March 6

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 12 BC &ndash; The Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar is named "Pontifex Maximus", incorporating his position into that of Emperor.
* 1447 &ndash; Nicholas V becomes Pope.
* 1454 &ndash; Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledged allegiance to Casimir IV of Poland, and the Polish king agreed to help in their struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
* 1460 &ndash; Treaty of Alcaçovas – Portugal gives the Canary Islands to Castile in exchange for claims in West Africa.
* 1521 &ndash; Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam.
* 1645 &ndash; Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Jankau, the Swedish force under Lennart Torstensson wins, and takes field marshal Melchior von Hatzfeldt prisoner.
* 1714 &ndash; End of the War of Spanish Succession.
* 1788 &ndash; The first fleet arrives at Norfolk Island and founds a convict settlement.
* 1820 &ndash; 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.
* 1834 &ndash; York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
* 1836 &ndash; Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a 13–day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 189 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort taken.
* 1853 &ndash; The Giuseppe Verdi opera La Traviata premieres in Venice.
* 1856 &ndash; The University of Maryland, College Park is chartered as the Maryland Agricultural College.
* 1857 &ndash; The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
* 1869 &ndash; Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
* 1882 &ndash; The Serbian Kingdom is re–founded.
* 1899 &ndash; Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
* 1900 &ndash; A coal mine explosion in West Virginia traps 50 coal miners.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1901 &ndash; In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany.
* 1902 &ndash; The football team Real Madrid is founded, though the word "Real", Spanish for "Royal", is only later added to the team's name.
* 1913 &ndash; First Balkan War: The Greek army captures the Bizani fortress near Ioannina from the Ottoman Empire.
* 1921 &ndash; The Portuguese Communist Party is founded.
* 1925 &ndash; Pionerskaya Pravda, one of the oldest children's newspapers in Europe, is founded
* 1940 &ndash; Winter War: An armistice is signed by Finland and the Soviet Union.
* 1945 &ndash; A communist–dominated government under Petru Groza assumes power in Romania.
* 1946 &ndash; Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
* 1947 &ndash; *USS Newport News*, the first air–conditioned naval ship, is launched from Newport News, Virginia.
* 1951 &ndash; The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
* 1953 &ndash; Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Josef Stalin as Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
* 1954 &ndash; Chancellor of West Germany Konrad Adenauer visits the United States.
* 1957 &ndash; United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana.
* 1957 &ndash; Israel withdraws its troops from the Sinai Peninsula.
* 1960 &ndash; Geneva gives women the right to vote, becoming the third canton of Switzerland to do so.
* 1962 &ndash; The Ash Wednesday storm of 1962 hits the Mid–Atlantic coast of the United States.
* 1964 &ndash; Prophet Elijah Muhammad officially gives Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali meaning "beloved of Allah"
* 1964 &ndash; Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
* 1964 &ndash; Tom O'Hara sets a new world record for the indoor mile run by completing it in 3 minutes, 56.4 seconds.
* 1967 &ndash; Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Joseph Stalin, defects to the United States.
* 1970 &ndash; Cult leader and suspected murderer Charles Manson releases an album titled *Lies* to help finance his defense.
* 1975 &ndash; Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement over their border dispute.
* 1980 &ndash; Komodo National Park is founded in Indonesia, with the aim of protecting the Komodo dragon.
* 1981 &ndash; After 19 years presenting the *CBS Evening News*, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
* 1983 &ndash; The United States Football League begins its first year of competition.
* 1984 &ndash; Twelve–month–long strike in British coal industry begins.
* 1987 &ndash; The British ferry M/S *Herald of Free Enterprise* capsizes in about 90 seconds after leaving the harbour of Zeebrugge, Belgium en route to Dover, England across the English Channel, killing 193.
* 1992 &ndash; The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
* 1994 &ndash; Referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania.
* 1997 &ndash; Picasso's painting *Tête de Femme* is stolen from a London gallery, and is recovered a week later.

### From 2001 
* 2003 &ndash; An Air Algerie Boeing 737 crashes in Tamanrasset, Algeria, killing 102 out of the 103 people on board.
* 2005 &ndash; In Moss, Norway, three Edvard Munch paintings are stolen. The thieves are arrested the next day.
* 2008 &ndash; A suicide bomber kills 68 people in Baghdad, including first responders.
* 2008 &ndash; A gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.
