Today in History - March 6
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1255 Mar 6, Pope Alexander IV permitted Mindaugas to crown his son as king of Lithuania.
(LHC, 3/6/03)
1454 Mar 6, Casimir proclaimed the attachment of Prussia to Polish rule. This began a 13-year war over Prussia (1454-1466).
(LHC,3/6/03)
1475 Mar 6, Michelangelo Buonarroti (d.1564), painter, sculptor and architect, was born. His early mentor was Bertoldo di Giovanni, a pupil of Donatello. His work included “The Creation of Adam" and the “Pieta Rondanini." He at one time proposed to sculpt the 5,000 foot Monte Sagro in Carrara into the statue of a giant.
(WUB, 1994, p. 904)(WSJ, 2/29/96, p.A-14)(AAP, 1964)(SFEC, 7/13/97, p.T11) (SFEC,10/19/97, p.T4)(HN, 3/6/98)
1513 Mar 6, Niccolo Machiavelli was released from jail in Florence. He complained in verse that it was difficult to write poetry there because people kept beating him up.
(ON, 11/04, p.4)
1521 Mar 6, Magellan discovered Guam.
(HFA, '96, p.26)(HN, 3/6/98)
1646 Mar 6, Joseph Jenkes received the 1st colonial machine patent.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1665 Mar 6, Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society started publishing.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1674 Mar 6, Johann Paul Schor (58), German baroque painter, died.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1708 Mar 6, Francis de Laval (b.1623), the first bishop of Quebec, died. He was beatified in 1980 and canonized in 2014.
(http://www.carrefourkairos.net/belineng.htm)
1714 Mar 6, the Treaty of Rastatt ended the war between Austria and Spain. It complemented the Treaty of Utrecht, which had, the previous year, ended hostilities with Britain and the Dutch Republic. The Spanish Netherlands became the Austrian Netherlands, and Spain gave up her possession in Italy, Luxembourg and Flanders. A third treaty, the Treaty of Baden (Sep 7, 1714), was required to end the hostilities between France and the Holy Roman Empire.
(PCh, ed. 1992, p.279)(http://tinyurl.com/b8uxbje)
1763 Mar 6, Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer, was born.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1779 Mar 6, The US Congress declared that only the federal government, and not individual states, had the power to determine the legality of captures on the high seas. This was the basis for the 1st test case of the US Constitution in 1808.
(ON, 12/01, p.9)
1791 Mar 6, Anna Claypoole Peale, painted miniatures, was born.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1799 Mar 6, Napoleon captured Jaffa, Palestine. [see Mar 7]
(MC, 3/6/02)
1806 Mar 6, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (d.1861), English poet, was born in Durham, England. She wrote "Sonnets from the Portuguese." "Since when was genius found respectable?"
(AP, 3/6/98)(HN, 3/6/99)(AP, 8/12/99)
1808 Mar 6, 1st college orchestra in US was founded at Harvard.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1810 Mar 6, Illinois passed the 1st state vaccination legislation in US.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1812 Mar 6, Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watch making, was born.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1816 Mar 6, Jews were expelled from Free city of Lubeck, Germany.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1819 Mar 6, The US Supreme Court ruled in McCulloch v. Maryland that the state could not impose a tax on the notes of banks not chartered in the state. Luther Martin represented Maryland in the landmark case.
(WSJ, 9/20/08, p.A21)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCulloch_v._Maryland)
1820 Mar 6, The Missouri Compromise, enacted by Congress, was signed by President James Monroe. This compromise provided for the admission of Missouri into the Union as a slave state, but prohibited slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory. The compromise was invalidated in the 1856 Scott vs. Sanford case. [see Mar 3]
(HN, 3/6/98)(SFC, 11/30/00, p.A3)
1831 Mar 6, Philip Henry Sheridan, Union Army General and hero of the Battle of Cedar Creek, was born.
(HN, 3/6/99)
1831 Mar 6, Edgar Allan Poe failed out of West Point. He was discharged from West Point for “gross neglect of duty." His parade uniform was supposedly incorrect.
(SFEC, 4/13/97, Z1 p.4)(HN, 3/6/98)
1834 Mar 6, The city of York in Upper Canada was incorporated as Toronto.
(AP, 3/6/98)
1835 Mar 6, Charles Ewing (d.1883), Brig General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1836 Mar 6, The Alamo fell after fighting for 13 days. Angered by a new Mexican constitution that removed much of their autonomy, Texans seized the Alamo in San Antonio in December 1835. Mexican president General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna marched into Texas to put down the rebellion. By late February, 1836, 182 Texans, led by Colonel William Travis, held the former mission complex against Santa Anna’s [3,000] 6,000 troops. At 4 a.m. on March 6, after fighting for 13 days, Santa Anna’s troops charged. In the battle that followed, all the Alamo defenders were killed while the Mexicans suffered about 2,000 casualties. Santa Anna dismissed the Alamo conquest as “a small affair," but the time bought by the Alamo defenders’ lives permitted General Sam Houston to forge an army that would win the Battle of San Jacinto and, ultimately, Texas’ independence. Mexican Lt. Col. Pena later wrote a memoir: "With Santa Anna in Texas: Diary of Jose Enrique de la Pena," that described the capture and execution of Davy Crockett (49) and 6 other Alamo defenders. In 1975 a translation of the diary by Carmen Perry (d.1999) was published. Apparently, only one Texan combatant survived Jose María Guerrero, who persuaded his captors he had been forced to fight. Women, children, and a black slave, were spared.
(AP, 3/6/98)(HN, 3/6/98)(HNPD, 3/6/99)(SFC, 6/15/99, p.C6)
1836 Mar 6, HMS Beagle and Darwin reached King George's Sound, Australia.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1844 Mar 6, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, orchestrator, composer, was born. His work included: Flight of the Bumble Bee, Sadko, Mlada, Capriccio Espagnol, The Tsar's Bride, Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1853 Mar 6, Giuseppe Verdi's Opera, "La Traviata," premiered in Venice.
(AP, 3/6/98)(MC, 3/6/02)
1857 Mar 6, After years in litigation, the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Roger Taney, ruled that Dred Scott did not gain his freedom by living in a free territory. Taney wrote that African Americans could not have rights of their own and were inferior to white people. The essence of the decision was that as a slave, Dred Scott was not a citizen and therefore could not sue in a federal court. The opinion also stated that Congress could not exclude slavery in the territories and that blacks could not become citizens. That ruling further increased the tension already simmering between the North and the South. Dred Scott was a slave who accompanied his owner, army surgeon John Emerson, to military posts in Wisconsin and Illinois in 1834-35. In 1846 Scott, backed by abolitionists, sued for his freedom on the grounds that he became free when he lived in an area where slavery was outlawed. Montgomery Blair (b.1813) was one of the lawyers in the Scott vs. Sanford case. In this case the Supreme Court invalidated the 1820 Missouri Compromise. In 2017 Charles Taney IV apologized to the family of Dred Scott for the words of his great-great-grand-uncle.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_B._Taney)(AP, 3/6/98)(SFC, 11/30/00, p.A3)(SFC, 3/8/17, p.A5)
1860 Mar 6, While campaigning for the presidency, Abraham Lincoln made a speech defending the right to strike.
(HN, 3/6/99)
1861 Mar 6, Provisionary Confederate Congress established Confederate Army.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1862 Mar 6, Pres. Lincoln proposed to Congress a revised plan of compensated emancipation for slave-owners in the District of Columbia and the border states.
(ON, 6/10, p.1)
1862 Mar 6, Battle of Pea Ridge, AR (Elkhorn Tavern). [see Mar 7]
(MC, 3/6/02)
1865 Mar 6, President Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Ball was held.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1865 Mar 6, The last Confederate victory of the Civil War occurred at Natural Bridge crossing near Tallahassee, Fla., when the forces of Union Gen’l. John Newton were routed by entrenched southerners.
(HT, 3/97, p.10)(HN, 3/6/98)
1866 Mar 6, Rev Dr William Whewell (b.1794), an English polymath, died in Cambridge. He was also a scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, historian of science and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. One of Whewell's greatest gifts to science was his wordsmithing. He often corresponded with many in his field and helped them come up with new terms for their discoveries. Whewell contributed the terms scientist, physicist, linguistics, consilience, catastrophism, uniformitarianism, and astigmatism amongst others; Whewell suggested the terms electrode, ion, dielectric, anode, and cathode to Michael Faraday.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Whewell)
1870 Mar 6, Oscar Strauss, composer (Ein Walzertraum), was born in Vienna, Austria.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1884 Mar 6, Over 100 suffragists, led by Susan B. Anthony, presented President Chester A. Arthur with a demand that he voice support for female suffrage.
(HN, 3/6/99)
1885 Mar 6, Ring Lardner (d.1933), American humorist and writer, was born. His books included You Know Me Al (1916). "The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have."
(AP, 5/14/99)(HN, 3/6/01)(WSJ, 12/2/06, p.P8)
1886 Mar 6, The 1st US alternating current power plant started in Great Barrington, MA.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1888 Mar 6, William Bonwill of Philadelphia patented revolving-hammer mechanical dental pluggers, by which the plugging-tool is hit a rapid series I 5 of blows to impact the gold in the teeth.
(http://www.google.com/patents/US378920)
1888 Mar 6, Louisa May Alcott (b.1832) died in Boston just hours after the burial of her father. Her novels included "Little Women" (1868). In 1998 "Little Women" premiered in Houston as an opera by Mark Adomo. In 2010 Susan Cheever authored “Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography."
(WSJ, 8/29/01, p.A12)(SSFC, 12/5/10, p.F3)
1896 Mar 6, Charles B. King rode his "Horseless Carriage," the 1st auto in Detroit.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1899 Mar 6, Richard Leo Simon, publisher, partner of Max Schuster, was born.
(HN, 3/6/01)
1899 Mar 6, Aspirin was patented following Felix Hoffman’s discoveries about the properties of acetylsalicylic acid. Duisberg’s Bayer team released a drug they named aspirin. In 2004 Diarmuid Jeffreys authored “Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug."
(HN, 3/6/01)(SSFC, 10/24/04, p.M6)
1900 Mar 6, Gottlieb Daimler (65), designer of the 1st motorcycle, died.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1901 Mar 6, A would-be assassin tried to kill Wilhelm II in Bremen.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1906 Mar 6, Lou Costello (d.1959), American film comedian, was born in Paterson, NJ. He paired with Bud Abbott in numerous films and the famous "Who's on First" routine.
(HN, 3/6/99)(MC, 3/6/02)
1909 Mar 6, Gerhart Hauptmann's "Griselda," premiered in Vienna.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1909 Mar 6, Stanislaw J. Lec (d.1906), Polish poet, author and satirist: "THINK before you think!"
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Jerzy_Lec)(AP, 8/28/98)
1910 Mar 6, In San Francisco a dance marathon at Puckett’s Cotillion Hall ended and Manager Puckett awarded $145 to six couples who broke the world record of 14 hours and 41 minutes. The contest had begun the previous evening with 17 couples.
