6 Mairch

The 6t o Mairch is the 65t day o the year (66t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 300 days ti come.

Events

1957: Banner o Ghana

1980: Komodo draigon

• 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches Guam in the wastren Paceefic Ocean.
• 1788 - The first fleet o settlers arrives on the Paceefic Norfolk Island.
• 1834 - The ceety o York, Ontario, Canadae, is renamit Toronto.
• 1836 - Battle o the Alamo, Texas.
• 1869 - Dmitri Mendeleev presents his first Periodic Table o the Elements tae the Roushie Chemical Society.
• 1882 - The Serbie kinrick is foondit.
• 1899 - Bayer registers aspirin as a trademerk.
• 1902 - Real Madrid C.F. is foondit.
• 1945 - Warld War II: American troops capture Cologne, Germany.
• 1957 - Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan African kintra tae gain unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
• 1960 - Geneva becomes the third Swiss canton tae give weemen the richt tae vote.
• 1964 - Constantine II o Greece becomes Keeng.
• 1980 - Komodo Naitional Pairk is foondit in Indonesie, wi the aim o protectin the Komodo draigon.
• 1987 - The "Herald of Free Enterprise" ferry capsizes in Zeebrugge Harbour, killin 193 fowk.
• 1992 - The Michelangelo Computer Virus begins tae affect computers.
• 2003 - An Air Algerieplane crashes shortly efter tak-aff in Tamanrasset, Algerie, killin 102 oot o 103 fowk on baird.
• 2008 - 68 fowk are kilt in bomb attacks in Baghdad.
• 2015 - NASA's "Dawn" probe reaches the asteroid Ceres.

Births

Valentina Tereshkova

Shaquille O'Neal

• 1475 - Michelangelo, Italian sculptor an penter (d. 1564)
• 1787 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician (d. 1826)
• 1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Inglis poet (d. 1861)
• 1926 - Alan Greenspan, American economist an politeecian
• 1926 - Andrzej Wajda, Pols film director (d. 2016)
• 1927 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist (d. 2014)
• 1936 - Choummaly Sayasone, umwhile Preses o Laos
• 1937 - Valentina Tereshkova, Roushie pilot an cosmonaut
• 1941 - Ann Winterton, Inglish politeecian
• 1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand soprano
• 1946 - David Gilmour, Inglis muisicker
• 1947 - Rob Reiner, American actor, director an producer
• 1949 - Martin Buchan, Scots fitbawer
• 1959 - Tom Arnold, American comedian, actor an producer
• 1959 - Tommy Sheppard, Scots politeecian
• 1968 - Moira Kelly, American actress
• 1972 - Shaquille O'Neal, American basketbaw player
• 1977 - Giorgos Karagounis, Greek fitbawer
• 1979 - Tim Howard, American soccer player
• 1986 - Charlie Mulgrew, Scots fitbawer
• 1988 - Simon Mignolet, Belgian fitbawer
• 1989 - Agnieszka Radwanska, Pols tennis player
• 1992 - Jordan Kirkpatrick, Scots fitbawer

Daiths

• 1754 - Henry Pelham, Prime meenister o Great Breetain (b. 1694)
• 1836 - Davy Crockett, American soldier an politeecian (b. 1786)
• 1867 - John Goodsir, Scots anatomist (b. 1814)
• 1888 - Louisa May Alcott, American writer (b. 1832)
• 1900 - Gottlieb Daimler, German ingineer (b. 1834)
• 1932 - John Philip Sousa, American componer (b. 1854)
• 1964 - Paul o Greece (b. 1901)
• 1973 - Pearl S. Buck, American writer (b. 1892)
• 1982 - Ayn Rand, Roushie-American writer (b. 1905)
• 1986 - Eric Brown, Scots gowfer (b. 1925)
• 1986 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American penter (b. 1887)
• 2004 - Sandy Glen, Scots splorer (b. 1912)
• 2005 - Hans Bethe, German-American nuclear pheesicist (b. 1906)
• 2014 - Maurice Faure, French politeecian (b. 1922)
• 2016 - Nancy Reagan, First Lady o the Unitit States (b. 1921)

Halidays

• 6 Mairch is the eat day o the follaein saunts:

St. Colette

St. Baldred

St. Balther

St. Basil

St. Bilfrid

St. Cadroe

St. Conon

St. Fridolin

St. Kyneburga, Kyneswide, & Tibba

St. Marcian

St. Ollegarius

• Naitional Day o Ghana
• Alamo Day (Texas)
• Foundation Day (Norfolk Island)