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Events on the 6th of March in history

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06 Mar 2012 The Roman Emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the Emperor.
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06 Mar 0845 Execution of the 42 Martyrs of Amorium at Samarra
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06 Mar 0961 Byzantine conquest of Chandax by Nikephoros Phokas, end of the Emirate of Crete
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06 Mar 1079 Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Chajjam completes Jalali-calendar
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06 Mar 1204 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.
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06 Mar 1205 Aken, [Philips van Zwaben], crowned Roman-Catholic German King
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06 Mar 1323 Treaty of Paris
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06 Mar 1447 Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V
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06 Mar 1454 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.
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06 Mar 1460 Treaty of Alcacovas-Portugal gives Castile Canary Is for W Africa
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06 Mar 1521 Magellan discovers Guam
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06 Mar 1521 Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
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06 Mar 1579 Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht
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06 Mar 1590 Earl Mauritius conquerors Breda "turfschip of Breda"
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06 Mar 1628 Emperor Ferdinand II delegates Restitutie-edict
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06 Mar 1646 Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent
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06 Mar 1664 King Louis XIV and Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant
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06 Mar 1665 Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing
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06 Mar 1665 The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
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06 Mar 1714 Peace of Rastatt - French Emperor Charles VI of Habsburg
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06 Mar 1728 Spain and England sign (1st) Convention of Pardo
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06 Mar 1775 1st Negro Mason in US initiated, Boston
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06 Mar 1788 The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
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06 Mar 1808 1st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard
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06 Mar 1810 Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US
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06 Mar 1816 Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany
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06 Mar 1820 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.
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06 Mar 1831 Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point milt academy
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06 Mar 1834 Toronto incorporated with William Lyon Mackenzie as its 1st mayor
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06 Mar 1834 York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
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06 Mar 1836 3,000 Mexicans beat 182 Texans at the Alamo, after 13 day fight
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06 Mar 1836 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.
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06 Mar 1855 Gustave Flaubert writes goodbye to Louise Colet
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06 Mar 1857 Dred Scott Decision: Supreme Court rules slaves cannot be citizens
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06 Mar 1857 The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
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06 Mar 1861 Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army
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06 Mar 1862 Battle of Pea Ridge, AR (Elkhorn Tavern)
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06 Mar 1865 Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida
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06 Mar 1865 President Lincolns 2nd Inaugural Ball
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06 Mar 1869 Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
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06 Mar 1882 Monarch Milan Obrenovic of Serbia crowns himself King
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06 Mar 1882 The Serbian kingdom is re-founded.
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06 Mar 1886 1st US alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
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06 Mar 1896 1st auto in Detroit, Charles B King rides his "Horseless Carriage"
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06 Mar 1899 "Asprin" patented by Felix Hoffmann
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06 Mar 1899 Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
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06 Mar 1902 Real Madrid C.F. is founded.
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06 Mar 1906 Cubs sign 3rd baseman Harry Steinfeldt to complete Tinker-Evers-Chance
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06 Mar 1906 Heavy storm bursts dike flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands
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06 Mar 1906 Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Soc of Civil Engineers
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06 Mar 1912 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.
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06 Mar 1915 Greek King Constantine I fires Premier Venizelos
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06 Mar 1918 US naval boat "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle
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06 Mar 1919 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens beat Ottawa Senators, 3 games to 1 with 1 tie
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06 Mar 1921 Police in Sunbury Penn issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee
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06 Mar 1921 Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
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06 Mar 1922 Babe Ruth signs 3 years at $52,000 a year New York Yankee contract
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06 Mar 1923 Cards announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms
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06 Mar 1924 British Labour government cuts military budget
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06 Mar 1926 China asks for a seat in the Security council
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06 Mar 1929 Turkey and Bulgaria sign friendship treaty
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06 Mar 1930 International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern
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06 Mar 1933 FDR declares a nationwide bank holiday
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06 Mar 1933 Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk)
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06 Mar 1935 Frank Bartell (Czech), cycles record 80.584 mph in LA
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06 Mar 1936 Belgium ends Locarno-pact
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06 Mar 1940 1st US telecast from an airplane, New York City
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06 Mar 1943 Battle at Medenine, North-Africa: Rommels assault attack
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06 Mar 1943 Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers
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06 Mar 1943 Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in the The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.
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06 Mar 1944 USAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin
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06 Mar 1945 117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm
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06 Mar 1945 Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio
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06 Mar 1945 Erich Honnecker and Erich Hanke flee Nazis
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06 Mar 1945 World War II: Cologne is captured by American Troops.
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06 Mar 1946 France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation
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06 Mar 1946 Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
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06 Mar 1947 XB-45, 1st US 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc, California
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06 Mar 1950 Silly Putty invented
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06 Mar 1951 Belgium extends conscription to 24 months
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06 Mar 1951 The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
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06 Mar 1953 Malenkov becomes Chairman of the USSR
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06 Mar 1953 Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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06 Mar 1955 Jackie Pung wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
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06 Mar 1957 Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from the UK
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06 Mar 1957 Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British
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06 Mar 1959 11st Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr
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06 Mar 1959 Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles)
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06 Mar 1961 1st London minicabs introduced
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06 Mar 1961 Dutch guilder revalued 4.74%
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06 Mar 1962 St. Louis vote to build a new downtown stadium for the Cardinals
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06 Mar 1962 US promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression
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06 Mar 1962 Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 begins on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States.
