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Events

• 12 BC The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor.
• 1820 (206 years ago) The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by United States 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.
• 1904 (122 years ago) Scottish National Antarctic Expedition: Led by William Speirs Bruce, the Antarctic region of Coats Land is discovered from the Scotia.
• 1943 (83 years ago) World War II: Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel launches the Battle of Medenine in an attempt to slow down the British Eighth Army. It fails, and he leaves Africa three days later.
• 1957 (69 years ago) the Ghana Independence Act 1957 is passed in the United Kingdom resulting in Ghana gaining independence from the British.
• 1975 (51 years ago) Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
• 2008 (18 years ago) A gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.
• 2008 (18 years ago) A suicide bomber kills 68 people in the Karrada district of Karrada in Baghdad

Births

• 1475 (551 years ago) Michelangelo, Italian painter and sculptor (died 1564)
• 1806 (220 years ago) Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English-Italian poet and translator (died 1861)
• 1926 (100 years ago) Andrzej Wajda, Polish director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2016)
• 1927 (99 years ago) Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2014)
• 1937 (89 years ago) Valentina Tereshkova, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut
• 1946 (80 years ago) David Gilmour, English guitarist and singer-songwriter
• 1947 (79 years ago) Rob Reiner, American actor, director, producer, and activist (died 2025)
• 1972 (54 years ago) Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player

Deaths

• 1888 (138 years ago) Louisa May Alcott, American novelist and poet (born 1832)
• 1900 (126 years ago) Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and businessman, co-founded Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (born 1834)
• 1973 (53 years ago) Pearl S. Buck, American novelist, essayist, short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)
• 1982 (44 years ago) Ayn Rand, Russian-American philosopher, author, and playwright (born 1905)
• 1986 (40 years ago) Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (born 1887)
• 2005 (21 years ago) Hans Bethe, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)
• 2007 (19 years ago) Jean Baudrillard, French photographer and theorist (born 1929)
• 2016 (10 years ago) Nancy Reagan, American actress, 42nd First Lady of the United States (born 1921)

All 311 events, births and deaths of March 6