On this day: March 6

March 6: National Heroes and Benefactors Day in Belize (2017); Independence Day in Ghana (1957)

Dmitri Mendeleev

• 1665 – The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, published the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world's longest-running scientific journal.
• 1836 – Texas Revolution: Mexican forces captured the Alamo in San Antonio from the Texans after a 13-day siege.
• 1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev (pictured) presented the first periodic table of elements to the Russian Chemical Society.
• 1902 – Real Madrid, one of the world's richest football clubs, was founded as Madrid Football Club.
• 1967 – Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defected to the United States.

Princess Clémentine of Orléans (b. 1817) · Ayn Rand (d. 1982)

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