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 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 22, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,709,683,200 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 ‘hexacontahexagon’ day.
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 329 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 4,093 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 6 Historical Events
- 1454 –Thirteen Years’ War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation’s struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
- 1521 –Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
- 1869 –Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
- 1899 –Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
- 1946 –Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
- 1964 –Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
- 1970 –Blast at Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
- 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.
Who were born on March 6?
- 1619 –Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier, poet (d. 1655)
- 1812 –Aaron Lufkin Dennison American watch manufacturer (d. 1895)
- 1817 –Princess Clémentine of Orléans (d. 1907)
- 1818 –William Claflin, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)
- 1893 –Furry Lewis, American blues guitarist (d. 1981)
- 1914 –Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (d. 1981)
- 1942 –Ben Murphy, American actor
- 1969 –Amy Pietz, American actress
- 1971 –Darrick Martin, American basketball player
- 1987 –Kevin-Prince Boateng, Ghanaian/German footballer
Who died on March 6?
- 1836 –James “Jim” Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (b. 1796)
- 1836 –James Butler Bonham, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1807)
- 1888 –Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (b. 1832)
- 1905 –John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (b. 1818)
- 1935 –Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American politician (b. 1841)
- 1951 –Ivor Novello, Welsh actor, musician, and composer (b. 1893)
- 1969 –Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (b. 1952)
- 2000 –John Colicos, Canadian actor (b. 1928)
- 2001 –Kim Walker, American actress (b. 1968)
- 2009 –Francis Magalona, Filipino media artist and photographer. (b. 1964)
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