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On this day, March 6th: The United States begins in the Second World War on the day of the daily bombing in Berlin

1 of 7 | The B-17G fortress Miss Donna Mae II is damaged after it was driven under another bomber during a robbery about Berlin on May 19, 1944 during the Second World War. On March 6, 1944, US bombers, who flew from Great Britain from the first day of the day on Berlin. File photo with the friendly approval of the National Archives and recording management

March 6 (Upi) – On this date in history:

In 1836 Mexican armed forces conquered the Alamo in San Antonio and killed the last of 187 defenders who had stopped in the fortified Texas mission for 13 days. Frontiersman Davy Crockett was among those killed on the last day.

In 1853 “La Traviata” was premiered by Giuseppe Verdi in Venice, Italy.

In 1857, the Supreme Court of the United States made its pioneering decision that slave Dred Scott could not sue his freedom from a federal court, although its white owner had died in a “free” state.

In 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt explained a national bank vacation to support the banking system.

In 1944, during the Second World War, US bombers from Great Britain began the first day attacks on Berlin.

In 1953, Georgi Malenkov was appointed Prime Minister of the Soviet Union a day after the death of Joseph Stalin.

In 1957 Ghana became an independent country after explaining independence from Great Britain. The country was led by Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah.

In 1965, Alabama Governor George Wallace said “There will be no march between Selma and Montgomery” and he ordered the Autobahn patrol to “use the necessary measures to prevent a march”.

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In 1966, the US armed forces carried out the largest air rod campaign in North Vietnam since the north bombed in 1965.

In 1967 Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin's daughter, was in the United States. She would return to the Soviet Union 17 years later, in which I said: “In America I led the life of a suburban home woman, which is not what I wanted at all.”

Foto of files with the kind permission of the Congress library

In 1982, an Egyptian court condemned five Muslim fundamentalists for murdering President Anwar Sadat. Seventeen others pulled prison terms.

In 1987, a British ferry, the Zeebrugge, Belgium, left a sea wall, and Kentrized, which killed 188 people in the North Sea.

In 1991, US President George HW Bush, who spoke to a joint congress meeting, declared the Persian Gulf War.

In 2015, the militants of the Islamic state devastated the old Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq and used bulldozer to destroy the location.

In 2024, the former governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, suspended her presidential campaign, which admitted to the former President Donald Trump, who would win the 2024 elections.

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