Today is Wednesday, March 6, the 65th day of 2013. There are 300 days left in the year.
1521 ― Magellan discovers Guam
1836 ― 3,000 Mexicans beat 182 Texans at the Alamo, after 13 day fight
1853 ― Giuseppe Verdi’s Opera “La Traviata” premieres in Venice
1899 ― “Aspirin” patented by Felix Hoffmann
1926 ― China asks for a seat in the Security council
1960 ― President Sukarno disbands Indonesia’s parliament
1964 ― Elijah Muhammad renames Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali
1970 ― Beatles release “Let it Be” in U.K.
1981 ― Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of “The CBS Evening News”
1985 ― Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of “King & I”