Timeline Monday 6 March 1967

Events on Monday 6 March 1967 4

• 1882 – 1967 Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967) Died 6 March 1967, aged 84 The Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist developed the influential Kodaly Method of music education, still widely used worldwide. He also collected and preserved thousands of Hungarian folk songs with fellow composer Bela Bartok.
• 1901 – 1967 Nelson Eddy (1901-1967) American baritone and actor, Jeanette MacDonald's partner in eight operetta films.
• 1967 Nelson Eddy dies in Miami Beach Nelson Eddy dies aged 65.
• 1967 Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the West Stalin's daughter seeks asylum Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, walked into the US embassy in New Delhi and requested political asylum. Her defection was a major propaganda embarrassment for the Soviet Union during the Cold War.