March 6 in History

Historical Events on March 6

12 BC

The Roman Emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor.
632

The Farewell Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
845

Execution of the 42 Martyrs of Amorium at Samarra.
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.
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.
1665

The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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 in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
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.
1902

Real Madrid C.F. is founded.
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 6,000 feet.
1921

Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
1930

International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern
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.
1945

World War II: Cologne is captured by American troops.
1945

World War II: Operation Spring Awakening, the last major German offensive of the war, begins.
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 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 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.
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.
1983

The first United States Football League games are played.
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 [but never all] of the country's miners.
1987

The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193.
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.
2008

A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.

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