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06 Mar 1964 Constantine succeeds Paul I as King of Greece
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06 Mar 1964 Elijah Muhammad renames Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali
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06 Mar 1964 Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
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06 Mar 1964 Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
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06 Mar 1965 "How to Succeed in Business" closes at 46th St. NYC after 1415 performances
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06 Mar 1965 1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford
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06 Mar 1965 Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
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06 Mar 1967 2nd Academy of Country Music Awards
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06 Mar 1967 Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison
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06 Mar 1967 Muhammad Ali is order by selective service to be inducted
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06 Mar 1967 WACS TV channel 25 in Dawson, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting
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06 Mar 1967 Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
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06 Mar 1968 Three rebels are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.
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06 Mar 1968 The first of the East L.A. walkouts take place at several high schools.
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06 Mar 1970 Beatles release "Let it Be" in the UK
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06 Mar 1970 An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
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06 Mar 1972 Keswick to Penrith railway officially closes
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06 Mar 1973 In an exhibition game with the Pirates, Twins Larry Hisle becomes the 1st designated hitter (he hits 2 HRs & knocks in 7 RBIs)
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06 Mar 1974 "Over Here" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 341 performances
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06 Mar 1974 An Italian loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo
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06 Mar 1975 Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
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06 Mar 1975 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.
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06 Mar 1976 Ice Dance Championship at Gothenburg won by Pakhomova and Gorshkov (URS)
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06 Mar 1976 Ice Pairs Championship at Gothenburg won by Rodnina and Zaitsev (URS)
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06 Mar 1976 Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champ in Gothenburg won by Dorothy Hamill
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06 Mar 1978 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot and crippled by a sniper in Georgia
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06 Mar 1980 Emmy 7th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 1st time
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06 Mar 1980 French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman Novelist (Marguerita Youcenar)
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06 Mar 1980 Princess Theater (Latin Quarter, Cotton Club) opens at 200 W 48th, New York City
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06 Mar 1981 Soyuz 39 returns to Earth
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06 Mar 1981 Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of "CBS Evening News"
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06 Mar 1981 Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champ in Hartford won by Denise Biellmann
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06 Mar 1981 After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
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06 Mar 1982 NBA highest scoring game: San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166 (3 OT)
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06 Mar 1982 Susan Birmingham makes loudest recorded human shout (120 dB)
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06 Mar 1983 "On Your Toes" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 505 performances
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06 Mar 1983 Anne-Marie Palli wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic
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06 Mar 1983 New Bedford, Mass woman charges she was gang-raped atop a pool table
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06 Mar 1983 US Football League begins its 1st season
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06 Mar 1983 The first United States Football League game is played.
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06 Mar 1985 Enos Slaughter and Arky Vaughan are elected to baseball Hall of Fame
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06 Mar 1985 Mike Tyson KOs Hector Mercedes in 1 round in his 1st pro fight
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06 Mar 1985 Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "King & I"
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06 Mar 1987 6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador, kills 100
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06 Mar 1987 Belgium ferry boat "Herald of Free Enterprise" capsizes / sinks; 192 die
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06 Mar 1987 The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
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06 Mar 1988 18th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,200,000
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06 Mar 1988 3 IRA suspects were shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers
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06 Mar 1988 Julie Krone becomes winningest female jockey (1205 victories)
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06 Mar 1988 Orville Moodey shoots 63 at Seniors golf tournament
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06 Mar 1988 Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
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06 Mar 1989 Yanks beat Mets 6-4 in exhibition game (1st meeting since 1985)
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06 Mar 1990 SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17
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06 Mar 1990 Ed Yielding and Joseph T. Vida set the transcontinental speed record flying a SR-71 Blackbird from Los Angeles to Virginia in 64 minutes, averaging 2,124 mph.
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06 Mar 1992 Yankee pitcher Pascual Perez suspended for 1 year due to cocaine
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06 Mar 1992 The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
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06 Mar 1994 Colin Jackson runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.30 seconds)
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06 Mar 1994 United Arab Emirates beat Kenya by 2 wickets to win ICC Trophy
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06 Mar 1995 9th American Comedy Award: Rodney Dangerfield
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06 Mar 1995 American Express Travel begins charging for domestic air tickets
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06 Mar 1995 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Phoenix AZ on KEDJ 106.3 / 100.3 FM
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06 Mar 1995 US 4.5 cents equals 156.30 Dutch guilder (record)
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06 Mar 1996 10th American Comedy Award
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06 Mar 1996 2nd Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
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06 Mar 1998 1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace
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06 Mar 1998 Matt Beck, an angry lottery accountant kills 4 at Conn state lottery
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06 Mar 2008 A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.
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