Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1 | 1820 | The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, but makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free. | Cut the Shit | At What Compromise | Demo |
2 | 1840 | The Baltimore College of Dental Surgery opens, the first dental school. | Pretty Girls Make Graves | The Teeth Collector | The New Romance |
3 | 1869 | Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society. | The Beach Boys | The Elements | Smile |
4 | 1899 | Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark. | Embrace | No More Pain | Embrace |
5 | 1964 | Nation of Islam's Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali. | R.E.M. | I Took Your Name | Monster |
6 | 1967 | Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States. | Neutral Milk Hotel | Communist Daughter | In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
(Historical facts about March 06 are from Wikipedia.)
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