Today in History for 6th March 2024

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Historical Events

1900 - After a meeting in Indianapolis, USA, a group forms the Social Democratic Party and nominates Eugene Debs as its candidate for President in the forthcoming election (becomes the Socialist Party in 1901)
1972 - Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner
1974 - Australian cricketing brothers Ian (145 and 121) and Greg Chappell (247no and 133) score unique twin centuries in drawn 1st Test vs New Zealand in Wellington
1983 - US Football League begins its 1st season
1986 - USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km
1992 - Founding of the Council of the Baltic Sea States.

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Famous Birthdays

1475 - Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance (David, Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel), born in Caprese, Tuscany (d. 1564)
1926 - Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director (Ashes and Diamonds, Man of Iron), born in Suwalki (d. 2016)
1933 - Ted Abernathy, American MLB baseball pitcher, 1955-72 (Washington Senators, Chicago Cubs, and 5 other teams), born in Stanley, North Carolina (d. 2004)
1946 - Tony Klatka, rocker (Blood, Sweat and Tears)
1972 - Shaquille O'Neal, American Basketball Hall of Fame center (4-time NBA champion, 3-time NBA Finals MVP, Olympic gold 1996), born in Newark, New Jersey
1973 - Greg Ostertag, NBA center (Utah Jazz)

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Famous Deaths

1936 - Rubin Goldmark, American composer, dies at 63
1962 - Rezső Kókai, Hungarian pianist, composer, musicologist, and pedagogue, dies at 56
1986 - Adolph Caesar, actor (Club Paradise, Soldier's Story), dies
1994 - Tengiz Abuladze, Soviet Georgian filmmaker (Repentance), dies at 70
1998 - Frank Barrett, American baseball player (b. 1913)
2016 - Nancy Reagan [Anne Frances Robbins], US First Lady (1981-89), dies at 94

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