Historical Events on March 6.

1.  1840, 6th March: The Baltimore College of Dental Surgery became the first dental college.

2.  1869, 6th March: Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.

3.  1902, 6th March: Real Madrid Football Club was founded.

4.  1957, 6th March: Ghana Independence Day.

5.  1971, 6th March: Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar made his Test debut against the West Indies.

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

7.  1999, 6th March: President KR Narayan inaugurated the Millennium Celebrations of the world-famous Khajuraho Temple Group.

8.  2000, 6th March: Supreme Court ruled that the amount received as City Subsistence Allowance (CCA), Dearness Allowance (DA), and Housing Allowance (HRA) is taxable.

9.  2005, 6th March: India’s first nuclear power plant was launched at Tarapur.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on March 6.

1.  1475: Michelangelo, an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.

2.  1508: Humayun, the second emperor of the Mughal Empire.

3.  1812: Ishwar Chandra Gupta, a famous Indian Bengali poet, and writer.

4.  1915: Mohammed Burhanuddin, the 52nd Dai al-Mutlaq of Dawoodi Bohras.

5.  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.

6.  1965: Devaki Pandit, an Indian classical singer.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on March 6.

1.  1947: Sir Halford Mackinder, an English geographer, academic, and politician.

2.  1973: Pearl S. Buck, an American writer, and novelist.

3.  1982: Ayn Rand, a Russian-American writer, and philosopher.

4.  1992: Ranjit Desai, a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.

5.  2005: Hans Bethe, a German-American nuclear physicist.

6.  2015: Ram Sundar Das, an Indian politician and a former Chief Minister of Bihar state.

6-March-1508

Emperor Humayun, son of Babar, was born in Kabul.

6-March-1775

Raghunath Rao signed treaty of Surat with British ending the first Anglo-Maratha War.

6-March-1915

Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore met for the first time at Shantiniketan.

6-March-1928

Nilkanth Ramanbhai Mahipatrao, famous Gujrati litterateur, critic, dramatist and social reformer, died.

6-March-1947

Churchill opposes troop withdrawal from India at London.

6-March-1961

India's first Financial daily 'The Economic Times' started publication from Bombay.

6-March-1962

Ambika Chakrovorty, great revolutionary and warrior, passed away.

6-March-1971

Test debut of Sunil Gavaskar vs West Indies at Port-of-Spain.

6-March-1990

India wins Indira Gandhi Gold Cup hockey tournament.

6-March-1991

Chandrasekhar resigns as PM.

6-March-1995

Arun Tamhankar, great journalist, died.

6-March-1997

Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC) inaugurated in Mauritius.

6-March-1998

A Congress(I) Ministry headed by Virbhadra Singh is sworn in at Himachal Pradesh.

6-March-2000

India and China begin the first ever bilateral security dialogue in Beijing on global and regional issues of mutual interest.