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This is a list of selected March 6 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
1521 – Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his crew reached Guam. refimprove, more footnotes
1857 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a landmark legal decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which polarized the slavery debate and became one of many factors leading to the American Civil War. Tagged with {{one source}}
1869Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table of elements to the Russian Chemical Society. refimprove section
1899 – German chemical and pharmaceutical company Bayer registered Aspirin as a trademark. refimprove section
1975 – Iran and Iraq signed the Algiers Agreement to settle a border dispute, only to begin fighting again five years later in the Iran–Iraq War. apart from the text of the agreement, article is a stub
1987 – In the deadliest maritime disaster involving a British-registered ship in peacetime since 1919, the ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized while leaving the harbour of Zeebrugge, Belgium, killing 193 people on board. unreferenced section

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Notes

  • Nabucco (another Verdi opera) appears on March 9, so La traviata should not appear in the same year.

March 6: Independence Day in Ghana (1957)

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