# What happened on March 6 in history?

**Date:** March 6  
**Events recorded:** 33  
**Years spanned:** 12 BC – 2020  
**Full page:** https://thisday.info/events/march/6/

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## Featured Event

**2003** — Air Algérie Flight 6289 crashes at the Aguenar – Hadj Bey Akhamok Airport in Tamanrasset, Algeria, killing 102 out of the 103 people on board.

[Read more on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Alg%C3%A9rie_Flight_6289)

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## Events on this date

- **12 BC** — The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_emperor))
- **845** — The 42 Martyrs of Amorium are killed after refusing to convert to Islam. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_Martyrs_of_Amorium))
- **1204** — The Siege of Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over King John of England, who loses control of Normandy to King Philip II Augustus. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Ch%C3%A2teau_Gaillard))
- **1323** — Treaty of Paris of 1323 is signed. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1323)))
- **1447** — Election of Pope Nicholas V following the death of Pope Eugene IV on 23 February 1447. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1447_conclave))
- **1651** — The town of Kajaani, known at the time as Cajanaburg, is founded by Count Per Brahe, the Governor-General of Finland. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kajaani))
- **1788** — The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Fleet))
- **1820** — The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by United States President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Compromise))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Revolution))
- **1857** — The Supreme Court of the United States rules 7–2 in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case that the Constitution does not confer citizenship on black people. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sandford))
- **1901** — An anarchist assassin tries to kill German Emperor Wilhelm II. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_II))
- **1904** — Scottish National Antarctic Expedition: Led by William Speirs Bruce, the Antarctic region of Coats Land is discovered from the Scotia. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Antarctic_Expedition))
- **1912** — Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 1,800 m. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo-Turkish_War))
- **1930** — International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Unemployment_Day))
- **1943** — World War II: Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel launches the Battle of Medenine in an attempt to slow down the British Eighth Army. It fails, and he leaves Africa three days later. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II))
- **1943** — World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, ends with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion, the bulk of the garrison of the town of Grevena, leading to its liberation a fortnight later. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fardykambos))
- **1944** — World War II: Soviet Air Forces bomb the evacuated town of Narva in German-occupied Estonia, destroying the entire historical Swedish-era town. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Air_Forces))
- **1945** — World War II: Cologne is captured by American troops. On the same day, Operation Spring Awakening, the last major German offensive of the war, begins. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne))
- **1946** — Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh))
- **1953** — Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Malenkov))
- **1957** — Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana))
- **1964** — Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_Islam))
- **1964** — Constantine II becomes the last King of Greece. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_II_of_Greece))
- **1967** — Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin))
- **1975** — The Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience for the first time by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapruder_film))
- **1975** — Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Algiers_Agreement))
- **1984** — In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signals the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and involved the majority of the country's miners. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brampton_Bierlow))
- **1987** — The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Herald_of_Free_Enterprise))
- **1988** — Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army))
- **2003** — Air Algérie Flight 6289 crashes at the Aguenar – Hadj Bey Akhamok Airport in Tamanrasset, Algeria, killing 102 out of the 103 people on board. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Alg%C3%A9rie_Flight_6289))
- **2008** — A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6_March_2008_Baghdad_bombing))
- **2018** — Forbes names Jeff Bezos as the world's richest person, for the first time, at $112 billion net worth. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes))
- **2020** — 32 people are killed and 82 are injured when gunmen open fire on a ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6_March_2020_Kabul_shooting))

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## Notable births on March 6

- **2001** — **Milo Manheim** — American actor ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Manheim))
- **2000** — **Armando Bacot** — American basketball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armando_Bacot))
- **2000** — **Jacob Bertrand** — American actor ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Bertrand))
- **1999** — **Ylena In-Albon** — Swiss tennis player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ylena_In-Albon))
- **1998** — **Kyle Trask** — American football player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Trask))
- **1997** — **Lee Lu-da** — South Korean singer and actress ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Lu-da))
- **1996** — **Christian Coleman** — American sprinter ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Coleman))
- **1996** — **Mohamed Magdy** — Egyptian footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Magdy))
- **1996** — **Timo Werner** — German footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timo_Werner))
- **1995** — **Josh Hart** — American basketball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Hart))

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## Notable deaths on March 6

- **2025** — **Australian Suicide** — Australian professional wrestler (born 1992) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Suicide_(wrestler)))
- **2025** — **Brian James** — British guitarist (born 1955) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_James_(guitarist)))
- **2021** — **Lou Ottens** — Dutch engineer and inventor (born 1926) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Ottens))
- **2021** — **Graham Pink** — British nurse (born 1929) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Pink))
- **2018** — **Peter Nicholls** — Australian science fiction critic and encyclopedist (born 1939) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Nicholls_(writer)))
- **2017** — **Robert Osborne** — American actor and historian (born 1932) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Osborne))
- **2016** — **Nancy Reagan** — American actress, 42nd First Lady of the United States (born 1921) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Reagan))
- **2016** — **Sheila Varian** — American horse trainer and breeder (born 1937) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Varian))
- **2015** — **Fred Craddock** — American minister and academic (born 1928) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Craddock))
- **2015** — **Ram Sundar Das** — Indian lawyer and politician, 18th Chief Minister of Bihar (born 1921) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Sundar_Das))

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