Historical Events on March 6

1840, 6th March: The Baltimore College of Dental Surgery became the first dental college.

1869, 6th March: Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.

1902, 6th March: Real Madrid Football Club was founded.

1957, 6th March: Ghana Independence Day.

1971, 6th March: Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar made his Test debut against the West Indies.

1992, 6th March: Michelangelo computer virus began to spread.

1999, 6th March: President KR Narayan inaugurated the Millennium Celebrations of the world-famous Khajuraho Temple Group.

2000, 6th March: Supreme Court ruled that the amount received as City Subsistence Allowance (CCA), Dearness Allowance (DA), and Housing Allowance (HRA) is taxable.

2005, 6th March: India’s first nuclear power plant was launched at Tarapur.

Famous birthdays and birth– 6th March.

1475: Michelangelo, an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.

1508: Humayun, the second emperor of the Mughal Empire.

1812: Ishwar Chandra Gupta, a famous Indian Bengali poet, and writer.

1915: Mohammed Burhanuddin, the 52nd Dai al-Mutlaq of Dawoodi Bohras.

1937: Valentina Tereshkova, a member of the Russian State Duma, engineer, and former cosmonaut. She is the first and youngest woman to have flown in space with a solo mission.

1965: Devaki Pandit, an Indian classical singer.

Famous people died– March 6.

1947: Sir Halford Mackinder, an English geographer, academic, and politician.

1973: Pearl S. Buck, an American writer, and novelist.

1982: Ayn Rand, a Russian-American writer, and philosopher.

1992: Ranjit Desai, a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.

2005: Hans Bethe, a German-American nuclear physicist.

2015: Ram Sundar Das, an Indian politician and a former Chief Minister of Bihar state.