6 March
Notable Births
Milo Manheim
b. 2001
American actor (born 2001)
Armando Bacot
b. 2000
American basketball player (born 2000)
Jacob Bertrand
b. 2000
American actor (born 2000)
Ylena In-Albon
b. 1999
Swiss tennis player (born 1999)
Kyle Trask
b. 1998
American football player (born 1998)
Lee Lu-da
b. 1997
South Korean singer and actress (born 1997)
Christian Coleman
b. 1996
American sprinter (born 1996)
Mohamed Magdy
b. 1996
Egyptian footballer (born 1996)
Timo Werner
b. 1996
German footballer (born 1996)
Josh Hart
b. 1995
American basketball player (born 1995)
Georgi Kitanov
b. 1995
Bulgarian footballer
Marcus Smart
b. 1994
American basketball player (born 1994)
Nicklas Jensen
b. 1993
Danish ice hockey player (born 1993)
John Jenkins (basketball)
b. 1991
American basketball player (born 1991)
Derek Drouin
b. 1990
Canadian track and field athlete
Dwight Buycks
b. 1989
American basketball player (born 1989)
Ray Chen
b. 1989
Taiwanese-Australian violinist (born 1989)
Agnieszka Radwańska
b. 1989
Polish tennis player (born 1989)
Lefty Grove
b. 1900
American baseball player (1900–1975)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
b. 1806
English poet (1806–1861)
Notable Deaths
Brian James (guitarist)
d. 2025
British guitarist (1951–2025)
Lou Ottens
d. 2021
Dutch engineer (1926–2021)
Graham Pink
d. 2021
Nurse and whistleblower (1929–2021)
Peter Nicholls (writer)
d. 2018
Australian literary scholar and critic (1939–2018)
Robert Osborne
d. 2017
American film historian and actor (1932–2017)
Nancy Reagan
d. 2016
First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989
Sheila Varian
d. 2016
American horse breeder (1937–2016)
Fred Craddock
d. 2015
American preacher and academic (1928–2015)
Ram Sundar Das
d. 2015
Indian politician (1921–2015)
Alemayehu Atomsa
d. 2014
Ethiopian politician (1964–2014)
Frank Jobe
d. 2014
American orthopedic surgeon and co-founder of the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic
Sheila MacRae
d. 2014
American actress, singer, dancer (1921 - 2014)
Martin Nesbitt (politician)
d. 2014
American politician from North Carolina (1946–2014)
Manlio Sgalambro
d. 2014
Italian philosopher, writer and poet (1924-2014)
Chorão
d. 2013
Brazilian singer-songwriter (1970–2013)
Stompin' Tom Connors
d. 2013
Canadian singer-songwriter (1936–2013)
Alvin Lee
d. 2013
English singer, songwriter, and guitarist (1944–2013)
W. Wallace Cleland
d. 2013
Francisco Xavier do Amaral
d. 2012
East Timorese politician (1937–2012)
Donald M. Payne
d. 2012
American politician (1934–2012)
On This Day in History
All 33 ›2020
32 people are killed and 82 are injured when gunmen open fire on a ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack.
6 March 2020 Kabul shooting
2018
Forbes names Jeff Bezos as the world's richest person, for the first time, at $112 billion net worth.
Forbes
2008
A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.
6 March 2008 Baghdad bombing
2003
Air Algérie Flight 6289 crashes at the Aguenar – Hadj Bey Akhamok Airport in Tamanrasset, Algeria, killing 102 out of the 103 people on board.
Air Algérie Flight 6289
1988
Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.
Provisional Irish Republican Army
1987
The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193.
MS Herald of Free Enterprise
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 of the country's miners.
Brampton Bierlow
1975
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.
Zapruder film
1975
Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
1975 Algiers Agreement
1967
Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
Joseph Stalin
1964
Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
Nation of Islam
1964
Constantine II becomes the last King of Greece.
Constantine II of Greece
1957
Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.
Ghana
1953
Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Georgy Malenkov
1946
Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
Ho Chi Minh
1945
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.
Cologne
1944
World War II: Soviet Air Forces bomb the evacuated town of Narva in German-occupied Estonia, destroying the entire historical Swedish-era town.
Soviet Air Forces
1943
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.
World War II
1943
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.
Battle of Fardykambos
1930
International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern.
International Unemployment Day