March 6 in History

Historical Events on March 6

961 Byzantine conquest of Chandax by Nikephoros Phokas, end of the Emirate of Crete.

1857 The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.

1945 World War II: Cologne is captured by American troops.

1945 World War II: Operation Spring Awakening, the last major German offensive of the war, begins.

1957 Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.

1964 Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.

1967 Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.

1968 Three rebels are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.

1988 Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.

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Famous Birthdays on March 6

1949 Shaukat Aziz

1972 Shaquille O'Neal

1976 Ken Anderson (wrestler)

1989 Agnieszka Radwańska

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Famous Deaths on March 6

1899 Kaʻiulani

1961 George Formby

1976 Maxie Rosenbloom

2016 Nancy Reagan

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