About March 6

March 6, 2025 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.

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Pisces is the sun 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.

What Happened On March 6

  • 12 BC –
    The Roman Emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the Emperor
  • 1521 –
    Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
  • 1788 –
    The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
  • 1840 –
    The Baltimore College of Dental Surgery opens, the first dental school.
  • 1857 –
    The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
  • 1869 –
    Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
  • 1899 –
    Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
  • 1921 –
    Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
  • 1946 –
    Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1970 –
    Blast at Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
  • 1975 –
    For the first time, ever, 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.
  • 1981 –
    After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
  • 1983 –
    The first United States Football League game is played.
  • 1987 –
    The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
  • 1988 –
    Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
  • 2008 –
    A Palestinian gunman shoots and kills 8 students and critically injures 11 in the library of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, in Jerusalem, Israel.

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