Year 1840
The Baltimore College of Dental Surgery became the first dental college.
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6 March: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 6 March.
Observances & Special Days
Independence Day: Ghana
Alamo Day: Texas
Year 1869
Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
Year 1902
Real Madrid Football Club was founded.
Year 1953
'Shyamchi Aai,' Directed by noted marathi playwrighter Acharya Atre, is released.
Year 1957
Ghana Independence Day.
Year 1971
Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar made his Test debut against the West Indies.
Year 1992
Michelangelo computer virus began to spread.
Year 1999
President KR Narayan inaugurated the Millennium Celebrations of the world-famous Khajuraho Temple Group.
Year 2000
Supreme Court ruled that the amount received as City Subsistence Allowance (CCA), Dearness Allowance (DA), and Housing Allowance (HRA) is taxable.
Year 2005
India’s first nuclear power plant was launched at Tarapur.
Born 1475
Michelangelo, an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.
Born 1508
Humayun, the second emperor of the Mughal Empire.
Born 1812
Ishwar Chandra Gupta, a famous Indian Bengali poet, and writer.
Born 1915
Mohammed Burhanuddin, the 52nd Dai al-Mutlaq of Dawoodi Bohras.
Born 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.
Born 1939
Adam Osborne, Thai-Indian engineer and businessman, founded the Osborne Computer Corporation (d. 2003)
Born 1957
Ashol Patel, Indian cricket player was born.
Born 1965
Devaki Pandit, an Indian classical singer.
Died 1947
Sir Halford Mackinder, an English geographer, academic, and politician.
Died 1973
Pearl S. Buck, an American writer, and novelist.
Died 1982
Ayn Rand, a Russian-American writer, and philosopher.
Died 1992
Ranjit Desai, a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.
Died 2005
Hans Bethe, a German-American nuclear physicist.
Died 2015
Ram Sundar Das, an Indian politician and a former Chief Minister of Bihar state.