Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 6
This is a list of selected March 6 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1521 – Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his crew reached Guam. | refimprove, more footnotes |
| 1665 – The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, published the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world's longest-running scientific journal. | refimprove section |
| 1834 – York, Upper Canada, was incorporated as Toronto, now the most populous city in Canada. | refimprove sections |
| 1857 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a landmark legal decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which polarized the slavery debate and became one of many factors leading to the American Civil War. | refimprove section |
| 1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table of elements to the Russian Chemical Society. | appears on March 1 |
| 1975 – Iran and Iraq signed the Algiers Agreement to settle a border dispute, only to begin fighting again five years later in the Iran–Iraq War. | unreferenced section |
| 1975 – The Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy was broadcast on television for the first time. | primary sources |
| 1984 – In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signaled the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and involved the majority of the country's miners. | refimprove section |
| 2008 – A Palestinian gunman shot and killed eight students and critically injured eleven in the library of the Mercaz HaRav Kook yeshiva in Jerusalem. | refimprove section |
| John Redmond (d. 1918) | refimprove |
Eligible
- 961 – With the completion of the Siege of Chandax, the Muslim Emirate of Crete was conquered by the Byzantine Empire.
- 1836 – Texas Revolution: Mexican forces captured the Alamo in San Antonio from the Texians after a 13-day siege.
- 1902 – Real Madrid, one of the world's richest football clubs, was founded as Madrid Football Club.
- 1930 – Organized by the Communist International, hundreds of thousands of people in major cities around the world marched to protest mass unemployment associated with the Great Depression.
- 1953 – Upon the death of Joseph Stalin, Georgy Malenkov became Premier of the Soviet Union.
- 1967 – Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defected to the United States.
- 1988 – In Operation Flavius, the Special Air Service killed three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers conspiring to bomb a parade of British military bands in Gibraltar.
- Born/died: Princess Clémentine of Orléans (b. 1817) · William Claflin (b. 1818) · Camilla Collett (d. 1895) · Ayn Rand (d. 1982) · Sheila Varian (d. 2016)
Notes
- FC Bayern Munich appears on February 27, so Real Madrid should not appear in the same year.
- Nabucco (another Verdi opera) appears on March 9, so La traviata should not appear in the same year.
March 6: Ash Wednesday (Western Christianity, 2019); Independence Day in Ghana (1957)
- 1447 – Tomaso Parentucelli became Pope Nicholas V.
- 1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata premiered at Venice's La Fenice, but the performance was considered so bad that it caused the composer to revise portions of the opera.
- 1913 – First Balkan War: The Greek army captured Bizani Fortress, near Ioannina, from the Ottomans.
- 1945 – Petru Groza (pictured) of the Ploughmen's Front became the first Prime Minister of the Communist Party-dominated governments of Romania.
- 1964 – In a radio broadcast, Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad announced that American boxer Cassius Clay would change his name to Muhammad Ali.
- 1987 – The ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized while leaving the harbour of Zeebrugge, Belgium, killing 193 people on board.
Alvise Loredan (d. 1466) · Lucy Barnes (b. 1780) · Shaukat Aziz (b. 1949)