March 6

• March 6, 1475
  Michelangelo Buonarroti, painter, sculptor and architect, is born
• March 6, 1521
  Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan complete crossing the Pacific Ocean in 99 days, renames the South Sea as the Pacific Ocean, and lands at the island of Guam
• March 6, 1665
  Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society, a scientific journal published by the Royal Society of London, starts publishing
• March 6, 1714
  Peace of Rastatt is signed by French emperor and Charles VI of Habsburg to put an end to state of war between them from the War of the Spanish Succession
• March 6, 1728
  Spain and England sign Treaty of El Pardo, effectively ending end to the Anglo-Spanish War
• March 6, 1820
  The Missouri Compromise is signed by President James Monroe, providing for the admission of Missouri into the Union as a slave state, but prohibited slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory
• March 6, 1836
  Battle of the Alamo ends with defeat for Texan separatists and murder of all the Alamo defenders after fighting for 13 days during the Texas Revolution in Mexico
• March 6, 1899
  German pharmaceutical company Friedrich Bayer registers Aspirin, brand name for acetylsalicylic acid, with the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin
• March 6, 1944
  United States Air Force begins daylight bombing of Berlin
• March 6, 1957
  Ghana, formerly Gold Coast, declares independence from United Kingdom, with Kwame Nkrumah as Prime Minister
• March 6, 1986
  USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km