March 6 leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 300 days remaining until the end of the year.
1079 - Omar Khayyám completes the Iranian calendar .
1447 - Nicholas V becomes Pope .
1454 - Thirteen Years' War : Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledged allegiance to Casimir IV of Poland , and the Polish king agreed to help in their struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights .
1479 - Treaty of Alcaçovas - Portugal gives the Canary Islands to Castile in exchange for claims in West Africa .
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam .
1788 - The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement .
1820 - The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe . The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, but makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
1834 - York , Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto .
1836 - Texas Revolution : Battle of the Alamo - After a 13-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort taken.
1853 - The Giuseppe Verdi opera La Traviata premieres in Venice .
1856 - The University of Maryland is chartered as the Maryland Agricultural College .
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.
1900 - A coal mine explosion in West Virginia traps 50 coal miners.
1901 - In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany .
1902 - The Spanish football club Real Madrid is founded.
1921 - The Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International .
1925 - Pionerskaya Pravda , one of the oldest children's newspapers in Europe , is founded.
1925 - Belgium annexes Eupen , Malmedy , and Sankt Vith .
1927 - Fritz Lang's Metropolis is released.
1940 - Winter War : An armistice is signed by Finland and the Soviet Union .
1945 - A communist -dominated government under Petru Groza assumes power in Romania .
1946 - Vietnam War : Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union .
1948 - USS Newport News Newport News .
1951 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
1953 - Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Josef Stalin as Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union .
1957 - United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana .
1957 - Israel withdraws its troops from the Sinai Peninsula .
1964 - Prophet Elijah Muhammad officially gives Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali meaning "beloved of Allah ".
1964 - Constantine II becomes King of Greece .
1964 - Tom O'Hara sets a new world record for the indoor mile run by completing it in 3 minutes, 56.4 seconds.
1970 - Suspected murderer Charles Manson releases *1975 - Algiers Accord : Iran and Iraq announce a settlement over their border dispute.
1981 - After 19 years presenting the CBS Evening News Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
1983 - The United States Football League begins its first year of competition.
1984 - Twelve-month-long strike in British coal industry begins.
1987 - The British ferry M/S Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
1988 - Students at Gallaudet University go on strike in favor of the selection of a deaf university president. The protest is called Deaf President Now .
1992 - The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers .
1992 - Founding of the Council of the Baltic Sea States .
1994 - Referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania .
1997 - Picasso 's painting Tête de Femme London gallery, and is recovered a week later.
2006 - South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signs a bill into legislation that would ban most abortions in the state.
2007 - Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby was found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice trial.
2007 - United States lottery Mega Millions set a new world record for the highest jackpot ever offered of US$390 million.
1340 - John of Gaunt (d. 1399 )
1405 - King John II of Castile (d. 1454 )
1459 - Jacob Fugger , German banker (d. 1525 )
1475 - Michelangelo , Italian artist (d. 1564 )
1483 - Francesco Guicciardini , Italian statesman and historian (d. 1540 )
1495 - Luigi Alamanni , Italian poet (d. 1556 )
1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac , French soldier, poet (d. 1655 )
1663 - Francis Atterbury , British man of letters (d. 1732 )
1706 - George Pocock , British admiral (d. 1792 )
1716 - Pehr Kalm , Swedish explorer and naturalist (d. 1779 )
