
March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). There are 300 days remaining. It is 啓蟄 (''Keichitsu'') in the Japanese calendar. ==Events== *1447 - Pope 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, Ontario. *1836 - Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo - After a 13-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexico troops, the 189 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort taken. *1853 - The Giuseppe Verdi opera La Traviata premieres in Venice. *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. *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 The 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 of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. *1957 - United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast (British colony) and Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana. * 1957 - Israel withdraws its troops from the Sinai Peninsula *1964 - Constantine II of Greece 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 (album)'' 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 action 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. *1997 - Picasso's Tete de Femme is stolen from a London gallery, and is recovered a week later. ==Births== *1405 - King John II of Castile (d. 1454) *1475 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian painter, (d. 1564) *1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier, poet, (d. 1655) *1779 - Antoine-Henri Jomini, general (d. 1869) *1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet, (d. 1861) *1812 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison father of the American System of Watch Manufacturing in Freeport, Maine (d. 1895) *1831 - Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, theologian, (d. 1910) *1885 - Ring Lardner, writer, (d. 1933) *1898 - Therese Giehse, actress, (d. 1975) *1903 - Empress Nagako of Japan (d. 2000) *1904 - Joseph Schmidt, tenor, (d. 1942) *1905 - Bob Wills, country music singer, (d. 1975) *1906 - Lou Costello, actor, comedian (d. 1959) *1914 - Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (d. 1981) *1915 - Pete Gray, American baseball player (d. 2002) *1917 - Will Eisner, American illustrator and cartoonist (d. 2005) *1923 - Ed McMahon, American television personality * 1923 - Jurgen von Manger, cabaretist, (d. 1994) *1923 - Wes Montgomery, American musician (d. 1968) *1926 - Alan Greenspan, American economist *1926 - Andrzej Wajda, Poland film director *1927 - Wes Montgomery, musician * 1927 - Gordon Cooper, astronaut (d. 2004) *1928 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer *1929 - Gunter Kunert, writer and lyricist *1930 - Lorin Maazel, French-born American conductor *1931 - Hal Needham, American stunt man *1933 - Ted Abernathy, Major League Baseball player (d. 2004) *1934 - John Noakes, British TV presenter (Blue Peter) *1935 - Ron Delany, Irish athlete *1936 - Marion Barry Jr., mayor of Washington, DC *1937 - Valentina Tereshkova, astronaut *1937 - Ivan Boesky, arbitrageur *1939 - Adam Osborne, British author, computer designer (d. 2003) *1939 - David Spielberg, American actor *1940 - Willie Stargell, Baseball Hall of Famer *1942 - Ben Murphy, American actor *1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa, opera singer * 1944 - Mary Wilson (singer), singer, member of the Supremes *1946 - David Gilmour, musician ("Pink Floyd") *1947 - Rob Reiner, actor, comedian, movie producer * 1947 - Dick Fosbury, athletics * 1947 - Kiki Dee, singer *1948 - Anna Maria Horsford, American actress *1949 - Shaukat Aziz, politician * 1949 - Martin Buchan, Scotland football (soccer) player *1953 - Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author *1959 - Tom Arnold (actor), actor, comedian *1966 - Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian bomber (d. 1996) *1969 - Tari Phillips, basketball player *1972 - Shaquille O'Neal, basketball player ==Deaths== *1252 - Saint Rose of Viterbo (b. 1235) *1531 - Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish conquistador (b. c. 1440) *1836 - Davy Crockett, frontiersman (b. 1786) *1854 - Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, Britain noble *1888 - Louisa May Alcott, novelist, (b. 1832) *1899 - Victoria Kaiulani, princess of Kingdom of Hawaii (b. 1875) *1905 - John Henninger Reagan, American and Confederate States of America politician (b. 1818) *1929 - David Buick, automobile pioneer *1932 - John Philip Sousa, band leader, conductor, composer, (b. 1854) *1933 - Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago, wounded