My Birthday is March 6th:
Happy Birthday to anyone sharing the same birthday. 🎉
RANDOM FACTS ABOUT THE DATE:
~ It is the 65th day of the year. Leaving exactly 300 days left in the year.
~ March 6, 1521 Magellan discovered Guam.
~ 1808 Harvard created the first college orchestra.
~ 1820 The Missouri Compromise was signed in America by President James Monroe.
~ 1836 Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie were killed and the Alamo is captured by the
Mexican army.
~ 1854 The "Pope's Stone" is stolen from the "Washington Monument".
~ 1857 The Dred Scott Vs. Sandford case concluded.
~ 1867 Ash Wednesday
~ 1878 Ash Wednesday
~ 1886 "The Nightingale" became the first nurse magazine ever published.
~ 1889 Ash Wednesday
~ 1899 "Bayer" registered aspirin as a trademark.
~ 1900 An explosion in Red Ash Mine in West Virginia claimed 46 coal miners lives.
~ 1901 an assassin tried to murder Wilhelm II, the last emperor of Germany.
~ 1933 still suffering through the Great Depression FDR asks for this day to be a "bank holiday".
Closing all US banks.
~ 1935 Ash Wednesday
~ 1943 Famous artist Norman Rockwell released the painting "Freedom From Want" in The
Saturday Evening Post.
~ 1944 The first major American raid on Berlin during WWII began.
~ 1945 "Operation Spring Awakening" was the last major battle by the Nazis during WWII.
~ 1946 Ash Wednesday
~ 1951 The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg began.
~ 1953 Georgy Malenkov succeeded Joseph Stalin as ruler of the USSR.
~ 1957 Ghana gained independence from Britain. On this day they celebrate "Independence
Day".
~ 1957 Ash Wednesday
~ 1960 For the first time Switzerland allowed women to vote in municipal elections.
~ 1960 3,500 US troops were sent to Vietnam.
~ 1962 Fat Tuesday: the final day of Mardi Gras.
~ 1964 World Renown boxer Cassius Clay changed his name to Muhammad Ali.
~ 1964 Constantine II became the last king of Greece.
~ 1967 Joseph Stalin's only daughter Svetlana flees to the US seeking sanction.
~ 1973 Fat Tuesday: the final day of Mardi Gras.
~ 1975 the live footage of the assassination of JFK is first publicly released on national TV.
~ 1981 News anchor Walter Cronkite bids farewell to his loyal viewers for the last time on the
CBS Evening News.
~ 1984 Fat Tuesday: the final day of Mardi Gras.
~ 1985 new professional boxer, Mike Tyson won his first major fighting Albany, NY.
~ 1987 the British ferry "MS Herald of the Free Enterprise" capsized and killed 193 people.
~ 1988 three IRA members are shot dead during a terrorist attack in Gibraltar.
~ 1992 The Michelangelo computer virus is released and starts to affect computers. (The artist
Michelangelo was born on March 6.)
~ 1997 "Tete de Femme" a million dollar Picasso painting was stolen at gunpoint from a London
gallery.
~ 2003 Algerian Airlines flight 6289 crashed, killing 102 on board. One sole survivor.
~ 2008 A suicide bomber in Bagdad killed 68 people.
~ 2008 The Mercaz HaRav shooting occurred. This was a school shooting at a Yeshiva in
Jerusalem that killed eight students.
~ 2018 worth $112 billion, Forbes named Jeff Bezos the richest person in the world. (for the first
time)
~2019 Ash Wednesday
FAMOUS born and died on my birthday:
March 6:
BORN:
Tom Arnold 1959
Alisha Boe 1997
Connie Britton 1967
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806
Lou Costello 1906
Cyrano de Bergerac 1619
Kiki Dee 1947
George du Maurier 1834
Will Eisner 1917
Eleanor Gehrig 1904
Stedman Graham 1951
Alan Greenspan 1926
Anna Maria Horsford 1948
D.L. Hughley 1963
Moira Kelly 1968
Stanisław Jerzy Lec 1909
Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1927
Michelangelo 1475
Ed McMahon 1923
Shaquille O’Neal 1972
Rob Reiner 1947
Millicent Simmonds 2003
Tael Stone 1985
John Stossel 1947
Hermann Struck 1876
Valentina Tereshkova 1937
Mary Wilson 1944
DIED:
Louisa May Alcott 1888
James Bowie 1836
Pearl S. Buck 1973
Davy Crockett 1836
Nelson Eddy 1967
Eleanor Gehrig 1984
William Hopper 1970
Ross Lockridge Jr. 1948
Georgia O'Keeffe 1986
Elvia Allman 1992
Kirby Puckett 2006
Ayn Rand 1982
Nancy Reagan 2016
Dana Reeve 2006
*Lou Gehrig's wife Eleanor was born on March 6, 1904 and died on her 80th birthday on March 6, 1984!
This is a winter birthday. March's birthstone is Aquamarine and its flower is Daffodil.
March 6th falls under the Zodiac sign of "Pisces". Pisces is a water element and the sign of the Fish. So they may be someone that loves swimming or the beach, maybe boating or fishing.
Pisces is the last sign in the Zodiac so it is also the mentally and emotionally oldest. Usually Pisces feel wise beyond their years or have an old soul. Perhaps they feel more comfortable around older people and have an older taste for music, movies or literature.
Some Positive Traits of Pisces are:
creative
artistic
compassionate
witty
wise
mature
very intuitive
romantic
good listener
poetic
generous
rebel
forgiving
Some Negative Traits of Pisces are:
sulky
depressive
addictive personality
insomniac
insecure
anxious
moody
loner
overly sensitive
pessimistic
evasive
In a Tarot deck Pisces falls under the "Cups" minor cards and "The Moon" is Pisces major card.
