About March 6
March 6, 2023 is the 65th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 300 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 341 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
- 1788 –The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1869 –Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
- 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.
- 1946 –Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1981 –After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
- 1987 –The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
- 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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