On This Day in History for March 6
Events in History
- 1079 Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Chajjam completes Jalali-calendar
- 1323 Treaty of Paris - Flemish relinquish claims over the County of Zeeland
- 1447 Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V
- 1454 Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to Casimir IV of Poland, and the Polish king agrees 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 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam
- 1579 Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht
- 1590 Dutch and English army led by Maurice of Nassau captures heavily protected city of Breda using a small assault force hidden in a peat barge
- More Events in History
Michelangelo
Casimir Pulaski
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
George Dayton
Alan Greenspan
Valentina TereshkovaWeddings in History
- 1898 Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (25) weds political activist and poet Alice Ruth Moore (22) in New York
- 1928 Industrialist Oskar Schindler (19) weds Emilie Schindler (20) in Svitavy, Czech Republic
More Weddings & Divorces in History
Henry Pelham
Davy Crockett
Louisa May Alcott
Gottlieb Daimler
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
Georgia O’KeeffeMarch in History
Mass Murderer Stalin Goes to His Grave
Countless millions of Russians were killed by the hand of Joseph Stalin, one of the most feared and brutal dictators of all time. He himself died on this day.
March 5, 1953
Birdseye – the Father of Frozen Food
Indigenous Canadians showed Clarence Birdseye how they preserved fish they had caught. Intrigued, he saw the possibilities and the frozen food industry was born.
March 6, 1930
Battle of the Alamo
The Fall of the Alamo by Robert Jenkins Onderdonk shows folk hero Davy Crockett shortly before being killed by Mexican soldiers
March 6, 1836
The Case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court
First edition of The Case of Dred Scott in the US Supreme Court decision
March 6, 1857