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March 6 is the 65th day of the year (66th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 300 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 1454 – Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
- 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
- 1788 – The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
- 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 thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort is captured.
- 1840 – Baltimore College of Dental Surgery Opened, the first Dental school.
- 1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata receives its premiere performance in Venice.
- 1857 – 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.
- 1921 – Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
- 1945 – Communist-dominated government under Petru Groza assumes power in Romania.
- 1945 – Cologne is captured by American Troops.
- 1946 – Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
- 1951 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
- 1953 – Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union 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.
- 1964 – Nation of Islam's Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
- 1964 – Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
- 1965 – Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
- 1967 – Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
- 1970 – Blast at Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
- 1975 – For the first time, ever, the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy was shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
- 1975 – Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
- 1981 – After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
- 1983 – The first United States Football League game is played.
- 1987 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
- 1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
- 1992 – Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
- 2006 – South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signs legislation banning most abortions in the state.
- 2007 – Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice.
- 2008 – A Palestinian gunman shoots and kills 8 students and critically injures 11 in the library of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, in Jerusalem, Israel.
Births
- 1340 – John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (d. 1399)
- 1405 – King John II of Castile (d. 1454)
- 1459 – Jacob Fugger, German banker (d. 1525)
- 1475 – Michelangelo, Italian artist and sculptor (d. 1564)
- 1483 – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian statesman and historian (d. 1540)
- 1495 – Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (d. 1556)
- 1619 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier, poet (d. 1655)
- 1663 – Francis Atterbury, British man of letters (d. 1732)
- 1706 – George Pocock, British admiral (d. 1792)
- 1716 – Pehr Kalm, Swedish explorer and naturalist (d. 1779)
- 1761 – Antoine-Francois Andreossy, French General (d. 1828)
- 1779 – Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (d. 1869)
- 1787 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (d. 1826)
- 1806 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British poet (d. 1861)
- 1812 – Aaron Lufkin Dennison American watch manufacturer (d. 1895)
- 1817 – Princess Clémentine of Orléans (d. 1907)
- 1818 – William Claflin, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)
- 1831 – Philip Sheridan, American Civil War Union cavalry officer (d. 1888)
- 1834 – George du Maurier British illustrator and writer (d. 1896)
- 1846 – Henry Radcliffe Crocker, British dermatologist (d. 1909)
- 1870 – Oscar Straus, Viennese operetta composer (d. 1954)
- 1882 – F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (d. 1980)
- 1885 – Ring Lardner, American writer (d. 1933)
- 1893 – Furry Lewis, American blues guitarist (d. 1981)
- 1900 – Lefty Grove, American Baseball Player (d. 1975)
- 1903 – Empress Kōjun of Japan (d. 2000)
- 1904 – José Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician (d. 1960)
- 1905 – Bob Wills, American singer (d. 1975)
- 1906 – Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (d. 1959)
- 1914 – Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (d. 1981)
- 1915 – Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, 52nd Da'i al Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohras
- 1915 – Pete Gray, American baseball player (d. 2002)
- 1917 – Will Eisner, American illustrator and cartoonist (d. 2005)
- 1917 – Frankie Howerd, English comedian (d. 1992)
- 1917 – Donald Davidson, American philosopher (d. 2003)
- 1919 – Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (d. 2006)
- 1923 – Ed McMahon, American television personality (d. 2009)
- 1923 – Herman Leonard, American photographer (d. 2010)
- 1925 – Wes Montgomery, American musician (d. 1968)
- 1926 – Alan Greenspan, American economist
- 1926 – Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director