* 2009 &ndash; Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of Zimbabwe's opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change, is injured in a car crash in which his wife Susan Tsvangirai is killed.
* 2014 &ndash; Euromaidan and Crimea Crisis: The regional parliament of Crimea votes by a majority to become part of Russia (instead of Ukraine) and decides to hold a referendum on this, on March 16. Ukraine, the EU and United States declare this move illegal.
* 2015 &ndash; NASA's Dawn probe enters orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres.
* 2019 &ndash; Venezuelan political crisis: German ambassador Daniel Kriener is expelled from the country.

## Births 
### Up to 1900 
* 1340 &ndash; John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (d. 1399)
* 1405 &ndash; King John II of Castile (d. 1454)
* 1459 &ndash; Jakob Fugger, German banker (d. 1525)
* 1475 &ndash; Michelangelo, Italian artist (d. 1564)
* 1483 &ndash; Francesco Guicciardini, Italian statesman and historian (d. 1540)
* 1492 &ndash; Juan Luis Vives, Spanish humanist, philosopher and educator (d. 1540)
* 1495 &ndash; Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (d. 1556)
* 1508 &ndash; Humayun, Mogul Emperor (d. 1556)
* 1619 &ndash; Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier and poet (d. 1655)
* 1663 &ndash; Francis Atterbury, British man of letters (d. 1732)
* 1706 &ndash; George Pocock, British admiral (d. 1792)
* 1716 &ndash; Pehr Kalm, Swedish explorer and naturalist (d. 1775)
* 1724 &ndash; Henry Laurens, American merchant, slave trader and political leader (d. 1792)
* 1761 &ndash; Antoine-François Andréossy, French–Italian nobleman (d. 1828)
* 1785 &ndash; Karol Kurpinski, Polish composer (d. 1857)
* 1787 &ndash; Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician (d. 1826)
* 1806 &ndash; Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (d. 1861)
* 1812 &ndash; Arthur Lufkin Dennison, American watch manufacturer (d. 1895)
* 1817 &ndash; Princess Clementine of Orleans (d. 1907)
* 1818 &ndash; William Claflin, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)
* 1823 &ndash; Charles I of Württemberg (d. 1891) 
* 1831 &ndash; Philip Sheridan, American Civil War Union cavalry officer (d. 1888)
* 1834 &ndash; George du Maurier, British illustrator and writer (d. 1896)
* 1838 &ndash; Szymon Winawer, Polish chess player (d. 1919)
* 1849 &ndash; Georg Luger, Austrian inventor (d. 1923)
* 1870 &ndash; Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (d. 1954)
* 1871 &ndash; Afonso Costa, Portuguese politician (d. 1937)
* 1882 &ndash; John January, American soccer player (d. 1917)
* 1884 &ndash; Molla Mallory, Norwegian–born American tennis player (d. 1959)
* 1885 &ndash; Ring Lardner, American writer (d. 1933)
* 1886 &ndash; Henry Jamison Handy, American swimmer, water polo player and movie maker (d. 1983)
* 1893 &ndash; Furry Lewis, American blues guitarist (d. 1981)
* 1900 &ndash; Lefty Grove, American baseball player (d. 1975)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1903 &ndash; Empress Kojun of Japan (d. 2000)
* 1904 &ndash; José Antonio Aguirre, 1st President of the Basque Country (d. 1960)
* 1905 &ndash; Bob Wills, American bandleader and songwriter (d. 1975)
* 1906 &ndash; Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (d. 1959)
* 1911 &ndash; George Webb, English actor (d. 1998)
* 1913 &ndash; Louise Latimer, American actress (d. 1973)
* 1915 &ndash; Mohammed Burhanuddin, Indian spiritual leader (d. 2014)
* 1917 &ndash; Frankie Howerd, English comedian (d. 1992)
* 1917 &ndash; Donald Davidson, American philosopher (d. 2003)
* 1917 &ndash; Will Eisner, American illustrator and cartoonist (d. 2005)
* 1917 &ndash; Samael Aun Weor, Colombian author, lecturer and teacher (d. 1977)
* 1919 &ndash; Harry Coover, American inventor of Super Glue (d. 2011)
* 1920 &ndash; Lewis Gilbert, English movie director, movie producer and screenwriter (d. 2018)
