On This Day — 6 March

2000s

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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

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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

1900s

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

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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

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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

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 1,800 m.

Italo-Turkish War

1904

Scottish National Antarctic Expedition: Led by William Speirs Bruce, the Antarctic region of Coats Land is discovered from the Scotia.

Scottish National Antarctic Expedition

1901

An anarchist assassin tries to kill German Emperor Wilhelm II.

Wilhelm II

1800s

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1857

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.

Dred Scott v. Sandford

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.

Texas Revolution

1820

The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by United States 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.

Missouri Compromise