Notable Historical Events on March 6th
March 6th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1079 |
Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Chajjam completes Jalali-calendar |
1205 |
Aken, [Philips van Zwaben], crowned Roman-Catholic German King |
1323 |
Treaty of Paris - Flemish relinquish claims over the County of Zeeland |
1447 |
Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V |
1454 |
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. |
1479 |
Treaty of Alcaçovas - Portugal gives the Canary Islands to Castile in exchange for claims in West Africa. |
1521 |
Magellan discovers Guam |
1579 |
Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht |
1590 |
Earl Mauritius conquerors Breda "turfschip of Breda" |
1628 |
Emperor Ferdinand II delegates Restitutie-edict |
1646 |
Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent |
1664 |
King Louis XIV & Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant |
1665 |
Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing |
1714 |
Peace of Rastatt - French emperor Charles VI of Habsburg |
1728 |
Spain & Britain sign (1st) Convention of Pardo |
1775 |
1st Negro Mason in north America initiated, Boston |
1788 |
The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement. |
1799 |
Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa, Palestine |
1808 |
1st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard |
1810 |
Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US |
1816 |
Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany |
1831 |
Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy |
1831 |
Vincenzo Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula" premieres in Milan |
1834 |
Toronto incorporated with William Lyon Mackenzie as its 1st mayor |
1836 |
Battle of the Alamo: after 13 days of fighting during Texas Revolution between 1,500 and 3,000 Mexicans overwhelmed the Texians at the Alamo. Between 182 and 257 Texians died, including William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett. |
1836 |
HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reach King George's Sound, Australia |
1838 |
Franz Grillparzer's "Weh dem, der Lugt," premieres in Vienna |
1851 |
Dion Boucicault's "Love in a Maze" premieres in London |
1853 |
Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "La Traviata" premieres in Venice |
1855 |
Gustave Flaubert writes goodbye to Louise Colet |
1857 |
Dred Scott Decision: US Supreme Court rules Africans cannot be US citizens |
1861 |
Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army |
1862 |
Battle of Pea Ridge, AR (Elkhorn Tavern) |
1865 |
Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida |
1865 |
President Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Ball |
1869 |
Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society. |
1882 |
Monarch Milan Obrenovic of Serbia crowns himself king |
1886 |
1st US alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, MA |
1886 |
1st US nurses' magazine, The Nightingale, 1st appears, NYC |
1895 |
England beat Australia to win one of the best cricket series ever, 3-2 |
1895 |
J T Brown hits the fastest 50 in Test Crickets (28 mins) Eng v Aust |
1896 |
1st auto in Detroit, Charles B King rides his "Horseless Carriage" |
1899 |
"Asprin" (acetylsalicylic acid) patented by Felix Hoffmann at German company Bayer |
1900 |
After a meeting in Indianapolis, USA, a group forms the Social Democratic Party and nominates Eugene Debs as its candidate for President in the forthcoming election (becomes the Socialist Party in 1901) |
1901 |
In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany. |
1902 |
US Census Bureau forms |
1904 |
The Japanese fleet bombards Vladivostok, the major Russian port on the Pacific |
1906 |
Cubs sign 3rd baseman Harry Steinfeldt to complete Tinker-Evers-Chance |
1906 |
Heavy storm bursts dike flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands |
1906 |
Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Society of Civil Engineers |
1909 |
Gerhart Hauptmann's "Griselda" premieres in Vienna |
1915 |
Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos |
1918 |
US naval boat "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle |
1919 |
NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens beat Ottawa Senators, 3 games to 1 with 1 tie |
1921 |
Police in Sunbury, Penn, issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee |
1921 |
The Natal Indian Congress is resuscitated and reorganised at a meeting in Durban, with Ismail Gora as President |
1922 |
Babe Ruth signs 3 year contract with NY Yankees at $52,000 a year |
1922 |
GB Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh III/IV" premieres in NYC |
1923 |
Cards announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms |
1924 |
British Labour government cuts military budget |
1925 |
Belgium annexes Eupen, Malmö dy & Sankt Vith |
1926 |
China asks for a seat in the Security council |
1929 |
Turkey & Bulgaria sign friendship treaty |
1930 |
Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food |
1933 |
FDR declares a nationwide bank holiday |
1933 |
Maxwell Anderson's "Both your Houses" premieres in NYC |
1933 |
Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk) |
1934 |
Sidney Howard & Paul de Kruif's "Yellowjacket" premieres in NYC |
1935 |
Frank Bartell (Czech), cycles record 80.584 mph in LA |
1936 |
Belgium ends Locarno pact |
1940 |
1st US telecast from an airplane, NYC |
1943 |
Battle at Medenine, North-Africa: Rommels assault attack |
1943 |
Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers |
1944 |
USAAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin |
1945 |
117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm |
1945 |
Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio |
1945 |
Erich Honnecker & Erich Hanke flee nazis |
1945 |
Federico Garcia Lorca's "La Casa" premieres in Buenos Aires |
1946 |
France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation |
1947 |
XB-45, 1st US 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc, CA |
1950 |
Silly Putty invented |
1951 |
Belgium extends conscription to 24 months |
1953 |
Malenkov becomes chairman of the USSR |
1955 |
Dutch premiere of Samuel Becketts' "Waiting for Godot" |
1955 |
Jackie Pung wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
1957 |
Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from UK |
1957 |
Centenary of Dred Scott slavery court decision marked by rediscovery of Scott's grave |
1959 |
11th Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr win |
1959 |
Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles) |
1960 |
President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament |
1961 |
1st London minicabs introduced |
1961 |
Dutch Queen Juliana celebrates 12½ year jubilee |
1961 |
Dutch guilder revalued 4.74% |
1962 |
St Louis vote to build a new downtown stadium for the Cardinals |
1962 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1962 |
US promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression |
1964 |
Constantine succeeds Paul I as king of Greece |
1964 |
Cassius Clay joins the Nation of Islam and its leader Elijah Muhammad renames him Muhammad Ali |
1964 |
Tom O'Hara runs world record mile (3:56.4) |
1965 |
"How to Succeed in Business" closes at 46th St NYC after 1415 perfs |
1965 |
1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford |
1965 |
Bruce Taylor hits 105 for NZ v India in 1st Test Cricket innings |
1966 |
Barry Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks) |
1967 |
2nd Academy of Country Music Awards |
1967 |
Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison |
1967 |
Muhammad Ali is ordered by selective service to be inducted |
1967 |
Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US |
1967 |
WACS TV channel 25 in Dawson, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1970 |
Beatles release "Let it Be" in UK |
1970 |
A Catholic man is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast, North Ireland |
1971 |
Test Cricket debut of Sunil Gavaskar, v West Indies at Port-of-Spain |
1972 |
Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner |
1972 |
Keswick to Penrith railway officially closes |
1973 |
In an exhibition game with the Pirates, Twins Larry Hisle becomes the 1st designated hitter (he hits 2 HRs & knocks in 7 RBIs) |
1974 |
"Over Here" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 341 performances |
1974 |
An Italian loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo |
1974 |
Ian & Greg Chappell score cricket |
1975 |
Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute. |
1976 |
Ice Dance Championship at Gothenburg won by Pakhomova & Gorshkov (URS) |
1976 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Gothenburg won by Rodnina & Zaitsev (URS) |
1976 |
Men's Fig Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by John Curry (GRB) |
1976 |
Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champ in Gothenburg won by Dorothy Hamill |
1978 |
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Ga |
1980 |
Emmy 7th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 1st time |
1980 |
Princess Theater (Latin Quarter, Cotton Club) opens at 200 W 48th NYC |
1980 |
French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar) |
1981 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1981 |
Soyuz 39 returns to Earth |
1981 |
Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of "CBS Evening News" |
1981 |
Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champ in Hartford won by Denise Biellmann |