* 1921 &ndash; Leo Bretholz, Austrian–American Holocaust survivor (d. 2014)
* 1923 &ndash; Wes Montgomery, American musician (d. 1968)
* 1923 &ndash; Ed McMahon, American television personality (d. 2009)
* 1924 &ndash; Ottmar Walter, German footballer (d. 2013)
* 1924 &ndash; Sarah Caldwell, American conductor (d. 2006)
* 1924 &ndash; William H. Webster, 14th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
* 1926 &ndash; Ray O'Connor, 22nd Premier of Western Australia (d. 2013)
* 1926 &ndash; Alan Greenspan, American economist
* 1926 &ndash; Andrzej Wajda, Polish movie director (d. 2016)
* 1927 &ndash; Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian writer, Nobel Prize winner (d. 2014)
* 1927 &ndash; Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (d. 2004)
* 1928 &ndash; Glyn Owen, Welsh actor (d. 2004)
* 1930 &ndash; Lorin Maazel, French–American violinist, composer and conductor (d. 2014)
* 1931 &ndash; Hal Needham, American stuntman, director, actor and screenwriter (d. 2013)
* 1931 &ndash; Ed Whitlock, English–Canadian runner (d. 2017)
* 1932 &ndash; Bronislaw Geremek, Polish social historian and politician (d. 2008)
* 1932 &ndash; Marc Bazin, Haitian politician (d. 2010)
* 1932 &ndash; Jean Boht, English actress
* 1933 &ndash; Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (d. 2004)
* 1934 &ndash; Red Simpson, American country music singer–songwriter (d. 2016)
* 1934 &ndash; John Noakes, British television presenter (d. 2017)
* 1935 &ndash; Ron Delany, Irish middle–distance runner
* 1936 &ndash; Choummaly Sayasone, former President of Laos
* 1936 &ndash; Marion Barry, American politician (d. 2014)
* 1937 &ndash; Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet–Russian cosmonaut, first woman in space
* 1939 &ndash; Infanta Margarita of Spain
* 1939 &ndash; Kit Bond, American politician, 47th Governor of Missouri
* 1939 &ndash; Adam Osborne, writer and computer designer (d. 2003)
* 1941 &ndash; Peter Broetzmann, German jazz saxophonist
* 1944 &ndash; Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand opera singer
* 1944 &ndash; Mary Wilson, American singer (d. 2021)
* 1946 &ndash; David Gilmour, British musician (Pink Floyd)
* 1947 &ndash; Kiki Dee, British singer-songwriter
* 1947 &ndash; Rob Reiner, American director
* 1948 &ndash; Stephen Schwartz, American musical theatre lyricist and composer
* 1949 &ndash; Shaukat Aziz, Pakistani politician
* 1949 &ndash; Martin Buchan, Scottish footballer

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Stedman Graham, American writer
* 1951 &ndash; Walter Trout, American composer, guitarist and singer
* 1953 &ndash; Carolyn Porco, American planetary scientist
* 1953 &ndash; Madhav Kumar Nepal, Nepalese politician
* 1954 &ndash; Harald Schumacher, German footballer
* 1955 &ndash; Cyprien Ntaryamira, President of Burundi (d. 1994)
* 1955 &ndash; Alberta Watson, Canadian actress (d. 2015)
* 1959 &ndash; Tom Arnold, American actor and comedian
* 1959 &ndash; Tommy Sheppard, Northern Irish–Scottish politician
* 1963 &ndash; Gary Stevens, American jockey
* 1963 &ndash; Suzanne Crough, American actress (d. 2015)
* 1964 &ndash; Sandro Rosell, Spanish football manager
* 1966 &ndash; Alan Davies, English actor and comedian
* 1967 &ndash; Connie Britton, American actress
* 1967 &ndash; Julio Bocca, Argentine ballet dancer and director
* 1967 &ndash; Shuler Hensley, American actor and singer
* 1968 &ndash; Moira Kelly, American actress
* 1969 &ndash; Amy Pietz, American actress
* 1970 &ndash; Chris Broderick, American musician
* 1971 &ndash; Karst Tates, Dutch attempted assassin (d. 2009)
* 1972 &ndash; Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player
* 1973 &ndash; Michael Kelly, American basketball player

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Ken Anderson, American professional wrestler
* 1977 &ndash; Giorgos Karagounis, Greek footballer
