eddie Fisher)

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

1978 _ Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot and crippled by a sniper in Georgia

1981 _ Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of ``The CBS Evening News"