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| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 06 Mar 1950 | Lew Lehr: Comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One), dies at 54 | |||
| 06 Mar 1950 | Silly Putty invented | |||
| 06 Mar 1950 | Albert François Lebrun, French politician, 15th President of France (b. 1871) | |||
| 06 Mar 1950 | Hirotaka Suzuoki, Japanese voice actor (d. 2006) | |||
| 06 Mar 1950 | Arthur Roche, English archbishop | |||
| 06 Mar 1950 |
Silly Putty In 1950, Silly Putty was introduced as a toy by Peter Hodgson, a marketing consultant, who packaged one-ounce portions of the rubber-like material in plastic eggs. It could be stretched, rolled into a bouncing ball, or used to transfer colored ink from newsprint. The original discovery was made in 1943 by James Wright who combined silicone oil and boric acid at the laboratories of General Electric. He was researching methods of making synthetic rubber, but at the time no significant application existed for the material. However, it was passed around as a curiosity. Hodgson saw a sample and realized its potential simply for entertainment and coined its name for marketing it as a toy. Its popularity made him a millionaire. |
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| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 06 Mar 1975 | Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute. | |||
| 06 Mar 1975 | For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory. | |||
| 06 Mar 1975 | Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Canadian pianist and conductor | |||
| 06 Mar 1975 | Aracely Arámbula, Mexican actress and singer | |||
| 25 years anniversary | ||||
| 06 Mar 2000 | John Colicos, Canadian actor (b. 1928) | |||
| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 06 Mar 2005 | Teresa Wright, American actress and singer (b. 1918) | |||
| 06 Mar 2005 | Tommy Vance, English radio host (b. 1943) | |||
| 06 Mar 2005 | Danny Gardella, American baseball player and trainer (b. 1920) | |||
| 06 Mar 2005 | Hans Bethe, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906) | |||
| 06 Mar 2005 |
death Hans Albrecht Bethe Died 6 Mar 2005 at age 98 (born 2 Jul 1906). German-American physicist who helped to shape classical physics into quantum physics and increased the understanding of the atomic processes responsible for the properties of matter and of the forces governing the structures of atomic nuclei. Bethe did work relating to armour penetration and the theory of shock waves of a projectile moving through air. He studied nuclear reactions and reaction cross sections (1935-38). In 1943, Robert Oppenheimer asked Bethe to be the head of the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project. After returning to Cornell University in 1946, Bethe became a leader promoting the social responsibility of science. He received the Nobel Prize for Physics (1967) for his work on the production of energy in stars. |
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06 Mar 2005
Hans Bethe |
death Hans Bethe Hans Bethe (b. 1906), Nobelaureate in Physics (1967) for his discoveries concerning the energy production mechanism in stars. |
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| 15 years anniversary | ||||
| 06 Mar 2010 | Betty Millard, American philanthropist and activist (b. 1911) | |||
| 06 Mar 2010 | Mark Linkous, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sparklehorse) (b. 1962) | |||
| 06 Mar 2010 | Endurance Idahor, Nigerian footballer (b. 1984) | |||
| 06 Mar 2010 | R&B singer D'Angelo was arrested at the wheel of his Range Rover after trying to pay $40 (£27.50) for sex with an undercover police officer posing as a prostitute. The incident happened in New York City. | |||
| 06 Mar 2010 | Mark Linkous, frontman with US band Sparklehorse committed suicide by shooting himself in the heart outside a friend's house in Knoxville, Tennessee. In 1996 Linkous "died" for two minutes after ingesting a mix of Valium and antidepressants while supporting Radiohead on tour in the UK. He recovered, but the incident left him paralysed, after lying unconscious for 14 hours, with circulation to his legs cut off. He suffered a heart attack when doctors tried to straighten the limbs, and he had surgery seven times to save his legs. | |||
| 10 years anniversary | ||||
| 06 Mar 2015 | Enrique "Coco" Vicéns, Puerto Rican basketball player and politician (b. 1926) | |||
| 06 Mar 2015 | Vasilios Magginas, Greek politician, Greek Minister of Employment (b. 1949) | |||
| 06 Mar 2015 | Ram Sundar Das, Indian lawyer and politician, 18th Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1921) | |||
| 06 Mar 2015 | Fred Craddock, American minister and academic (b. 1928) | |||
| 06 Mar 2015 |
Dawn spacecraft in Ceres orbit In 2015, the NASA spacecraft, Dawn,entered orbit around the dwarf planet, Ceres, at 7:39 EST. The 7½ year journey of 3,100 million miles (4,900 million km) was made with steady acceleration from ion propulsion. It became the first spacecraft to orbit a dwarf planet. On its way (2011-12), it had explored the giant asteroid Vesta. Dawn returned many images of both bodies, the two most massive (largest and third-largest in size) in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Ceres, discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi on 1 Jan 1801, is spheroidal, ave. 590 mi (590 km) diameter. As Dawn neared Ceres, its cratered surface showed some unusual small bright spots (perhaps ice). Vesta is ave. 318 mi (530 km) diameter. |
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