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Events on March 6

• 1521 The Portuguese seafarer in Spanish service Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Pacific island of Guam during his circumnavigation, which he calls the Island of Thieves because of several misunderstandings with the locals.
• 1899 Bayer AG has the acetylsalicylic acid developed by Arthur Eichengrün and Felix Hoffmann registered under the name Aspirin as a trademark.
• 1901 In Bremen, Kaiser Wilhelm II. suffers a minor head injury in an assassination attempt by the worker Dietrich Weiland.
• 1930 In Springfield, Massachusetts, the Birdseye company sells frozen food worldwide for the first time.
• 1945 The German Wehrmacht begins the Lake Balaton offensive during the Second World War. The unsuccessful operation, which will last until 16 March, is intended to stop the advance of the Red Army and secure the Hungarian oil fields for the German Reich.
• 1954 German Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer visits the United States for the first time, an important ally during the Cold War.
• 1976 The Austrian Anton Innauer becomes the first ski jumper to receive five perfect scores of 20 for a jump in Oberstdorf.
• 1981 Marianne Bachmeier shoots Klaus Grabowski, the presumed murderer of her daughter Anna, in the courtroom of the Lübeck courthouse while he is in the dock.
• 1983 The elections to the 10th German Bundestag reaffirm Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who was elected five months earlier through a constructive vote of no confidence, in office. His party, the CDU, gains votes and seats. The Greens clear the five-percent threshold for the first time with 5.6%.
• 1986 The Soviet space probe Vega 1 passes Halley’s Comet at a distance of just under 8900 km. Three days later, its sister probe Vega 2 follows.
• 1987 The British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes off the port of Zeebrugge, killing 193 people.
• 2015 The NASA space probe Dawn reaches the orbit of the dwarf planet Ceres.

Born on March 6

• 1890 Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff, German diplomat and resistance fighter against National Socialism
• 1923 Jürgen von Manger, German actor, literary cabaret artist and comedian
• 1923 Wes Montgomery, American jazz guitarist
• 1930 Lorin Maazel, American conductor
• 1941 Peter Brötzmann, German jazz musician
• 1950 Felix Genn, German cleric, Bishop of Essen and Münster
• 1961 Kathy Kelly, Irish-American musician
• 1972 Shaquille O’Neal, American basketball player
• 1972 Peter Sendel, German biathlete
• 1991 Aleksandar Dragović, Austrian football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „6. März“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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