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Date | Description | Type |
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6th of March 1454 | EVENT | 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. |
6th of March 1521 | EVENT | Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam. |
6th of March 1788 | EVENT | The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement. |
6th of March 1820 | EVENT | 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. |
6th of March 1834 | EVENT | York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto. |
6th of March 1836 | EVENT | 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. |
6th of March 1840 | EVENT | The Baltimore College of Dental Surgery opens, the first dental school. |
6th of March 1857 | EVENT | The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case. |
6th of March 1869 | EVENT | Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society. |
6th of March 1899 | EVENT | Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark. |
6th of March 1921 | EVENT | Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International. |
6th of March 1945 | EVENT | Cologne is captured by American Troops. |
6th of March 1946 | EVENT | Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union. |
6th of March 1951 | EVENT | The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins. |
6th of March 1953 | EVENT | Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
6th of March 1957 | EVENT | Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain Independence from the British |
6th of March 1964 | EVENT | Nation of Islam's Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali. |
6th of March 1964 | EVENT | Constantine II becomes King of Greece. |
6th of March 1965 | EVENT | Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office. |
6th of March 1967 | EVENT | Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States. |
6th of March 1968 | EVENT | The first of the East L.A. Walkouts take place at several high schools. |
6th of March 1970 | EVENT | Blast at Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three. |
6th of March 1975 | EVENT | For the first time, ever, the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory. |
6th of March 1975 | EVENT | Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute. |
6th of March 1981 | EVENT | After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time. |
6th of March 1983 | EVENT | The first United States Football League game is played. |
6th of March 1987 | EVENT | The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193. |
6th of March 1988 | EVENT | Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius. |
6th of March 1992 | EVENT | Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers. |
6th of March 2008 | EVENT | A Palestinian gunman shoots and kills 8 students and critically injures 11 in the library of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, in Jerusalem, Israel. |
6th of March 1340 | BIRTHDAY | John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (d. 1399) |
6th of March 1405 | BIRTHDAY | King John II of Castile (d. 1454) |
6th of March 1459 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob Fugger, German banker (d. 1525) |
6th of March 1475 | BIRTHDAY | Michelangelo, Italian artist and sculptor (d. 1564) |
6th of March 1483 | BIRTHDAY | Francesco Guicciardini, Italian statesman and historian (d. 1540) |
6th of March 1495 | BIRTHDAY | Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (d. 1556) |
6th of March 1619 | BIRTHDAY | Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier, poet (d. 1655) |
6th of March 1663 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Atterbury, British man of letters (d. 1732) |
6th of March 1706 | BIRTHDAY | George Pocock, British admiral (d. 1792) |
6th of March 1716 | BIRTHDAY | Pehr Kalm, Swedish explorer and naturalist (d. 1779) |
6th of March 1724 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Laurens, American merchant, slave trader, and political leader (d. 1792) |
6th of March 1761 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine-Francois Andreossy, French General (d. 1828) |
6th of March 1779 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (d. 1869) |
6th of March 1787 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (d. 1826) |
6th of March 1806 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British poet (d. 1861) |
6th of March 1812 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Lufkin Dennison American watch manufacturer (d. 1895) |
6th of March 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Clementine of Orleans (d. 1907) |
6th of March 1818 | BIRTHDAY | William Claflin, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905) |
6th of March 1823 | BIRTHDAY | Charles I of Wurttemberg, King of Wurttemberg from 1864 (d. 1891) |
6th of March 1831 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Sheridan, American Civil War Union cavalry officer (d. 1888) |
6th of March 1834 | BIRTHDAY | George du Maurier British illustrator and writer (d. 1896) |
6th of March 1849 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Luger, Austrian inventor (d. 1923) |
6th of March 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Oscar Straus, Viennese operetta composer (d. 1954) |
6th of March 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Afonso Costa, Portuguese politician (d. 1937) |
6th of March 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Molla Mallory, Norwegian-born American tennis player (d. 1959) |
6th of March 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Ring Lardner, American writer (d. 1933) |
6th of March 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Furry Lewis, American blues guitarist (d. 1981) |
6th of March 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Lefty Grove, American baseball player (d. 1975) |
6th of March 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Empress Kojun of Japan (d. 2000) |
6th of March 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician (d. 1960) |
6th of March 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Wills, American singer (d. 1975) |
6th of March 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (d. 1959) |
6th of March 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Stanis?aw Jerzy Lec, Polish author (d. 1966) |
6th of March 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian politician (d. 1987) |
6th of March 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Ejler Bille, Danish artist, member of the COBRA group (d. 2004) |
6th of March 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (d. 1981) |
6th of March 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Mohammed Burhanuddin, Dawoodi Bohra spiritual leader |
6th of March 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Will Eisner, American illustrator and cartoonist (d. 2005) |
6th of March 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Frankie Howerd, English comedian (d. 1992) |
6th of March 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Davidson, American philosopher (d. 2003) |
6th of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Lewis Gilbert, English film director, producer and screenwriter |
6th of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Ed McMahon, American television personality (d. 2009) |
6th of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Herman Leonard, American photographer (d. 2010) |
6th of March 1924 | BIRTHDAY | William H. Webster, American lawyer |
6th of March 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Wes Montgomery, American musician (d. 1968) |
6th of March 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Greenspan, American economist |
6th of March 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director |
6th of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
6th of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (d. 2004) |
6th of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Treigle, American bass-baritone (d. 1975) |
6th of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Lorin Maazel, French-born American conductor |
6th of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Hal Needham, American stuntman |
6th of March 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Bazin, Haitian politician (d. 2010) |
6th of March 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Bronis?aw Geremek, Polish social historian and politician. |
6th of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (d. 2004) |
6th of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | John Noakes, British television presenter |
6th of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Delany, Irish athlete |
6th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Marion Barry Jr., American politician |
6th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Choummaly Sayasone, president of Laos |
6th of March 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Boesky, American stock trader |
6th of March 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet cosmonaut |
6th of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Cookie Rojas, Cuban baseball player |
6th of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Osborne, British author and computer designer (d. 2003) |
6th of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Infanta Margarita of Spain, duchess of Soria |
6th of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Kit Bond, American politician |
6th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Joanna Miles, American actress |
6th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Willie Stargell, American baseball player (d. 2001) |
6th of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Brotzmann, German jazz saxophonist |
6th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Murphy, American actor |
6th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealander opera singer |
6th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Wilson, American singer (The Supremes) |
6th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Corliss, American film critic |
6th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | David Gilmour, British musician (Pink Floyd) |
6th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Fosbury, American athlete |
6th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Kiki Dee, British singer |
6th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian, and film producer |
6th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Kove, American actor |
6th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Schwartz, American musical theatre lyricist and composer |
6th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Buchan, Scottish soccer player |
6th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Shaukat Aziz, Pakistani statesman |
6th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Hirotaka Suzuoki, Japanese Seiyu (d. 2006) |
6th of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (d. 2004) |
6th of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Kjaerstad, Norwegian author |
6th of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Madhav Kumar Nepal, former Prime Minister of Nepal |
6th of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Carolyn Porco, American planetary scientist |
6th of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Harald Schumacher, German footbal goalkeeper |
6th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Alberta Watson, Canadian actress |
6th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Deezen, American actor |
6th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Arnold, American actor and comedian |
