6th March in History

• 1799 - Napolean Bonaparte captures Jaffa Palestine

• 1836 - Santa Anna and his 3,000 Mexicans beat 182 Texans at the Alamo after 13 day fight

• 1899 - "Asprin" is patented by German researchers Felix Hoffman and Hermann Dreser.

• 1918 - U.S. naval boat "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle

• 1921 -  Police in Sunbury Penn issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee

• 1940 - 1st U.S. telecast from an airplane, New York City

• 1957 - Ghana (formerly Gold Coast and Togoland) declares independence from U.K.

• 1972 - Basketball player Shaquille O'Neal was born

• 1992 - The last episode of "The Cosby Show" aired. The show had been on since September of 1984