Editing March 6 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
*[[12 BCE]] &ndash; The [[Roman emperor]] [[Augustus]] is named [[Pontifex Maximus]], incorporating the position into that of the emperor.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Kurt A. Raaflaub|author2=Mark Toher|title=Between Republic and Empire: Interpretations of Augustus and His Principate|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-UTjncU9zFgC&pg=PA380|date=21 December 1993|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-08447-6|pages=380|access-date=1 March 2020|archive-date=5 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805191744/https://books.google.com/books?id=-UTjncU9zFgC&pg=PA380|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[845]] &ndash; The [[42 Martyrs of Amorium]] are killed after refusing to convert to Islam.<ref>{{ODB | last = Kazhdan | first = Alexander | authorlink1 = Alexander Kazhdan | last2 = Ševčenko | first2 = Nancy Patterson | title = Forty-Two Martyrs of Amorion | pages = 800–801 }}</ref>
*[[1204]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Château Gaillard]] ends in a French victory over King [[John, King of England|John of England]], who loses control of [[Normandy]] to King [[Philip II of France|Philip II Augustus]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Nicholas Hooper|author2=Nick Hooper|author3=Matthew Bennett|title=The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare: The Middle Ages, 768-1487|url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgeillustr00nich|url-access=registration|date=26 January 1996|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-44049-3|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cambridgeillustr00nich/page/53 53]}}</ref>
*[[1323]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Paris (1323)|Treaty of Paris of 1323]] is signed.<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle= Flanders |volume= 10 |last= Edmundson |first= George |author-link= George Edmundson | pages = 478&ndash;480; see page 480 |quote= Under Louis of Never.....&....a treaty signed on the 6th of March 1323...}}</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1651]] &ndash; The town of [[Kajaani]], known at the time as ''Cajanaburg'', is founded by Count [[Per Brahe the Younger|Per Brahe]], the [[Governor-General of Finland]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kajaani.fi/kajaanin-kaupungin-370-juhlavuoden-tunnus/|title=Kajaanin kaupungin 370 juhlavuoden tunnus|website=Kajaani.fi|access-date=8 April 2024|language=fi|archive-date=8 April 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240408055955/https://www.kajaani.fi/kajaanin-kaupungin-370-juhlavuoden-tunnus/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://agricolaverkko.fi/review/opas-kajaanin-linnan-vaiheisiin/|title=Opas Kajaanin linnan vaiheisiin|first=Reijo|last=Valta|publisher=Agricola|date=21 June 2005|access-date=8 April 2024|language=fi|archive-date=8 April 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240408055954/https://agricolaverkko.fi/review/opas-kajaanin-linnan-vaiheisiin/|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1788]] &ndash; The [[First Fleet]] arrives at [[Norfolk Island]] in order to found a [[convict settlement]].
*[[1820]] &ndash; The [[Missouri Compromise]] is signed into law by President [[James Monroe]]. The compromise allows [[Missouri]] to [[admission to the Union|enter the Union]] as a [[Slave states and free states|slave state]], brings [[Maine]] into the Union as a [[Slave states and free states|free state]], and makes the rest of the northern part of the [[Louisiana Purchase]] territory slavery-free.
*[[1836]] &ndash; [[Texas Revolution]]: [[Battle of the Alamo]]: After a thirteen-day [[siege]] by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman [[Davy Crockett]] and colonel [[Jim Bowie]], defending the [[Alamo Mission in San Antonio|Alamo]] are killed and the fort is captured.
*[[1857]] &ndash; The Supreme Court of the United States rules 7–2 in the ''[[Dred Scott v. Sandford]]'' case that the Constitution does not confer citizenship on black people.
*[[1869]] &ndash; [[Dmitri Mendeleev]] presents the first [[periodic table]] to the Russian Chemical Society.
*[[1882]] &ndash; The [[Kingdom of Serbia|Serbian kingdom]] is re-founded.

===1901–present===
*[[1901]] &ndash; Anarchist assassin tries to kill German Emperor [[Wilhelm II]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Jacques|last=Legrand|title=Chronicle of the 20th Century|publisher=Ecam Publication|year=1987|page=25|isbn=0-942191-01-3}}</ref> 
*[[1904]] &ndash; [[Scottish National Antarctic Expedition]]: Led by [[William Speirs Bruce]], the [[Antarctica|Antarctic]] region of [[Coats Land]] was discovered from the ''[[Scotia (barque)|Scotia]]''.<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Rudmose Brown | first1 = R. N. | author-link1 = Robert Rudmose-Brown | last2 = Pirie | first2 = J. H. | last3 = Mossman | first3 = R. C. | year = 2002 | title = The Voyage of the Scotia | publisher = Mercat Press | location = Edinburgh | isbn = 1-84183-044-5 | ref = {{sfnRef|Rudmose Brown}} |page=121}}</ref>
*[[1912]] &ndash; [[Italo-Turkish War]]: Italian forces become the first to use [[airship]]s in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at [[Janzur]], from an altitude of {{convert|6,000|ft|m|disp=out}}.
*[[1930]] &ndash; [[International Unemployment Day]] demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern. 
*[[1943]] &ndash; [[Norman Rockwell]] published ''[[Freedom from Want]]'' in ''[[The Saturday Evening Post]]'' with a matching essay by [[Carlos Bulosan]] as part of the ''[[Four Freedoms (Norman Rockwell)|Four Freedoms]]'' series.
*  1943   &ndash; [[World War II]]: ''Generalfeldmarschall'' [[Erwin Rommel]] launches the [[Battle of Medenine]] in an attempt to slow down the [[British Eighth Army]]. It fails, and he leaves Africa three days later.<ref>{{cite book |last=Fraser |first=D. |title=And We Shall Shock Them: The British Army in the Second World War |publisher=A & C Black |location=London |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-44820-482-3}}</ref>
*  1943   &ndash; World War II: The [[Battle of Fardykambos]], one of the first major battles between the [[Greek Resistance]] and the occupying [[Royal Italian Army]], ends with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion, the bulk of the garrison of the town of [[Grevena]], leading to its liberation a fortnight later.<ref name="SE39">{{cite journal | url = http://www.army.gr/files/File/STRATOS_KAI_ENHMEROSH/2016/39_IAN_FEB_MAR.pdf | journal = Στρατός & Ενημέρωση | issue = 39 | year = 2016 | publisher = Hellenic Army General Staff, Information & Public Relations Directorate | language = el | title = Η Μάχη του Φαρδύκαμπου, 4-6 Μαρτίου 1943 | pages = 50–51 | access-date = 1 December 2017 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
*[[1944]] &ndash; World War II: [[Soviet Air Forces]] bomb an evacuated town of [[Narva]] in [[German occupation of Estonia during World War II|German-occupied Estonia]], destroying the entire historical [[Swedish Empire|Swedish-era]] town.
*[[1945]] &ndash; World War II: [[Cologne]] is captured by American troops. On the same day, [[Operation Spring Awakening]], the last major German offensive of the war, begins.<ref>{{cite book|author1=James Sidney Lucas|author2=Matthew Cooper|title=Hitler's Elite: Leibstandarte SS, 1933-45|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BqafAAAAMAAJ|year=1975|publisher=Macdonald and Jane's|isbn=978-0-356-08142-7|page=144|access-date=2020-03-06|archive-date=2020-08-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805183756/https://books.google.com/books?id=BqafAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> 
*[[1946]] &ndash; [[Ho Chi Minh]] signs [[Ho–Sainteny agreement|an agreement]] with France which recognizes [[Vietnam]] as an autonomous state in the [[French Indochina|Indochinese Federation]] and the [[French Union]].
*[[1951]] &ndash; [[Cold War]]: The trial of [[Ethel and Julius Rosenberg]] begins.
*[[1953]] &ndash; [[Georgy Malenkov]] succeeds [[Joseph Stalin]] as [[Premier of the Soviet Union]] and [[General secretary|First Secretary]] of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]].
*[[1957]] &ndash; [[Ghana]] becomes the first [[Sub-Saharan Africa|Sub-Saharan]] country to gain independence from the British.
