On this day
8:10am Saturday 6th March 2010 in News
1836: The Alamo fell to Mexican forces under Santa Anna. Legendary frontiersmen Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie both died in the 12-day battle.
1890: An ornithologist released 100 starlings in New York’s Central Park as a memorial to Shakespeare. The starling is now America’s worst bird pest!
1899: Chemist Felix Hoffman patented the world’s most famous pain-relief drug, aspirin.
1926: The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon was engulfed by flames, leaving only a blackened shell.
1930: Clarence Birdseye marketed the first frozen foods in Massachusetts.
1951: Ivor Novello (David Ivor Davies), Welsh-born composer, playwright and actor, died in his flat above the Strand Theatre, London.
1961: George Formby, film star and music hall artist, who sang comic songs and accompanied himself on the banjo, died.
1987: The ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized with her bow door open leaving Zeebrugge harbour - 193 died.
1988: Three IRA terrorists were shot dead by SAS men in Gibraltar.
