Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 6
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This is a list of selected March 6 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.March 6: Independence Day in Ghana (1957)
- 1836 – Texas Revolution: Mexican forces captured the Alamo after a 13-day siege.
- 1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first Periodic Table of Elements to the Russian Chemical Society.
- 1899 – The German chemical and pharmaceutical company Bayer registered Aspirin as a trademark.
- 1945 – Petru Groza (pictured) of the Ploughmen's Front, a party closely associated with the Communists, became Prime Minister of Romania.
- 1964 – In a radio broadcast, Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad announced that American boxer Cassius Clay would change his name to Muhammad Ali, symbolizing his new identity as a member of the religious, social and political organization.
- 1988 – In Operation Flavius, the British Special Air Service killed Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers Daniel McCann, Seán Savage and Mairéad Farrell while they were conspiring to bomb a parade of British military bands in Gibraltar.