- 1927 – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1927 – Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (d. 2004)
- 1927 – Norman Treigle, American bass-baritone (d. 1975)
- 1927 – Jim Owens, American college football head coach (d. 2009)
- 1930 – Lorin Maazel, French-born American conductor
- 1931 – Hal Needham, American stuntman
- 1932 – Marc Bazin, Haitian politician (d. 2010)
- 1933 – Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (d. 2004)
- 1934 – John Noakes, British television presenter
- 1935 – Ron Delany, Irish athlete
- 1936 – Bob Akin, American industrialist and race car driver (d. 2002)
- 1936 – Elmira Zherzdeva, Soviet singer and voice actress
- 1936 – Marion Barry Jr., American politician
- 1936 – Jean Boht, English actress
- 1937 – Ivan Boesky, American stock trader
- 1937 – Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet cosmonaut
- 1939 – Adam Osborne, British author and computer designer (d. 2003)
- 1939 – Infanta Margarita of Spain, duchess of Soria
- 1939 – Cookie Rojas, Cuban baseball player
- 1939 – Kit Bond, American politician
- 1940 – Joanna Miles, American actress
- 1940 – Willie Stargell, American baseball player (d. 2001)
- 1942 – Ben Murphy, American actor
- 1944 – Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealander opera singer
- 1944 – Mary Wilson, American singer (The Supremes)
- 1946 – David Gilmour, British musician (Pink Floyd)
- 1947 – Kiki Dee, British singer
- 1947 – Dick Fosbury, American athlete
- 1947 – Martin Kove, American actor
- 1947 – Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author
- 1947 – Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian, and film producer
- 1948 – Anna Maria Horsford, American actress
- 1949 – Shaukat Aziz, Pakistani statesman
- 1949 – Martin Buchan, Scottish soccer player
- 1950 – Hirotaka Suzuoki, Japanese Seiyu (d. 2006)
- 1951 – Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (d. 2004)
- 1953 – Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author
- 1953 – Jacklyn Zeman, American actress
- 1955 – Alberta Watson, Canadian actress
- 1958 – Eddie Deezen, American actor
- 1959 – Saul Anuzis, American politician
- 1959 – Tom Arnold, American actor and comedian
- 1960 – Sleepy Floyd, American basketball player
- 1962 – Jonathan Scott-Taylor, English actor
- 1963 – D. L. Hughley, American comedian and actor
- 1964 – Skip Ewing, American country music singer and songwriter
- 1964 – Madonna Wayne Gacy, American musician
- 1965 – Amparo Noguera, Chilean actress
- 1966 – Alan Davies, British comedian and actor
- 1967 – Connie Britton, American actress
- 1967 – Julio Bocca, Argentine ballet dancer
- 1968 – Moira Kelly, American actress
- 1968 – Michael Romeo, American musician (Symphony X)
- 1969 – Andrea Elson, American actress
- 1969 – Tari Phillips, American basketball player
- 1969 – Amy Pietz, American actress
- 1969 – Greg Scott, British TV personality
- 1970 – Chris Broderick, American musician (Megadeth)
- 1971 – Sean Morley, American professional wrestler
- 1971 – Darrick Martin, American basketball player
- 1972 – Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player
- 1972 – Jaret Reddick, American musician (Bowling For Soup)
- 1973 – Terry Adams, American baseball player
- 1973 – Michael Finley, American basketball player
- 1973 – Greg Ostertag, American basketball player
- 1973 – Peter Lindgren, Swedish guitarist (ex-Opeth)
- 1975 – Aracely Arambula, Mexican actress and singer
- 1976 – Ken Anderson, American professional wrestler
- 1977 – Giorgos Karagounis, Greek soccer player
- 1977 – Marcus Thames, American baseball player
- 1978 – Lara Cox, Australian actress
- 1978 – Salvatore Perugini, Italian rugby player
- 1978 – Sage Rosenfels, American Football Player
- 1979 – David Flair, American professional wrestler
- 1979 – Érik Bédard, Canadian baseball player
- 1979 – Ryan Nyquist, American BMX rider
- 1979 – Clint Barmes, American baseball player
- 1980 – Daniel DeSanto, Canadian actor
- 1981 – Ellen Muth, American actress
- 1983 – Andranik Teymourian, Iranian soccer player
- 1983 – Coby Karl, American basketball player; son of George Karl
- 1984 – Becky, Japanese-British entertainer
- 1984 – Paolo Facchinetti, Italian footballer
- 1984 – Alex Pederzoli, Italian footballer
- 1985 – Albert Reed, American model
- 1986 – Eli Marienthal, American actor
- 1986 – Charlie Mulgrew, Scottish football player
- 1987 – Hannah Taylor-Gordon, English actress
- 1988 – Agnes Carlsson, Swedish singer
- 1989 – Agnieszka Radwańska, Polish tennis player
- 1990 – Patricia Rodríguez, Spanish model
- 1992 – Momoko Tsugunaga, Japanese singer
- 2001 – Aryana Engineer, Canadian actress
Deaths
- 766 – Chrodegang of Metz, Frankish bishop of Metz
- 1252 – Saint Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (b. 1235)
- 1490 – Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)
- 1531 – Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish conquistador (b. 1140)
- 1627 – Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish statesman (b. 1580)
- 1754 – Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1694)
