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
- 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.
- 1834 –York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1964 –Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
- 1964 –Nation of Islam’s Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
- 1967 –Joseph Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
- 1968 –The first of the East L.A. Walkouts take place at several high schools.
- 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.
- 1983 –The first United States Football League game is played.
- 1988 –Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
- 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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