Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
25621March 6Death2015 – Enrique "Coco" Vicéns, Puerto Rican basketball player and politician (b. 1926)
25622March 6Holiday and observanceChristian feast day:ChrodegangColetteFridolinKyneburga, Kyneswide and TibbaMarcian of TortonaWilliam W. Mayo and Charles Frederick Menninger (Episcopal Church (USA))OlegariusMarch 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
25623March 6Holiday and observanceEuropean Day of the Righteous, commemorates those who have stood up against crimes against humanity and totalitarism with their own moral responsibility. ( Europe)
25624March 6Holiday and observanceFoundation Day (Norfolk Island), the founding of Norfolk Island in 1788.
25625March 6Holiday and observanceIndependence Day (Ghana), celebrates the independence of Ghana from the United Kingdom in 1957.
25626March 7Event161 – Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
25627March 7Event238 – Roman subjects in the province of Africa revolt against Maximinus Thrax and elect Gordian I as emperor.
25628March 7Event321 – Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
25629March 7Event1277 – Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.
25630March 7Event1573 – A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–73) and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands.
25631March 7Event1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
25632March 7Event1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
25633March 7Event1827 – Brazilian marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.
25634March 7Event1827 – Shrigley abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
25635March 7Event1850 – Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
25636March 7Event1862 – American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
25637March 7Event1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
25638March 7Event1900 – The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
25639March 7Event1902 – Second Boer War: In the Battle of Tweebosch, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey inflicts the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war.
25640March 7Event1912 – Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
25641March 7Event1914 – Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign as King.
25642March 7Event1936 – Prelude to World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
25643March 7Event1945 – World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine river at Remagen.
25644March 7Event1950 – Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
25645March 7Event1951 – Korean War: Operation Ripper – United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
25646March 7Event1965 – Bloody Sunday: a group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
25647March 7Event1968 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho.
25648March 7Event1971 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman delivers his historic speech at Suhrawardy Udyan.
25649March 7Event1985 – The song "We Are the World" receives its international release.
25650March 7Event1986 – Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.

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