March 6 - Walking

Walking

With apologies to those of you who can't see the video. Here, have another picture.

This Day In History

1521

Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.

1834

York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.

1836

After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.

1869

Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.

1886

First US nurses' magazine "The Nightingale" first printed (created in New York City)

1983

The first United States Football League game is played.

Famous Birthdays

1475

Michelangelo, Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer (d. 1564)

1619

Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier, poet (d. 1655)

1806

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British poet (d. 1861)

1870

Oscar Straus, Viennese operetta composer (d. 1954)

1906

Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (d. 1959)

1917

Will Eisner, American illustrator and cartoonist (d. 2005)

1923

Ed McMahon, American television personality (d. 2009)

1927

Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (d. 2004)

1937

Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet cosmonaut

1944

Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealander opera singer

1947

Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian, and film producer

1948

Stephen Schwartz, American musical theatre lyricist and composer