(SSFC, 2/28/10, DB p.42)
1913 Mar 6, Stewart Granger, actor (Saraband for Dead Lovers, Scaramouche), was born.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1914 Mar 6, Kirill P. Kondrashin, conductor (Hollywood Bowl 1981), was born in Moscow, Russia.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1914 Mar 6, German Prince Wilhelm de Wied was crowned as King of Albania.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1916 Mar 6, Rochelle Hudson (d.1972), American film actress (That's My Boy), was born in Oklahoma City, Ok.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochelle_Hudson)
1916 Mar 6, The Allies recaptured Fort Douamont in France. A line of bayonets protruding from the earth still testifies to French valor at Verdun in World War I.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1917 Mar 6, Dr. Chandra Chakraverty was arrested in NYC for violating US neautrality laws. He had been by Berlin to arrange for arms sales to India in the Annie Larsen affair. German military attache Franz von Papen had arranged for 10,000 rifles to be loaded on a chartered ship called the Annie Larsen. The plot failed when US federal agents seized office files of German official Wolf Von Igel in NYC. The files contained information about the entire conspiracy.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Larsen_affair)(SFC, 3/7/20, p.C2)
1918 Mar 6, US naval boat "Cyclops" disappeared in "Bermuda Triangle."
(MC, 3/6/02)
1921 Mar 6, Julius Rudel, conductor (NYC Opera), was born in Vienna, Austria.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1921 Mar 6, The National Association of Moving Picture Industry announced their intention to censor U.S. movies.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1921 Mar 6, Police in Sunbury, Penn., issued an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1922 Mar 6, G.B. Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh III/IV," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1923 Mar 6, The Turkish National Assembly rejected the Lausanne Treaty in Angora.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1924 Mar 6, Sarah Caldwell, conductor, opera director (Flagstaff), was born in Maryville, Mo.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1924 Mar 6, William H. Webster, US judge, head FBI and CIA, was born.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1926 Mar 6, Alan Greenspan, economist, presidential advisor, was born.
(SSFC, 3/6/05, p.E1)
1927 Mar 6, Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. (d.2004), USAF astronaut (Mer 9, Gem 5), was born in Shawnee, Okla.
(SFC, 10/5/04, p.B7)
1927 Mar 6, Norman Treigle, bass-baritone (Mefistofele), was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1928 Mar 6, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Columbian-born novelist and Nobel Prize winner (1982), was born. In 2009 Gerald martin authored “Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez)(SSFC, 6/7/09, Books p.J1)
1928 Mar 6, A Communist attack on Peking, China resulted in 3,000 dead and 50,000 fleeing to Swatow.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1930 Mar 6, Clarence Birdseye of Brooklyn developed a method for quick freezing food.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1932 Mar 6, John Philip Sousa (77), US composer (Stars & Stripes Forever), died.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1933 Mar 6, A nationwide bank holiday declared by President Roosevelt went into effect. Overseas deposits shrank by just 2% as a result of the closure.
(AP, 3/6/98)(Econ, 5/15/10, SR p.13)
1933 Mar 6, Anton J. Cermak (b.1873), Czech-born 35th mayor of Chicago, died in Miami following the Feb 15th assassination attempt by Giuseppe Zangara, who was trying to shoot FDR. Zangara was executed in the electric chair on March 21, 1933. Cermak became the 2nd US mayor to die in a political killing.
(SFC, 11/28/03, p.E2)(www.cermak.com/mayor/index3.html)
1933 Mar 6, Poland occupied free city Danzig (Gdansk).
(MC, 3/6/02)
1935 Mar 6, Retired Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. died in Washington.
(AP, 3/6/98)
1936 Mar 6, Marion S. Barry, (Mayor-D-Wash DC), was born.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1937 Mar 6, The tanker ship Frank H. Buck sank off the coast of San Francisco. It was visible during low tide from between Point Vista and the Palace of the Legion of Honor.
(http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?142746)(SFC, 9/17/14, p.A10)
1937 Mar 6, Jose Pena Gomez (d.1998 at 61), advocate for the poor and later mayor of Santo Domingo, was born in Valverde, Dominican Republic, to Haitian immigrants. According to Jose Pena Gomez, a Dominican massacre of Haitians forced his parents to flee back to Haiti. Jose was adopted by a Dominican family.
(SFC, 5/12/98, p.A21)
1937 Mar 6, Valentina Nikolayeva-Tereshkova, Russian astronaut, was born. In 1963 she became the first women to orbit the Earth on Vostok 6.
(HN, 3/6/99)(MC, 3/6/02)
1939 Mar 6, Miron Cristea, PM of Romania (1938-1939), died. Cristea was also the first Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (1925-1939).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miron_Cristea)
1939 Mar 6, Jose Miaja took over the Madrid government after a military coup and vowed to seek "peace with honor."
(HN, 3/6/98)
1941 Mar 6, John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (b.1867), sculptor (Mount Rushmore), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutzon_Borglum)
1943 Mar 6, British RAF fliers bombed Essen and the Krupp arms works in the Ruhr, Germany.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1943 Mar 6, Battle at Medenine, North-Africa: Rommel's assault attack.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1944 Mar 6, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, operatic soprano (Don Giovanni), was born in Gisborne, NZ.
(HN, 3/6/01)(MC, 3/6/02)
1944 Mar 6, US heavy bombers hit Berlin during World War II.
(AP, 3/6/98)
1945 Mar 6, Rob Reiner, actor, director (All in the Family, Stand By Me), was born in Bronx, NY.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1945 Mar 6, Federico Garcia Lorca's "La Casa," premiered in Buenos Aires.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1945 Mar 6, Cologne, Germany, fell to General Hodges' First Army.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1945 Mar 6, Erich Honnecker and Erich Hanke fled Nazis.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1945 Mar 6, In Holland SS General Hans Albin Rauter, was ambushed, and his driver and orderly were killed. Rauter was seriously wounded. SS Brigadefuhrer Dr. Eberhardt Schongarth immediately ordered reprisals and a total of 263 people were shot. A Special Court of Justice in the Hague sentenced Rauter to death and he was executed March 25, 1949. Schongarth was tried by a British Military Court, found guilty on another war crime charge, sentenced to death and was hanged in 1946.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~gduncan/massacres.html
(WW2D, p.610)
1946 Mar 6, France recognized Vietnam statehood within the Indo-Chinese federation.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1947 Mar 6, Winston Churchill opposed the withdrawal of troops from India.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1947 Mar 6, Ludwig Weber (55), composer, died.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1948 Mar 6, During talks in Berlin, the Western powers agreed to internationalize the Ruhr region.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1949 Mar 6, Robert Storm Petersen (b.1882), Danish cartoonist, writer, animator, illustrator, painter and humorist, died. He is known almost exclusively by his pen name Storm P.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Storm_Petersen)
1950 Mar 6, Silly Putty was invented. [see Mar 2]
(MC, 3/6/02)
1953 Mar 6, Upon Josef Stalin's death, Georgi Malenkov was named Soviet premier. [see Mar 6]
(HN, 3/6/98)
1955 Mar 6, A US Atomic Energy Spokesman said a cloud from the atomic blast at Nevada’s Yucca Flat passed over the Central California coastline.
(SFC, 3/4/05, p.F3)
1957 Mar 6, The former British African colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent state of Ghana. Kwame Nkrumah led Ghana to independence from Britain. US VP Nixon and Martin Luther King attended the independence ceremony.
(SFC, 12/6/96, p.B1)(SFEM, 2/2/97, p.15)(SSFC, 2/11/07, p.C1)
1958 Mar 6, Form letters from Pres. Eisenhower to 6 civilians appointees provided for them to take office in the event of a national emergency. The group met in 1960 with the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization to discuss staffing for their agencies. Pres. Kennedy relieved the group of its duties in 1961.
(SSFC, 3/21/04, p.A2)
1959 Mar 6, Candy Rogers was selling camp fire mints in her Spokane neighborhood when she vanished. Sixteen days later, after a sprawling search effort, her body was found in the woods a few miles from her home. Two airmen with the Air Force died during the search after their helicopter struck a power line. In 2021 DNA evidence led to John Reigh Hoff, a door-to-door salesman, who died by suicide at age 31 in 1970.
(NBC News, 11/19/21)
1960 Mar 6, The Swiss granted women the right to vote in municipal elections.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1961 Mar 6, 1st London minicabs were introduced.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1962 Mar 6, US promised Thailand assistance against "communist" aggression.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1963 Mar 6, Jimmy Lee Smith and Gregory Powell (d.2012 at 79) abducted 2 Los Angeles police officers from a Hollywood street, drove them to an onion field in Bakersfield and shot officer Ian Campbell to death. Officer Karl Hettinger managed to escape. Smith served 19 years for his role in the case before he was paroled. In 1973 Joseph Wambaugh authored “The Onion Field," a novel based on the murder. The novel was turned into a film in 1979.
(SFC, 6/28/05, p.B8)(SFC, 8/14/12, p.A4)
1965 Mar 6, "How to Succeed in Business" closed at 46th St NYC after 1415 performances.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1965 Mar 6, The U.S. announced that it would send 3,500 troops to Vietnam.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1967 Mar 6, US Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson announced his plan to establish a draft lottery.
(www.historynet.com/tdih0306.htm)
1967 Mar 6, Elijah Muhammad, Nation of Islam sect leader, gave a radio address in which he declared the name Cassius Clay lacked a "divine meaning." He gave Clay the Muslim name "Muhammad Ali." Muhammad meant one worthy of praise, and Ali was the name of a cousin of the prophets.
(http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00014063.html)
1967 Mar 6, Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of Josef Stalin, appeared at the US Embassy in India and announced her intention to defect to the West. She arrived at New York in April and held a press conference during which she denounced her father's regime.
(AP, 3/6/07)(www.economicexpert.com/a/Svetlana:Alliluyeva.htm)
1967 Mar 6, Nelson Eddy (b.1901), US baritone and actor, died. “Rose Marie" (1936) is probably his most-remembered film. Eddy sang "Song of the Mounties" and "Indian Love Call" by Rudolf Friml. His definitive portrayal of the steadfast Mountie became a popular icon.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Eddy)
1967 Mar 6, Zoltan Kodaly (b.1882), Hungarian composer, died. His major works, notably the comic opera Hary Janos, the Psalmus hungaricus, the Peacock Variations for orchestra and the Dances of Marosszek and Galanta drew on Magyar folk music.
(www.malaspina.org/kodalyz.htm)
1969 Mar 6, Black Panther Anthony Garnet Bryant, aka Tony Bryant (d.1999 at 60), hijacked a National Airlines plane enroute from NY to Miami and directed it to Cuba. He was arrested in Cuba and spent a year and a half in jail and was pardoned in 1980. His 1984 book "Hijack" described his experience in Cuban prisons.
(SFEC, 12/26/99, p.C10)(http://tinyurl.com/aopyo)
1970 Mar 6, In NYC’s Greenwich Village a townhouse at 18 West 11th St. exploded. SDS Weathermen members Diana Oughton, Ted Gold and Terry Robbins were killed at the site where a bomb was being manufactured. Other members went underground and became known as the Weather Underground. The 1988 film "Running on Empty" was based on Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers. In 2001 Bill Ayers, former Weatherman, authored "Fugitive Days, A Memoir."
(SSFC, 9/9/01, DB p.67)(SFC, 7/21/03, p.D2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Oughton)
1970 Mar 6, The Beatles released "Let it Be" in UK.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Be_(song))
1972 Mar 6, Shaquille O'Neal, NBA center (Magic, Lakers, Oly-gold-96), was born in Newark, NJ.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaquille_O'Neal)
1972 Mar 6, Jack Nicklaus, passed Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner. He captured the Doral Eastern Open golf tournament to run his career earnings up to $1,477,200.
(http://440.com/twtd/archives/mar06.html)(http://tinyurl.com/5exc6t)
1973 Mar 6, President Richard Nixon imposed price controls on oil and gas.
(WSJ, 11/4/96, p.C1)(HN, 3/6/98)
1973 Mar 6, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (b.1892), author, died in Vermont. Her books included “The Good Earth" (1931), for which she won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2010 Hilary Spurling authored “Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_S._Buck)(Econ, 4/10/10, p.85)
1974 Mar 6, "Over Here" opened at Shubert Theater in NYC for 341 performances.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1975 Mar 6, OPEC held a meeting in Algiers attended for the first time by its members’ top leaders. Here the Algiers Accord between Baghdad and Teheran put an end to their border dispute and brought all Iranian help to the Kurdish rebellion to a halt. The United States abruptly withdrew its support for the Kurds and the rebellion collapsed. Many thousands of Kurdish fighters and their families were forced to flee to Iran to escape the pursuing Iraqi army.
