25621 | March 6 | Death | 2015 – Enrique "Coco" Vicéns, Puerto Rican basketball player and politician (b. 1926) |
25622 | March 6 | Holiday and observance | Christian feast day:ChrodegangColetteFridolinKyneburga, Kyneswide and TibbaMarcian of TortonaWilliam W. Mayo and Charles Frederick Menninger (Episcopal Church (USA))OlegariusMarch 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) |
25623 | March 6 | Holiday and observance | European Day of the Righteous, commemorates those who have stood up against crimes against humanity and totalitarism with their own moral responsibility. ( Europe) |
25624 | March 6 | Holiday and observance | Foundation Day (Norfolk Island), the founding of Norfolk Island in 1788. |
25625 | March 6 | Holiday and observance | Independence Day (Ghana), celebrates the independence of Ghana from the United Kingdom in 1957. |
25626 | March 7 | Event | 161 – Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. |
25627 | March 7 | Event | 238 – Roman subjects in the province of Africa revolt against Maximinus Thrax and elect Gordian I as emperor. |
25628 | March 7 | Event | 321 – Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire. |
25629 | March 7 | Event | 1277 – Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses. |
25630 | March 7 | Event | 1573 – 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. |
25631 | March 7 | Event | 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives. |
25632 | March 7 | Event | 1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne. |
25633 | March 7 | Event | 1827 – Brazilian marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina. |
25634 | March 7 | Event | 1827 – Shrigley abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand. |
25635 | March 7 | Event | 1850 – Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war. |
25636 | March 7 | Event | 1862 – American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas. |
25637 | March 7 | Event | 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone". |
25638 | March 7 | Event | 1900 – The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore. |
25639 | March 7 | Event | 1902 – 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. |
25640 | March 7 | Event | 1912 – Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911. |
25641 | March 7 | Event | 1914 – Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign as King. |
25642 | March 7 | Event | 1936 – Prelude to World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland. |
25643 | March 7 | Event | 1945 – World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine river at Remagen. |
25644 | March 7 | Event | 1950 – Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy. |
25645 | March 7 | Event | 1951 – Korean War: Operation Ripper – United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces. |
25646 | March 7 | Event | 1965 – Bloody Sunday: a group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama. |
25647 | March 7 | Event | 1968 – 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. |
25648 | March 7 | Event | 1971 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman delivers his historic speech at Suhrawardy Udyan. |
25649 | March 7 | Event | 1985 – The song "We Are the World" receives its international release. |
25650 | March 7 | Event | 1986 – Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor. |