On This Day
6 March
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1508 Humayun, second Mughal ruler of India, who was more an adventurer than a consolidator of his empire, was born in Kabul, Afghanistan.
- 1775 Treaty of Surat was signed between Raghunathrao, a claimant to the throne of the Peshwa, and the British East India Company at Bombay (now Mumbai), which brought an end to the first Anglo-Maratha War.
- 1961 The Economic Times, Indian English-language business-focused daily newspaper, started publication. It is owned by The Times Group.
- 1967 Upon her father's death, Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva approaches the US Embassy in New Delhi, India, and asks for political asylum.
- 1971 Test debut of Sunil Gavaskar, India vs West Indies at Port-of-Spain.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1475 Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo—who exerted an unparalleled influence on Western sculpture, painting, and architecture and whose works rank among the most famous in existence—was born in the Republic of Florence.
- 1835 Volume One of Thomas Carlyle's famous work The French Revolution: A History is accidentally burnt by a maid using it as fire starter before its publication. Carlyle re-writes it.
- 1869 Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table of the elements to the Russian Chemical Society.
- 1924 The Egyptian government opened the mummy case of King Tutankhamen, ruler of Egypt in the 14th century BC, whose burial chamber had been discovered in 1922 by renowned British archaeologist Howard Carter.
- 1928 Latin American author Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia.
- 1937 Valentina Tereshkova, former Soviet cosmonaut who became the first woman to travel into space, was born in Bol'shoe Maslennikovo, Russia.
- 1957 The people of Ghana celebrated the end of colonial rule.
- 1964 Boxing legend Cassius Clay adopts Islam and changes his name to "Muhammad Ali", calling his former title a "slave name".
- 1992 Michelangelo, a boot sector computer virus discovered in February 1991, got activated.
- 1997 Picasso's painting Tête de Femme is stolen from a London gallery, and is recovered a week later.
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