(http://mondediplo.com/2002/10/06timeline)(SFC, 11/19/07, p.A11)
1978 Mar 6, Pres. Carter invoked the Taft-Hartley Act for an 80-day cooling off period in a coal strike. Miners had struck 3 months earlier after coal companies demanded wage and benefit cuts and refused to be forced back to work. They ended the strike after 110 days when most company demands were dropped.
(SFC, 10/4/02, p.A17)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bituminous_Coal_Strike_of_1977-1978)
1978 Mar 6, The US Supreme Court in its Oliphant decision ruled that tribes could not try non-Indian defendants in tribal courts. It centered on the arrest of Mark Oliphant, a non-Indian, by tribal police. He argued that the tribal court does not have criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliphant_v._Suquamish_Indian_Tribe)
1978 Mar 6, Larry Flynt (b.1942), founder of "Hustler Magazine," was shot and wounded outside a Georgia courtroom. He was left partially paralyzed. His story was the subject of the 1996 film "The People vs. Larry Flynt."
(SFEC, 12/15/96, DB p.41)(www.imdb.com/name/nm0283658/bio)
1980 Mar 6, Islamic militants in Tehran said that they would turn over the American hostages to the Revolutionary Council.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1981 Mar 6, President Reagan announced plans to cut 37,000 federal jobs.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1981 Mar 6, Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time as principal anchorman of "The CBS Evening News."
(AP, 3/6/00)
1981 Mar 6, In Lubeck, Germany, Klaus Grabowski, a child molester, was shot and killed by the mother of a girl he had molested and strangled. Grabowski had earlier avoided a life sentence by agreeing to castration.
(http://tinyurl.com/3dgxwq)
1982 Mar 6, In East Cleveland, Ohio, Reginald Brooks (66) fatally shot his 3 sons while they slept shortly after his wife filed for divorce. Brooks was executed in Lucasville by lethal injection on Nov 15, 2011. He was oldest person put to death since Ohio resumed executions in 1999.
(SFC, 11/16/11, p.A6)(http://tinyurl.com/7g4a4up)
1982 Mar 6, Ayn Rand (b.1905), author and founder of the Objectivist philosophy, died in NY. Her novels included "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead." In 1987 Barbara Branden wrote the biography titled "The Passion of Ayn Rand." In 1999 Nathaniel Branden published "My Years With Ayn Rand," an account of his 18-year relationship with Rand. In 1999 the US Postal Service issued a 33 cent stamp in her honor. In 2009 Anne Heller authored “Ayn Rand and the World She Made," and Jennifer Burns authored “Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right."
(http://tinyurl.com/2nl7hk)(http://tinyurl.com/3a34t9)(SFEC, 8/18/96, PM p. 2)(SFC, 10/25/98, p.D8)(Econ, 10/24/09, p.95)
1983 Mar 6, "On Your Toes" opened at Virginia Theater in NYC for 505 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4208)
1983 Mar 6, Country Music Television (CMT) began showing.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_Music_Television)
1983 Mar 6, In a case that drew much notoriety, a woman in New Bedford, Mass., reported being gang-raped atop a pool table in a tavern; four men were later convicted.
(AP, 3/6/98)
1983 Mar 6, Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU won West German parliament elections.
(www.germanculture.com.ua/march/march6.htm)
1984 Mar 6, Martin Niemoller (92), German U-boat captain, anti-Nazi minister, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Niem%C3%B6ller)
1985 Mar 6, Yul Brynner appeared in his 4,500th performance of "King & I."
(www.weekender.co.jp/new/040305/this-month-history.html)
1985 Mar 6, In Mexico authorities found the body of kidnapped US drug agent Enrique Camarena Salazar and a Mexican pilot at a ranch east of Guadalajara.
(AP, 3/6/05)
1986 Mar 6, Ken Ludwig's "Lend me a Tenor," premiered in London.
(www.thisistheatre.com/shows/gielgud123.html)
1986 Mar 6, USSR's Vega 1 flew by Halley's Comet at 8,890 km.
(www.iki.rssi.ru/ssp/vega.html)
1986 Mar 6, Georgia O'Keefe (98), US painter (Flowers), died in Santa Fe, NM.
(SSFC, 6/22/03, p.C8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O'Keeffe)
1987 Mar 6, The British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized in the Channel off the coast of Belgium after water rushed through the open bow doors. 189 people died when the ferry capsized off the Belgian port of Zeebrugge.
(HN, 3/6/98)(AP, 3/6/98)
1988 Mar 6, The board of trustees at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., a liberal arts college for the deaf, selected Elisabeth Zinser, a hearing woman, to be school president. Outraged students shut down the campus, forcing the selection of a deaf president, I. King Jordan, instead.
(AP, 3/6/08)
1988 Mar 6, British SAS officers killed 3 IRA suspects in Gibraltar.
(http://tinyurl.com/2xbne)
1989 Mar 6, With nearly 90 percent of its pilots honoring the picket lines of striking machinists, Eastern Airlines shut down operations on all but three routes.
(AP, 3/6/99)
1989 Mar 6, Harry Andrews (b.1911), English actor, died in Sussex, England. His films included “Helen of Troy" (1956) and “Equus" (1977).
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0028674/)
1990 Mar 6, The Soviet parliament overwhelmingly approved legislation allowing people to own factories and hire workers for the first time in nearly seven decades.
(AP, 3/6/00)
1991 Mar 6, Following Iraq’s capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told a cheering joint session of Congress that “aggression is defeated. The war is over."
(AP, 3/6/01)
1992 Mar 6, Personal computer users braced for a virus known as “Michelangelo," set to trigger on March 6, but only scattered cases of lost files were reported. The Michelangelo computer virus threatened computer systems around the world. It was designed to lodge itself into a corner of the system and infect any floppies put into the system, and to eventually mangle the hard drive.
(Sp., 5/96, p.68)(AP, 3/6/02)
1993 Mar 6, As a standoff at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended its first week, authorities appealed publicly to David Koresh and his followers to give themselves up.
(AP, 3/6/98)
1994 Mar 6, Two top Clinton administration officials, Vice President Al Gore and White House adviser George Stephanopoulos, appeared on the Sunday TV talk shows to blame Republican sniping for much of the furor over Whitewater.
(AP, 3/6/99)
1994 Mar 6, In Arizona a 2nd 7-member crew entered the Biosphere 2. Their mission was cut short under management problems and reorganization.
(SFC, 11/25/96, p.A3)
1994 Mar 6, Melina Mercouri (b.1920), Greek born actress turned politician, died of lung cancer in New York City.
(AP, 3/6/99)(www.imdb.com/name/nm0580479/)
1995 Mar 6, The Republican-controlled House took up business-backed legislation to alter the civil legal system over White House objections that some of the proposals were too extreme. The House passed the measure the following day.
(AP, 3/6/00)
1996 Mar 6, A federal appeals court struck down Washington state’s ban on doctor-assisted suicide.
(AP, 3/6/01)
1996 Mar 6, Lamar Alexander and Dick Lugar announced they were dropping out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
(AP, 3/6/01)
1996 Mar 6, Reports said that at least 10,000 Chechens have fled to this neighboring republic [Dagestan] of the Russian Union.
(WSJ, 3/6/96, p. A-1)
1997 Mar 6, The first ever Webby Awards ceremony was held in SF at Bimbo’s 365 Club in North Beach.
(SFC, 3/7/96, p.A1)
1997 Mar 6, A gunman stole "Tete de Femme," a million-dollar Picasso portrait, from a London gallery. A week later, the painting was recovered and two suspects arrested.
(AP, 3/6/98)
1997 Mar 6, A new “on the spot" litmus test for the toxins of the E. coli bacteria was announced.
(WSJ, 3/6/97, p.A1)
1997 Mar 6, In Angola an armed group killed 30 people at a Roman Catholic mission in southern Angola and held 6 missionaries hostage.
(SFC, 3/13/97, p.A13)
1997 Mar 6, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II launched the first official royal Web site.
(AP, 3/6/98)
1997 Mar 6, China introduced new laws to bolster its campaigns against dissent, ethnic separatism and subversive Western ideals.
(AP, 3/6/98)
1997 Mar 6, Dr. Cheddi Jagan (78), president of Guyana, died.
(SFC, 3/7/97, p.A24)
1997 Mar 6, In Jamaica former Prime Minister Michael Manley (b.Dec 10, 1924) died.
(SFC, 3/8/96, p.A21)
1997 Mar 6, In Nepal the 17-month coalition of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba was defeated and Deuba resigned. King Birendra asked Deuba’s centrist Nepali Congress Party to continue until the formation of a new council of ministers.
(SFC, 3/7/97, p.A17)
1997 Mar 6, In Sri Lanka Tamil Tiger rebels overran the army base at Vavunativu and left more than 200 dead.
(SFC, 3/7/97, p.A24)
1997 Mar 6, In Turkey Prime Minister Erbakan signed on to the list of 18 measures submitted by the military to curb ultra-religious schools, publications and organizations.
(WSJ, 3/7/97, p.A10)
1998 Mar 6, It was reported that the conservative Tax Foundation estimated that the state of Mississippi received $1.64 for a $1.00 it sent to Washington.
(WSJ, 3/6/98, p.A1)
1998 Mar 6, The Army honored three Americans who risked their lives and turned their weapons on fellow soldiers to stop the slaughter of Vietnamese villagers at My Lai in 1968.
(AP, 3/6/99)
1998 Mar 6, Matthew Beck (35), a Connecticut state lottery accountant, shot to death three supervisors and the lottery chief before killing himself.
(SFC, 3/7/98, p.A3)(AP, 3/6/99)
1998 Mar 6, It was reported that Panama hired a Canadian Indian tribe, the Tsuu T’ina, to clean out unexploded bombs and shells from an area of Empire Range, which US military forces abandoned.
(SFC, 3/6/98, p.A12)
1998 Mar 6, The IMF announced that it would delay the release of $3 billion in aid to Indonesia because basic requirements were not yet met.
(SFC, 3/9/98, p.A11)
1998 Mar 6, Francesca Trombino, lawyer, was bludgeoned to death in Pordenone. She was representing a US Marine in the Feb 3 cable-car disaster. She was also representing the wife of the captured suspect in a divorce case.
(SFC, 3/7/98, p.A7)
1998 Mar 6, Police in Kosovo reported that they killed Adem Jashari, a leader in the Kosovo Liberation Army, in Donji Prekaz in the Drenica region. 45 Albanians and 6 Serb police were reported dead. Of the 46 bodies 11 were women and 9 children. Six of the men were elderly.
(SFC, 3/7/98, p.A6)(SFC, 3/10/98, p.A8)
1999 Mar 6, The emir of Bahrain, Sheik Issa bin Salman Al Khalifa (65), a key Western ally who had ruled for nearly four decades, died shortly after a meeting with Defense Secretary William Cohen. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Crown Prince Hamed ibn Issa Khalifa (49). King Hamed al-Khalifa soon ended a 25-year-long state of emergency.
(SFEC, 3/7/99, p.D8)(AP, 3/6/00)(WSJ, 10/25/01, p.A1)(Econ, 11/25/06, p.46)
1999 Mar 6, From Brazil it was reported that heavy flooding had hit Sao Paulo. 27 people were killed and 10,000 left homeless.
