About March 6
March 6, 2024 is the 66th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 300 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 329 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 6
- 12 BC –The Roman Emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the Emperor
- 1454 –Thirteen Years’ War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation’s struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
- 1521 –Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
- 1834 –York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
- 1840 –The Baltimore College of Dental Surgery opens, the first dental school.
- 1857 –The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
- 1899 –Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
- 1921 –Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
- 1930 –International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern
- 1945 –Cologne is captured by American Troops.
- 1957 –Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain Independence from the British
- 1964 –Nation of Islam’s Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
- 1965 –Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
- 1968 –Three black males are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.
- 1970 –Blast at Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
- 1975 –Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
- 1975 –For the first time, ever, the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
- 1987 –The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
- 1992 –Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
- 2008 –A Palestinian gunman shoots and kills 8 students and critically injures 11 in the library of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, in Jerusalem, Israel.
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