March 6 Events |
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| March 6th, 2007 (March 06 2007) | Event | Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice trial. | |
| March 6th, 2006 (March 06 2006) | Event | South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signs a bill into legislation that would ban most abortions in the state. | |
| March 6th, 1997 (March 06 1997) | Event | Picasso s painting Tete de Femme is stolen from a London gallery, and is recovered a week later. | |
| March 6th, 1994 (March 06 1994) | Event | Referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania. | |
| March 6th, 1992 (March 06 1992) | Event | The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers. | |
| March 6th, 1992 (March 06 1992) | Event | Founding of the Council of the Baltic Sea States. | |
| March 6th, 1988 (March 06 1988) | Event | Three unarmed members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army are killed by the SAS on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius. | |
| March 6th, 1987 (March 06 1987) | Event | The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193. | |
| March 6th, 1984 (March 06 1984) | Event | Twelve-month-long strike in British coal industry begins. | |
| March 6th, 1981 (March 06 1981) | Event | After 19 years presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time. | |
| March 6th, 1975 (March 06 1975) | Event | Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute. | |
| March 6th, 1964 (March 06 1964) | Event | Prophet Elijah Muhammad officially gives Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali meaning "beloved of Allah". | Muhammad Ali Quotes |
| March 6th, 1964 (March 06 1964) | Event | Constantine II becomes King of Greece. | |
| March 6th, 1957 (March 06 1957) | Event | United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana. | |
| March 6th, 1957 (March 06 1957) | Event | Israel withdraws its troops from the Sinai Peninsula. | |
| March 6th, 1953 (March 06 1953) | Event | Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. | Joseph Stalin Quotes |
| March 6th, 1951 (March 06 1951) | Event | The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins. | |
| March 6th, 1946 (March 06 1946) | Event | 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. | |
| March 6th, 1945 (March 06 1945) | Event | A communist-dominated government under Petru Groza assumes power in Romania. | |
| March 6th, 1940 (March 06 1940) | Event | Winter War: An armistice is signed by Finland and the Soviet Union. | |
| March 6th, 1927 (March 06 1927) | Event | Fritz Lang s Metropolis is released. | |
| March 6th, 1925 (March 06 1925) | Event | Belgium annexes Eupen, Malmedy, and Sankt Vith. | |
| March 6th, 1921 (March 06 1921) | Event | The Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International. | |
| March 6th, 1901 (March 06 1901) | Event | In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany. | |
| March 6th, 1899 (March 06 1899) | Event | Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark. | |
| March 6th, 1869 (March 06 1869) | Event | Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society. | |
| March 6th, 1857 (March 06 1857) | Event | The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case. | |
| March 6th, 1853 (March 06 1853) | Event | The Giuseppe Verdi opera La Traviata premieres in Venice. | |
| March 6th, 1836 (March 06 1836) | Event | Texas Revolution: Battle of the AlamoAfter a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort is captured. | |
| March 6th, 1834 (March 06 1834) | Event | York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto. | |
| March 6th, 1820 (March 06 1820) | Event | 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. | James Monroe Quotes |
| March 6th, 1788 (March 06 1788) | Event | The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement. | |
| March 6th, 1521 (March 06 1521) | Event | Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam. | |
| March 6th, 1479 (March 06 1479) | Event | Treaty of AlcacovasPortugal gives the Canary Islands to Castile in exchange for claims in West Africa. | |
| March 6th, 1454 (March 06 1454) | Event | Thirteen Years War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to Casimir IV of Poland, and the Polish king agrees to help in their struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights. | |
| March 6th, 1079 (March 06 1079) | Event | Omar Khayyam completes the Iranian calendar. | Omar Khayyam Quotes |