(SFC, 3/6/99, p.A8)
1999 Mar 6, Ta Mok (72), aka "the butcher," the one-legged last senior leader of the Khmer Rouge, was arrested.
(SFEC, 3/7/99, p.A17)(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A12)
1999 Mar 6, From El Salvador it was reported that extermination squads were killing gang members at the rate of 1-2 a week.
(SFC, 3/6/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 6, Some 40 Haitians were apparently drowned when 2 boats loaded with refugees sank. There were 3 survivors.
(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A4)
1999 Mar 6, From Kiribati it was reported that state of emergency had been declared after a prolonged drought nearly exhausted the underground fresh water supply of the 81,000 inhabitants.
(SFC, 3/6/99, p.A8)
2000 Mar 6, Eric Clapton was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the third time; among the newest honorees were James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt and Earth, Wind and Fire.
(AP, 3/6/01)
2000 Mar 6, Three white New York City officers were convicted of a cover-up in a brutal police station attack on Haitian immigrant Abner Louima.
(AP, 3/6/01)
2000 Mar 6, Gasoline prices in California reached an average $1.63 per gallon.
(SFC, 3/7/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 6, California voters passed Prop. 22, the gay marriage ban and Prop. 1A, an approval of Indian gaming rights. Prop. 1A enabled tribes to negotiate compacts with the state to operate casinos with slot machines and house banking.
(SFC, 3/9/00, p.A1)(SSFC, 6/1/03, p.D6)
2000 Mar 6, California voters approved Prop. 21 by 61% authorizing prosecutors to try juveniles as adults for serious crimes.
(SFC, 10/2/14, p.D2)
2000 Mar 6, MGM Grand Inc. led by Kirk Kerkorian acquired Mirage Resorts, founded by Stephen A. Wynn, for $4.4 billion in cash.
(SFC, 3/7/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 6, In Chechnya some 30 rebels held positions at Komsomolskoye's mosque under Russian shelling. 50 Russian troops were reported killed in the last 2 days.
(SFC, 3/7/00, p.A14)
2000 Mar 6, China introduced a $111.1 billion budget that cut its deficit and added funds for military spending.
(WSJ, 3/7/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 6, The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited together with Hong Kong Securities Clearing Company Limited merged under a single exchange HKEX. In June Hong Kong sold shares in its combined stock exchange and clearing house to the public. In 2007 HKEX bought back a stake of almost 6%.
(Econ, 9/15/07, p.93)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Exchanges_and_Clearing)
2000 Mar 6, Serbia sealed its border with Montenegro as relations worsened.
(WSJ, 3/7/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 6, In Sierra Leone some 150 former rebel fighters were reported killed after a clandestine diamond mine they were working collapsed.
(SFC, 3/8/00, p.C4)
2000 Mar 6, In Uganda an overloaded boat sank on Lake Victoria and at least 45 people drowned.
(WSJ, 3/9/00, p.A1)
2001 Mar 6, Bill Mazeroski was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, along with former Negro League player Hilton Smith.
(AP, 3/5/02)
2001 Mar 6, Calling it the “most accurate census in history," the Bush administration refused to adjust the 2000 head count.
(AP, 3/5/02)
2001 Mar 6, The US Senate voted to repeal rules issued 4 months ago by former Pres. Clinton that were intended to reduce workplace injuries. The House followed suit the next day.
(SFC, 3/7/01, p.A1)(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A3)
2001 Mar 6, US District Judge Marilyn Patel ordered Napster to block access to its files of Millions of downloadable songs protected by copyrights.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D3)
2001 Mar 6, Two American women died when their twin-engine plane crashed after take-off from Iceland. They were on their way to Britain for a long-distance air race.
(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A16)
2001 Mar 6, In Argentina Federal Judge Gabriel Cavallo struck down amnesty laws that protected hundreds of soldiers accused of torture, murder and kidnapping during the dictatorship of 1976-1983.
(SFC, 3/7/01, p.A9)
2001 Mar 6, It was reported that Chinese psychiatrists have decided to stop classifying homosexuality as a mental illness.
(SFC, 3/6/01, p.A11)
2001 Mar 6, In China an explosion at an elementary school in Jiangxi province left 37 students and 4 teachers dead. 42 people, mostly students, were killed in a schoolhouse explosion in southern China; parents said the students had been forced to make fireworks by school officials. Teachers, to enhance their meager salaries, had forced students to make firecrackers during their lunch breaks. Prime Minister Zhu Rongji said the blast was caused by a “deranged suicide bomber."
(WSJ, 3/7/01, p.A1)(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A1)(SFC, 3/9/01, p.A14)(AP, 3/5/02)
2001 Mar 6, The EU ordered all livestock markets closed for 2 weeks to contain foot-and-mouth disease.
(SFC, 3/7/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 6, In Kenya the 1st experimental AIDS vaccine, specifically designed for Africa, was administered.
(SFC, 3/7/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 6, In Nigeria 30 girls died from a fire at the Gindiri Girls School in Jos. They were reportedly locked in for the night so as not to mix with boys.
(WSJ, 3/8/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 6, In Rwanda local elections were held for the 1st time since the 1994 mass slaughter of Tutsis.
(WSJ, 3/7/01, p.A1)
2002 Mar 6, Independent Counsel Robert Ray issued his final report in which he wrote that former President Clinton could have been indicted and probably would have been convicted in the scandal involving former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2002 Mar 6, Federal regulators approved the proposed $22 billion merger of Hewlett-Packard Co. and Compaq Computer Corp.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2002 Mar 6, US commanders in Afghanistan committed an additional 300 troops to the battle zone in the Shah-I-Kot mountains. Taliban and al-Qaeda forces were reported to have swollen by as many as 500 fighters. US jets killed 14 people in the area including women and children.
(SFC, 3/7/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/13/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 6, It was reported that a 3-year study of heavy marijuana users showed that long-term pot smoking impaired brain function.
(SFC, 3/6/02, p.A2)
2002 Mar 6, It was reported that a diet rich in tomato products can lower the risk of prostate cancer (Journal of National Cancer Institute).
(SFC, 3/6/02, p.A2)(WSJ, 3/6/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 6, Astronauts successfully replaced a power-control unit on the Hubble space telescope.
(WSJ, 3/7/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 6, In Kabul, Afghanistan, 3 Danish and 2 German peacekeeping soldiers were killed while defusing a soviet era missile.
(WSJ, 3/7/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 6, China announced a 17.6% increase in defense spending.
(SFC, 3/7/02, p.A7)
2002 Mar 6, It was reported that new regulations (Kuschelregel, the cuddle rule) required German pig farmers to spend at least 20 seconds each day looking at each pig.
(WSJ, 3/6/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 6, Israeli forces struck Palestinian targets by land and sea. 13 Palestinians and 2 Israelis were left dead.
(SFC, 3/7/02, p.A6)(WSJ, 3/7/02, p.A1)
2003 Mar 6, President Bush held a new conference and warned that he was prepared to go to war soon in Iraq with or without UN backing.
(AP, 3/7/03)(SFC, 3/7/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 6, The United States ratified a treaty on cutting active U.S. and Russian long-range nuclear warheads by two-thirds.
(AP, 3/6/04)
2003 Mar 6, Democrats blocked President Bush's nomination of Miguel Estrada to a federal appeals court.
(AP, 3/6/04)
2003 Mar 6, An Air Algerie Boeing 737 jet crashed killing 102 passengers and crew in the southern Algerian province of Tamanrasset. At least 1 person survived.
(AP, 3/6/03)(SFC, 3/7/03, p.A14)
2003 Mar 6, Britain offered to compromise on a US-backed resolution by giving Saddam Hussein a short deadline to prove he has eliminated all banned weapons or face an attack.
(AP, 3/6/03)
2003 Mar 6, The Chinese government committed itself to helping its poorest citizens, unveiling a new budget aimed at helping the countryside and maintaining growth. Defense was budgeted a 9.3% rise, the lowest in 14 years, and plans were made to abolish the agency in charge of five-year plans.
(AP, 3/6/03)(SFC, 3/6/03, p.A14)(WSJ, 3/6/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 6, The Congolese government and rebels have agreed in Pretoria to meld their armed forces into a new national army in a bid to end a 4 ½-year civil war and reunify the vast central African nation.
(AP, 3/7/03)
2003 Mar 6, Pres. Fidel Castro was elected a sixth term and he wasted no time in criticizing the US, warning that Cuba doesn't need its foreign office.
(AP, 3/7/03)
2003 Mar 6, Zdenek Adamec (19) set himself on fire in downtown Prague on to protest the Czech political situation and what he called the domination of the wealthy in the world.
(AP, 3/6/03)
2003 Mar 6, Israeli troops hunting Islamic militants after a deadly suicide bombing stormed the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza in a raid that left 11 Palestinians dead and 110 wounded.
(AP, 3/6/03)
2003 Mar 6, Italian police raided a house in Palermo and captured Salvatore Rinella (49), a top Mafia boss.
(AP, 3/7/03)
2004 Mar 6, President Bush backed off on plans to require frequent Mexican travelers to the United States to be fingerprinted and photographed before crossing the border.
(AP, 3/6/05)
2004 Mar 6, A water taxi carrying about 25 passengers capsized in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, killing one person. Three others were missing and presumed dead. Navy reservists rescued 21 people.
(AP, 3/6/04)(SFC, 3/08/04, p.A3)
2004 Mar 6, China handed its enormous military a double-digit spending increase in a show of support. According to China's 2004 budget, military spending for the PLA will rise 11.6 percent this year, an increase of $2.6 billion.
(AP, 3/6/04)
2004 Mar 6, Thousands of women marched through Paris to press for equal rights for women and show support for a law to ban Islamic head scarves in public schools.
(AP, 3/6/04)
2004 Mar 6, It was reported that 4 compromising videos have been released showing Mexican political party leaders and public servants accepting briefcases full of cash, gambling at the high rollers' table in Las Vegas and offering to procure business contracts for millions of dollars.
(AP, 3/6/04)
2004 Mar 6, Palestinian gunmen and car bombers attacked a major crossing point between the Gaza Strip and Israel. At least four attackers and two Palestinian policemen were killed, and no Israeli soldiers were hurt.
(AP, 3/6/04)
2004 Mar 6, Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans marched through Caracas to protest the rejection of a petition aimed at recalling President Hugo Chavez.
(AP, 3/7/04)
2005 Mar 6, Hans Bethe (b.1906), German-born peace worker and Nobel Prize winning physicist (1967), died in Ithaca, NY. In the 1930s Bethe, one of the greatest innovative theoretical physicists of our time, unraveled the mysterious nuclear cycles by which stars produce prodigious amounts of energy for billions of years without burning out.
(SFC, 3/8/05, p.B5)(Econ, 3/19/05, p.90)
2005 Mar 6, Actress Teresa Wright died in New Haven, Conn., at age 86.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2005 Mar 6, In Bolivia President Carlos Mesa said he would submit his resignation to Congress after 17 months in office, warning that growing protests against Bolivia's oil and gas laws could soon block the country's highways and isolate its main cities.
(AP, 3/7/05)
2005 Mar 6, China convened its National People’s Congress.
(WSJ, 3/7/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 6, Shanghai became the 1st Chinese city to levy a capital gains tax on the sale of private property held for less than a year.
(Econ, 3/26/05, p.73)
2005 Mar 6, Israeli investigators said police had arrested 22 employees of a Tel Aviv bank branch on suspicion they helped launder hundreds of millions of dollars in one of the largest such rings in the country's history.