* 1978 &ndash; Lara Cox, Australian actress
* 1978 &ndash; Teruaki Kurobe, Japanese footballer
* 1979 &ndash; Rufus Hound, English comedian
* 1979 &ndash; Garry Monk, English footballer and manager
* 1979 &ndash; Tim Howard, American soccer player
* 1981 &ndash; Tim Brown, New Zealand footballer
* 1981 &ndash; Zlatan Muslimovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina footballer
* 1981 &ndash; Ellen Muth, American actress
* 1983 &ndash; Andranik Teymourian, Iranian footballer
* 1985 &ndash; Bakaye Traoré, French–born Malian footballer
* 1985 &ndash; Yael Stone, Australian actress
* 1986 &ndash; Paul Aguilar, Mexican footballer
* 1986 &ndash; Danny Jones, Welsh rugby league player (d. 2015)
* 1986 &ndash; Charlie Mulgrew, Scottish footballer
* 1987 &ndash; Kevin-Prince Boateng, German–Ghanaian footballer
* 1987 &ndash; Hannah Taylor-Gordon, British actress
* 1987 &ndash; José Manuel Flores, Spanish footballer
* 1988 &ndash; Agnes Carlsson, Swedish singer
* 1988 &ndash; Simon Mignolet, Belgian footballer
* 1989 &ndash; Lee Seung-Yeoul, South Korean footballer
* 1989 &ndash; Agnieszka Radwanska, Polish tennis player
* 1990 &ndash; Clara Lago, Spanish actress
* 1991 &ndash; Lex Luger, American producer
* 1991 &ndash; Tyler, The Creator, American rapper and producer
* 1991 &ndash; Rodrigo, Brazilian–Spanish footballer
* 1992 &ndash; Momoko Tsugunaga, Japanese actress and singer
* 1992 &ndash; Sarah De Bono, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1993 &ndash; Andres Renteria, Colombian footballer
* 1994 &ndash; Nathan Redmond, English footballer
* 1994 &ndash; Marcus Smart, American basketball player
* 1996 &ndash; Timo Werner, German footballer
* 2001 &ndash; Aryana Engineer, Canadian actress

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* 1052 &ndash; Emma of Normandy (b. 985)
* 1252 &ndash; Saint Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (b. 1235)
* 1282 &ndash; Agnes of Bohemia (b. 1211)
* 1466 &ndash; Francesco I Sforza, Italian ruler (b. 1401)
* 1490 &ndash; Ivan the Young, ruler of Tver (b. 1458)
* 1627 &ndash; Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish statesman (b. 1580)
* 1754 &ndash; Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1694)
* 1764 &ndash; Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1690)
* 1836 &ndash; Davy Crockett, American historical figure (b. 1786)
* 1836 &ndash; James Bowie, Texan pioneer (b. 1796)
* 1836 &ndash; William Travis, Texan soldier (b. 1809)
* 1842 &ndash; Constanze Mozart, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1763)
* 1860 &ndash; Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (b. 1783)
* 1881 &ndash; Horatia Nelson, daughter of Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton (b. 1801)
* 1888 &ndash; Louisa May Alcott, American writer (b. 1832)
* 1895 &ndash; Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (b. 1813)
* 1899 &ndash; Victoria Kaiulani, Hawaiian princess (b. 1875)
* 1900 &ndash; Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer (b. 1834)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1925 &ndash; Georgy Lvov, Russian politician (b. 1861)
* 1930 &ndash; Alfred von Tirpitz, German admiral (b. 1849)
* 1932 &ndash; John Philip Sousa, American conductor and composer (b. 1854)
* 1933 &ndash; Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1873)
* 1935 &ndash; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American politician (b. 1841)
* 1941 &ndash; Gutzon Borglum, Danish sculptor (b. 1867)
* 1950 &ndash; Albert Lebrun, President of France (b. 1871)
* 1951 &ndash; Ivor Novello, Welsh actor, musician and composer (b. 1893)
* 1951 &ndash; Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1880)
* 1952 &ndash; Jürgen Stroop, German SS officer (b. 1895) 
* 1961 &ndash; George Formby, English comedian, singer and musician (b. 1904)
* 1964 &ndash; King Paul of Greece (b. 1901)
* 1965 &ndash; Margaret Dumont, American actress (b. 1889)
