About March 6
March 6, 2025 is the 65th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 300 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 348 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.
- 1820 –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.
- 1836 –Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
- 1857 –The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
- 1869 –Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
- 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
- 1946 –Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
- 1951 –The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
- 1953 –Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1957 –Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain Independence from the British
- 1965 –Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
- 1970 –Blast at Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
- 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.
- 1981 –After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
- 1983 –The first United States Football League game is played.
- 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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