March 6

Michelangelo born (1475); Davy Crockett and around 200 others are killed at the Battle of the Alamo (1836); Aspirin is patented (1899); Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez born (1927); Ghana becomes first sub-Saharan colony to achieve independence from British rule (1957); Shaquille O’Neal born (1972); Artist Georgia O’Keeffe dies (1986).

March 7

Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone (1876); Actor Bryan Cranston born (1956); Roughly 600 Civil Rights activists attacked by police while marching from Selma to Montgomery, an event known as Bloody Sunday (1965); American poet Amanda Gorman born (1998); Director Stanley Kubrick dies (1999).

March 2

Manhattan's Martha Washington Hotel opens, first exclusively for women (1903); Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA single-game scoring record at 100 (1962); James Bond actor Daniel Craig born (1968); English novelist of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" DH Lawrence dies (1930)

February 28

Coaching legend Dean Smith born (1931); Record 106 million people watch series finale of "M*A*S*H" (1983); Persian Gulf War ends (1991); Basketball star Luka Dončić born (1999); Actress Jane Russell dies (2011).

March 1

Articles of Confederation are ratified, go into effect in the US (1781); Writer Ralph Ellison born (1914); Harry Belafonte born (1927); The Peace Corps is established (1961); Actress Lupita Nyong'o born (1983); Justin Bieber born (1994).

February 27

Author John Steinbeck born (1902); Actress Elizabeth Taylor born (1932); Nobel Prize-winning physiologist Ivan Pavlov dies (1936); 22nd Amendment is ratified, limiting US presidents to only being elected to two terms (1951); Mister Rogers dies (2003).

February 26

Fashion designer Levi Strauss born (1829); Grand Canyon National Park established (1919); Musician Johnny Cash born (1932); Musician Erykah Badu born (1971); World Trade Center bombing kills six, injures more than 1,000 (1993)