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March 6 is the 65th day of the year (66th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 300 days remain
until the end of the year.

Events
Pre-1600
• 12 BCE – The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the
position into that of the emperor.[1]
• 632 – The Farewell Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
• 845 – The 42 Martyrs of Amorium are killed after refusing to convert to Islam.[2]
• 961 – Byzantine conquest of Chandax by Nikephoros Phokas, end of the Emirate of Crete.
• 1204 – The Siege of Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over King John of England,
who loses control of Normandy to King Philip II Augustus.[3]
• 1323 – Treaty of Paris of 1323 is signed.[4]
• 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.
1601–1900
• 1665 – The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first
issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world's longest-running
scientific journal.
• 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, brings Maine into the Union
as a free state, and 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, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and
colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
• 1857 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules 7–2 in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case
that the Constitution does not confer citizenship on black people.
• 1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
• 1882 – The Serbian kingdom is re-founded.
• 1899 – Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.

1901–present
• 1901 – Anarchist assassin tries to kill German Emperor Wilhelm II.[5]
• 1904 – Scottish National Antarctic Expedition: Led by William Speirs Bruce, the Antarctic
region of Coats Land was discovered from the Scotia.[6]
• 1912 – Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two
dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 1,800 m.
• 1930 – International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the
Comintern.
• 1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing
all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
• 1943 – Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in The Saturday Evening Post with
a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.
• 1943 – World War II: Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel launches the Battle of Medenine
in an attempt to slow down the British Eight Army. It fails, and he leaves Africa three days
later.[7]
• 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the
Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, ends with the surrender of an entire
Italian battalion, the bulk of the garrison of the town of Grevena, leading to its liberation a
fortnight later.[8]
• 1944 – World War II: Soviet Air Forces bomb an evacuated town of Narva in German-
occupied Estonia, destroying the entire historical Swedish-era town.
• 1945 – World War II: Cologne is captured by American troops. On the same day, Operation
Spring Awakening, the last major German offensive of the war, begins.[9]
• 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 – Cold War: The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
 • 1953 – Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First
Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• 1957 – Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.
• 1964 – Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius
Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
• 1964 – Constantine II becomes the last King of Greece.
• 1965 – Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
• 1967 – Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
• 1968 – Three rebels are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting
international condemnation.
• 1970 – An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills
three.
• 1975 – For the first time 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.
• 1975 – Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
• 1984 – In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow
signals the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and involved the majority of the
country's miners.
• 1987 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing
193.[10]
• 1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in
Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.
• 1992 – The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
• 2003 – Air Algérie Flight 6289 crashes at the Aguenar – Hadj Bey Akhamok Airport in
Tamanrasset, Algeria, killing 102 out of the 103 people on board.[11]
• 2008 – A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same
day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.
• 2018 – Forbes names Jeff Bezos as the world's richest person, for the first time, at $112
billion net worth.[12]
• 2020 – Thirty-two people are killed and 81 are injured when gunmen open fire on a
ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack.[13]

Births
Pre-1600
• 1340 – John of Gaunt (probable; d. 1399)
• 1405 – John II of Castile (d. 1454)
• 1459 – Jakob Fugger, German merchant and banker (d. 1525)
• 1475 – Michelangelo, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1564)[14]
• 1483 – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian and politician (d. 1540)
• 1493 – Juan Luis Vives, Spanish scholar and humanist (d. 1540)
• 1495 – Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and diplomat (d. 1556)
• 1536 – Santi di Tito, Italian painter (d. 1603)
1601–1900
• 1619 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French author and playwright (d. 1655)[15]
• 1663 – Francis Atterbury, English bishop and poet (d. 1732)
• 1706 – George Pocock, English admiral (d. 1792)
• 1716 – Pehr Kalm, Swedish-Finnish botanist and explorer (d. 1779)
• 1724 – Henry Laurens, English-American merchant and politician, 5th President of the
Continental Congress (d. 1792)
• 1761 – Antoine-François Andréossy, French general and diplomat (d. 1828)
• 1779 – Antoine-Henri Jomini, Swiss-French general (d. 1869)
• 1780 – Lucy Barnes, Ame