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).