March 6
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On March 6, 1970, an explosive the Weathermen were constructing was accidentally detonated, costing three Weathermen their lives. [...] |
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Art and culture
- 1853 - The Giuseppe Verdi opera La Traviata premieres in Venice.
- 1967 - The New Documents exhibition opens in New York City celebrating the work of Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand and Diane Arbus
- 1970 - Greenwich Village townhouse explosion: an explosive the Weathermen were constructing was accidentally detonated, costing three Weathermen (Ted Gold, Terry Robbins, and Diana Oughton) their lives.
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Births
- 1475 - Michelangelo, Italian artist (d. 1564)
- 1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier, poet (d. 1655)
- 1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British poet (d. 1861)
- 1834 - George du Maurier British illustrator and writer (d. 1896)
- 1866 - Georges Dumas, French physician and psychologist (Le Nouveau Traité de psychologie) (d. 1946)
- 1904 - Parker Tyler, American writer and film critic (d. 1974)
- 1917 - Will Eisner, American illustrator and cartoonist (d. 2005)
- 1919 - Bill Ward, American good girl artist (d. 1998)
- 1926 - Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director (d. 2016)
- 1927 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer (d. 2014)
- 1936 - Sylvia Robinson, American singer, musician and producer (The Sugarhill Gang) (d. 2011)
- 1991 – Tyler Gregory Okonma, American rapper
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Deaths
- 1973 - Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
- 1977 - Marcel Duhamel, French actor and screenwriter (Série noire) (b. 1900)
- 1982 - Ayn Rand, Russian-American author (b. 1905)
- 1986 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887)
- 2002 - Ralph Rumney, English Situationist (b. 1934)
- 2006 - Ali Farka Toure, Malian singer and guitarist (b. 1939)
- 2007 - Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher (b. 1929)
- 2019 –Carolee Schneemann, 79, American artist (b. 1939)
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