- 1758 – Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (b. 1705)
- 1764 – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1690)
- 1796 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (b. 1713)
- 1836 – James Butler Bonham, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1807)
- 1836 – Jim Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (b. 1796)
- 1836 – Davy Crockett, American frontiersman (b. 1786)
- 1836 – William Barret Travis, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1809)
- 1842 – Constanze Mozart, former widow of W.A. Mozart (b. 1763)
- 1854 – Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, British soldier and politician (b. 1778)
- 1860 – Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (b. 1783)
- 1866 – William Whewell, English scientist, philosopher and historian (b. 1794)
- 1867 – Artemus Ward, American comic writer (b. 1834)
- 1881 – Horatia Nelson, daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (b. 1801)
- 1888 – Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (b. 1832)
- 1895 – Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (b. 1813)
- 1899 – Victoria Kaiulani, Hawaiian princess (b. 1875)
- 1900 – Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and industrialist (b. 1834)
- 1905 – John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (b. 1818)
- 1932 – John Philip Sousa, American conductor, and composer (b. 1854)
- 1933 – Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1873)
- 1935 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American politician (b. 1841)
- 1935 – Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (b. 1895)
- 1939 – Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician (b. 1852)
- 1941 – Gutzon Borglum, Danish sculptor (b. 1867)
- 1948 – Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (b. 1914)
- 1950 – Albert Lebrun, President of France (b. 1871)
- 1951 – Ivor Novello, Welsh actor, musician, and composer (b. 1893)
- 1951 – Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1880)
- 1952 – Jürgen Stroop, Nazi SS-leader (b. 1895)
- 1961 – George Formby, British comedian and singer (b. 1904)
- 1964 – King Paul of Greece (b. 1901)
- 1965 – Margaret Dumont, American actress (b. 1889)
- 1967 – John Haden Badley, English author and educator (b. 1865)
- 1967 – Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (b. 1901)
- 1967 – Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (b. 1882)
- 1969 – Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (b. 1952)
- 1970 – William Hopper, American actor (b. 1915)
- 1971 – Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (b. 1921)
- 1973 – Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
- 1976 – Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor (b. 1903)
- 1981 – George Geary, English cricketer (b. 1893)
- 1982 – Ayn Rand, Russian-American author (b. 1905)
- 1984 – Martin Niemoller, German theologian (b,. 1892)
- 1984 – Henry Wilcoxon, Dominican actor (b. 1905)
- 1986 – Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887)
- 1988 – Mairéad Farrell, Irish Republican (b. 1957)
- 1988 – Daniel McCann, Irish Republican (b. 1957)
- 1988 – Seán Savage, Irish Republican (b. 1965)
- 1994 – Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and Minister for Culture of Greece (b. 1920)
- 1997 – Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (b. 1918)
- 1997 – Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1924)
- 1998 – Frank Barrett, American baseball player (b. 1913)
- 1999 – Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, Emir of Bahrain (b. 1933)
- 1978 – Dennis Viollet, English footballer (b. 1933)
- 2000 – John Colicos, Canadian actor (b. 1928)
- 2001 – Kim Walker, American actress (b. 1968)
- 2002 – Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1969)
- 2003 – John Sanford, American author (b. 1904)
- 2004 – Frances Dee, American actress (b. 1909)
- 2004 – Ray Fernandez, American wrestler (b. 1957)
- 2005 – Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
- 2005 – Tommy Vance, British radio disc jockey (b. 1943)
- 2005 – Danny Gardella, American baseball player (b. 1920)
- 2005 – Teresa Wright, American actress (b. 1918)
- 2006 – Anne Braden, American civil rights activist (b. 1924)
- 2006 – King Floyd, American musician (b. 1945)
- 2006 – Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (b. 1960)
- 2006 – Dana Reeve, American actress and activist, widow of Christoper Reeve (b. 1961)
- 2007 – Jean Baudrillard, French theorist and photographer (b. 1929)
- 2007 – Allen Coage ("Bad News Brown"), American wrestler and judoka (b. 1943)
- 2007 – Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (b. 1909)
- 2008 – Peter Poreku Dery, Cardinal and Archbishop Emeritus of Tamale (b. 1918)
- 2009 – Francis Magalona, Filipino media artist and photographer. (b. 1964)
- 2009 – Susan Tsvangirai, wife of Morgan Tsvangirai (b. 1959)
- 2010 – Mark Linkous, member of Sparklehorse (b. 1962)
- 2010 – Endurance Idahor, Nigerian footballer (b. 1984)
Holidays and observances
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