6th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Sleepy Floyd, American basketball player |
6th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Erika Hess, Swiss alpine ski racer |
6th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | D. L. Hughley, American comedian and actor |
6th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Madonna Wayne Gacy, American musician |
6th of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Davies, British comedian and actor |
6th of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Julio Bocca, Argentine ballet dancer |
6th of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Connie Britton, American actress |
6th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Romeo, American musician (Symphony X) |
6th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Moira Kelly, American actress |
6th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Pietz, American actress |
6th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Elson, American actress |
6th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Tari Phillips, American basketball player |
6th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Broderick, American musician (Megadeth) |
6th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Darrick Martin, American basketball player |
6th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Morley, American professional wrestler |
6th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jaret Reddick, American musician (Bowling For Soup) |
6th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player |
6th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Ostertag, American basketball player |
6th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Lindgren, Swedish guitarist (ex-Opeth) |
6th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Finley, American basketball player |
6th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Beanie Sigel, American rapper |
6th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Aracely Arambula, Mexican actress and singer |
6th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Anderson, American professional wrestler |
6th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Bubba Sparxxx, American rapper |
6th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgos Karagounis, Greek soccer player |
6th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Thames, American baseball player |
6th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Sage Rosenfels, American football player |
6th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Lara Cox, Australian actress |
6th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | David Flair, American professional wrestler |
6th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Bedard, Canadian baseball player |
6th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Rufus Hound, British comedian |
6th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Howard, American soccer player |
6th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Clint Barmes, American baseball player |
6th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel DeSanto, Canadian actor |
6th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ellen Muth, American actress |
6th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Andranik Teymourian, Iranian soccer player |
6th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Becky, Japanese-British entertainer |
6th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Mulgrew, Scottish football player |
6th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Eli Marienthal, American actor |
6th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jake Arrieta, American baseball pitcher |
6th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Hannah Taylor-Gordon, English actress |
6th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin-Prince Boateng, Ghanaian/German footballer |
6th of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Agnes Carlsson, Swedish singer |
6th of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Agnieszka Radwanska, Polish tennis player |
6th of March 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Tyler the Creator, American rapper |
6th of March 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Lex Luger, American rap producer |
6th of March 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Momoko Tsugunaga, Japanese singer |
6th of March 2001 | BIRTHDAY | Aryana Engineer, Canadian actress |
6th of March 0766 | DEATH | Chrodegang of Metz, Frankish bishop of Metz |
6th of March 1252 | DEATH | Saint Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (Born 1235) |
6th of March 1490 | DEATH | Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (Born 1458) |
6th of March 1531 | DEATH | Pedrarias Davila, Spanish conquistador (Born 1140) |
6th of March 1627 | DEATH | Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish statesman (Born 1580) |
6th of March 1754 | DEATH | Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1694) |
6th of March 1758 | DEATH | Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (Born 1705) |
6th of March 1764 | DEATH | Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (Born 1690) |
6th of March 1796 | DEATH | Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal, French writer (Born 1713) |
6th of March 1836 | DEATH | James "Jim" Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (Born 1796) |
6th of March 1836 | DEATH | James Butler Bonham, American lawyer and soldier (Born 1807) |
6th of March 1836 | DEATH | Davy Crockett, American frontiersman (Born 1786) |
6th of March 1836 | DEATH | William Barret Travis, American lawyer and soldier (Born 1809) |
6th of March 1842 | DEATH | Constanze Mozart, former widow of W.A. Mozart (Born 1763) |
6th of March 1854 | DEATH | Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, British soldier and politician (Born 1778) |
