March 6th, 1979

Born on March 6th, 1979

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 16,000 days old!

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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, 1979

45

Tim Howard

American soccer player

*March 6th, 1979, North Brunswick

45

Arnaud Maire

French footballer

*March 6th, 1979, Besançon

45

Thomas Dossevi

Togolese footballer

*March 6th, 1979, Chambray-lès-Tours

45

Andre Gurode

American football player, offensive lineman, center

*March 6th, 1979, Houston

45

Clint Barmes

American baseball player

*March 6th, 1979, Vincennes

45

Rufus Hound

British comedian, actor and presenter

*March 6th, 1979, Essex

45

Shani Bloch

Israeli cyclist

*March 6th, 1979, Israel

45

Miniya Chatterji

Indian academic

*March 6th, 1979, Jamshedpur

45

César Sepúlveda

Chilean actor

*March 6th, 1979, Santiago

45

David Flair

American professional wrestler

*March 6th, 1979, Minneapolis

45

Claude Davis

Jamaican footballer

*March 6th, 1979, Kingston

45

Avon Cobourne

American professional Canadian football running back

*March 6th, 1979, Camden

45

Garry Monk

English footballer (born 1979)

*March 6th, 1979, Bedford

45

Vladislav Dragojlović

Basketball player

*March 6th, 1979, Užice

45

Ryan Nyquist

American bicycle motocross rider

*March 6th, 1979, Los Gatos

45

Petros Zouroudis

Greek footballer

*March 6th, 1979, Rhodes

45

Jung Jun

South Korean actor

*March 6th, 1979, Goyang

45

Kevin McCadam

American football player

*March 6th, 1979, La Mesa

45

Fyodor Milovanov

Russian footballer

*March 6th, 1979, Voronezh

45

Fredy Mbuna

Footballer

*March 6th, 1979, Tanzania

45

David J. Kim

American businessman

*March 6th, 1979, Baltimore

45

Creedence

Brazilian association football player (born 1979)

*March 6th, 1979, Ribeirão Preto

45

Abdul Hamid Bahij

Doctor, writer, translator and dictionary writer.

*March 6th, 1979, Jaghatu

45

Baka Not Nice

Canadian rapper

*March 6th, 1979, Toronto

45

Yury Rybak

Belarusian judoka

*March 6th, 1979, Dzyarzhynsk

45

Erzsébet Valkay

Hungarian and Italian water polo player

*March 6th, 1979, Lajosmizse

45

Gabriela Tănase

Romanian handball player

*March 6th, 1979, Drobeta-Turnu Severin

45

Vinodbhai Chavda

Indian politician

*March 6th, 1979, Nakhatrana

45

Hassan Madany

Egyptian wrestler

*March 6th, 1979, Cairo

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

32

Gebby Ristiyani Imawan

Badminton player

*March 6th, 1992, Tangerang City

37

Kevin-Prince Boateng

Ghanaian association football player

*March 6th, 1987, West Berlin

32

Kim Astrup Sørensen

Badminton player

*March 6th, 1992, Herning

55

Jintara Poonlarp

Thai female singer

*March 6th, 1969, Kaset Wisai

46

Pierre Maudet

Swiss politician

*March 6th, 1978, Geneva

46

Dave L. Reed

American politician

*March 6th, 1978, Blairsville

40

Floé Kühnert

German pole vaulter

*March 6th, 1984, Ulm

48

Cédric Barbosa

French footballer

*March 6th, 1976, Aubenas

36

Simon Mignolet

Belgian association football player

*March 6th, 1988, Sint-Truiden

32

Raphael Beck

German badminton player

*March 6th, 1992, Düsseldorf

57

Mihai Tudose

Romanian politician

*March 6th, 1967, Brăila

56

Vincent Gale

Actor

*March 6th, 1968, Glasgow

27

Teoh Mei Xing

Malaysian badminton player

*March 6th, 1997, Subang Jaya

87

Gabriel García Márquez

Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)

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

47

Giorgos Karagounis

Greek association football player

*March 6th, 1977, Pyrgos

52

Shaquille O'Neal

American basketball player (born 1972)

*March 6th, 1972, Newark

53

Servais Knaven

Dutch cyclist

*March 6th, 1971, Lobith

44

Rodrigo Taddei

Brazilian footballer

*March 6th, 1980, São Paulo

30

Nils Politt

German cyclist

*March 6th, 1994, Cologne

78

David Gilmour

English musician, member of Pink Floyd (born 1946)

*March 6th, 1946, Cambridge

Same year
Born in 1979

45

Gao Ling

Chinese badminton player

*March 14th, 1979, Wuhan

45

Yang Wei

Chinese badminton player

*January 13th, 1979, Guangdong

44

Tine Baun

Danish badminton player

*July 21st, 1979, Hørsholm

44

Deborah Secco

Brazilian actress

*November 26th, 1979, Rio de Janeiro

45

Johan Harstad

Norwegian author

*February 10th, 1979, Stavanger Municipality

44

Saralee Thungthongkam

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1979, Bangkok

44

Anders Kristiansen

Badminton player

*September 7th, 1979, Frederikssund Municipality

44

Nikhil Kanetkar

Badminton player

*May 13th, 1979, Pune

44

Guf

Russian rapper

*September 23rd, 1979, Ivanteyevskaya Street

44

Ghayath Almadhoun

Swedish poet

*July 19th, 1979, Damascus

45

Dan Tangnes

Norwegian ice hockey player (1979-)

*March 8th, 1979, Oslo

44

Patricia Aulitzky

Austrian actress

*July 7th, 1979, Salzburg

44

Mia Audina

Indonesian badminton player

*August 22nd, 1979, Jakarta

44

Chen Hong

Badminton player

*November 28th, 1979, Changting County

45

Ingo Kindervater

Badminton player

*January 1st, 1979, Burgwedel

44

Britta Andersen

Badminton player

*December 19th, 1979, Aarhus

44

Vincent Kartheiser

American actor

*May 5th, 1979, Minneapolis

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

44

Chris Pratt

American actor (born 1979)

*June 21st, 1979, Virginia

45

Lise Risom Olsen

Norwegian actress

*March 1st, 1979, Fredrikstad Municipality

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1979 is a normal year and no leap year.

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