6th March

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1899 – Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
1945 – World War II: Cologne is captured by American Troops.
1957 – Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British
1962 – Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 begins on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States.
1964 – Nation of Islam's Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
1967 – Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
1975 – For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
1987 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
1990 – Ed Yielding and Joseph T. Vida set the transcontinental speed record flying a SR-71 Blackbird from Los Angeles to Virginia in 64 minutes, averaging 2,124 mph.
1992 – The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.

Births
1475 – Michelangelo, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1564)
1806 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (d. 1861)
1906 – Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (d. 1959)
1917 – Frankie Howerd, English comedian, actor, and singer (d. 1992)
1932 – Jean Boht, English actress
1944 – Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand soprano
1946 – David Gilmour, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pink Floyd, Joker's Wild, and Deep End)
1966 – Alan Davies, English comedian and actor

Deaths
1888 – Louisa May Alcott, American author (b. 1832)
1932 – John Philip Sousa, American conductor and composer (b. 1854)
1967 – Nelson Eddy, American actor and singer (b. 1901)
1994 – Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, singer, and politician (b. 1920)
2014 – Sheila MacRae, English actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1921)

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