1761 - Antoine-Francois Andreossy , French General (d. 1828 )
1779 - Antoine-Henri Jomini , French general (d. 1869 )
1787 - Joseph von Fraunhofer , German physicist (d. 1826 )
1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning , British poet (d. 1861 )
1812 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison American watch manufacturer (d. 1895 )
1817 - Princess Clémentine of Orléans (d. 1907 )
1831 - Philip Sheridan , American Civil War Union cavalry officer (d. 1888 )
1834 - George du Maurier British illustrator and writer (d. 1896 )
1870 - Oscar Straus , Viennese operetta composer (d. 1954 )
1882 - F. Burrall Hoffman , American architect (d. 1980 )
1885 - Ring Lardner , American writer (d. 1933 )
1899 - Furry Lewis , American blues guitarist (d. 1981 )
1903 - Empress Kōjun of Japan (d. 2000 )
1904 - Joseph Schmidt , Austrian tenor (d. 1942 )
1904 - José Antonio Aguirre , Basque politician (d. 1960 )
1905 - Bob Wills , American singer (d. 1975 )
1906 - Lou Costello , American actor comedian (d. 1959 )
1914 - Kiril Kondrashin , Russian conductor (d. 1981 )
1915 - Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin , Bohra spiritual leader
1915 - Pete Gray , American baseball player (d. 2002 )
1917 - Will Eisner , American illustrator and cartoonist (d. 2005 )
1917 - Frankie Howerd , English comedian (d. 1992 )
1919 - Maurice Grosse , British paranormal investigator (d. 2006 )
1923 - Ed McMahon , American television personality
1925 - Wes Montgomery , American musician (d. 1968 )
1926 - Alan Greenspan , American economist
1926 - Andrzej Wajda , Polish film director
1927 - Gabriel García Márquez , Colombian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 - Gordon Cooper , astronaut (d. 2004 )
1927 - Norman Treigle , American bass-baritone (d. 1975 )
1930 - Lorin Maazel , French-born American conductor
1931 - Hal Needham , American stuntman
1933 - Ted Abernathy , American baseball player (d. 2004 )
1934 - John Noakes , British television presenter
1935 - Ron Delany , Irish athlete
1936 - Marion Barry Jr. , American politician
1936 - Jean Boht , English actress
1937 - Ivan Boesky , American stock trader
1937 - Valentina Tereshkova , cosmonaut
1939 - Adam Osborne , British author and computer designer (d. 2003 )
1939 - Infanta Margarita of Spain , duchess of Soria
1939 - Cookie Rojas , baseball player
1940 - Willie Stargell , baseball player (d. 2001 )
1942 - Ben Murphy , American actor
1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa , New Zealand singer
1944 - Mary Wilson , American singer (Supremes )
1946 - David Gilmour , British musician (Pink Floyd )
1947 - Kiki Dee , British singer
1947 - Dick Fosbury , American athlete
1947 - Martin Kove , American actor
1947 - Teru Miyamoto , Japanese author
1947 - Rob Reiner , American actor, comedian, and film producer
1949 - Shaukat Aziz , Prime Minister of Pakistan
1949 - Martin Buchan , Scottish footballer
1951 - Gerrie Knetemann , Dutch cyclist (d. 2004 )
1953 - Jan Kjærstad , Norwegian author
1953 - Jacklyn Zeman , American actress
1955 - Alberta Watson , Canadian actress
1958 - Eddie Deezen , American actor
1959 - Saul Anuzis , American politician
1959 - Tom Arnold , American actor and comedian
1962 - Valerie French , American animatronics art director
1963 - D.L. Hughley , American comedian and actor
1964 - Madonna Wayne Gacy , American musician
1966 - Alan Davies , British comedian and actor
1968 - Moira Kelly , American actress
1968 - Michael Romeo , American musician
1969 - Andrea Elson , American actress
1969 - Tari Phillips , American basketball player
1969 - Greg Scott , British TV personality
1970 - Shane Brolly , British actor
1971 - Sean Morley , American professional wrestler
1971 - Darrick Martin , American basketball player
1972 - Terry Murphy , Northern Irish snooker player
1972 - Shaquille O'Neal , American basketball player
1973 - Michael Finley , American basketball player
1974 - Sebastian Siegel , British-American actor
1975 - Aracely Arambula , Mexican actress and singer
1976 - Ken Anderson , American professional wrestler
1977 - Giorgos Karagounis , Greek footballer
1979 - Tim Howard , American soccer player
1979 - David Flair , American professional wrestler
1979 - Erik Bedard , Canadian baseball player
1979 - Ryan Nyquist , American BMX rider
1980 - Ross Mawhinney , British-born Italian radio DJ
1981 - Ellen Muth , American actress
1983 - Andranik Teymourian , Iranian footballer
1985 - Albert Reed , American model
1992 - Momoko Tsugunaga , Japanese singer
