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What Happened on March 6th This Day in History

Year	Name
2020	32 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.
2018	Forbes names Jeff Bezos as the world's richest person, for the first time, at $112 billion net worth.
2008	A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.
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.
1992	The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
1988	Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.
1987	The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193.
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.
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.
1970	An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
1968	Three rebels are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.
1967	Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
1965	Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
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.
1957	Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.
1953	Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1951	Cold War: The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg 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.
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.
1944	World War II: Soviet Air Forces bomb an evacuated town of Narva in German-occupied Estonia, destroying the entire historical Swedish-era town.
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.
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.
1933	Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
1930	International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern.
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.
1901	Anarchist assassin tries to kill German Emperor Wilhelm II.
1899	Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
1882	The Serbian kingdom is re-founded.
1869	Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
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.
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.
1834	York, Upper Canada, is incorporated as Toronto.
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.
1788	The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
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.
1521	Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
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.
1323	Treaty of Paris of 1323 is signed.
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.
961	Byzantine conquest of Chandax by Nikephoros Phokas, end of the Emirate of Crete.
845	The 42 Martyrs of Amorium are killed after refusing to convert to Islam.
632	The Farewell Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
12	The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor.

Famous People Born on March 6

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Year	Name
1954	Harald Schumacher, German footballer and manager
1939	Kit Bond, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of Missouri
1977	Marcus Thames, American baseball player and coach
1955	Cyprien Ntaryamira, Burundian politician, 5th President of Burundi (d. 1994)
1947	Anna Maria Horsford, American actress
1975	Aracely Arámbula, Mexican actress and singer
1877	Rose Fyleman, English writer and poet (d. 1957)
1986	Eli Marienthal, American actor
1977	Nantie Hayward, South African cricketer
1917	Donald Davidson, American philosopher and academic (d. 2003)

Famous People Deaths On March 6

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on March 6. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1888	Louisa May Alcott, American novelist and poet (b. 1832)
1997	Cheddi Jagan, Guyanese politician, 4th President of Guyana (b. 1918)
2007	Jean Baudrillard, French photographer and theorist (b. 1929)
1950	Albert François Lebrun, French engineer and politician, 15th President of France (b. 1871)
1951	Ivor Novello, Welsh singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1893)
1933	Anton Cermak, Czech-American lawyer and politician, 44th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1873)
2002	Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1969)
2013	Chorão, Brazilian singer-songwriter (Charlie Brown Jr.) (b. 1970)
1251	Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (b. 1235)
1974	Ernest Becker, American anthropologist and author (b. 1924)