History Events on March 06

Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

#Georgy_Malenkov

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 of the country's miners.

#Brampton_Bierlow

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

#Ghana

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

#Rhodesia

Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.

#Thomas_Playford_IV

The Serbian kingdom is re-founded.

#Kingdom_of_Serbia

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

#Nation_of_Islam

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.

#Texas_Revolution

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

#Operation_Spring_Awakening

International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern.

#International_Unemployment_Day

Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.

#Italo-Turkish_War

Constantine II becomes King of Greece.

#Constantine_II_of_Greece

The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193.

#MS_Herald_of_Free_Enterprise

Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.

#Bayer

Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.

#Dmitri_Mendeleev

Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.

#Norman_Rockwell

Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.

#Ho_Chi_Minh

World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, ends with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion, the bulk of the garrison of the town of Grevena, leading to its liberation a fortnight later.

#Battle_of_Fardykambos

The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.

#First_Fleet

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.

#Siege_of_Château_Gaillard

The Farewell Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

#Farewell_Sermon

Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.

#Portuguese_Communist_Party

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.

#Missouri_Compromise

Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.

#Joseph_Stalin

Cold War: The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.

#Cold_War

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

#Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States

Air Algérie Flight 6289 crashes at the Aguenar - Hadj Bey Akhamok Airport in Tamanrasset, Algeria, killing 102 out of the 103 people on board.

#Air_Algérie_Flight_6289

World War II: Cologne is captured by American troops.

#World_War_II

York, Upper Canada, is incorporated as Toronto.

#York,_Upper_Canada

Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.

#Great_Depression

The first United States Football League games are played.

#United_States_Football_League

The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world's longest-running scientific journal.

#Royal_Society

Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.

#Ferdinand_Magellan

A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.

The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.

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

Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.

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.

An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.

Real Madrid CF is founded.

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.

Treaty of Paris of 1323 is signed.

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

Execution of the 42 Martyrs of Amorium at Samarra.

The Roman Emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor.