What are the important events that happened on March 6? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 6: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 6 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 21, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,020,320 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hexacontapentagon’ day.
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Pisces is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,458 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 6 Historical Events
- 1899 –Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
- 1930 –International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern
- 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.
- 1967 –Joseph Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
- 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.
- 1987 –The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
- 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.
Who were born on March 6?
- 1706 –George Pocock, British admiral (d. 1792)
- 1834 –George du Maurier British illustrator and writer (d. 1896)
- 1905 –Bob Wills, American singer (d. 1975)
- 1931 –Hal Needham, American stuntman
- 1932 –Bronisław Geremek, Polish social historian and politician.
- 1944 –Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealander opera singer
- 1969 –Andrea Elson, American actress
- 1984 –Becky, Japanese-British entertainer
- 1987 –Hannah Taylor-Gordon, English actress
- 1988 –Agnes Carlsson, Swedish singer
Who died on March 6?
- 1758 –Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (b. 1705)
- 1836 –James Butler Bonham, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1807)
- 1881 –Horatia Nelson, daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (b. 1801)
- 1905 –John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (b. 1818)
- 1932 –John Philip Sousa, American conductor, and composer (b. 1854)
- 1951 –Ivor Novello, Welsh actor, musician, and composer (b. 1893)
- 1982 –Ayn Rand, Russian-American author (b. 1905)
- 1988 –Mairéad Farrell, Irish Republican (b. 1957)
- 1994 –Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and Minister for Culture of Greece (b. 1920)
- 2006 –Dana Reeve, American actress and activist, widow of Christoper Reeve (b. 1961)
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