6th of March 1860 | DEATH | Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (Born 1783) |
6th of March 1866 | DEATH | William Whewell, English scientist, philosopher and historian (Born 1794) |
6th of March 1867 | DEATH | Artemus Ward, American comic writer (Born 1834) |
6th of March 1881 | DEATH | Horatia Nelson, daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (Born 1801) |
6th of March 1888 | DEATH | Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (Born 1832) |
6th of March 1895 | DEATH | Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (Born 1813) |
6th of March 1899 | DEATH | Victoria Kaiulani, Hawaiian princess (Born 1875) |
6th of March 1900 | DEATH | Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and industrialist (Born 1834) |
6th of March 1905 | DEATH | John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (Born 1818) |
6th of March 1932 | DEATH | John Philip Sousa, American conductor, and composer (Born 1854) |
6th of March 1933 | DEATH | Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (Born 1873) |
6th of March 1935 | DEATH | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American politician (Born 1841) |
6th of March 1935 | DEATH | Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (Born 1895) |
6th of March 1939 | DEATH | Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician (Born 1852) |
6th of March 1941 | DEATH | Gutzon Borglum, Danish sculptor (Born 1867) |
6th of March 1948 | DEATH | Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (Born 1914) |
6th of March 1950 | DEATH | Albert Lebrun, President of France (Born 1871) |
6th of March 1951 | DEATH | Ivor Novello, Welsh actor, musician, and composer (Born 1893) |
6th of March 1951 | DEATH | Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian politician and statesman (Born 1880) |
6th of March 1952 | DEATH | Jurgen Stroop, Nazi SS-leader (Born 1895) |
6th of March 1961 | DEATH | George Formby, British comedian and singer (Born 1904) |
6th of March 1964 | DEATH | King Paul of Greece (Born 1901) |
6th of March 1965 | DEATH | Margaret Dumont, American actress (Born 1889) |
6th of March 1967 | DEATH | John Haden Badley, English author and educator (Born 1865) |
6th of March 1967 | DEATH | Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (Born 1901) |
6th of March 1967 | DEATH | Zoltan Kodaly, Hungarian composer (Born 1882) |
6th of March 1969 | DEATH | Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (Born 1952) |
6th of March 1970 | DEATH | William Hopper, American actor (Born 1915) |
6th of March 1971 | DEATH | Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (Born 1921) |
6th of March 1973 | DEATH | Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1892) |
6th of March 1976 | DEATH | Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor (Born 1903) |
6th of March 1978 | DEATH | Dennis Viollet, English footballer (Born 1933) |
6th of March 1981 | DEATH | George Geary, English cricketer (Born 1893) |
6th of March 1982 | DEATH | Ayn Rand, Russian-American author (Born 1905) |
6th of March 1984 | DEATH | Martin Niemoller, German theologian (Born 1892) |
6th of March 1984 | DEATH | Henry Wilcoxon, Dominican actor (Born 1905) |
6th of March 1986 | DEATH | Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (Born 1887) |
6th of March 1988 | DEATH | Mairead Farrell, Irish Republican (Born 1957) |
6th of March 1988 | DEATH | Daniel McCann, Irish Republican (Born 1957) |
6th of March 1988 | DEATH | Sean Savage, Irish Republican (Born 1965) |
6th of March 1994 | DEATH | Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and Minister for Culture of Greece (Born 1920) |
6th of March 1997 | DEATH | Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (Born 1924) |
6th of March 1997 | DEATH | Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (Born 1918) |
6th of March 1998 | DEATH | Frank Barrett, American baseball player (Born 1913) |
6th of March 1999 | DEATH | Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, Emir of Bahrain (Born 1933) |
6th of March 2000 | DEATH | John Colicos, Canadian actor (Born 1928) |
6th of March 2001 | DEATH | Kim Walker, American actress (Born 1968) |
6th of March 2002 | DEATH | Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1969) |
6th of March 2004 | DEATH | Frances Dee, American actress (Born 1909) |
6th of March 2004 | DEATH | Ray Fernandez, American wrestler (Born 1957) |
6th of March 2005 | DEATH | Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1906) |
6th of March 2005 | DEATH | Danny Gardella, American baseball player (Born 1920) |
6th of March 2005 | DEATH | Tommy Vance, British radio disc jockey (Born 1943) |
6th of March 2005 | DEATH | Teresa Wright, American actress (Born 1918) |
6th of March 2006 | DEATH | Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (Born 1960) |
6th of March 2006 | DEATH | King Floyd, American musician (Born 1945) |
6th of March 2006 | DEATH | Dana Reeve, American actress and activist, widow of Christoper Reeve (Born 1961) |
6th of March 2006 | DEATH | Anne Braden, American civil rights activist (Born 1924) |
6th of March 2007 | DEATH | Allen Coage ("Bad News Brown"), American wrestler and judoka (Born 1943) |
6th of March 2007 | DEATH | Jean Baudrillard, French theorist and photographer (Born 1929) |
6th of March 2007 | DEATH | Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (Born 1909) |
6th of March 2008 | DEATH | Peter Poreku Dery, Cardinal and Archbishop Emeritus of Tamale (Born 1918) |
6th of March 2009 | DEATH | Francis Magalona, Filipino media artist and photographer. (Born 1964) |
6th of March 2009 | DEATH | Susan Tsvangirai, wife of Morgan Tsvangirai (Born 1959) |
6th of March 2010 | DEATH | Mark Linkous, member of Sparklehorse (Born 1962) |
6th of March 2010 | DEATH | Endurance Idahor, Nigerian footballer (Born 1984) |