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Events
12 BC – The Roman Emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the Emperor.
845 – Execution of the 42 Martyrs of Amorium at Samarra
961 – Byzantine conquest of Chandax by Nikephoros Phokas, end of the Emirate of Crete
1204 – The Siege of Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over King John of England, who loses control of Normandy to King Philip II Augustus.
1454 – Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
1665 – The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and 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 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.
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.
1882 – The Serbian kingdom is re-founded.
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1899 – Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
1902 – Real Madrid C.F. is founded.
1912: The first Oreo is sold by the National Biscuit Company to a grocer in Hoboken, New Jersey.
1912 – Italian forces became the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles dropped bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
1921 – Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
1930 – International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern
1933: A national bank holiday declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt aimed at calming panicked depositors went into effect. The holiday was supposed to last four days, but was extended until it was gradually lifted starting March 13.
1943 – Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in the The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.
1945 – World War II: Cologne is captured by American Troops.
1946 – Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
1951 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
1953 – Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1957 – Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.
1962 – Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 begins on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States.
1964 – Nation of Islam's Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
1964 – Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
1965 – Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
1967 – Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
1968 – The first of the East L.A. walkouts take place at several high schools.
1968 – Three black male rebels are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI), prompting international condemnation.
1970 – An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
1975 – For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
1975 – Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
1981 – After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
1983 – The first United States Football League game is played.
1983: In a case that drew much notoriety, a woman was gang-raped atop a pool table in a tavern in New Bedford, Massachusetts, called Big Dan’s. Four men were later convicted of the attack.
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 [but never all] of the country's mineworkers.
1987 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
1990 – Ed Yielding and Joseph T. Vida set the transcontinental speed record flying a SR-71 Blackbird from Los Angeles to Virginia in 64 minutes, averaging 2,124 mph.
1992 – The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
2008 – A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Contemporary Western
Chrodegang
Colette
Fridolin
Kyneburga, Kyneswide and Tibba
Marcian of Tortona
Olegarius
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
William W. Mayo and Charles Frederick Menninger (Episcopal Church (USA))
Eastern Orthodox
March 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Monk-martyrs Conon, and his son Conon, of Iconium (270-275)
Martyrs Cyriacus and 12 companions, who suffered under Diocletian in Augsburg (ca. 304)
Martyr Euphrosynus, in boiling water
Monk-martyr Maximus, by stoning
Uncovering of the Precious Cross and the Precious Nails by the Empress St Helena
in Jerusalem (326)
Venerable Arcadius, monk of Cyprus (361), and his disciples Julian and Euboulos
Saint Arkadios, Archbishop of Cyprus
Venerable Hesychius the Wonderworker
The holy 42 Martyrs of Amorium (in Phrygia), including:
Passion-bearers Constantine, Aetius, Theophilus, Theodore, Melissenus,
Callistus, Basoes, and others, in Samarra (845)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Marcian of Tortona (120)
Saint Patrick of Avernia (ca. 307)
Saint Basil of Bologna, Bishop of Bologna in Italy for twenty years, 315-335 (335)
Saint Fridolin of Säckingen, abbot, Enlightener of the Upper Rhine (5th-6th c.)
Saints Kyneburga, Kyneswide and Tibba, female members of the Mercian royal
family in 7th century England (ca. 680)
Saint Baldred of Tyninghame (Balther), a priest in Lindisfarne in England who
became a hermit at Tyningham on the Scottish border (756)
Saint Chrodegang of Metz, Bishop of Metz in the east of France, he took part
in several Councils (766)
Saint Bilfrid (Billfrith), a hermit at Lindisfarne and an expert goldsmith, who bound
in gold the Lindisfarne Gospels, written and illuminated by Bishop Edfrith (8th c.)
Saint Cathróe of Metz (Cadroe, Cadroel) (976)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Job (Joshua in schema) of Anzersk Island (Solovki) (1720)
Other commemorations
Translation to Vladimir (1230) of the relics of Martyr Abraham of the BulgarsTraditional Western
Contemporary Western
Chrodegang
Colette
Fridolin
Kyneburga, Kyneswide and Tibba
Marcian of Tortona
Olegarius
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
William W. Mayo and Charles Frederick Menninger (Episcopal Church (USA))
Eastern Orthodox
March 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Monk-martyrs Conon, and his son Conon, of Iconium (270-275)
Martyrs Cyriacus and 12 companions, who suffered under Diocletian in Augsburg (ca. 304)
Martyr Euphrosynus, in boiling water
Monk-martyr Maximus, by stoning
Uncovering of the Precious Cross and the Precious Nails by the Empress St Helena
in Jerusalem (326)
Venerable Arcadius, monk of Cyprus (361), and his disciples Julian and Euboulos
Saint Arkadios, Archbishop of Cyprus
Venerable Hesychius the Wonderworker
The holy 42 Martyrs of Amorium (in Phrygia), including:
Passion-bearers Constantine, Aetius, Theophilus, Theodore, Melissenus,
Callistus, Basoes, and others, in Samarra (845)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Marcian of Tortona (120)
Saint Patrick of Avernia (ca. 307)
Saint Basil of Bologna, Bishop of Bologna in Italy for twenty years, 315-335 (335)
Saint Fridolin of Säckingen, abbot, Enlightener of the Upper Rhine (5th-6th c.)
Saints Kyneburga, Kyneswide and Tibba, female members of the Mercian royal
family in 7th century England (ca. 680)
Saint Baldred of Tyninghame (Balther), a priest in Lindisfarne in England who
became a hermit at Tyningham on the Scottish border (756)
Saint Chrodegang of Metz, Bishop of Metz in the east of France, he took part
in several Councils (766)
Saint Bilfrid (Billfrith), a hermit at Lindisfarne and an expert goldsmith, who bound
in gold the Lindisfarne Gospels, written and illuminated by Bishop Edfrith (8th c.)
Saint Cathróe of Metz (Cadroe, Cadroel) (976)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Job (Joshua in schema) of Anzersk Island (Solovki) (1720)
Other commemorations
on the Volga (1229)
Repose of Helen Kontzevitch, Church writer (1989)
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