March 6th, 1708

Born on March 6th, 1708

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 115,000 days old!

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... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on March 6th?

March 6th, 2000

The Marine Parade Community Building, the mural cladding of which is the largest installation art in Singapore, was opened.

March 6th, 1988

The Troubles: In Operation Flavius, the Special Air Service killed three volunteers of the Provisional Irish Republican Army conspiring to bomb a parade of British military bands in Gibraltar.

March 6th, 1987

The ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized while leaving the harbour of Zeebrugge, Belgium, killing 193 people on board.

March 6th, 1953

Following Joseph Stalin's death, Georgy Malenkov succeeded him as Premier of the Soviet Union.

March 6th, 1945

Petru Groza of the Ploughmen's Front became the first prime minister of the Communist Party-dominated government of Romania.

March 6th, 1943

World War II: National Liberation Front forces defeated Italian occupiers in the Battle of Fardykambos, a major sign of the Greek resistance's growth.

March 6th, 1933

The day after the federal election, the Nazi Party banned elected Communist Party of Germany members from taking their seats in the Reichstag.

March 6th, 1930

Organized by the Communist International, hundreds of thousands of people in major cities around the world marched to protest mass unemployment associated with the Great Depression.

March 6th, 1913

First Balkan War: The Greek army captured Bizani Fortress, near Ioannina, from the Ottomans.

March 6th, 1904

Scottish National Antarctic Expedition: Led by William Speirs Bruce (pictured), the Antarctic region of Coats Land was discovered by the Scotia.

March 6th, 1853

Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata premiered at La Fenice in Venice, but the performance was considered so bad that it caused him to revise portions of the opera.

March 6th, 1836

Texas Revolution: Mexican troops captured the Alamo Mission in San Antonio from Texian forces after a 13-day siege.

March 6th, 1447

Tommaso Parentucelli was elected as Pope Nicholas V in Rome.

March 6th, 0845

The Abbasid Caliphate executed 42 Byzantine officials who had been captured in the sack of Amorium of 838 for refusing to convert to Islam.

March 6th, 1836

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.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 6th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on March 6th?

88

Michelangelo

Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475–1564)

*March 6th, 1475, Caprese Michelangelo †February 18th, 1564, Rome

32

Gebby Ristiyani Imawan

Badminton player

*March 6th, 1992, Tangerang

37

Kevin-Prince Boateng

Ghanaian association football player

*March 6th, 1987, West Berlin

87

Gabriel García Márquez

Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)

*March 6th, 1927, Aracataca †April 17th, 2014, Mexico City

32

Kim Astrup Sørensen

Badminton player

*March 6th, 1992, Herning

55

Jintara Poonlarp

Thai female singer

*March 6th, 1969, Kaset Wisai

94

Ejler Bille

Danish artist (1910-2004)

*March 6th, 1910, Odder †May 1st, 2004, Copenhagen

86

George Pocock

Royal Navy admiral (1706-1792)

*March 6th, 1706, Berkshire †April 3rd, 1792, Curzon Street

32

Raphael Beck

German badminton player

*March 6th, 1992, Düsseldorf

66

Jean-Xavier Lefèvre

Swiss-born French clarinettist (1763-1829)

*March 6th, 1763, Lausanne †November 9th, 1829, Paris

78

David Gilmour

English musician, member of Pink Floyd (born 1946)

*March 6th, 1946, Cambridge

27

Teoh Mei Xing

Malaysian badminton player

*March 6th, 1997, Subang Jaya

36

Simon Mignolet

Belgian association football player

*March 6th, 1988, Sint-Truiden

57

Mihai Tudose

Romanian politician

*March 6th, 1967, Brăila

56

Vincent Gale

Actor

*March 6th, 1968, Glasgow

40

Floé Kühnert

German pole vaulter

*March 6th, 1984, Ulm

87

Valentina Tereshkova

Russian cosmonaut and pilot, first woman to have flown in space

*March 6th, 1937, Bolshoye Maslennikovo

64

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Russian composer

*March 6th, 1844, Tikhvin †June 21st, 1908, Lyubensk

65

Tom Arnold

American stand-up comedian and actor (born 1959)

*March 6th, 1959, Ottumwa

30

Nils Politt

German cyclist

*March 6th, 1994, Cologne

Same year
Born in 1708

69

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768

*November 15th, 1708, London †May 11th, 1778, London Borough of Bromley

56

Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor

Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany

*December 8th, 1708, Nancy †August 18th, 1765, Innsbruck

75

Johann Jakob Zeiller

Austrian painter

*July 8th, 1708, Reutte †July 8th, 1783, Reutte

20

Anna Petrovna of Russia

Elder daughter of Emperor Peter I of Russia and Catherine I of Russia

*February 27th, 1708, Moscow †May 4th, 1728, Kiel

59

Daniel Gralath

18th century physicist and mayor of Gdansk

*May 30th, 1708, Gdańsk †July 23rd, 1767, Gdańsk

63

Georg Reutter II

Austrian composer (1708–1772)

*April 6th, 1708, Vienna †March 11th, 1772, Vienna

81

Jean Chastel

French farmer (1708-1789)

*March 31st, 1708, La Besseyre-Saint-Mary †January 1st, 1790, France

80

Paul Egede

Dano-Norwegian theologian

*September 9th, 1708, Kabelvåg †June 6th, 1789, Copenhagen

84

Frans Burman

Dutch theologian, university teacher and writer (1708-1793)

*October 3rd, 1708, Amsterdam †April 10th, 1793, Utrecht

61

Johann Caspar Richter

German merchant (1708-1770)

*September 16th, 1708, Leipzig †August 7th, 1770, Leipzig

41

Moyse Garrigue

(1708-1750)

*September 9th, 1708, Magdeburg †February 1st, 1750, Magdeburg

58

Friedrich Gottfried Houck

German jurist

*August 19th, 1708, Steinfurt †June 28th, 1767, Utrecht

79

Pompeo Batoni

Italian painter 1708-1787

*January 25th, 1708, Lucca †February 4th, 1787, Rome

69

Albrecht von Haller

Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet (1708-1777)

*October 16th, 1708, Bern †December 12th, 1777, Bern

80

Christian Andreas von Cothenius

German botanist (1708-1789)

*February 14th, 1708, Anklam †January 5th, 1789, Berlin

47

Caspar Ruetz

German musicologist

*March 21st, 1708, Wismar †December 21st, 1755, Lübeck

67

Egidio Duni

Italian composer

*February 11th, 1708, Matera †June 11th, 1775, Paris

55

Josef Bonaventura Pitter

Czech Roman Catholic priest

*November 5th, 1708, Třebechovice pod Orebem †May 15th, 1764, Rajhrad

81

Václav Jan Kopřiva

Czech composer and organist

*February 9th, 1708, Cítoliby †June 7th, 1789, Cítoliby

50

Charles Hanbury Williams

British politician, diplomat and poet (1708-1759)

*December 8th, 1708, London †November 2nd, 1759, London

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Public holidays on March 6th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on March 6th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

Yes: 1708 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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