SomeFacts | March 6

On this day - March 6

The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating ...

845 — The 42 Martyrs of Amorium are killed after refusing to convert ...

1204 — The Siege of Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over ...

1323 — Treaty of Paris of 1323 is signed.

1651 — The town of Kajaani, known at the time as Cajanaburg, is ...

1788 — The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a ...

1820 — The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James ...

1836 — Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo: After a thirteen-day ...

1857 — The Supreme Court of the United States rules 7–2 in the Dred ...

1901 — Anarchist assassin tries to kill German Emperor Wilhelm II.

1904 — Scottish National Antarctic Expedition: Led by William Speirs ...

1912 — Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use ...

1930 — International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally ...

1943 — World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first ...

1943 — World War II: Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel launches the ...

1943 — Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in The Saturday ...

1944 — World War II: Soviet Air Forces bomb an evacuated town of ...

1945 — World War II: Cologne is captured by American troops. On the ...

1946 — Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes ...

1951 — Cold War: The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.

1953 — Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the ...

1957 — Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain ...

1964 — Constantine II becomes the last King of Greece.

1964 — Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing ...

1965 — Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 ...

1967 — Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva ...

1968 — Three rebels are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions ...

1970 — An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in ...

1975 — Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their ...

1975 — The Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is ...

1984 — In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in ...

1987 — The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in ...

1988 — Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot ...

1992 — The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.

2003 — Air Algérie Flight 6289 crashes at the Aguenar – Hadj Bey ...

2008 — A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) ...

2018 — Forbes names Jeff Bezos as the world's richest person, ...

2020 — 32 people are killed and 82 are injured when gunmen open fire ...