*[[1964]] &ndash; [[Nation of Islam]] leader [[Elijah Muhammad]] officially gives [[boxing]] champion [[Cassius Clay]] the name [[Muhammad Ali]].
*  1964   &ndash; [[Constantine II of Greece|Constantine II]] becomes the last King of Greece.
*[[1965]] &ndash; Premier [[Thomas Playford IV|Tom Playford]] of [[South Australia]] loses power after 27 years in office.
*[[1967]] &ndash; Cold War: [[Joseph Stalin]]'s daughter [[Svetlana Alliluyeva]] [[defection|defects]] to the United States.
*[[1968]] &ndash; Three rebels are executed by [[Rhodesia]], the first executions since [[Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence|UDI]], prompting international condemnation.
*[[1970]] &ndash; An explosion at the [[Weather Underground]] safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
*[[1975]] &ndash; The [[Zapruder film]] of the [[assassination of John F. Kennedy]] is shown in motion to a national TV audience for the first time by [[Robert J. Groden]] and [[Dick Gregory]].
*  1975   &ndash; [[1975 Algiers Agreement|Algiers Accord]]: [[Iran]] and [[Iraq]] announce a settlement of their border dispute.
*[[1984]] &ndash; In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in [[Brampton Bierlow]] signals the start of a [[UK miners' strike (1984–85)|strike that lasted almost a year]] and involved the majority of the country's miners.
*[[1987]] &ndash; The British ferry {{MS|Herald of Free Enterprise}} capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193.<ref>{{cite web |title=1987: Hundreds trapped as car ferry capsizes |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/6/newsid_2515000/2515923.stm |website=BBC News |access-date=5 March 2021 |date=6 March 1987 |archive-date=26 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126102718/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/6/newsid_2515000/2515923.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1988]] &ndash; Three [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] volunteers are shot dead by the [[Special Air Service|SAS]] in [[Gibraltar]] in [[Operation Flavius]].
*[[1992]] &ndash; The [[Michelangelo (computer virus)|Michelangelo computer virus]] begins to affect computers.
*[[2003]] &ndash; [[Air Algérie Flight 6289]] crashes at the [[Aguenar – Hadj Bey Akhamok Airport]] in [[Tamanrasset]], Algeria, killing 102 out of the 103 people on board.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20030306-0|title=ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-2T4 7T-VEZ Tamanrasset Airport (TMR)|last=Ranter|first=Harro|website=aviation-safety.net|access-date=2019-03-05|archive-date=2018-02-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180219151255/https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20030306-0|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[2008]] &ndash; A [[6 March 2008 Baghdad bombing|suicide bomber kills 68 people]] (including first responders) in [[Baghdad]] on the same day that [[Mercaz HaRav massacre|a gunman kills eight students]] in [[Jerusalem]].
*[[2018]] &ndash; [[Forbes]] names [[Jeff Bezos]] as the world's richest person, for the first time, at $112 billion net worth.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.livemint.com/Companies/wOrdQbkCFChzNn5aQutEFO/Jeff-Bezos-The-hundredbilliondollar-man.html|title=Jeff Bezos: The hundred-billion-dollar man|date=Mar 8, 2018|website=mint|access-date=March 6, 2021|archive-date=January 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127060335/https://www.livemint.com/Companies/wOrdQbkCFChzNn5aQutEFO/Jeff-Bezos-The-hundredbilliondollar-man.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[2020]] &ndash; Thirty-two people are killed and 81 are injured when gunmen [[6 March 2020 Kabul shooting|open fire on a ceremony]] in [[Kabul]], Afghanistan. The [[Islamic State]] claims responsibility for the attack.<ref>{{cite news |title=Dozens killed in Kabul ceremony attack claimed by ISIL |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/kabul-gathering-attended-abdullah-hit-rocket-attack-report-200306074951081.html |access-date=7 November 2022 |work=[[Al Jazeera Media Network|Al Jazeera]] |date=6 March 2020 |archive-date=7 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200307023450/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/kabul-gathering-attended-abdullah-hit-rocket-attack-report-200306074951081.html |url-status=live }}</ref>