March 6: Laetare Sunday (Western Christianity, 2016); Independence Day in Ghana (1957)
Dmitri Mendeleev
- 961 – The Muslim Emirate of Crete was conquered by the Byzantine Empire.
- 1447 – Tomaso Parentucelli became Pope Nicholas V.
- 1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev (pictured) presented the first periodic table of elements to the Russian Chemical Society.
- 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.
- 1988 – In Operation Flavius, the British Special Air Service killed three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers conspiring to bomb a parade of British military bands in Gibraltar.
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