(AP, 3/6/05)
2005 Mar 6, Giuliana Sgrena, the Italian journalist wounded by American troops in Iraq after her release by insurgents, rejected the U.S. military's account of the shooting and declined to rule out the possibility she was deliberately targeted. The White House called the shooting a "horrific accident" and restated its promise to investigate fully.
(AP, 3/6/05)
2005 Mar 6, Moldova held national elections. Nine special stations were opened near the border with Trans-Dniester so the separatist region's 700,000 residents can vote. Trans-Dniester authorities have refused to allow any polling stations on their territory. The governing pro-Western Communists won a parliamentary majority, but fell short of taking enough seats to re-elect President Vladimir Voronin.
(AP, 3/6/05)(AP, 3/7/05)
2005 Mar 6, In Norway 3 works by Edvard Munch were stolen from a hotel, the second theft of the renowned Norwegian's art in less than seven months.
(AP, 3/7/05)
2005 Mar 6, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, ending years of chilly relations with Uzbekistan, promised to catch and extradite any Uzbek-born terrorist hiding in his country.
(AP, 3/6/05)
2005 Mar 6, Palestinian militants shot and wounded two Israeli border policemen in an attack on a military post near a West Bank shrine.
(AP, 3/7/05)
2005 Mar 6, More than 15,000 protesters marched in Taiwan, denouncing China's planned anti-secession law and pledging to fight what they claim is Beijing's attempt to force this self-ruled, democratic island to unify with the mainland.
(AP, 3/6/05)
2005 Mar 6, In Turkey riot police kicked and beat women and young people who had gathered for an unauthorized demonstration in Istanbul marking International Women's Day.
(AP, 3/7/05)
2006 Mar 6, The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously that colleges that accept federal money must allow military recruiters on campus, despite university objections to the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Gov. Mike Rounds of South Dakota signed a sweeping state abortion ban. It was an intentional provocation to set up a legal challenge to the 1973 Supreme Court Roe vs. Wade decision that made abortion legal. Abortion-rights groups were able to get enough signatures to put the measure to a vote, and the ban was rejected in the November election.
(SFC, 3/7/06, p.A8)(AP, 3/6/07)
2006 Mar 6, A San Francisco judge ordered the Univ. of California to pay over $33.8 million to some 40,000 students, who claimed their fees had been improperly raised.
(SFC, 3/7/06, p.A1)
2006 Mar 6, General Motors Corp. said it will sell a 17.4% stake in Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp. for $2 billion, scaling down its share in an effort to gain much-needed cash. GM and Suzuki said the partnership between the automakers will continue.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, US scientists issued a forecast that the next sunspot cycle would start in late 2007 or 2008 and peak in 2012. Solar storms in the 11-year cycle could disrupt power and communications around the world.
(SFC, 3/7/06, p.A5)
2006 Mar 6, Dana Reeve (44), singer, actress and non-smoker, died of lung cancer. She won worldwide admiration for her devotion to her "Superman" husband, Christopher Reeve (d.2004), through his decade of near-total paralysis.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 6, Baseball Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett died in Phoenix at age 45.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2006 Mar 6-2006 Mar 7, Armenian and Azerbaijani forces exchanged heavy gunfire and mortars at several points along their border in the most serious fighting in months.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 6, PM John Howard in New Delhi said Australia will consider selling uranium to India if it is convinced about New Delhi's commitment to follow global nuclear safeguards for its civilian atomic reactors.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Austrian authorities said several cats have tested positive for the deadly strain of bird flu in their first reported case of the disease spreading to an animal other than a bird.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Bangladesh's second top Islamist militant was captured after a gunbattle with security forces. Siddiqul Islam Bangla Bhai, chief of the outlawed Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh group (JMB), was arrested along with his wife at his hideout with two of his associates in the northern district of Mymensingh.
(Reuters, 3/6/06)(Econ, 3/25/06, p.45)
2006 Mar 6, President Evo Morales accused the US government of trying to intimidate Bolivia by announcing it would cut some aid because of a disagreement over the appointment of a military commander.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, A Chinese lawmaker called for police to tape interrogations in possible death penalty cases following widespread complaints of confessions being forced by torture.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, France's highest administrative body ruled that Sikhs must remove their turbans for driver's license photos, calling it a question of public security and not a restriction on freedom of religion.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, German drugmaker Bayer AG said its fourth-quarter profit fell 33% after it set aside 275 million euros ($330.5 million) to settle claims that it colluded on prices of rubber and plastic in the US.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, In Iraq explosions killed at least 10 people and wounded 36 in Baghdad and Baqouba. In Iraq 2 men were burned to death in their car after a shootout with Iraqi police in Basra. Security officials said the victims were British citizens. A car bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol exploded near a market north of Baghdad, killing at least five people. A Sunni general in charge of Baghdad defenses was killed by snipers. Attacks across Iraq killed at least 25 people.
(AP, 3/6/06)(WSJ, 3/7/06, p.A1)
2006 Mar 6, Israeli aircraft blew up a truck carrying Islamic Jihad militants, killing two of them and three bystanders, including two children. The Israeli military confirmed it attacked the truck, saying the target was one of the dead men, Islamic Jihad operative Moner Sukar, who had carried out rocket attacks against Israel.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Zeev Rosenstein (51), a suspected Israeli mob boss, was extradited to the US. Rosenstein was suspected in the distribution of more than 1 million Ecstasy pills in the US, mostly in NY and Miami.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, In Mexico Diego Santoy (21) was captured at a police roadblock in the southern state of Oaxaca, four days after he allegedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend, Erika Pena, 18, strangled her 3-year-old sister and stabbed to death her 7-year-old brother.
(AP, 3/8/06)
2006 Mar 6, Nigeria unveiled details of spending plans in its record 14.8-billion-dollar (12.3-billion-euro) federal budget and made ambitious predictions for strong economic growth.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Pakistani authorities clamped a curfew on a Miran Shah and negotiated with tribesmen to try to end three days of clashes that have left more than 120 pro-Taliban rebels dead. Thousands of residents joined an exodus out of the town.
(AFP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, In comments aimed at Afghanistan's leader, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said that the "bad-mouthing" of his country must stop and that Pakistani officials have caught terrorists "and will continue to do so."
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Hamas lawmakers in Palestine voted to revoke decisions made by the Fatah-led parliament at its last meeting in February, including more power for Pres. Abbas.
(WSJ, 3/7/06, p.A1)
2006 Mar 6, President Vladimir Putin signed a measure into law that allows the Russian military to shoot down hijacked planes, the latest in a series of bills passed following terrorist attacks.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Russia's environmental agency gave final approval to a much-criticized plan to build a 2,550-mile oil pipeline past Lake Baikal, the world's largest freshwater lake.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, In Seoul representatives of South Korea and the US agreed to begin negotiations in June on establishing a free trade agreement. A block away movie actors, directors and farmers staged protests against any such deal.
(AFP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Leaders from the main Darfur rebel group renounced Abdel Wahed Mohamed el-Nur, their party president, saying he was acting unilaterally and endangering fragile peace talks.
(Reuters, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Sandjar Umarov, chairman of the opposition Sunshine Uzbekistan group, was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison on charges of organizing a criminal group, tax evasion and money laundering. Umarov pleaded innocent to all charges.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2007 Mar 6, Democratic lawmakers accused the Bush administration of carrying out a political purge by firing at least 8 US attorneys.
(SFC, 3/7/07, p.A3)
2007 Mar 6, Former US White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was convicted of lying and obstructing an investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's identity. Sentencing was scheduled for June.
(AP, 3/7/07)(Econ, 3/10/07, p.27)
2007 Mar 6, More than 30 Vermont towns passed resolutions seeking to impeach President Bush, while at least 16 towns in the tiny New England state called on Washington to withdraw US troops from Iraq.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 6, US Army medic Spc. Agustin Aguayo, who refused to return to Iraq because of his opposition to the war, was convicted in Germany of desertion at his court martial. He was sentenced to eight months in prison, far short of the maximum seven-year sentence.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, It was reported that Myers Development Co. of SF planned to start construction next month on its $428 million Mandalay Terrace project on the west side of San Bruno Mountain in South San Francisco. It included 12 and 21-story office towers.
(SFC, 3/6/07, p.B6)
2007 Mar 6, Researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that pollution from Asia is helping generate stronger storms over the North Pacific, according to new research. Satellite measurements have shown an increase in tiny particles generated from coal burning in China and India in recent decades.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Ernest Gallo (97), who parlayed $5,900 and a wine recipe from a public library into the world's largest winemaking empire, died at his home in Modesto, Ca.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 6, In southern Afghanistan a remote-control bomb targeting a police vehicle on killed one policeman and wounded another in the Murja district of Helmand province. Afghan soldiers caught Mullah Mahmood, a senior Taliban commander at a checkpoint in Kandahar province. He was wearing a burqa, the all-encompassing Islamic veil worn by women. One British soldier and four Taliban fighters were killed. A Canadian soldier died from a gunshot wound to the chest. Enemy action was ruled out as the cause. The Taliban claimed that it had kidnapped 4 journalists, including a Briton and an Italian.
(AP, 3/6/07)(AP, 3/7/07)(WSJ, 3/7/07, p.A1)
2007 Mar 6, A fire raged through a congested slum in southeastern Bangladesh, killing at least 21 people, including 10 children.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Central African Republic forces (FACA) peacefully took back control of the airfield at Birao that they had abandoned following rebel attacks at the weekend.
(AFP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, The government of Chad refused to allow the UN to send an advance mission to prepare for the possible deployment of UN peacekeepers, a setback to plans to help thousands of civilians caught in the spillover of the Darfur conflict in neighboring Sudan.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 6, An explosion at a coal mine in south China killed at least 15 workers.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 6, Fortunat Lumu, the head of Congo's atomic energy commission, was arrested along with an aide on suspicion of illegally selling uranium.
(AP, 3/8/07)
2007 Mar 6, In eastern Ethiopia 2 US troops were reported killed and another injured in a single-vehicle traffic accident.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, France and the United Arab Emirates signed an agreement to open a branch of the Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi, despite criticism that the French government is peddling the country's artistic treasures.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Jean Baudrillard (b.1929), French philosopher and social theorist, died. He was best known for his writings on gender relations and consumerism.
(Econ, 3/17/07, p.93)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard)
2007 Mar 6, Volkswagen's new chief executive Martin Winterkorn has been nominated as chairman of Swedish truck maker Scania in a new phase in the plans for a three-way tie-up with German group MAN. VW is Scania's biggest shareholder with a voting stake of 34 percent and traditionally holds the chair of the Swedish truck maker's supervisory board.
(AFP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Guatemala's president ordered the national police to clean out corrupt officers and upgrade training after six members of the force were accused of killing three Central American Parliament members.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, In western India wildlife officials said poachers had killed three highly endangered Asiatic lions in their only remaining sanctuary, removing their claws and bones and raising fears for the future of these rare cats. Tiger numbers in India had collapsed to around 1,800 in the wild, about half the world’s total.
(AP, 3/6/07)(Econ, 5/26/07, p.41)
2007 Mar 6, In western Indonesia a 6.3 earthquake crumpled houses across a large swath of Sumatra Island, killing over 70 people and injuring hundreds.
(AP, 3/7/07)(AP, 3/10/07)
2007 Mar 6, Iran said its former deputy defense minister was missing while on a private trip to neighboring Turkey, and its top police chief accused Western intelligence services of possibly kidnapping the official.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, In Iraq 2 suicide bombers blew themselves up in a crowd of Shiite pilgrims streaming toward a shrine at Hillah, killing at least 120 people and wounding about 190. In the south Baghdad neighborhood of Dora gunmen pumped bullets into a minibus, killing all eight passengers inside. A car bomb nearby killed at least 7 people.
