ON THIS DAY: Transporter Bridge gets visitor centre and Birdseye freezes their first food

FROM THE ARGUS ARCHIVE:

On this day a year ago the Argus reported how a Cwmbran dad shed eight stone to become a marathon runner.

Five years ago today we reported how the Friends of Newport Transporter Bridge are to open a visitor centre telling the history of the city's most famous landmark.

The stories from history on this day - March 6th

NATIONAL DAY OF GHANA (formerly the Gold Coast, it became the first British colony in Africa to achieve independence, on March 6 1957)

1836: The Alamo fell to Mexican forces under Santa Anna. Famous frontiersmen Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie both died in the 12-day battle.

1890: An ornithologist released 100 starlings in New York's Central Park as a memorial to Shakespeare. The starling is now America's worst bird pest.

1899: Chemist Felix Hoffmann patented the world's most famous pain-relief drug, aspirin.

1926: The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon was engulfed by flames, leaving only a blackened shell.

1930: Clarence Birdseye marketed the first frozen foods in Massachusetts.

1944: US planes from bases in Britain began daylight bombing raids on Berlin.

1951: Ivor Novello (David Ivor Davies), Welsh-born composer, playwright and actor, died in his flat above the Strand Theatre, London.

1961: George Formby, film star and music hall artist who sang comic songs and accompanied himself on the ukelele, died.

1987: The ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized with her bow door open leaving Zeebrugge harbour - 193 died.

1988: Three IRA terrorists were shot dead by SAS men in Gibraltar.

1997: A gunman stole Tete De Femme, a million-dollar Picasso portrait, from a London gallery. The painting was recovered a week later.

ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: NHS officials warned that a sharp rise in the number of patients who do not respond to antibiotic treatment risked causing a "catastrophic national health threat".