1996 - Savanah Stehlin , American actress
766 - Chrodegang of Metz , Frankish bishop of Metz
1252 - Saint Rose of Viterbo , Italian saint (b. 1235 )
1490 - Ivan the Young , Ruler of Tver (b. 1458 )
1531 - Pedrarias Dávila , Spanish conquistador
1627 - Krzysztof Zbaraski , Polish statesman (b. 1580 )
1754 - Henry Pelham , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1694 )
1758 - Henry Vane , English politician (b. 1705 )
1764 - Philip Yorke , Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1690 )
1796 - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal , French writer (b. 1713 )
1836 - Davy Crockett , American frontiersman (b. 1786 )
1836 - William B. Travis , American lawyer and soldier (b. 1809 )
1836 - Jim Bowie , American pioneer and soldier (b. 1796 )
1842 - Constanze Mozart , wife of W.A. Mozart (b. 1763 )
1854 - Charles William Vane , British soldier and politician (b. 1778 )
1860 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer , German cellist and composer (b. 1783 )
1866 - William Whewell , English scientist, philosopher, and historian of science (b. 1794 )
1888 - Louisa May Alcott , American novelist (b. 1832 )
1895 - Camilla Collett , Norwegian writer and feminist (b. 1813 )
1899 - Victoria Kaiulani , Hawaiian princess (b. 1875 )
1900 - Gottlieb Daimler , German engineer and industrialist (b. 1834 )
1905 - John Henninger Reagan , American Confederate politician (b. 1818 )
1932 - John Philip Sousa , American band leader, conductor, and composer (b. 1854 )
1933 - Anton Cermak , Mayor of Chicago (b. 1873 )
1935 - Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (b. 1895 )
1939 - Ferdinand von Lindemann , German mathematician (b. 1852 )
1941 - Gutzon Borglum , Danish sculptor (b. 1867 )
1948 - Ross Lockridge , American novelist (b. 1914 )
1950 - Albert Lebrun , President of France (b. 1871 )
1951 - Ivor Novello , Welsh actor, musician, and composer (b. 1893 )
1951 - Volodymyr Vynnychenko , Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1880 )
1952 - Jürgen Stroop , Nazi SS-leader (executed) (b. 1895 )
1961 - George Formby , British comedian and singer (b. 1904 )
1964 - King Paul of Greece (b. 1901 )
1965 - Margaret Dumont , American actress (b. 1889 )
1967 - John Haden Badley , English author and educator (b. 1865 )
1967 - Nelson Eddy , American singer and actor (b. 1901 )
1967 - Zoltán Kodály , Hungarian composer (b. 1882 )
1969 - Nadya Rusheva , Russian painter (b. 1952 )
1970 - William Hopper , American actor (b. 1915 )
1971 - Thurston Dart , English harpsichordist and conductor (b. 1921 )
1973 - Pearl S. Buck , American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892 )
1976 - Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom , American boxer and actor (b. 1903 )
1981 - George Geary , English cricketer (b. 1893 )
1982 - Ayn Rand , Russian-American author (b. 1905 )
1985 - Henry Wilcoxon , Dominican actor (b. 1905 )
1986 - Georgia O'Keeffe , American artist (b. 1887 )
1994 - Melina Mercouri , Greek actress, political activist, and politician (b. 1920 )
1997 - Cheddi Jagan , President of Guyana (b. 1918 )
1997 - Michael Manley , Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1924 )
1998 - Frank Barrett , American baseball player (b. 1913 )
1999 - Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah , emir of Bahrain (b. 1933 )
1999 - Dennis Viollet , former footballer (b. 1933 )
2000 - John Colicos , Canadian actor (b. 1928 )
2001 - Kim Walker , American actress (b. 1968 )
2002 - Bryan Fogarty , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1969 )
2003 - John Sanford , American author (b. 1904 )
2004 - Frances Dee , American actress (b. 1909 )
2004 - Ray Fernandez , American professional wrestler (b. 1957 )
2005 - Hans Bethe , German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906 )
2005 - Tommy Vance , British radio disc jockey (b. 1943 )
2005 - Danny Gardella , American baseball player (b. 1920 )
2005 - Teresa Wright , American actress (b. 1918 )
2006 - King Floyd , American musician (b. 1945 )
2006 - Kirby Puckett , American baseball player (b. 1960 )
2006 - Dana Reeve , American actress, wife of Christopher Reeve (b. 1961 )
2007 - Jean Baudrillard , French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator and photographer (b. 1929 )
2007 - Allen Coage (aka "Bad News Brown"), American professional wrestler and judoka (b. 1943 )
2007 - Ernest Gallo , American winemaker (b. 1909 )
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