WHAT HAPPENED ON 6. MARCH
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Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British (6. March 1957)

Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 begins on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States. (6. March 1962)

Nation of Islam's Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali. (6. March 1964)

Constantine II becomes King of Greece. (6. March 1964)

Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office. (6. March 1965)

Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States. (6. March 1967)

The first of the East L.A. walkouts take place at several high schools. (6. March 1968)

Three black males are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation. (6. March 1968)

An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three. (6. March 1970)

For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory. (6. March 1975)

Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute. (6. March 1975)

After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time. (6. March 1981)

The first United States Football League game is played. (6. March 1983)

The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193. (6. March 1987)

Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius. (6. March 1988)

Ed Yielding and Joseph T. Vida set the transcontinental speed record flying a SR-71 Blackbird from Los Angeles to Virginia in 64 minutes, averaging 2,124 mph. (6. March 1990)

The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers. (6. March 1992)

A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem. (6. March 2008)