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.
1558: Francisco Fernandes first used tobacco to make smoke.
1851: Establishment of the Geological Survey of In
1931: The Gandhi–Irwin Pact: a political agreement signed by Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India, on this day, before the Second Round Table Conference in London.
1933: A severe recession caused US President Franklin D. Roosevelt to close all banks for a few days and ban financial transactions.
1966: A bill passed to take over a palace of King Wadiyar of Mysore in Bangalore.
1998: Sindhurakshak submarine, brought from Russia, arrived in Mumbai.
2000: The Kaiga nuclear power plant in Karnataka was dedicated to the country by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Famous birthdays and birth anniversaries – March 5
1512: Gerardus Mercator, a 16th-century geographer, cosmographer, and cartographer.
1911: Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee, the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Air Force.
1913: Gangubai Hangal, an Indian singer of Hindustani classical music.
1916: Biju Patnaik, an Indian politician, aviator, and businessman.
1958: M. Nassar, an Indian film actor.
1963: Saurabh Shukla, an Indian film, theatre, and television actor.
Famous people died– March 5.
1827: Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power.
1849: Mary Lyon, an American pioneer in women’s education.
1953: Joseph Stalin, Former Premier of the Soviet Union.
1989: Prithvi Singh Azad, an Indian independence activist, revolutionary, and one of the founder members of the Ghadar Party.
1995: Jalal Agha, an Indian actor, and director.
2016: Raymond Tomlinson, a pioneering American computer programmer who implemented the first email program.
1575: Mughal emperor Akbar defeated the Bengal army in the battle of Tukaroi.
1845: Florida became the 27th state of the United States.
1865: Establishment of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC)
1923: Publication of the first issue of Time Magazine.
1938: Discovery of crude oil in Saudi Arabia.
1939: Mahatma Gandhi went on a hunger strike in Mumbai against the dictatorial rule of the British government.
1943: World War II, 143 killed in a stampede at an anti-bomb shelter in London.
1973: Presidential Rule in the Indian state of Odisha.
1986: Australia became fully independent of the United Kingdom under the 1986 Australia Act.
1994: A Grammy Award awarded to Pandit Vishwamohan Bhat, a guitarist from Jaipur.
2005: Steve Fawcett completed his orbit in 67 hours on a Global Fire aircraft alone and without refueling.
Famous Birthdays– 3rd March.
1839: Jamsetji Tata, an Indian Industrialist and founder of Tata Group.
1845: Georg Cantor, a German mathematician.
1847: Alexander Graham Bell, a Scottish-born inventor, scientist, engineer, and inventor of the practical telephone.
1926: Ravi Shankar Sharma, an Indian music director.
1931: Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan, an Indian classical musician.
1967: Shankar Mahadevan, an Indian singer, and composer.
1970: Inzamam-ul-Haq, is a Pakistani cricket coach and former Pakistani cricketer.
1987: Shraddha Kapoor, an Indian actress, and singer.
Death Anniversaries– March 3
1644: Guru Hargobind, the sixth of ten Gurus of the Sikh religion.
1707: Aurangzeb, the sixth Mughal emperor.
1919: Hari Narayan Apte, a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.
1924: Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States.
1982: Firaq Gorakhpuri, an Urdu poet from India.
1995: Nikhil Jyoti Ghosh, an Indian musician.
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Historical Events on March 2
1855, 2nd March: Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.
1903, 2nd March: The world’s first all-female Martha Washington Hotel opened in New York, USA.
1919, 2nd March: The first meeting of the International Marxist Party took place in Moscow.
1930, 2nd March: Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar staged a satyagraha at the Kala Ram Temple in Nashik to give access to all.
1952, 2nd March: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru inaugurated a fertilizer factory at Sindri.
1956, 2nd March: Morocco gained independence from France.
1978, 2nd March: Charlie Chaplin’s coffin was stolen from a cemetery in Switzerland.
199, 2nd March 2: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan joined the United Nations.
1995, 2nd March: Incorporation of Yahoo.
2001, 2nd March: The radical Taliban decapitated about 6,000 ancient and invaluable Buddha statues near the central Afghan city of Bamiyan and began destroying them with cannons and tanks.
Famous Birthdays and birth Anniversaries – 2nd March.
1902: Surya Narayan Vyas, an Indian astrologer, and diviner from Ujjain.
1931: Mikhail Gorbachev, a Russian and former Soviet politician. The eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union.
1933: Anandji Virji Shah, an Indian music director. Together with his brother, he formed the Kalyanji-Anandji duo.
1968: Daniel Craig, an English actor.
1977: Andrew Strauss, an English cricket administrator, and former player.
1990: Tiger Shroff, an Indian actor.
Famous people died – March 2.
1546: Mirabai, a 16th-century Hindu mystic poet, and devotee of Lord Krishna.
1700: Rajaram Bhosle I, the younger son of Maratha ruler Shivaji.
1930: D. H. Lawrence, an English writer, and poet.
1949: Sarojini Naidu, an Indian political activist, and poet.
1986: Kashinath Ghanekar, an Indian stage, and film actor.
