Events on March 6 41
Year 1204
The Siege of Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over King John of England, who loses control of Normandy to King Philip II Augustus.
Year 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.
Year 1665
The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Year 1788
The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
Year 1820
The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
Year 1836
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 are killed and the fort is captured.
Year 1857
The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
Year 1869
Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
Year 1912
Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
Year 1921
Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
Year 1930
International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern
Year 1943
Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.
Year 1945
World War II: Operation Spring Awakening, the last major German offensive of the war, begins.
Year 1946
Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
Year 1953
Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Year 1957
Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.
Year 1964
Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
Year 1968
Three rebels are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.
Year 1970
An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
Year 1975
For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
Year 1984
In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signals the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and involved the majority [but never all] of the country's miners.
Year 1987
The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193.
Year 1988
Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.
Year 2008
A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.
Year ?
The Roman Emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor.