March 6th in History
March 6th
6 March 1457: King James II decrees that there should be regular archery practice and that "football and golf be utterly cried down and not used".
6 March 1708: Prince James Stewart, "The Pretender", sails from Dunkirk for Scotland with with a French fleet and 5,000 troops. His aim is to raise and lead a Jacobite uprising against Queen Anne.
1836: In what would become known as the Battle of the Alamo, 187 Texian defenders, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie are killed when 3,000 Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launch an assault on the Alamo Mission, Texas, ending a 13 day siege.
1893 The opening of the Liverpool Overhead Railway (known locally as the Dockers' Umbrella) which operated for 7 miles along the Liverpool Docks.
. The railway had a number of world firsts - it was the first electric elevated railway, the first to use automatic signalling, electric colour light signals and electric multiple units and was home to one of the first passenger escalators at a railway station.
On March 6, 1918, the Representation of the People Act was passed, one of the most significant pieces of legislation in British history. This Act gave women over the age of 30 the right to vote for the first time, alongside men of all adult ages.
6 March 1923: Scotland's first radio broadcast takes place when Glasgow radio station, 5SC, is launched by the BBC.
On this day in 1924, the Egyptian government opened the mummy case of King Tutankhamen, ruler of Egypt in the 14th century bce, whose burial chamber had been discovered in 1922 by renowned British archaeologist Howard Carter.
1969 Sandie Shaw is "arrested" in Paris for being dressed up like a French policeman. The English singer is released a few hours later after she'd explained she'd had gone to France to promote her new record, "Monsieur Dupont," about a French romeo.
6 March 1457: King James II decrees that there should be regular archery practice and that "football and golf be utterly cried down and not used".
6 March 1708: Prince James Stewart, "The Pretender", sails from Dunkirk for Scotland with with a French fleet and 5,000 troops. His aim is to raise and lead a Jacobite uprising against Queen Anne.
1836: In what would become known as the Battle of the Alamo, 187 Texian defenders, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie are killed when 3,000 Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launch an assault on the Alamo Mission, Texas, ending a 13 day siege.
1893 The opening of the Liverpool Overhead Railway (known locally as the Dockers' Umbrella) which operated for 7 miles along the Liverpool Docks.
. The railway had a number of world firsts - it was the first electric elevated railway, the first to use automatic signalling, electric colour light signals and electric multiple units and was home to one of the first passenger escalators at a railway station.
On March 6, 1918, the Representation of the People Act was passed, one of the most significant pieces of legislation in British history. This Act gave women over the age of 30 the right to vote for the first time, alongside men of all adult ages.
6 March 1923: Scotland's first radio broadcast takes place when Glasgow radio station, 5SC, is launched by the BBC.
On this day in 1924, the Egyptian government opened the mummy case of King Tutankhamen, ruler of Egypt in the 14th century bce, whose burial chamber had been discovered in 1922 by renowned British archaeologist Howard Carter.
1969 Sandie Shaw is "arrested" in Paris for being dressed up like a French policeman. The English singer is released a few hours later after she'd explained she'd had gone to France to promote her new record, "Monsieur Dupont," about a French romeo.
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