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 66^th 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.

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.
• 1869 –
  Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
• 1921 –
  Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
• 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.
• 1965 –
  Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
• 1967 –
  Joseph Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
• 1968 –
  Three black males are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.
• 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?

• 1724 –
  Henry Laurens, American merchant, slave trader, and political leader (d. 1792)
• 1812 –
  Aaron Lufkin Dennison American watch manufacturer (d. 1895)
• 1871 –
  Afonso Costa, Portuguese politician (d. 1937)
• 1885 –
  Ring Lardner, American writer (d. 1933)
• 1947 –
  Kiki Dee, British singer
• 1947 –
  Martin Kove, American actor
• 1950 –
  Hirotaka Suzuoki, Japanese Seiyu (d. 2006)
• 1958 –
  Eddie Deezen, American actor
• 1971 –
  Darrick Martin, American basketball player
• 1977 –
  Marcus Thames, American baseball player

Who died on March 6?

• 1658 –
  Ivan Bunić Vučić, politician and poet from the Republic of Dubrovnik (b. 1591 or 1592)
• 1866 –
  William Whewell, English scientist, philosopher and historian (b. 1794)
• 1935 –
  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American politician (b. 1841)
• 1967 –
  John Haden Badley, English author and educator (b. 1865)
• 1982 –
  Ayn Rand, Russian-American author (b. 1905)
• 1984 –
  Henry Wilcoxon, Dominican actor (b. 1905)
• 1984 –
  Martin Niemöller, German theologian (b. 1892)
• 2005 –
  Danny Gardella, American baseball player (b. 1920)
• 2006 –
  King Floyd, American musician (b. 1945)
• 2010 –
  Endurance Idahor, Nigerian footballer (b. 1984)