March 6
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March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (66th in leap years). There are 300 days until the end of the year.
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[change] Events
- 1447 – Nicholas V becomes Pope.
- 1454 – Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledged allegiance to Casimir IV of Poland, and the Polish king agreed to help in their struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
- 1460 – Treaty of Alcaçovas – Portugal gives the Canary Islands to Castile in exchange for claims in West Africa.
- 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam.
- 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.
- 1834 – York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
- 1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a 13-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 189 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort taken.
- 1853 – The Giuseppe Verdi opera La Traviata premieres in Venice.
- 1856 – The University of Maryland, College Park is chartered as the Maryland Agricultural College.
- 1857 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
- 1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
- 1899 – Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
- 1900 – A coal mine explosion in West Virginia traps 50 coal miners.
- 1901 – In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany.
- 1925 – Pionerskaya Pravda, one of the oldest children's newspapers in Europe, is founded
- 1940 – Winter War: An armistice is signed by Finland and the Soviet Union.
- 1945 – A communist-dominated government under Petru Groza assumes power in Romania.
- 1946 – Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
- 1947 – USS Newport News, the first air-conditioned naval ship, is launched from Newport News, Virginia.
- 1951 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
- 1953 – Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Josef Stalin as Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1957 – United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana.
- 1957 – Israel withdraws its troops from the Sinai Peninsula
- 1964 – Prophet Elijah Muhammad officially gives Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali meaning "beloved of Allah"
- 1964 – Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
- 1964 – Tom O'Hara sets a new world record for the indoor mile run by completing it in 3 minutes, 56.4 seconds.
- 1970 – Cult leader and suspected murderer Charles Manson releases an album titled Lies to help finance his defense.
- 1975 – Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement over their border dispute.
- 1981 – After 19 years presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
- 1983 – The United States Football League begins its first year of competition.
- 1984 – Twelve-month-long strike in British coal industry begins.
- 1987 – The British ferry M/S Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds after leaving the harbour of Zeebrugge, Belgium en route to Dover, England across the English Channel, killing 193.
- 1992 – The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
- 1994 – Referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania.
- 1997 – Picasso's painting Tête de Femme is stolen from a London gallery, and is recovered a week later.
- 2009 – Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of Zimbabwe's opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change, is injured in a car crash in which his wife Susan Tsvangirai is killed.
[change] Births
- 1475 – Michelangelo, Italian artist (d. 1564)
- 1619 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier and poet (d. 1655)
- 1787 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician (d. 1826)
- 1806 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (d. 1861)
- 1885 – Ring Lardner, American writer (d. 1933)
- 1903 – Empress Kojun of Japan (d. 2000)
- 1906 – Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (d. 1959)
- 1917 – Frankie Howerd, English comedian (d. 1992)
- 1917 – Donald Davidson, American philosopher (d. 2003)
- 1923 – Ed McMahon, American television personality (d. 2009)
- 1924 – Ottmar Walter, German footballer
- 1925 – Wes Montgomery, American musician (d. 1968)
- 1926 – Alan Greenspan, American economist
- 1926 – Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director
- 1927 – Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian writer, Nobel Prize winner
- 1936 – Choummaly Sayasone, President of Laos
- 1937 – Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet cosmonaut, first woman in space
- 1944 – Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand opera singer
- 1946 – David Gilmour, British musician (Pink Floyd)
- 1949 – Shaukat Aziz, Pakistani politician
- 1953 – Madhav Kumar Nepal, Nepalese politician
- 1954 – Harald Schumacher, German footballer
- 1959 – Tom Arnold, American actor and comedian
- 1964 – Sandro Rosell, Spanish football manager
- 1966 – Alan Davies, English actor and comedian
- 1971 – Karst Tates, Dutch attempted assassin (d. 2009)
- 1972 – Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player
- 1976 – Ken Anderson, American professional wrestler
- 1977 – Giorgos Karagounis, Greek footballer
- 1979 – Rufus Hound, English comedian
- 1979 – Tim Howard, American soccer player
- 1987 – Kevin-Prince Boateng, German-Ghanaian footballer
- 1989 – Agnieszka Radwanska, Polish tennis player
- 2001 – Aryana Engineer, Canadian actress
[change] Deaths
- 1754 – Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1694)
- 1836 – Davy Crockett, American historical figure (b. 1786)
- 1842 – Constanze Mozart, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1763)
- 1888 – Louisa May Alcott, American writer (b. 1832)
- 1895 – Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (b. 1813)
- 1899 – Victoria Kaiulani, Hawaiian princess (b. 1875)
- 1900 – Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer (b. 1834)
- 1932 – John Philip Sousa, American conductor and composer (b. 1854)
- 1935 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American politician (b. 1841)
- 1950 – Albert Lebrun, President of France (b. 1871)
- 1951 – Ivor Novello, Welsh actor, musician and composer (b. 1893)
- 1961 – George Formby, English comedian, singer and musician (b. 1904)
- 1964 – King Paul of Greece (b. 1901)
- 1967 – Zoltan Kodaly, Hungarian composer (b. 1882)
- 1973 – Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize winner (b. 1892)
- 1982 – Ayn Rand, Russian-American author (b. 1905)
- 1986 – Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887)
- 1994 – Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and politician (b. 1920)
- 1997 – Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (b. 1918)
- 1997 – Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1924)
- 2005 – Hans Bethe, German physicist (b. 1906)
- 2009 – Susan Tsvangirai, wife of Morgan Tsvangirai (b. 1958)
- 2011 – Jan Popluhar, Slovakian footballer (b. 1935)
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