weeks earlier by an assassin's bullet intended for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, dies of his injuries, (b. 1873) *1941 - Gutzon Borglum, Danish sculptor (b. 1867) *1948 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., novelist (b. 1914) *1951 - Ivor Novello, actor, musician, and composer (b. 1893) *1961 - George Formby, British comedian & singer (b. 1904) *1965 - Margaret Dumont, actress (b. 1889) *1967 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (b. 1901) * 1967 - Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (b. 1882) *1969 - Nadya Rusheva, Soviet painter (b. 1952]]) *1970 - William Hopper, American actor *1971 - Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor *1973 - Pearl S. Buck, American writer (b. 1892) *1976 - Max Rosenbloom, boxer and actor (b. 1903) *1982 - Ayn Rand, Russian-American author, (b. 1905) *1985 - Henry Wilcoxon, Dominican actor (b. 1905) *1986 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist, (b. 1887) *1992 - Elvia Allman, American actress *1993 - Douglas Marland, soap opera writer (b. 1935) *1994 - Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, political activist, politician (b. 1920) *1997 - Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (b. 1918) *1997 - Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1924) *2000 - John Colicos, Canadian actor (b. 1928) *2001 - Kim Walker, American actress (b. 1968) *2003 - John Sanford, American author (b. 1904) *2004 - Frances Dee, American actress (b. 1909) *2005 - Hans Bethe, German-American physicist (b. 1906) *2005 - Tommy Vance, British radio disc jockey (b. 1943) ==Holidays and observances== * In 2004, the Judaism holiday of Purim begins. * In Ghana, March 6 is the national independence day * Mothering Sunday in the United Kingdom (2005) * Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday of the season of Lent in the Christian liturgical calendar. (2005) * Casimir Pulaski Day in Illinois (2006, first Monday of March) == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/6 BBC: On This Day] * [http://www.tnl.net/when/3/6 Today in History: March 6] ---- March 5 - March 7 - February 6 - April 6 -- historical anniversaries ka:6 მარტი os:6 мартъийы simple: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 remaining. It is 啓蟄 (''Keichitsu'') in the Japanese calendar. ==Events== *1447 - Pope 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, Ontario. *1836 - Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo - After a 13-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexico troops, the 189 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort taken. *1853 - The Giuseppe Verdi opera La Traviata premieres in Venice. *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. *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 The 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 of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. *1957 - United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast (British colony) and Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana. * 1957 - Israel withdraws its troops from the Sinai Peninsula *1964 - Constantine II of Greece 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 (album)'' 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 action 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. *1997 - Picasso's Tete de Femme is stolen from a London gallery, and is recovered a week later. ==Births== *1405 - King John II of Castile (d. 1454) *1475 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian painter, (d. 1564) *1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier, poet, (d. 1655) *1779 - Antoine-Henri Jomini, general (d. 1869) *1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet, (d. 1861) *1812 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison father of the American System of Watch Manufacturing in Freeport, Maine (d. 1895) *1831 - Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, theologian, (d. 1910) *1885 - Ring Lardner, writer, (d. 1933) *1898 - Therese Giehse, actress, (d. 1975) *1903 - Empress Nagako of Japan (d. 2000) *1904 - Joseph Schmidt, tenor, (d. 1942) *1905 - Bob Wills, country music singer, (d. 1975) *1906 - Lou Costello, actor, comedian (d. 1959) *1914 - Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (d. 1981) *1915 - Pete Gray, American baseball player (d. 2002) *1917 - Will Eisner, American illustrator and cartoonist (d. 2005) *1923 - Ed McMahon, American television personality * 1923 - Jurgen von Manger, cabaretist, (d. 1994) *1923 - Wes Montgomery, American musician (d. 1968) *1926 - Alan Greenspan, American economist *1926 - Andrzej Wajda, Poland film director *1927 - Wes Montgomery, musician * 1927 - Gordon Cooper, astronaut (d. 2004) *1928 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer *1929 - Gunter Kunert, writer and lyricist *1930 - Lorin Maazel, French-born American conductor *1931 - Hal Needham, American stunt man *1933 - Ted Abernathy, Major League Baseball player (d. 2004) *1934 - John Noakes, British TV presenter (Blue Peter) *1935 - Ron Delany, Irish athlete *1936 - Marion Barry Jr., mayor of Washington, DC *1937 - Valentina Tereshkova, astronaut *1937 - Ivan Boesky, arbitrageur *1939 - Adam Osborne, British author, computer designer (d. 2003) *1939 - David Spielberg, American actor *1940 - Willie Stargell, Baseball Hall of Famer *1942 - Ben Murphy, American actor *1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa, opera singer * 1944 - Mary Wilson (singer), singer, member of the Supremes *1946 - David Gilmour, musician ("Pink Floyd") *1947 - Rob Reiner, actor, comedian, movie producer * 1947 - Dick Fosbury, athletics * 1947 - Kiki Dee, singer *1948 - Anna Maria Horsford, American actress *1949 - Shaukat Aziz, politician * 1949 - Martin Buchan, Scotland football (soccer) player *1953 - Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author *1959 - Tom Arnold (actor), actor, comedian *1966 - Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian bomber (d. 1996) *1969 - Tari Phillips, basketball player *1972 - Shaquille O'Neal, basketball player ==Deaths== *1252 - Saint Rose of Viterbo (b. 1235) *1531 - Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish conquistador (b. c. 1440) *1836 - Davy Crockett, frontiersman (b. 1786) *1854 - Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, Britain noble *1888 - Louisa May Alcott, novelist, (b. 1832) *1899 - Victoria Kaiulani, princess of Kingdom of Hawaii (b. 1875) *1905 - John Henninger Reagan, American and Confederate States of America politician (b. 1818) *1929 - David Buick, automobile pioneer *1932 - John Philip Sousa, band leader, conductor, composer, (b. 1854) *1933 - Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago, wounded weeks earlier by an assassin's bullet intended for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, dies of his injuries, (b. 1873) *1941 - Gutzon Borglum, Danish sculptor (b. 1867) *1948 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., novelist (b. 1914) *1951 - Ivor Novello, actor, musician, and composer (b. 1893) *1961 - George Formby, British comedian & singer (b. 1904) *1965 - Margaret Dumont, actress (b. 1889) *1967 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (b. 1901) * 1967 - Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (b. 1882) *1969 - Nadya Rusheva, Soviet painter (b. 1952]]) *1970 - William Hopper, American actor *1971 - Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor *1973 - Pearl S. Buck, American writer (b. 1892) *1976 - Max Rosenbloom, boxer and actor (b. 1903) *1982 - Ayn Rand, Russian-American author, (b. 1905) *1985 - Henry Wilcoxon, Dominican actor (b. 1905) *1986 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist, (b. 1887) *1992 - Elvia Allman, American actress *1993 - Douglas Marland, soap opera writer (b. 1935) *1994 - Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, political activist, politician (b. 1920) *1997 - Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (b. 1918) *1997 - Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1924) *2000 - John Colicos, Canadian actor (b. 1928) *2001 - Kim Walker, American actress (b. 1968) *2003 - John Sanford, American author (b. 1904) *2004 - Frances Dee, American actress (b. 1909) *2005 - Hans Bethe, German-American physicist (b. 1906) *2005 - Tommy Vance, British radio disc jockey (b. 1943) ==Holidays and observances== * In 2004, the Judaism holiday of Purim begins. * In Ghana, March 6 is the national independence day * Mothering Sunday in the United Kingdom (2005) * Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday of the season of Lent in the Christian liturgical calendar. (2005) * Casimir Pulaski Day in Illinois (2006, first Monday of March) == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/6 BBC: On This Day] * [http://www.tnl.net/when/3/6 Today in History: March 6] ---- March 5 - March 7 - February 6 - April 6 -- historical anniversaries ka:6 მარტი os:6 мартъийы simple:March 6
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