March 6<\/p>\n
12 BC \u2013 The Roman Emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus – <\/em>Greatest Priest –<\/i>\u00a0the chief high priest of the pagan College of Pontiffs in ancient Rome, adding that title to Emperor.<\/p>\n 845 \u2013 The 42 Martyrs of Amorium, taken prisoner years earlier during the sack of that byzantine city, are killed after refusing to convert to Islam.<\/p>\n 961 \u2013 The byzantine army under the command of Nikephoros Phokas conquers the moslem fortress Rab\u1e0d al-Handaq at Heraklion, completing the retaking of the island of Crete.<\/p>\n 1521 \u2013 During his circumnavigation, Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.<\/p>\n 1820 \u2013 The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe.<\/p>\n 1836 \u2013 After a 13 day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops under Generalissimo Santa Anna, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and Colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort captured.<\/p>\n 1857 \u2013 In the case of\u00a0Dred Scott v. Sandford, <\/em>the Supreme Court rules 7\u20132 in that the Constitution does not confer citizenship on black people.<\/p>\n 1899 \u2013 Bayer registers “Aspirin” as a trademark.<\/p>\n 1933 \u2013 During the Great Depression, 2 days after his inauguration, President Roosevelt declares a “bank holiday”, closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions until Congress can pass a Emergency Banking Relief Act on March 9 that reopens banks on March 13.<\/p>\n 1946 \u2013 Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.<\/p>\n 1951 \u2013 The trial of Soviet spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.<\/p>\n 1953 \u2013 At the death of Joseph Stalin the previous day, Georgy Malenkov succeeds him as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n 1970 \u2013 Members of the terrorist Weather Underground succeed in detonating several bombs they were making at a safe house in Greenwich Village, killing 3 of them.<\/p>\n 1975 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n 2018 \u2013 Forbes financial service names Jeff Bezos as the world’s richest person, for the first time, at $112 billion net worth.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 6 12 BC \u2013 The Roman Emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus – Greatest Priest –\u00a0the chief high priest of the pagan College of Pontiffs in ancient Rome, adding that title to Emperor. 845 \u2013 The 42 Martyrs of Amorium, taken prisoner years earlier during the sack of that byzantine city, are killed after … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65501"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90530,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65501\/revisions\/90530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}