1982 |
NBA highest scoring game: San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166 (3 OT) |
1982 |
Susan Birmingham makes loudest recorded human shout (120 dB) |
1983 |
"On Your Toes" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 505 performances |
1983 |
Anne-Marie Palli wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic |
1983 |
Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU wins West German parliament elections |
1983 |
New Bedford, Mass woman charges she was gang-raped atop a pool table |
1983 |
US Football League begins its 1st season |
1984 |
Twelve-month-long strike in British coal industry begins. |
1985 |
Enos Slaughter & Arky Vaughan are elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
1985 |
Mike Tyson KOs Hector Mercedes in 1 round in his 1st pro fight |
1985 |
Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "King & I" |
1985 |
Atlantis (OV-104) rollout at Palmdale |
1986 |
Ken Ludwig's "Lend me a Tenor" premieres in London |
1986 |
USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km |
1987 |
6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador, kills 100 |
1987 |
Belgium ferry boat "Herald of Free Enterprise" capsizes/sinks; 192 die |
1988 |
18th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,200,000 |
1988 |
3 IRA suspects shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers |
1988 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open/Helene Curtis Pro-Am |
1988 |
Julie Krone becomes winningest female jockey (1205 victories) |
1988 |
Orville Moodey shoots 63 at Seniors golf tournament |
1989 |
Yanks beat Mets 6-4 in exhibition game (1st meeting since 1985) |
1990 |
SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17 |
1991 |
Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over" |
1992 |
Yankee pitcher Pascual Perez suspended for 1 year due to cocaine |
1992 |
The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers. |
1992 |
Founding of the Council of the Baltic Sea States. |
1994 |
Colin Jackson runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.30 sec) |
1994 |
United Arab Emirates beat Kenya by 2 wickets to win ICC Trophy |
1994 |
Referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania. |
1995 |
9th American Comedy Award: Rodney Dangerfield |
1995 |
American Express Travel begins charging for domestic air tickets |
1995 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Phoenix AZ on KEDJ 106.3/100.3 FM |
1995 |
US 4.5 cents equals 156.30 Dutch guilder (record) |
1996 |
10th American Comedy Award |
1996 |
Aravinda De Silva smashes 145 v Kenya in cricket World Cup at Kandy Sri Lanka score 5-398 in 50 overs in World Cup v Kenya |
1997 |
Picasso's painting Tête de Femme is stolen from a London gallery, and is recovered a week later. |
1998 |
1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace |
1998 |
Matt Beck, an angry lottery accountant kills 4 at Conn state lottery |
2000 |
Long-time Boston Bruin defenseman Ray Bourque is traded to the Colorado Avalanche |
2001 |
US Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham establishes the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve, a 2-million-barrels government-owned reserve to be used in emergency circumstances |
2006 |
South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signs a bill into legislation that would ban most abortions in the state. |
2007 |
Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice trial. |
2010 |
30th Golden Raspberry Awards: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen wins |
2012 |
9,000 residents are evacuated from Wagga Wagga, Australia, as the Murrimbidgee River threatens to overflow |
2012 |
Francisco Xavier do Amaral, East Timorese President, dies at 75 |
2013 |
Syrian rebels capture Ar-Raqqah, their first major city |
2013 |
Microsoft is fined €561 by the Euro Commission for not providing alternative web browsers |
2013 |
9 people die after a plane crashes after being ensnared in power lines in Peru |
2016 |
Peyton Manning to retire after 18 NFL seasons, five MVPs, two titles and numerous records |
2016 |
Neo-Nazis gain parliamentary seats in Slovakia |
2016 |
Nate Diaz chokes out Conor McGregor in second round at UFC 196 |
2016 |
Miesha Tate takes down Holly Holm in the final round to win by submission in UFC 196 |
2016 |
Turkey detains refugee smugglers, stops 120 Syrians from sailing to Greece |
2016 |
Turkey detains refugee smugglers, stops 120 Syrians from sailing to Greece |
2016 |
Sanders wins Maine caucuses |
2017 |
US detects North Korean missile launch, no threat to North America |
2017 |
Japan says North Korean missiles landed as close as 300 km to Japan coast |
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