WHAT HAPPENED ON 6. MARCH
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The Roman Emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the Emperor. (6. March 12. BC)

Byzantine conquest of Chandax by Nikephoros Phokas, end of the Emirate of Crete (6. March 961)

Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights. (6. March 1454)

Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam. (6. March 1521)

The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement. (6. March 1788)

The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free. (6. March 1820)

York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto. (6. March 1834)

Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured. (6. March 1836)

The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case. (6. March 1857)

Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society. (6. March 1869)

The Serbian kingdom is re-founded. (6. March 1882)

Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark. (6. March 1899)

Real Madrid C.F. was founded. (6. March 1902)

Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International. (6. March 1921)

International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern (6. March 1930)

Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in the The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series. (6. March 1943)

World War II: Cologne is captured by American Troops. (6. March 1945)

Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union. (6. March 1946)

The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins. (6. March 1951)

Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. (6. March 1953)