March 6th, 1959

Born on March 6th, 1959

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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

Born on March 6th, 1959

65

Tom Arnold

American stand-up comedian and actor (born 1959)

*March 6th, 1959, Ottumwa

65

Lars Larson

American conservative talk radio show host (born 1959)

*March 6th, 1959, Taipei

65

Stig Arild Slørdahl

Medical scientist

*March 6th, 1959, Kristiansund Municipality

65

Jaime Augusto Zobel

Filipino businessman

*March 6th, 1959, Manila

65

Chris Raschka

American children's illustrator and writer

*March 6th, 1959, Huntingdon

65

Tommy Sheppard

Scottish politician (born 1959)

*March 6th, 1959, Coleraine

65

Jonathan Gee

British jazz musician

*March 6th, 1959, Tel Aviv

65

Lobo Carrasco

Spanish footballer

*March 6th, 1959, Alcoy

65

Saul Anuzis

American politician and lobbyist

*March 6th, 1959, Detroit

65

Ray Stachowicz

American football player

*March 6th, 1959, Cleveland

65

Karl Best

American baseball player

*March 6th, 1959, Aberdeen

65

Andrea Cambern

American journalist

*March 6th, 1959, Chicago

65

Faryion Wardrip

American serial killer

*March 6th, 1959, Salem

65

Kazuhiro Koso

Japanese association football player and manager

*March 6th, 1959, Saga Prefecture

65

Yvonne Bernard

American film and television producer

*March 6th, 1959, Tarrytown

65

Krishna Khopde

Indian politician

*March 6th, 1959, Nagpur

65

Shirley M. Watts

American judge

*March 6th, 1959, Baltimore

65

Manuel Robles Aguila

Table tennis athlete from Spain

*March 6th, 1959, Monachil

65

Ioan Toman

Romanian sports shooter

*March 6th, 1959, Brestovăț

30

Michael Carmine

American actor (1959-1989)

*March 6th, 1959, Brooklyn †October 14th, 1989, New York City

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

32

Gebby Ristiyani Imawan

Badminton player

*March 6th, 1992, Tangerang City

55

Jintara Poonlarp

Thai female singer

*March 6th, 1969, Kaset Wisai

66

Eddie Deezen

American actor

*March 6th, 1958, Cumberland

37

Kevin-Prince Boateng

Ghanaian association football player

*March 6th, 1987, West Berlin

57

Mihai Tudose

Romanian politician

*March 6th, 1967, Brăila

32

Kim Astrup Sørensen

Badminton player

*March 6th, 1992, Herning

87

Gabriel García Márquez

Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)

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

56

Vincent Gale

Actor

*March 6th, 1968, Glasgow

78

David Gilmour

English musician, member of Pink Floyd (born 1946)

*March 6th, 1946, Cambridge

66

Richard Schenkman

American film director

*March 6th, 1958, New York City

32

Raphael Beck

German badminton player

*March 6th, 1992, Düsseldorf

36

Simon Mignolet

Belgian association football player

*March 6th, 1988, Sint-Truiden

68

Ullrich Sierau

Lord Mayor of Dortmund (Social Democrat)

*March 6th, 1956, Halle (Saale)

40

Floé Kühnert

German pole vaulter

*March 6th, 1984, Ulm

27

Teoh Mei Xing

Malaysian badminton player

*March 6th, 1997, Subang Jaya

61

Kajetan Broniewski

Polish rower

*March 6th, 1963, Zabrze

94

Ejler Bille

Danish artist (1910-2004)

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

61

Tori Murden

American ocean rower

*March 6th, 1963, Brooksville

87

Valentina Tereshkova

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

*March 6th, 1937, Bolshoye Maslennikovo

78

Patrick Baudry

French astronaut

*March 6th, 1946, Douala

Same year
Born in 1959

64

Jim Kerr

Scottish singer

*July 9th, 1959, Glasgow

64

Andrew Eldritch

British singer

*May 15th, 1959, Ely

56

Nahed Hattar

Jordanian writer

*November 30th, 1959, Amman †September 25th, 2016, Amman

64

Wolfgang Rolff

German association football player and manager

*December 26th, 1959, Lamstedt

64

Mike Pence

Vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021

*June 7th, 1959, Columbus

64

Morten Andreas Meyer

Norwegian politician

*October 20th, 1959, Sarpsborg Municipality

64

Jon Fosse

Norwegian writer, theater writer and translator

*September 29th, 1959, Haugesund Municipality

64

Donna Strickland

Canadian physicist, 2018 Nobel laurate

*May 27th, 1959, Guelph

64

Dave Ball

English producer and electronic musician

*May 3rd, 1959, Blackpool

64

Charlie Burchill

Scottish musician and composer

*November 27th, 1959, Glasgow

64

Rolf Mützenich

German politician (SPD)

*June 25th, 1959, Cologne

64

Martin Atkins

English musician

*August 3rd, 1959, Coventry

64

Bryan Adams

Canadian guitarist

*November 5th, 1959, Kingston

64

Steve Alten

American writer

*August 21st, 1959, Philadelphia

64

Carla Antonelli

Spanish actress and activist

*July 12th, 1959, Güímar

64

Johannes Röring

German politician

*May 16th, 1959, Vreden

64

Peter Enders

German politician (1959–)

*May 10th, 1959, Eichen

64

Allison Janney

American actress

*November 19th, 1959, Boston

65

Luc Besson

French film director, writer, and producer

*March 18th, 1959, Paris

64

Stephen Harper

22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015

*April 30th, 1959, Toronto

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1959 is a normal year and no leap year.

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