Today in History: March 6, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time

Today is Friday, March 6, the 65th day of 2026. There are 300 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On March 6, 1981, Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time after nearly two decades as the anchor of “The CBS Evening News.”

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In 1820, President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise, which allowed Missouri to join the Union as a slave state and Maine to join as a free state, while banning slavery in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory.