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06 Mar 1079
Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Chajjam completes Jalali-calendar
06 Mar 1323
Treaty of Paris - Flemish relinquish claims over the County of Zeeland
06 Mar 1447
Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V
06 Mar 1454
Thirteen Years War Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to Casimir IV of Poland and the Polish king agrees to help in their struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
06 Mar 1479
Treaty of Alcaovas Portugal gives the Canary Islands to Castile in exchange for claims in West Africa
06 Mar 1590
Dutch and English army led by Maurice of Nassau captures heavily protected city of Breda using a small assault force hidden in a peat barge
06 Mar 1628
Emperor Ferdinand II delegates Restitutie-edict
06 Mar 1646
Joseph Jenkes receives the 1st patent in North America for making scythes from the General Court of Massachusetts
06 Mar 1665
Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing
06 Mar 1714
Treaty of Rastatt signed by Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and France ending War of Spanish Succession
06 Mar 1728
Spain & Britain sign (1st) Convention of Pardo
06 Mar 1775
1st Negro Mason in north America initiated Boston
06 Mar 1788
The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island to found a convict settlement
06 Mar 1808
1st college orchestra in US founded at Harvard
06 Mar 1810
Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US
06 Mar 1816
Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany
06 Mar 1831
Vincenzo Bellinis opera La Sonnambula premieres in Milan
06 Mar 1834
Toronto incorporated with William Lyon Mackenzie as its 1st mayor
06 Mar 1838
Franz Grillparzers Weh dem der Lugt premieres in Vienna
06 Mar 1851
Dion Boucicaults Love in a Maze premieres in London
06 Mar 1855
Gustave Flaubert writes goodbye to Louise Colet
06 Mar 1858
20th Grand National William Archer wins aboard outsider Little Charley at 1006
06 Mar 1861
Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army
06 Mar 1862
Battle of Pea Ridge Arkansas (Elkhorn Tavern)
06 Mar 1867
29th Grand National Harry Lamplugh aboard Cortolvin IRE wins
06 Mar 1882
Monarch Milan Obrenovic of Serbia crowns himself king
06 Mar 1886
1st US alternating current power plant starts Great Barrington Massachusetts
06 Mar 1886
1st US nurses magazine The Nightingale 1st appears NYC
06 Mar 1889
German firm Bayer patents the medicine aspirin
06 Mar 1895
England beats Australia to win one of the best cricket series ever 3-2
06 Mar 1895
J T Brown hits the fastest 50 in test cricket (28 mins) England v Australia
06 Mar 1896
1st auto in Detroit Charles B King rides his Horseless Carriage
06 Mar 1899
Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) patented by Felix Hoffmann at German company Bayer
06 Mar 1900
After a meeting in Indianapolis USA a group forms the Social Democratic Party and nominates Eugene Debs as its candidate for President in the forthcoming election (becomes the Socialist Party in 1901)
06 Mar 1902
Permanent US Census office created by legislation passed by Congress
06 Mar 1904
The Japanese fleet bombards Vladivostok the major Russian port on the Pacific
06 Mar 1906
Cubs sign 3rd baseman Harry Steinfeldt to complete Tinker-Evers-Chance
06 Mar 1906
Heavy storm bursts dike flooding Vlissingen Netherlands
06 Mar 1906
Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Society of Civil Engineers
06 Mar 1915
Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos
06 Mar 1918
US naval boat Cyclops disappears in Bermuda Triangle
06 Mar 1919
NHL Championship Montreal Canadiens beat Ottawa Senators 3 games to 1 with 1 tie
06 Mar 1921
Police in Sunbury Pennsylvania issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee
06 Mar 1921
The Natal Indian Congress is resuscitated and reorganised at a meeting in Durban with Ismail Gora as President
06 Mar 1922
GB Shaws Back to Methusaleh IIIIV premieres in NYC
06 Mar 1923
Cards announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms
06 Mar 1924
British Labour government cuts military budget
06 Mar 1925
Belgium annexes Eupen Malm dy & Sankt Vith
06 Mar 1933
Maxwell Andersons Both your Houses premieres in NYC
06 Mar 1933
Poland occupies the free city of Danzig (Gdask)
06 Mar 1934
Sidney Howard & Paul de Kruifs Yellowjacket premieres in NYC
06 Mar 1935
Frank Bartell (Czech) cycles record 80.584 mph in LA
06 Mar 1945
Federico Garcia Lorcas La Casa premieres in Buenos Aires
06 Mar 1946
France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation
06 Mar 1947
XB-45 1st US 4-engine jet bomber makes 1st test flight Muroc CA
06 Mar 1954
1st ACC Mens Basketball Tournament NC State beats Wake Forest 82-80 (OT)
06 Mar 1957
Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from UK
06 Mar 1957
Centenary of Dred Scott slavery court decision marked by rediscovery of Scotts grave
06 Mar 1959
11th Emmy Awards Playhouse 90 Jack Benny Show Raymond Burr win
06 Mar 1959
Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV 400000 miles)
06 Mar 1960
President Sukarno disbands Indonesias parliament
06 Mar 1961
Dutch Queen Juliana celebrates 12 year jubilee
06 Mar 1962
St Louis vote to build a new downtown stadium for the Cardinals
06 Mar 1962
US promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression
06 Mar 1965
How to Succeed in Business closes at 46th St NYC after 1415 performances
06 Mar 1965
1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America JR Willford
06 Mar 1965
Bruce Taylor hits 105 for NZ v India in 1st Test Cricket innings
06 Mar 1965
12th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament NC State beats Duke 91-85
06 Mar 1966
Barry Sadlers Ballad of the Green Berets becomes 1 (13 weeks)
06 Mar 1967
Muhammad Ali is ordered by selective service to be inducted
06 Mar 1967
Stalins daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US
06 Mar 1967
WACS TV channel 25 in Dawson GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
06 Mar 1970
A Catholic man is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast North Ireland
06 Mar 1971
Test Cricket debut of Sunil Gavaskar v West Indies at Port-of-Spain
06 Mar 1973
In an exhibition game with the Pirates Twins Larry Hisle becomes the 1st designated hitter (he hits 2 HRs & knocks in 7 RBIs)
06 Mar 1974
Over Here musical written by Richard & Robert Sherman opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 341 performances (top-grossing production )
06 Mar 1974
An unnamed Italian industrialist loses a record 1920000 at roulette over 5 hours in Monte Carlo Casino
06 Mar 1974
Australian cricketing brothers Ian (145 & 121) and Greg Chappell (247no and 133) score unique twin centuries in drawn 1st Test vs New Zealand in Wellington
06 Mar 1975
Algiers Accord Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
06 Mar 1976
Ice Dance Championship at Gothenburg won by Pakhomova & Gorshkov (URS)
06 Mar 1976
Ice Pairs Championship at Gothenburg won by Rodnina & Zaitsev (Soviet Union)
06 Mar 1976
Mens Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by John Curry (Great Britain)
06 Mar 1976
Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by American Dorothy Hamill
06 Mar 1983
In New Bedford Massachusetts woman charges she was gang-raped atop a pool table
06 Mar 1984
Twelve-month-long strike in British coal industry begins.
06 Mar 1976
23rd ACC Mens Basketball Tournament Virginia beats North Carolina 67-62
06 Mar 1976
In his 10th title defence WBA light welterweight champion Antonio Cervantes of Colombia is beaten by 17 year old Puerto Rican boxer Wilfred Bentez in a 15-round split decision in San Juan Puerto Rico Benitez youngest ever world champion
06 Mar 1980
Emmy 7th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 1st time
06 Mar 1980
Princess Theater (Latin Quarter Cotton Club) opens at 200 W 48th NYC
06 Mar 1980
French Academy founded in 1635 elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar)
06 Mar 1981
Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Hartford won by Denise Biellmann
06 Mar 1982
NBA highest scoring game San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166 (3 OT)
06 Mar 1982
Susan Birmingham makes then worlds loudest recorded human shout (120 dB)
06 Mar 1982
23rd SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Alabama beats Kentucky 48-46
06 Mar 1983
On Your Toes opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 505 performances
06 Mar 1983
Anne-Marie Palli wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic
06 Mar 1985
Enos Slaughter & Arky Vaughan are elected to baseball Hall of Fame
06 Mar 1986
Ken Ludwigs Lend me a Tenor premieres in London
06 Mar 1986
USSRs Vega 1 flies by Halleys Comet at 8889 km
06 Mar 1987
Belgium ferry Herald of Free Enterprise sinks 192 die
06 Mar 1988
3 IRA suspects shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers
06 Mar 1988
Julie Krone becomes winningest female jockey (1205 victories)
06 Mar 1988
Orville Moodey shoots 63 at Seniors golf tournament
06 Mar 1989
Yanks beat Mets 6-4 in exhibition game (1st meeting since 1985)
06 Mar 1990
SR-71 sets a transcontinental record flying 2404 miles in 10817
06 Mar 1992
Yankee pitcher Pascual Perez suspended for 1 year due to cocaine
06 Mar 1992
The Michelangelo computer virus begins to take affect
06 Mar 1992
Founding of the Council of the Baltic Sea States.
06 Mar 1994
Colin Jackson runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.30 sec)
06 Mar 1994
United Arab Emirates beat Kenya by 2 wickets to win ICC Trophy
06 Mar 1994
Referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania.
06 Mar 1995
American Express Travel begins charging for domestic air tickets
06 Mar 1995
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Phoenix AZ on KEDJ 106.3100.3 FM
06 Mar 1996
Aravinda De Silva smashes 145 v Kenya in cricket World Cup at Kandy Sri Lanka score 5-398 in 50 overs in World Cup v Kenya
06 Mar 1998
First time the British Union Flag is flown over Buckingham Palace (following the controversy after Princess Dians death formerly the only flag flown was the Sovereigns standard indicating the monarchs presence.)
06 Mar 1998
Matt Beck an angry lottery accountant kills 4 at Connecticut state lottery
06 Mar 1999
20th Big East Mens Basketball Tournament Connecticut beats St. Johns 82-63
06 Mar 2001
US Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham establishes the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve to be used in emergency circumstances
06 Mar 2004
35th NAACP Image Awards The Fighting Temptations wins Outstanding Motion Picture
06 Mar 2006
South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signs a bill into legislation that would ban most abortions in the state.
06 Mar 2007
Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice trial.
06 Mar 2010
30th Golden Raspberry Awards Transformers Revenge of the Fallen wins
06 Mar 2012
9000 residents are evacuated from Wagga Wagga Australia as the Murrimbidgee River threatens to overflow
06 Mar 2013
Syrian rebels capture Ar-Raqqah their first major city
06 Mar 2013
Microsoft is fined 561 by the Euro Commission for not providing alternative web browsers
06 Mar 2013
9 people die after a plane crashes after being ensnared in power lines in Peru
06 Mar 2014
Crimean parliament votes unanimously to make the Crimea part of Russia
06 Mar 2015
US State Department charges 2 Vietnamese and a Canadian citizen with cyberfraud for stealing 1 billion email addresses for spam
06 Mar 2015
NASAs Dawn space probe enters orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres
06 Mar 2016
Seventh Democratic presidential candidates debate hosted by CNN and held in Flint Michigan
06 Mar 2017
Wikileaks publishes Vault 7 CIA documents detailing its hacking and surveillance techniques
06 Mar 2018
Highest overdose death rates ever recorded in the US 142000 overdoses in 2016-17 period according to US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
06 Mar 2018
Sri Lanka imposes first nationwide state of emergency since civil war after unrest between Sinhalese and Muslim areas in Kandy District
06 Mar 2018
Worlds oldest message in a bottle found in Western Australia thrown from German ship Paula 132 years ago (12 June 1886)
06 Mar 2018
American WWII aircraft carrier USS Lexington rediscovered in Australias Coral Sea lost during 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea
06 Mar 2018
Nashville mayor Megan Barry resigns a month after admitting to an extramarital affair with her bodyguard
06 Mar 2018
British health officials tells the country its time to get on a diet and urging manufacturers to reduce calories in foods
06 Mar 1867
29th Grand National John Page wins aboard Irish 161 shot Cortolvin trainer Harry Lamplughs second GN victory
06 Mar 1967
Joseph Stalins daughter Svetlana Allilujeva approaches the US Embassy in New Delhi India and asks for political asylum
06 Mar 1971
Test Cricket debut of Indian cricket great Sunil Gavaskar versus West Indies at Port-of-Spain 125 Tests 10122 runs 51.12 34 Test centuries
06 Mar 1976
European Mens Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg Sweden won by John Curry (Great Britain)
06 Mar 1976
Wales clinch their 7th Five Nations Rugby Championship title 7th Grand Slam and 13th Triple Crown with a 19-13 win over France at the National Stadium Cardiff
06 Mar 2019
US trade deficit rises to 10-year high of 621 billion
06 Mar 1714
Treaty of Rastatt signed by Austria and France ending hostilities between them during the War of the Spanish Succession
06 Mar 2013
Microsoft is fined 561 by the Euro Commission for the EU for not providing option to chose an alternative web browser
06 Mar 1788
The British First Fleet arrives at Australian territory of Norfolk Island to found a convict settlement
06 Mar 1855
Gustave Flaubert writes goodbye to the poet Louise Colet
06 Mar 1945
Dutch resistance fighters kill two and injure one Nazi officer in an attempt to hijack food supplies at de Woeste Hoeve Netherlands
06 Mar 2013
Microsoft is fined 561M (731M USD) by the Euro Commission for failing to respect an antitrust settlement to provide options to chose an alternative web browser
06 Mar 1808
1st college orchestra in US founded at Harvard in Cambridge Massachusetts
06 Mar 1831
Vincenzo Bellinis opera La Sonnambula premieres at Teatro Carcano in Milan Italy
06 Mar 1895
England beat Australia to win one of the best cricket series ever 3-2 Jack Brown hits the fastest 50 in test cricket in 28 mins
06 Mar 1909
Dutch film distributor Jean Desmet opens his first permanentcinema the Cinema Parisien in Rotterdam
06 Mar 1923
MLB St. Louis Cardinals announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms
06 Mar 1965
Frank Loessers musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying starring Robert Morse and Rudy Valle closes at 46th Street Theatre NYC after 1415 performances 7 Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize
06 Mar 1967
Former union leader Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison
06 Mar 1976
Revival of Sidney Howards Pulitzer Prize-winning 1924 stage drama They Knew What They Wanted closes at the Playhouse Theatre NYC after 23 performances
06 Mar 1978
Brian Clarks stage drama Whose Life is it Anyway starring Tom Conti and Jane Asher and directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg opens at the Mermaid Theatre London
06 Mar 1986
After losing all appeals American rock singer David Crosby begins serving 5 year sentence for drug and weapons convictions in Texas state prison
06 Mar 1899
Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) is patented by Felix Hoffmann at German company Bayer
06 Mar 1909
Dutch film distributor Jean Desmet opens his first permanent cinema the Cinema Parisien in Rotterdam
06 Mar 1944
WWII British and Canadian sailors boards abandoned German U-boat U-774 seeking Enigma code machine but are forced to scuttle the sub when efforts to tow it fail
06 Mar 1957
Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from the United Kingdom
06 Mar 1987
Belgian ferry Herald of Free Enterprise sinks 192 die
06 Mar 1661
In his will French Cardinal Mazarin bequeaths his famous library to the Collge des Quatre-Nations part of the University of Paris (opens 1689) - now the oldest public library in France [1]
06 Mar 1960
President Sukarno of Indonesia disbands existing parliament and replaces it with a new grouping half appointed by himself
06 Mar 1995
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Phoenix Arizona on KEDJ 106.3100.3 FM
06 Mar 2020
American rapper Lil Uzi Vert second album Eternal Atake tops the Billboard charts upon its release
06 Mar 2020
Russia refuses to reduce oil production over COVID-19 fears breaking with Saudi Arabia and OPEC and prompting a price war
06 Mar 2021
On his first visit to Iraq Pope Francis meets with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in the Shiite clerics home in Najaf
06 Mar 2021
US Senate passes 1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill the American Rescue Plan
06 Mar 1079
Persian polymath Omar Khayyam completes the Jalali calendar a solar calendar with a precise 33-year intercalation cycle and the basis for the Persian calendar still in use today
06 Mar 1447
Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Eugene IV as Pope Nicholas V
06 Mar 1454
Thirteen Years War Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to the Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland Casimir IV who agrees to help in their struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights
06 Mar 1479
Treaty of Alcovas Portugal cedes the Canary Islands to Castile in exchange for claims in West Africa
06 Mar 1665
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society begins publication
06 Mar 1775
First African American Mason in North America initiated in Boston
06 Mar 1808
First college orchestra in the US is founded at Harvard in Cambridge Massachusetts
06 Mar 1810
Illinois passes the first state vaccination legislation in the US
06 Mar 1816
Jews are expelled from the Free Imperial City of Lbeck
06 Mar 1906
Cubs sign third baseman Harry Steinfeldt to complete Tinker-Evers-Chance
06 Mar 1921
Police in Sunbury Pennsylvania issue an edict requiring women to wear skirts at least four inches below the knee
06 Mar 1922
George Bernard Shaws largest-scale play Back to Methusaleh (Part 2) opens at the Garrick Theatre NYC runs for 25 performances
06 Mar 1940
Robin (Dick Grayson) debuts as Batmans sidekick in issue 38 of Detective Comics by DC Comics
06 Mar 1970
Explosion at makeshift bomb factory of left-wing Weather Underground terrorist group kills three members in a townhouse at 18 West 11th St in Greenwich Village NYC
06 Mar 1984
Twelve-month-long strike in the British coal industry begins
06 Mar 1994
Referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against potential reunification with Romania
06 Mar 2006
South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signs a bill into law banning most types of abortion in the state
06 Mar 2007
Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts in a perjury and obstruction of justice trial
06 Mar 2018
South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk is accused of rape and sexual assault in an investigative documentary [1]
06 Mar 2018
Worlds oldest message in a bottle is found in Western Australia thrown from the German ship Paula 132 years ago on June 12 1886
06 Mar 2025
Spacecraft Athena carrying a NASA ice drill built by Intuitive Machines Texas lands on its side on the Moon ending its mission [1]