March 6: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

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1. 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
2. 1788 - The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found aconvict settlement.
3. 1820 - The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of theLouisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
4. 1836 - Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo - After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
5. 1857 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
6. 1869 - Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
7. 1946 - Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
8. 1957 - Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British
9. 1968 - The first of the East L.A. Walkouts take place at several high schools.
10. 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.
11. Famous Birthdays: Michelangelo (Italian painter and sculptor), Cyrano de Bergerac (French soldier and playwright), Ben Harney (American pianist and composer), Will Eisner (American illustrator), Gabriel García Márquez (Colombian author and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate)

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