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March 6 in history:
- 1957: Ghana, formerly the British colony of the Gold Coast, became the first black African colony to receive independence.
- 1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed a bank moratorium, closing the banks for four days, and placed an embargo on the export of gold.
- 1857: In the landmark case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, Chief Justice Roger B.Taney delivered the majority opinion of the Supreme Court that Dred Scott should remain a slave.
- 1853: La Traviata, the opera by Guiseppe Verdi, based on La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas the Younger, was first performed, in Venice.
- 1836: After a 12-day siege, the Mexicans broke through the defenses at The Alamo and massacred all within, who were fighting for Texas.
- 1820: The Missouri Enabling Act—part of the Missouri Compromise—forbade the creation of further slave states north of latitude 36° 30', Missouri's southern border.
- 1806: Francis II abdicated as Holy Roman emperor and thus brought to an end the Holy Roman Empire, which—as Voltaire had quipped—"was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire."
