March 6

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March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). There are 298 days remaining.

It is 啓蟄 (Keichitsu) in the Japanese calendar.

Events

1447 - Nicholas V becomes Pope.
1460 - Treaty of Alcacovas - Portugal gives Castile the Canary Islands in exchange for claims in West Africa.
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam.
1820 - For the second time the Missouri Compromise is signed by President James Monroe. The compromise allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, but made the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
1834 - York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
1836 - 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.
1857 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
1899 - Bayer registeres aspirin as a trademark.
1900 - A coal mine explosion in West Virginia traps 50 coal miners.
1901 - In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany.
1946 - 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 - The Newport News, the first air-conditioned naval ship, is launched from Newport News, Virginia.
1951 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
1953 - Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Josef Stalin as Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1957 - United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana.
1964 - Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
1964 - Tom O'Hara sets a new world record for the indoor mile run by completing it in 3 minutes, 56.4 seconds.
1970 - Cult leader and suspected murderer Charles Manson releases an album titled Lies to help finance his defense.
1975 - Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement over their border dispute.
1981 - After 19 years hosting the CBS Evening News Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
1983 - The United States Football League begins its first year of competition.
1984 - Twelve month long strike in British coal industry begins.
1987 - Off the coast of Belgium in the English Channel, the British ferry The Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes killing 189.
1992 - The 'Michelangelo' computer virus begins to affect computers.
1997 - Picasso's Tete de Femme is stolen from a London gallery (it was recovered a week later).