History of the Day for:
March 6
- 1475: Italian painter, sculptor and architect Michelangelo Buonarotti was born.
- 1834: The city of Toronto was incorporated with William Lyon Mackenzie as its first mayor.
- 1836: The siege of the Alamo ended when Mexican troops under General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna captured the mission fort garrisoned by Davey Crockett and 154 Texans.
- 1853: Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi's opera "La Traviata" was performed for the first time, in Venice.
- 1857: The Dred Scott decision was handed down by the Supreme Court, saying that black Americans were not full citizens.
- 1930: Prepackaged frozen food produced by the company set up by Clarence Birdseye went on sale for the first time in 10 stores in Springfield, Mass.
- 1933: A nationwide bank holiday declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt went into effect.
- 1945: Communist-dominated government under Petru Groza assumes power in Romania.
- 1946: Cologne is captured by American Troops.
- 1946: Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
- 1951: The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
- 1972: Jack Nicklaus eclipsed Arnold Palmer's all-time money earning total by winning the Doral Eastern Open.
- 1981: After 19 years on the job, Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time as principal anchorman of "The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite."
- 1983: The United States Football League began its first season.
- 1987: The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
- 1988: Three Provisional Irish Republican Army terrorists are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
- 1992: Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
- 2006: South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signs legislation banning most abortions in the state.
- 2007: Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice.