Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 6

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Blurb	Reason
Independence Day in Ghana (1957)	cleanup reorganize
1521 – Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his crew reached Guam.	refimprove, more footnotes
1665 – The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, published the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world's longest-running scientific journal.	refimprove section
1834 – York, was incorporated as Toronto, now the most populous city in Canada.	refimprove sections
1857 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a landmark legal decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which polarized the slavery debate and became one of many factors leading to the American Civil War.	refimprove sections
1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table of elements to the Russian Chemical Society.	appears on March 1
1933 – The day after the federal election, the Nazi Party banned elected Communist Party of Germany members from taking their seats in the Reichstag.	Uncited sections
1970 – Three members of the Weather Underground were killed when a bomb they were building exploded.
1975 – Iran and Iraq signed the Algiers Agreement to settle a border dispute, only to begin fighting again five years later in the Iran–Iraq War.	unreferenced section
1975 – The Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy was broadcast on television for the first time.	primary sources, lots of CN tags
1984 – In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signaled the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and involved the majority of the country's miners.	refimprove section
2008 – A Palestinian gunman shot and killed eight students and critically injured eleven in the library of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva in Jerusalem.	refimprove section
Juan Luis Vives |b|1493	9+ {cn} tags, Major works section needs more footnotes
George du Maurier |b|1834	2 sections unreferenced
John Redmond |d|1918	refimprove
Gabriel García Márquez |b|1927	refimprove section
Anne Braden |d|2006	Unreferenced sections

Eligible

• 1836 – Texas Revolution: Mexican troops captured the Alamo Mission in San Antonio from Texian forces after a 13-day siege.
• 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.
• 1913 – First Balkan War: The Greek army captured Bizani Fortress, near Ioannina, from the Ottomans.
• 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.
• 1943 – [[World War II|World Template:Nowrap]]: National Liberation Front forces defeated Italian occupiers in the Battle of Fardykambos, a major sign of the Greek resistance's growth.
• 1945 – Petru Groza of the Ploughmen's Front became the first prime minister of the Communist Party-dominated government of Romania.
• 1953 – Following Joseph Stalin's death, Georgy Malenkov succeeded him as Premier of the Soviet Union.
• 1964 – In a radio broadcast, Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad announced that American boxer Cassius Clay would change his name to Muhammad Ali (pictured).
• 1987 – The ferry Template:MS capsized while leaving the harbour of Zeebrugge, Belgium, killing 193 people on board.
• 2009 – As part of their investigation into an athletic scandal at Florida State University, the National Collegiate Athletic Association released a report alleging that 61 student athletes had engaged in academic fraud.
• Born/died: | Alvise Loredan |d|1466| Luigi Alamanni |b|1495| Lucy Barnes |b|1780| William Claflin |b|1818| Ella P. Stewart |b|1893| Ayn Rand |d|1982| Francisco Xavier do Amaral |d|2012| Paul of Greece |d|1964|

Notes

• FC Bayern Munich appears on February 27 and S.L. Benfica appears on February 28, so Real Madrid should not appear in the same year.
• Nabucco (another Verdi opera) appears on March 9, so La traviata should not appear in the same year.

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• 845 – The Abbasid Caliphate executed 42 Byzantine officials who had been captured in the sack of Amorium of 838 for refusing to convert to Islam.
• 1447 – Tommaso Parentucelli was elected as Pope Nicholas V in Rome.
• 1904 – Scottish National Antarctic Expedition: Led by William Speirs Bruce (pictured), the Antarctic region of Coats Land was discovered by the Scotia.
• 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.
• 2000 – The Marine Parade Community Building, the mural cladding of which is the largest installation art in Singapore, was opened.