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 - 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 .
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 - 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 Josef Stalin as Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union .
1957 - United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana .
1957 - Israel withdraws its troops from the Sinai Peninsula
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 .
1997 - Picasso 's Tete de Femme is stolen from a London gallery, and is recovered a week later.
Births
1400 — 1900
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 )
1901 — 1930
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 - Jürgen von Manger , cabaretist , (d. 1994 )
1923 - Wes Montgomery , American musician (d. 1968 )
1926 - Alan Greenspan , American economist
1926 - Andrzej Wajda , Polish film director
1927 - Wes Montgomery , musician
1927 - Gordon Cooper , astronaut (d. 2004 )
1928 - Gabriel García Márquez , Colombian writer
1929 - Günter Kunert , writer and lyricist
1930 - Lorin Maazel , French-born American conductor
1931 — 1950
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 , cosmonaut
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 , athlete
1947 - Kiki Dee , singer
1948 - Anna Maria Horsford , American actress
1949 - Shaukat Aziz , politician
1949 - Martin Buchan , Scottish football (soccer) player
1951 — 2005
Deaths
1200 — 1940
1252 - Saint Rose of Viterbo (b. 1235 )
1836 - Davy Crockett , frontiersman (b. 1786 )
1854 - Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry , British noble
1888 - Louisa May Alcott , novelist, (b. 1832 )
1899 - Victoria Kaiulani , princess of Hawaii (b. 1875 )
1905 - John Henninger Reagan , American and Confederate 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 D. Roosevelt , dies of his injuries, (b. 1873 )
1941 — 1980
1941 - Gutzon Borglum , sculptor, (b. 1867 )
1948 - Ross Lockridge, Jr. , novelist, (b. 1914 )
1951 - Ivor Novello , actor, musician, composer, (b. 1893 )
1961 - George Formby , British comedian & singer, (b. 1904 )
1965 - Margaret Dumont , actress, (b. 1889 )
1967 - Nelson Eddy , singer, actor (b. 1901 )
1967 - Zoltán Kodály , Hungarian composer, (b. 1882 )
1970 - William Hopper , American actor
1971 - Thurston Dart , English harpsichordist and conductor
1973 - Pearl S. Buck , writer, (b. 1892 )
1976 - Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom , boxer , actor (b. 1903 )
1981 — 2005
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 DJ (b. 1943 )
Holidays and observances
External links
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