On this day: 6 March

Years ago today

Events · 12

• 1323(Julian date)
  Treaty of Paris — 1323 treaty
• 1869
  periodic table — table systematically placing elements based on atomic number and recurrent properties
• 1898
  Convention respecting the Lease of Kiaochow between China and Germany — 1898 China-Germany treaty
• 1902
  Real Madrid Club de Fútbol — association football club in Madrid, Spain
• 1943
  Battle of Medenine — 1943 battle in Tunisia
• 1945
  Operation Spring Awakening — last major German offensive of World War II
• 1975
  1975 Algiers Agreement — between Iraq and Iran
• 1988
  Operation Flavius — 1988 military operation
• 2003
  Air Algérie Flight 6289 — 2003 plane crash of an Air Algerie Boeing 737-200 on takeoff at Tamanrasset, Algeria
• 2008
  Mercaz HaRav massacre — 2008 mass school shooting
• 2008
  6 March 2008 Baghdad bombing — 2008 suicide bombing at a shopping center in Baghdad, Iraq
• 2020
  2020 Kabul shooting — 6 March 2020 kabul shooting

Births · 60

• 1405(Julian date)
  John II of Castile — King of Castille and Leon
• 1475(Julian date)
  Michelangelo — Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
• 1483(Julian date)
  Francesco Guicciardini — Italian writer, historian and politician (1483-1540)
• 1508(Julian date)
  Humayun — second Mughal emperor from 1530 to 1540 and 1555 to 1556
• 1619
  Cyrano de Bergerac — French novelist and dramatist (1619–1655)
• 1779
  Antoine-Henri Jomini — French-Swiss officer who served as a general with the French and Russian armies and writer on the art of war (1779-1869)
• 1787
  Joseph von Fraunhofer — Bavarian physicist and optical lens manufacturer
• 1806
  Elizabeth Barrett Browning — English poet (1806–1861)
• 1810
  George Robert Waterhouse — English scientist (1810–1888)
• 1823
  Karl I of Württemberg — Third King of Württemberg (1864–1891)
• 1831
  Philip Sheridan — United States Army general (1831-1888)
• 1865
  Duan Qirui — Chinese warlord and politician (1865-1936)
• 1903
  Kōjun — Japanese empress
• 1904
  José Antonio Aguirre — Basque association football player and politician (1904–1960)
• 1906
  Lou Costello — American actor and comedian (1906–1959)
• 1909
  Stanisław Jerzy Lec — Polish writer (1909–1966)
• 1909
  Obafemi Awolowo — Nigerian politician (1909-1987)
• 1917
  Will Eisner — American cartoonist, writer and entrepreneur (1917–2005)
• 1917
  Donald Davidson — American philosopher (1917–2003)
• 1920
  Lewis Gilbert — British film director, producer and screenwriter (1920-2018)
• 1923
  Wes Montgomery — American jazz guitarist (1923–1968)
• 1924
  Ottmar Walter — German footballer (1924-2013)
• 1926
  Andrzej Wajda — Polish film director (1926–2016)
• 1926
  Alan Greenspan — American economist and financial advisor (1926–2026)
• 1927
  Gabriel García Márquez — Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)

Deaths · 60

• 190(Julian date)
  Prince of Hongnong — Emperor of the Han dynasty in 189
• 766
  Chrodegang — Frankish bishop of Metz
• 1238(Julian date)
  Al-Kamil — Ayyubid Sultan of Egypt from 1218 to 1238
• 1252(Julian date)
  Rose of Viterbo — saint of third order of Francis (Franciscan tertiary)
• 1531
  Pedro Arias Dávila — Royal Governor of Panama (c.1440-1531)
• 1616
  Francis Beaumont — English playwright (1584–1616)
• 1754
  Henry Pelham — Prime Minister of Great Britain; (1695-1754)
• 1796
  Guillaume Thomas François Raynal — French writer (1713-1796)
• 1836
  Davy Crockett — American frontiersman and politician (1786–1836)
• 1836
  — nineteenth-century American pioneer
• 1836
  William B. Travis — Alamo commander and defender (1809–1836)
• 1866
  William Whewell — English philosopher and historian of science (1794–1866)
• 1888
  Louisa May Alcott — American novelist (1832–1888)
• 1895
  Camilla Collett — Norwegian author and women's rights activist
• 1899
  Kaʻiulani — Princess and heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii until the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy (1875–1899)
• 1900
  Gottlieb Daimler — German engineer and industrialist (1834–1900)
• 1905
  John Henninger Reagan — American politician (1818-1905)
• 1920
  Ömer Seyfettin — Ottoman writer, teacher and soldier (1884–1920)
• 1930
  Alfred von Tirpitz — German Admiral and Secretary of State of the German Imperial Naval Office (1849-1930)
• 1932
  John Philip Sousa — American conductor and composer (1854–1932)
• 1933
  Anton Cermak — American politician (1873–1933)
• 1935
  Oliver Wendell Holmes — American jurist (1841–1935); US Supreme Court justice from 1902 to 1932
• 1938
  Reginald Johnston — British diplomat and academic (1874–1938)
• 1939
  Ferdinand von Lindemann — German mathematician (1852–1939)
• 1941
  Gutzon Borglum — American sculptor (1867–1941)