(AP, 3/6/07)(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 6, In Iraq US Staff Sgt. Michael Barbera took a knee, leveled his rifle and killed two unarmed brothers as they herded cattle in a grove. Barbera faced a US military trial in 2014.
(SFC, 4/24/14, p.A6)
2007 Mar 6, Italian prosecutors cleared a physician who disconnected the respirator of a paralyzed man who had asked to die.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, In Mexico gunmen wounded Gen. Francisco Fernandez, the top security official in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco, and killed his driver.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 6, Moroccan officials arrested Saad Houssaini, an alleged member of a terrorist group that is believed linked to the 2004 Madrid bombings and 2003 attacks in Casablanca.
(AFP, 3/9/07)
2007 Mar 6, Dutch judges ruled that a chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang is not a criminal organization, rejecting prosecutors' attempts to have the group outlawed.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, In northwestern Pakistan armed tribesmen attacked suspected Uzbek militants, triggering a battle in which 15 people were killed.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo signed into law a package of anti-terror measures that has drawn protests as a threat to civil liberties.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Interfax news agency said 2 American women were hospitalized in Moscow for treatment of thallium poisoning. The women became ill Feb. 24 and were being treated at Moscow's Sklifosovsky clinic.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, In Somalia mortar rounds slammed into Mogadishu's airport during a ceremony welcoming the arrival of peacekeepers. At least 3 people were killed when a firefight erupted between unidentified insurgents and Ethiopian troops near a military base in Mogadishu.
(AP, 3/6/07)(AFP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Sudan said it will try three Sudanese for crimes committed in Darfur, including a member of the country's security forces who is being sought by an international war crimes court.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Thailand's military-installed government took over the country's only independent television station and said it would be temporarily pulled off the air after it failed to pay millions of dollars in unpaid license fees.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Venezuelan authorities arrested, Gen. Ramon Guillen Davila, a retired National Guard general, on accusations that he plotted to overthrow President Hugo Chavez.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 6, In Zimbabwe at least 34 people were killed when a train collided with a minibus at rail crossing on the outskirts of the capital Harare.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2008 Mar 6, In Nevada letters began arriving this week to patients who received injected anesthesia at the endoscopy center from March 2004 to mid-January were urged to get tested for hepatitis B and C, and HIV. The Las Vegas clinic was found to be reusing syringes and vials of medication for nearly four years.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, A lawmaker said Abkhazia, a region that broke away from Georgian government control in the 1990s, intends to seek international recognition as an independent nation, citing Kosovo as a precedent.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, In Albania a boat carrying partygoers celebrating the birthday of 5-year-old twins sank just after midnight in a lake near the capital, killing 16 people, including the two children.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, Britain unveiled a timetable for the introduction of controversial biometric identity cards, starting with non-European foreigners who will be obliged to have them from later this year.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, In Britain the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) said that up to 700 hundred personnel of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) had begun a 24-hour stoppage in response to poor pay conditions and below-inflation wage increases over the past few years.
(AFP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, In Colombia Pedro Pablo Montoya, a guerrilla known as Rojas, came to government troops with the severed right hand of FARC rebel leader Ivan Rios (46), a laptop computer and ID, saying he had killed his boss three days earlier. Rojas handed himself over to the soldiers. The US State Department had a bounty of $5 million for Rios' capture. In 2011 Rojas was sentenced to 40 years for his role in a 1999 attack on the northwestern town of Narino, in which 9 police and 7 civilians were killed. A march protesting the Colombian government and paramilitary death squads drew tens of thousands of people and 6 organizers were killed.
(AP, 3/7/08)(AP, 3/14/08)(AP, 11/10/11)
2008 Mar 6, In Egypt police arrested 26 members of the Muslim Brotherhood in an ongoing crackdown on Egypt's largest Islamic opposition group ahead of next month's local election.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, Greece's main power company extended rolling blackouts as a strike by the company's workers entered its fourth day.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, Officials said authorities in Indian Kashmir have begun poisoning stray dogs in an anti-rabies drive that aims to kill some 100,000 dogs in the region's main city.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, In Iraq an attack killed 68 people in a Baghdad shopping district. 120 were wounded. Many of the victims were teens or young adults.
(AP, 3/7/08)
2008 Mar 6, A gunman infiltrated a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem and opened fire in a library, killing 8 students and wounding dozens before an Israeli army officer nearby shot the gunman dead. In Gaza, the Islamic militant Hamas praised the attack.
(AP, 3/6/08)(AP, 3/7/08)
2008 Mar 6, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega announced that he is breaking off relations with Colombia because of his country's opposition to the Colombian raid on a guerrilla base in Ecuador.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, A massive power outage struck Pakistan's largest city of Karachi and left the entire city of more than 15 million people without electricity.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, Palestinian militants ambushed an Israeli army jeep on the border with Gaza, killing one soldier and wounding three. Deputies of Egypt's intelligence chief Omar Suleiman met with officials from the Islamic militant Hamas and the smaller Islamic Jihad in the Egyptian Sinai city of el-Arish to persuade Hamas to accept a truce that would halt rocket attacks.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, Serbia's tottering coalition government voted down a bid by nationalist PM Vojislav Kostunica to rule out any deal with the EU until it revokes the independence of Kosovo.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, K. Sivanesan (51), a Sri Lankan Tamil lawmaker, was killed in a roadside bomb attack by government security forces. At least 61 Tamil Tiger rebels and five government troops were killed in 2 days of fresh fighting across Sri Lanka's embattled north.
(AFP, 3/6/08)(AFP, 3/7/08)
2008 Mar 6, Journalists and a security official said Sudanese authorities have reimposed daily censorship of newspapers after they published reports accusing the government of backing Chadian rebels.
(Reuters, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, Viktor Bout, a suspected Russian arms dealer, was arrested at a five-star hotel in downtown Bangkok on allegations that he supplied Colombian rebels with arms and explosives. He had been accused of flouting UN embargoes and was wanted by Interpol.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, A Kurdish demonstrator wounded a day earlier in clashes with police in eastern Turkey died of his injuries.
(AP, 3/7/08)
2008 Mar 6, About 700 Turkish school children were hospitalized for apparent food poisoning.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2009 Mar 6, The US Labor Department reported that the nation's unemployment rate bolted to 8.1 percent in February, the highest since late 1983, as cost-cutting employers slashed 651,000 jobs amid a deepening recession.
(AP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, The IRS said it would not renew its expiring contracts with two private debt collection agencies. An in-house tax collection program was cited as more effective.
(WSJ, 3/7/09, p.A4)
2009 Mar 6, The CIA destroyed a dozen videotapes of harsh interrogations of terror suspects, according to documents filed in a lawsuit over the government's treatment of detainees. The 12 tapes were part of a larger collection of 92 videotapes of terror suspects that the CIA destroyed. The extent of the tape destruction was disclosed through a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union against the government.
(AP, 3/7/09)
2009 Mar 6, In California Annette Yeomans (51) surrendered at the Vista jail and was booked for investigation of grand theft and embezzlement. The former bookkeeper reportedly embezzled $9.9 million, forcing her company to make layoffs as she bought 400 pairs of shoes that she kept in a room-sized closet decorated with a crystal chandelier and a plasma television. Authorities alleged that Yeomans embezzled the money from 2001 to 2007 while she was chief financial officer for Quality Woodworks, Inc., a cabinetry business in San Marcos.
(AP, 3/8/09)
2009 Mar 6, NASA's planet-hunting telescope, Kepler, rocketed into space on a historic voyage to track down other Earths in a faraway patch of the Milky Way galaxy. The $600 million satellite experienced a communication failure in 2013. It continued limited operations until 2018.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_space_telescope)(AP, 3/7/09)(Econ, 10/18/14, p.83)
2009 Mar 6, In Argentina Claudio Lifschitz, a criminal attorney who accused former President Carlos Menem of covering up the nation's worst terrorist attack, was kidnapped and tortured by masked gunmen seeking information about the case.
(AP, 3/12/09)
2009 Mar 6, Colombia’s anti-narcotics police seized 5.7 tons of cocaine and cocaine base in a jungle laboratory reportedly run by the Black Eagles, the largest of a new generation of paramilitary groups.
(SFC, 3/7/09, p.A4)
2009 Mar 6, The EU and Kenya agreed to allow the country to prosecute suspected pirates captured by European forces on the high seas.
(AP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, India's government said it assisted an Indian businessman in his successful $1.8 million bid for Mohandas Gandhi's eyeglasses and other items, despite initially protesting the auction as a "crass commercialization" of the pacifist leader's legacy. An Indian court had even filed an injunction in an attempt to prevent the auction in New York.
(AP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 5, Indonesia and South Korea agreed to cooperate more closely on a range of issues including defense, the global financial crisis and alternative sources of energy.
(AP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, The Israeli foreign ministry said it had closed its embassy after the government of Mauritania asked the Israeli ambassador and his staff to leave.
(AP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, Kyrgyz lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to suspend an agreement that allows US-led coalition forces fighting in Afghanistan to use an air base on its territory.
(AP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, Mexico published a new law allowing the planting of genetically modified corn for experimental reasons.
(SFC, 3/7/09, p.A2)
2009 Mar 6, Morocco cut diplomatic links with Iran after an outcry in the Sunni Muslim world over a statement by an Iranian official questioning Sunni-ruled Bahrain's sovereignty.
(Reuters, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, In Paraguay about 100 women disrobed in a square in downtown Asuncion to protest nuclear weapons.
(AP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, The Sri Lankan government appealed for tens of thousands of civilians to flee the northern war zone and said it would open two safe passages for the exodus. Sri Lankan soldiers assailed the last slice of land still controlled by ethnic Tamil separatists, killing at least 32 rebels in Mullaitivu.
(AP, 3/6/09)(AP, 3/7/09)
2009 Mar 6, A UN spokesman said its human rights office will examine whether Sudan's decision to expel aid groups constitutes a breach of basic human rights and possibly a war crime. UN agencies warned that Sudan's decision to expel 13 international aid groups will leave more than a million people without food or health care and could threaten thousands of lives.
(AP, 3/6/09)(AFP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, A senior employee of Taiwan's presidential office was indicted on charges of providing classified information to rival China. Wang Jen-bing was charged with violating the national security law by leaking documents gathered during the last three years of former President Chen Shui-bian's eight-year tenure. Chen Pin-jen, a legislative aid, was indicted on similar charges.
(AP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, In Thailand Chiranuch Premchaiporn was arrested for violating the country’s Computer Crime Act. She faced 10 charges for not preventing comments on bulletin boards that might have offended the royal family.
(http://tinyurl.com/4j6w77d)(Econ, 2/5/11, p.54)
2009 Mar 6, In Zimbabwe PM Morgan Tsvangirai was injured in a car crash that killed his wife. Tsvangirai was flown the next day to neighboring Botswana for medical tests.
(Reuters, 3/7/09)(AFP, 3/7/09)
2010 Mar 6, Sandra Bullock won worst-actress for her romantic comedy flop "All About Steve" at the Razzies, a spoof of the Oscars that mocks Hollywood's low-points of the year.
(AP, 3/8/10)
2010 Mar 6, British PM Gordon Brown made a surprise visit to troops in Afghanistan.
(AP, 3/6/10)
2010 Mar 6, An operation in Germany to remove the gall bladder of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was "successful" and he was in hospital convalescing.
(AFP, 3/6/10)
2010 Mar 6, In Germany 4 men brandishing handguns and machetes stormed into Berlin's Grand Hyatt hotel during a million-euro poker tournament and made off with hundreds of thousands of euros in cash. A man (21), who admitted to taking part in the raid, turned himself into authorities on March 15 and identified 3 accomplices who remained on the run. Authorities issued photos of the three: Ahmad el-Awayti (20), of undetermined nationality; Jihad Chetwie, a 19-year-old German; and Mustafa Ucarkus, a 20-year-old Turkish citizen. On March 21 police arrested a 5th suspect, a Lebanese citizen (28), believed to be the organizer of the attack.
(AFP, 3/7/10)(AP, 3/17/10)(AP, 3/22/10)
2010 Mar 6, Icelanders voted in a referendum on a $5 billion deal to repay Anglo-Dutch loans. The referendum resoundingly rejected a deal to pay Britain and The Netherlands billions for losses in the Icesave bank collapse.
(Reuters, 3/6/10)(AFP, 3/7/10)
2010 Mar 6, In Indonesia a group calling itself "al-Qaida in Aceh" claimed to be the target of a police crackdown. Police have arrested 16 suspected militants in a series of raids in the deeply conservative province of Aceh since Feb 22.
(AP, 3/6/10)
2010 Mar 6, In Iraq a car bomb exploded near a bus for pilgrims in the Shiite city of Najaf, killing at least three people, including two Iranians, on the eve of key national elections.
(AP, 3/6/10)
2010 Mar 6, In northern Mexico police in the city of San Nicolas de los Garza, a suburb of the industrial hub of Monterrey, protested hours after three of their colleagues were shot to death in an ambush and a fourth was wounded. Federal police announced the arrest of three men accused of running an extortion ring that targeted Ciudad Juarez businesses. The army announced it had seized 2.6 metric tons of marijuana and detained one suspect in a mountainous area of Chihuahua.
(AP, 3/7/10)
2010 Mar 6, In Pakistan Maulvi Noor Mohammad, a Pakistani Taliban commander, was ambushed near the main town of Miran Shah, North Waziristan, by relatives of a man he recently tortured and killed.
(AP, 3/7/10)
2010 Mar 6, In the Philippines guerrillas of the communist New People's Army (NPA) killed 11 government soldiers in a gun battle on Mindoro island.
(AFP, 3/6/10)
2010 Mar 6, The Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association said that Saudi security officers stormed a book stall at the Riyadh Int’l. Book Fair last week and confiscated all work by Abdellah Al-Hamid, a well-known reformer and critic of the royal family.
(SSFC, 3/7/10, p.A6)
2010 Mar 6, In western Sudan 10 people were killed in renewed clashes between the Misseriya and Nuwayba tribes in the Darfur region.
(AFP, 3/7/10)
2010 Mar 6, In Tibet a truck loaded with people heading to an ancient monastery in the Shannan prefecture crashed killing 26 people.
(SSFC, 3/7/10, p.A6)
2011 Mar 6, Scientists at Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano said a new vent has opened, sending lava shooting up to 65 feet high.
(AP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 6, In Texas a fire following a late night party left 6 people dead in Granbury.
(SFC, 3/7/11, p.A6)
2011 Mar 6, Afghan President Hamid Karzai told General David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, his apology for a foreign air strike that killed nine children on March 1 was "not enough." 12 civilians, including 5 children, were killed when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in southeastern Paktika province.
(Reuters, 3/6/11)
2011 Mar 6, In Bahrain thousands of Shiite opposition supporters blocked the entrance to the prime minister's office but failed to disrupt a government meeting as the campaign for reform in the strategic Gulf nation enters its third week.
(AP, 3/6/11)
2011 Mar 6, Nearly 50 Bangladeshi migrant workers evacuated by sea from Libya to the Greek island of Crete jumped ship during the night, apparently to avoid being sent back to Bangladesh. Three died, 11 remained missing and many others were hospitalized.
(AP, 3/6/11)
2011 Mar 6, In China at a hastily called news conference in Beijing, Li Honghai, vice director of the city's Foreign Affairs Office, said reporters must apply for and receive government permission to conduct any newsgathering within the city center. It was the latest sign of the government's determination to prevent the formation of a Middle East-style protest movement.
(AP, 3/6/11)
2011 Mar 6, Scientists from Cyprus, England and Greece reported their ability to diagnose Down Syndrome using a simple blood test on pregnant women.
(SFC, 3/7/11, p.A7)
2011 Mar 6, Estonia held elections. The center-right, 2-party coalition government of PM Andrus Ansip won.
(SSFC, 3/6/11, p.A4)(SFC, 3/7/11, p.A2)
2011 Mar 6, In Haiti raucous crowds danced in the streets of the capital as the city celebrated its first Carnival since last year's earthquake forced the cancellation of the annual festivities.
(AP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 6, India's defense ministry said it successfully shot down a missile in a test of a homegrown missile interception system.
(AP, 3/6/11)
2011 Mar 6, In southern Iraq a roadside bomb killed six people and wounded 12 in the oil-rich city of Basra. A radio station in Kalar, called Voice, was vandalized. The independent station in the Kurdish region was established by two young journalists about two years ago.
(AP, 3/6/11)
2011 Mar 6, In Ireland the two opposition parties that triumphed in elections, conservative Fine Gael and left-wing Labor, announced they have reached agreement to form the country's next coalition government following five days of negotiations.
(AP, 3/6/11)
2011 Mar 6, In the Ivory Coast rebels, known by their French acronym FN, seized Toulepleu extending gains made earlier with the seizure of Zouan-Hounien. Both towns have historically been controlled by Laurent Gbagbo. A top Ouattara adviser said gangs of youth, actively aided and supported by uniformed police, have ransacked at least 10 houses belonging to senior ministers, mayors and other allies of the internationally recognized president. Nearly 400 people have already been killed, most of them civilians who voted for Ouattara.
(AP, 3/7/11)(AP, 3/6/11)
2011 Mar 6, Japan's foreign minister Seiji Maehara suddenly quit for having accepted a political donation from a foreigner, a violation of Japanese law, dealing another blow to the embattled administration of PM Naoto Kan.
(AP, 3/6/11)(SFC, 3/7/11, p.A2)
2011 Mar 6, Libyan helicopter gunships fired on a rebel force advancing west toward the capital along the Mediterranean coastline and forces loyal to leader Moammar Gadhafi fought intense ground battles with the rival fighters. Four people were killed in fighting at Bin Jawwad and Ras Lanouf. 21 people, including a child, were killed and dozens wounded in the rebel-held city of Misrata during fighting and shelling by Moamer Kadhafi's forces.
(AP, 3/6/11)(AFP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 6, Mexican police found 3 severed heads in plastic bags in the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco. Armed men attacked a police station in Acapulco, wounding an officer. The same suspects later shot at a house, wounding two people at the residence. Authorities said Julio Cesar Aguilar Garcia, a suspected high-ranking figure in the Sinaloa drug cartel, was arrested in Sonora state. Alleged Zetas leader, Marcos Carmona Hernandez, was arrested in Oaxaca state. In northwestern Sinaloa state gunmen swarmed a convoy transporting 2 prisoners, shredding 3 police vehicles with bullets and killing 7 officers and one inmate.
(AP, 3/7/11)(SFC, 3/7/11, p.A2)(AP, 3/8/11)
2011 Mar 6, Off the central Peruvian coast a gang of criminals known as "the pirates of the sea" raided a Japanese tuna trawler. The gang of some 20 criminals tied the crew's hands and feet, then took off with their money, cell phones and the ship's communication equipment.
(AFP, 3/6/11)
2011 Mar 6, In South Sudan clashes began between government soldiers and a rebel group in the village of Owachi. More than 60 people, mostly civilians, were killed over 2 days. More than 7,000 others were displaced. Soldiers from Southern Sudan's government fired indiscriminately at civilians and burned and looted homes in Upper Nile state, near the north-south border.
(AP, 4/20/11)
2011 Mar 6, In Taiwan 9 people died and 12 others were injured in a fire at a pub in the central city of Taichung. Local media reported that the packed pub first caught fire from sparks from an LED torch used by a performer.
(AP, 3/6/11)
2011 Mar 6, In southern Thailand six gunmen opened fire in a busy area of Pattani province's Yarang district and killed a retired police officer. Two insurgents on a motorcycle also in Pattani shot at a mother and son riding a motorbike back from a market. The 23-year-old son died and the mother was wounded.
(AP, 3/6/11)
2011 Mar 6, A Turkish court ordered Ahmet Sik and Nedim Sener, two leading investigative journalists, jailed pending the outcome of a trial into an alleged plot to topple the Islamic-rooted government, raising further concerns over media freedom in the country. Ahmet Sik was arrested as he prepared a book about the alleged infiltration of Islamists into the Turkish police, a sensitive theme in a nation divided over the role of religion.
(AP, 3/6/11)(Econ, 3/12/11, p.61)(AP, 4/14/11)
2011 Mar 6, In Yemen suspected al-Qaida gunmen killed four Republican Guard soldiers in the mountainous central province of Marib. Al-Qaeda militants shot and killed an army intelligence officer in the city of Zinjibar, in southern Abyan province. Another officer was shot dead in the city of Sayun, in Hadramut province, by gunmen suspected to be from Al-Qaeda. “Government thugs" descended on protesters camped out on a main square in Ibb province. One person was killed and 53 people were hurt.
(AFP, 3/6/11)(AP, 3/8/11)
2012 Mar 6, Five members of Anonymous and Lulz Security were charged in an indictment unsealed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. They included 2 men from Britain, 2 from Ireland and an American. Hector Xavier Monsegur (28), who pleaded guilty in August, served as an FBI informant leading to the new charges. Monsegur’s assistance led to the arrest of hacker Jeremy Hammond in 2013 and allowed authorities to disrupt at least 300 cyberattacks on the US government, US military as well as courts and private companies.
(AFP, 3/6/12)(SFC, 3/7/12, p.A7)(SSFC, 5/25/14, p.A8)
2012 Mar 6, A US federal court in Houston convicted R. Allen Stanford (61) of running a $7 billion investor fraud scheme that snared investors from 113 countries. He was first indicted in June, 2009.
(SFC, 3/7/12, p.A6)(Econ, 3/10/12, p.86)
2012 Mar 6, A lawsuit was filed in Washington, DC, by 8 members of the US military alleging they were raped, assaulted or harassed during their service and suffered retaliation when they reported it to their superiors.
(SFC, 3/7/12, p.A6)
2012 Mar 6, Ten US states voted in the Super Tuesday Republican primaries. Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney edged out conservative rival Rick Santorum in the vital battleground of Ohio and won five of the night's other contests. Romney also notched victories in Alaska, Idaho, Vermont, Virginia and his home-state of Massachusetts, while Santorum won North Dakota, Oklahoma and Tennessee, and Newt Gingrich carried his home state of Georgia.
(SFC, 3/7/12, p.A6)(Econ, 3/10/12, p.18)
2012 Mar 6, Georgia voters lifted a ban on Sunday sales of alcohol in 24 of 27 cities that put the issue on the ballot.
(Econ, 3/17/12, p.33)
2012 Mar 6, Dennis Kucinich, a colorful liberal in Congress who tried to have former President George W. Bush impeached over the Iraq war, was defeated in Ohio by a fellow Democratic incumbent in the first of 11 primary races this year pitting members of the US House against each other.
(Reuters, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 6, In North Carolina a decorated Green Beret leapt from the second-story of his burning home, wrapped himself in a blanket and ran back inside in an attempt to save his two young daughters. Firefighters recovered the body of Chief Warrant Officer Edward Cantrell (36) on the second floor of his Hope Mills home, not far from the remains of 6-year-old Isabella and 4-year-old Natalia.
(AP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, Louise White (81) of Newport, RI, claimed last month’s $336.4 million Powerball jackpot.
