March 6

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[edit] Events

• 1836 - Battle of the Alamo - After a 13-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort taken.
• 1940 - Winter War: An armistice is signed by Finland and the Soviet Union.
• 1970 - Weatherman bombing in Greenwich Village apartment. Three members of the terrorist organization are killed.
• 1988 - Three unarmed members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army are killed by the SAS on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.

[edit] Births

• 1475 - Michelangelo, Italian artist (d. 1564)

[edit] Deaths

• 1490 - Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)
• 1836 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman (b. 1786)
• 1836 - Jim Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (b. 1796)
• 1900 - Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and industrialist (b. 1834)
• 1952 - Jürgen Stroop, SS Officer (b. 1895)