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, 1,741,219,200 seconds 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
- 1521 –Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
- 1840 –The Baltimore College of Dental Surgery opens, the first dental school.
- 1869 –Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
- 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.
- 1965 –Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
- 1968 –The first of the East L.A. Walkouts take place at several high schools.
- 1975 –For the first time, ever, the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
- 1981 –After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
- 1988 –Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
Who were born on March 6?
- 1849 –Georg Luger, Austrian inventor (d. 1923)
- 1871 –Afonso Costa, Portuguese politician (d. 1937)
- 1893 –Furry Lewis, American blues guitarist (d. 1981)
- 1925 –Wes Montgomery, American musician (d. 1968)
- 1944 –Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealander opera singer
- 1946 –David Gilmour, British musician (Pink Floyd)
- 1958 –Eddie Deezen, American actor
- 1969 –Andrea Elson, American actress
- 1979 –Érik Bédard, Canadian baseball player
- 1986 –Eli Marienthal, American actor
Who died on March 6?
- 1758 –Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (b. 1705)
- 1932 –John Philip Sousa, American conductor, and composer (b. 1854)
- 1939 –Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician (b. 1852)
- 1951 –Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1880)
- 1973 –Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
- 1978 –Dennis Viollet, English footballer (b. 1933)
- 1988 –Daniel McCann, Irish Republican (b. 1957)
- 2001 –Kim Walker, American actress (b. 1968)
- 2007 –Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (b. 1909)
- 2008 –Peter Poreku Dery, Cardinal and Archbishop Emeritus of Tamale (b. 1918)
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