Today in History for 6th March 2023

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Historical Events

1886 - 1st US alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
1945 - Erich Honnecker and Erich Hanke flee Nazis
1951 - Trial of Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel Rosenberg begins for providing top-secret information to the Soviet Union
1967 - Former union leader Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison
1974 - An unnamed Italian industrialist loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette over 5 hours in Monte Carlo Casino
1994 - Referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania.

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Famous Birthdays

1918 - Howard McGhee, American be-bop jazz trumpeter, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma (d. 1987)
1941 - Ann Winterton, British MP
1951 - Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch road cyclist (World Road Race Champion 1978; Amstel Gold Race 1974, 85), born in Amsterdam, New Holland (d. 2004)
1962 - Alison Nicholas, English golfer (US Open 1997), born in Gibraltar
1971 - Roger Salkeld, pitcher (Cincinnati Reds), born in Burbank, California
1977 - Marcus Thames, American baseball player

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Famous Deaths

1836 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman, adventurer and politician, killed at the Battle of the Alamo at 49
1878 - Julius Caesar, English cricket batsman (first English tours to North America 1859-60, Australia and NZ 1864-5; Surrey CCC), dies from dropsy at 47
1962 - Rezső Kókai, Hungarian pianist, composer, musicologist, and pedagogue, dies at 56
1984 - Ian Cromb, New Zealand cricketer (5 Tests for NZ, 123 runs, 8 wkts), dies at 78
1994 - Tengiz Abuladze, Soviet Georgian filmmaker (Repentence), dies at 70
1996 - Stanley Booth-Clibborn, British Anglican Bishop of Manchester, dies at 71

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