* 1967 &ndash; Zoltan Kodaly, Hungarian composer (b. 1882)
* 1967 &ndash; Nelson Eddy, American actor and singer (b. 1901)
* 1971 &ndash; Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (b. 1921)
* 1973 &ndash; Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize winner (b. 1892)
* 1982 &ndash; Ayn Rand, Russian–American writer (b. 1905)
* 1984 &ndash; Martin Niemöller, German theologian (b. 1892)
* 1986 &ndash; Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887)
* 1990 &ndash; Taro Kagawa, Japanese footballer (b. 1922)
* 1994 &ndash; Ken Noritake, Japanese footballer (b. 1922)
* 1994 &ndash; Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and politician (b. 1920)
* 1997 &ndash; Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (b. 1918)
* 1997 &ndash; Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1924)
* 1999 &ndash; Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, Emir of Bahrain (b. 1933)

### From 2001 
* 2002 &ndash; Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1969)
* 2004 &ndash; Frances Dee, American actress (b. 1909)
* 2005 &ndash; Hans Bethe, German physicist (b. 1906)
* 2006 &ndash; King Floyd, American singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
* 2006 &ndash; Dana Reeve, American actress and activist (b. 1961)
* 2007 &ndash; Jean Baudrillard, French theorist and photographer (b. 1929)
* 2009 &ndash; Francis Magalona, Filipino media artist and photographer (b. 1964)
* 2009 &ndash; Susan Tsvangirai, wife of Morgan Tsvangirai (b. 1958)
* 2011 &ndash; Jan Popluhar, Slovakian footballer (b. 1935)
* 2012 &ndash; Francisco Xavier do Amaral, 1st President of East Timor (b. 1937)
* 2013 &ndash; Alvin Lee, British guitarist (b. 1944)
* 2013 &ndash; Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian country musician (b. 1936)
* 2014 &ndash; Jojon, Indonesian comedian (b. 1947)
* 2014 &ndash; Manlio Sgalambro, Italian philosopher and writer (b. 1924)
* 2014 &ndash; Maurice Faure, French diplomat and politician (b. 1922)
* 2014 &ndash; Sérgio Guerra, Brazilian economist and politician (b. 1947) 
* 2014 &ndash; Martin Nesbitt, American politician (b. 1946)
* 2014 &ndash; Frank Jobe, American surgeon (b. 1925)
* 2014 &ndash; Sheila MacRae, English–American actress (b. 1921)
* 2014 &ndash; Ron Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1933)
* 2014 &ndash; Alemayehu Atomsa, Ethiopian politician (b. 1969)
* 2015 &ndash; Ram Sundar Das, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1921)
* 2015 &ndash; Kishore Te, Indian movie editor (b. 1978)
* 2015 &ndash; Fred Craddock, American minister (b. 1928)
* 2015 &ndash; Vasilios Magginas, Greek politician (b. 1949)
* 2016 &ndash; Kalabhavan Mani, Indian actor (b. 1971)
* 2016 &ndash; Nancy Reagan, First Lady of the United States (b. 1921)
* 2016 &ndash; Elizabeth Garrett, American educator (b. 1963)
* 2016 &ndash; Sheila Varian, American horse breeder (b. 1937)
* 2017 &ndash; Bill Hougland, American basketball player and businessman (b. 1930)
* 2017 &ndash; Robert Osborne, American film historian and actor (b. 1932)
* 2017 &ndash; Alberto Zedda, Italian conductor and musicologist (b. 1928)
* 2017 &ndash; Eddy Pauwels, Belgian cyclist (b. 1935)
* 2017 &ndash; Geoffrey Wainwright, British archaeologist (b. 1937)
* 2018 &ndash; Indra Bahadur Rai, Indian writer (b. 1927)
* 2018 &ndash; John Sulston, English biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1942)
* 2018 &ndash; Peter Nicholls, Australian writer (b. 1939)
* 2018 &ndash; Shammi, Indian actress (b. 1929)
* 2018 &ndash; Peter Freund, Romanian–American physicist (b. 1936)
* 2019 &ndash; John Habgood, English bishop, academic and life peer (b. 1927)
* 2019 &ndash; José Pedro Pérez-Llorca, Spanish lawyer, politician and diplomat (b. 1940)
* 2019 &ndash; Carolee Schneemann, American artist (b. 1939)

## Observances 
* Independence Day (Ghana)
* Alamo Day (Texas)
* Foundation Day (Norfolk Island)