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, 483,672 hours 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.
- 1930 –International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern
- 1946 –Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
- 1951 –The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
- 1957 –Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain Independence from the British
- 1964 –Nation of Islam’s Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
- 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.
- 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?
- 1724 –Henry Laurens, American merchant, slave trader, and political leader (d. 1792)
- 1806 –Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British poet (d. 1861)
- 1914 –Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (d. 1981)
- 1927 –Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1930 –Lorin Maazel, French-born American conductor
- 1933 –Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (d. 2004)
- 1953 –Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author
- 1955 –Alberta Watson, Canadian actress
- 1983 –Andranik Teymourian, Iranian soccer player
- 1991 –Nicole Fox, American model
Who died on March 6?
- 1935 –Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (b. 1895)
- 1950 –Albert Lebrun, President of France (b. 1871)
- 1967 –Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (b. 1882)
- 1976 –Max ‘Slapsie Maxie’Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor (b. 1903)
- 1978 –Dennis Viollet, English footballer (b. 1933)
- 1984 –Martin Niemöller, German theologian (b. 1892)
- 1997 –Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1924)
- 2005 –Tommy Vance, British radio disc jockey (b. 1943)
- 2006 –Dana Reeve, American actress and activist, widow of Christoper Reeve (b. 1961)
- 2010 –Endurance Idahor, Nigerian footballer (b. 1984)
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