Today is Tuesday, March 6.
Today's Highlight in History:
1970: Greenwich Village Bomb
In 1970, a bomb being built inside a Greenwich Village townhouse by the radical Weathermen accidentally went off, destroying the house and killing three group members.
AP1836: The Alamo
On March 6, 1836, the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, fell as Mexican forces led by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna stormed the fortress after a 13-day siege; the battle claimed the lives of all the Texan defenders, nearly 200 strong, including William Travis, James Bowie and Davy Crockett.
AP1967: Svetlana Alliluyeva
In 1967, the daughter of Josef Stalin, Svetlana Alliluyeva (ah-lee-loo-YAY'-vah), appeared at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi and declared her intention to defect to the West.
AP1983: New Bedford, Massachusetts
In 1983, in a case that drew much notoriety, a woman was gang-raped atop a pool table in a tavern in New Bedford, Massachusetts, called Big Dan's; four men were later convicted of the attack.
AP2008: Baghdad Bombings
Ten years ago: Twin bombings in a shopping district in Baghdad killed at least 68 people and wounded 130 others.
AP2008: Jerusalem
Ten years ago: A Palestinian killed eight students at a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem before he was slain; Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip praised the operation in a statement, and thousands of Palestinians took to the streets of Gaza to celebrate.
AP2013: Rand Paul
Five years ago: Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a critic of the Obama administration's drone policy, launched an old-style filibuster to block Senate confirmation of John Brennan's nomination to be CIA director; Paul lasted nearly 13 hours before yielding the floor.
AP2016: Nancy Reagan
In 2016, former first lady Nancy Reagan died in Los Angeles at age 94.
AP2017: Iditarod
One year ago: The world's most famous sled dog race, the Iditarod, started with 71 mushers setting off from the heart of Alaska and embarking on a nearly 1,000-mile trek across the wilderness. (Mitch Seavey, 57. won the race in 8 days, 3 hours and 40 minutes.)
AP2017: Robert Osborne
One year ago: Robert Osborne, the genial face of Turner Classic Movies and a walking encyclopedia of classic Hollywood, died in New York at age 84.
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