(SFC, 3/7/12, p.A7)
2012 Mar 6, Afghan President Hamid Karzai endorsed the Ulema Council's “code of conduct" document issued March 3. It allows husbands to beat wives under certain circumstances and encourages segregation of the sexes.
(AP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, Bangladesh's high court ordered police to sue 17 professors for allegedly distorting the country's liberation war history and maligning its founding leader in a school textbook.
(AFP, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 6, In Bangladesh Saudi diplomat Khalaf bin Mohammed Salem al-Ali was shot and killed on a residential street in Dhaka. Authorities said the gunman and a motive were unknown.
(AP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, The limbless and headless torso of Gemma McCluskie (29) was found when a member of the public reported a suspicious object floating close to a market in Hackney, east London. She was a former actress in the BBC's top soap opera "EastEnders" (2001) and had gone missing on March 1. On March 10 Tony McCluskie (35) was charged with killing his sister.
(AFP, 3/9/12)(AFP, 3/10/12)
2012 Mar 6, Chinese rights activist Liu Ping (47) went missing after she was detained by security officials in Beijing. She had angered officials with her advocacy of free elections as well as support of labor and women’s rights.
(SFC, 3/20/12, p.A2)(http://tinyurl.com/7jom58l)
2012 Mar 6, The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo headed by PM Adolphe Muzito resigned more than three months after legislative elections.
(AFP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, In Haiti Venel Joseph, a prominent banker whose son recently pleaded guilty in a US federal bribery case, was shot and killed in Port-au-Prince. Joseph was director of Haiti's Central Bank during former Pres. Jean-Bertrand Aristide's 2nd term from 2001 to 2004.
(AP, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 6, India's ruling Congress party and its famed Gandhi political dynasty suffered a stinging election setback in crucial state polls. Figures showed Congress winning clearly in only one of five states and suffering a landslide defeat in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India's most populous and politically significant state. Mayawati (56), India's low-caste "Dalit queen" who once saw herself as a future prime minister, was dethroned after a scandal-tainted term running UP.
(AFP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency reported that the government will grant UN inspectors access to a military complex where the UN nuclear agency suspects secret atomic work has been carried out.
(AP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, Iraqi authorities arrested four men in Salaheddin province in connection with a shooting spree a day ago that left 27 policemen dead. One of the terrorists blew himself up when they were surrounded.
(AFP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu left Washington with assurances that the US is prepared to use force to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, just not yet.
(AFP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, In Libya tribal leaders and militia commanders declared a semiautonomous region. Thousands of representatives of tribal leaders, militia commanders and politicians made the unilateral declaration at a conference in Benghazi. The conference said the eastern state, known as Barqa, would have its own parliament, police force, courts and capital at Benghazi.
(AP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, Madagascar authorities said Tropical Storm Irina killed at least 65 people, most of them residents of the Ifanadiana district in the southeast of the island, when the storm passed over the country last week.
(AFP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, Mexican authorities found 16 bodies in three clandestine graves on the outskirts of Monterrey. Authorities went to the ranch after drug gang suspects revealed the burial sites during questioning. In the border city of Piedras Negras a fierce hour-long battle took place between gunmen and police. One female officer was killed and six people were wounded.
(AP, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 6, Moldova introduced new legislation approving chemical castration for foreigners and nationals convicted of sexually abusing children.
(SFC, 3/7/12, p.A2)
2012 Mar 6, In Nigeria unknown gunmen shot dead Adamu Amadu, a senior customs officer in charge of Yobe and Borno states, both recently been rocked by Islamist attacks. Islamists attacked a prison, police station and local government office, wounding at least three police officers in Konduga, Borno state.
(AFP, 3/6/12)(AFP, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 6, In the Philippines a 5.2 earthquake struck leaving 10 people injured. It was centered at sea just two miles (3 km) north of Masbate City on the island province of Masbate.
(AP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, South Africa's powerful Cosatu labor federation vowed to rally more than 100,000 protesters against new toll roads around Johannesburg that have angered workers and businesses.
(AFP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, In South Korea journalists walked out of the state-owned Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) due to government interference. They joined colleagues at Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), already on strike for a month. Journalists claimed to have over 2,600 files pointing to illegal government surveillance carried out between 2008-2010.
(Econ, 3/3/12, p.52)(http://tinyurl.com/82ns7pl)(Econ, 4/7/12, p.48)
2012 Mar 6, Talks between Sudan and South Sudan resumed in the Ethiopian capital to resolve a furious oil dispute as tensions remain high between the two nations.
(AFP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, In Sudan Patrick Noonan, a British aid worker working for the UN World Food Program, was abducted by armed men in the Darfur region. He was released after 86 days.
(AFP, 5/30/12)
2012 Mar 6, Swedish Public Radio said the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) had secret plans since 2007 to help Saudi Arabia build a plant for the production of anti-tank weapons. Construction on "Project Simoom" was yet to begin. It involved the creation of a shell company called SSTI to handle dealings with Saudi Arabia, in order to avoid any direct links to FOI and the government.
(AFP, 3/6/12)(AFP, 3/29/12)
2012 Mar 6, Syrian troops shelled Herak and clashed with army defectors holed up inside in violence that killed a 15-year-old boy and five government soldiers. Government forces pounded rebel-held towns and blasted a bridge used by refugees to escape to Lebanon. At least 16 people were killed as regime forces launched a major assault on Herak, a town in the southern province of Daraa.
(AP, 3/6/12)(AFP, 3/6/12)(AFP, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 6, Turkish Airlines started flying into Somalia's war-torn capital, becoming the first international company to fly passenger planes into Mogadishu in more than 20 years. Flights were scheduled for twice a week.
(AP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, In southern Yemen unknown assailants shot dead a policeman and wounded four others in the Ataq, Shabwa province. In Daleh province members of the separatist Southern Movement "opened machinegun fire at a police vehicle, wounding three policemen.
(AFP, 3/6/12)
2013 Mar 6, Arkansas adopted the country’s most restrictive ban on abortion, at 12 weeks of pregnancy. Democrat Gov. Mike Beebe called it “blatantly unconstitutional."
(SFC, 3/7/13, p.A5)
2013 Mar 6, In California a lion attacked and killed Dianna Hanson (24), a sanctuary worker at Project Survival’s Cat Haven in Dunlap.
(SFC, 3/7/13, p.A1)(SFC, 3/8/13, p.A1)
2013 Mar 6, Ohio executed Frederick Treesh for the fatal shooting of a bookstore security guard in 1994. He was pronounced dead after a single powerful dose of pentobarbital.
(SFC, 3/7/13, p.A5)
2013 Mar 6, Britain said it will provide armored vehicles, body armor and search-and-rescue equipment to Syria's opposition, but was still stopping short of arming the country's rebels.
(AP, 3/6/13)
2013 Mar 6, British travel firm Thomas Cook said it would cut 2,500 UK jobs and close 195 stores in Britain as the euro crisis, high fuel costs and unrest in key destinations like Egypt and Greece take their toll on the holiday business.
(Reuters, 3/6/13)
2013 Mar 6, An Egyptian administrative court ordered the suspension of parliamentary elections scheduled to begin next month, throwing the country's politics deeper into confusion. In Port Said military police deployed around a government complex where demonstrators have been camped out for weeks.
(AP, 3/6/13)
2013 Mar 6, An Egyptian court convicted Ahmed Ezz, a Mubarak-era steel magnate, of profiteering and squandering public funds. He was sentenced to 37 years in prison and fined $296 million. Ezz was already serving a 17-year sentence for graft and money laundering.
(SFC, 3/7/13, p.A2)
2013 Mar 6, Iranian authorities blocked many foreign-based virtual private networks, or VPNs, severely restricting access to many websites.
(AP, 3/12/13)
2013 Mar 6, Iraq's Chaldean Catholic Church enthroned a new patriarch during a ceremonial mass that was held amid tight security in Baghdad. Louis Sako (64) replaced Emmanuel III Delly, who has retired.
(AP, 3/6/13)
2013 Mar 6, Malaysian security forces battled a group of Filipino intruders in the rugged terrain of Borneo after they escaped a military assault with fighter jets and mortar fire on their hideout. One Filipino was shot and believed killed.
(AP, 3/6/13)
2013 Mar 6, In eastern Mali French and Malian forces clashed with jihadists leaving a French soldier and some 10 insurgents dead. Boukary Daou, the editor-in-chief of Mali’s The Republican newspaper was arrested. His arrest came soon after his newspaper published a letter from an army officer denouncing coup leader Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo's recently-decreed salary of $8,000 per month, a very high salary in the impoverished country.
(SFC, 3/7/13, p.A2)(AP, 3/14/13)
2013 Mar 6, In South Africa Dirk Coetzee (57), a former commander of the Vlakplaas covert police unit in apartheid-era South Africa, died of kidney failure. Coetzee had fled South Africa in 1989. He pledged allegiance to the ANC, returned in 1993 and was a witness at the trial of former police Col. Eugene de Kock. In testimony to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Coetzee confessed to plotting the 1981 murder of attorney Griffiths Mxenge.
(AP, 3/7/13)
2013 Mar 6, In Spain Alvin Lee (b.1944), British virtuoso rock guitarist, died following complications from routine surgery. He as a member of the band Ten Years After, which burst onto the US music scene following their 1969 Woodstock performance.
(SFC, 3/8/13, p.D5)
2013 Mar 6, Syrian rebels detained 21 Filipino UN peacekeepers in the area in another destabilizing twist to the country's two-year-old conflict. The number of Syrian refugees topped 1 million, half of them children. Gunmen raided a Christian village near Homs, robbing houses and shops, saying they were looking for weapons.
(AP, 3/6/13)(AP, 3/7/13)(AP, 3/11/13)
2014 Mar 6, The Obama administration slapped new visa restrictions against pro-Russian opponents to the new Ukraine government in Kiev as lawmakers in Crimea declared their intention to split from Ukraine and join Russia instead. They scheduled a referendum in 10 days for voters to decide the fate of the disputed peninsula. Russia's parliament, clearly savoring the action, introduced a bill intended to make this happen.
(AP, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, The US Climate Prediction Center (CPC) issued its first El Nino watch in almost 18 months, warning the phenomenon that can wreak havoc on weather and roil global crops could strike as early as the Northern Hemisphere summer.
(Reuters, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, Sheila MacRae (92), Broadway and TV star, died. She was best known for playing Alice Kramden to Jackie Gleason’s Ralph on the Jackie Gleason Show (1966-1970).
(SSFC, 3/9/14, p.C12)
2014 Mar 6, In Afghanistan 5 Afghan soldiers were killed in an accidental air strike by the NATO-led force in the eastern province of Logar.
(Reuters, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, Algerian security forces arrested about 40 people protesting in central Algiers against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika standing for a fourth term next month. Public demonstrations in Algeria remain banned, despite a state of emergency being lifted in 2011.
(AFP, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, The Czech Parliament banned the sale of alcoholic beverages during sessions of the lower house.
(AP, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, Cuba said it has accepted a proposal by the EU to open negotiations on a new political accord.
(Reuters, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, European leaders said Russia will face sanctions over its military incursion in Ukraine's Crimean peninsula unless it withdraws its troops or engages in credible talks to defuse the situation. The EU froze the assets of ousted Ukraine leader Viktor Yanukovych, ex-premier Mykola Azarov and 16 former ministers, businessmen and security chiefs, all on grounds of fraud.
(AP, 3/6/14)(AFP, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, The Bank of Greece said the country’s banking sector needs to raise 6.4 billion euros ($8.9 billion) to be able to cushion potential future losses. This prompted some of the banks to outline their plans.
(AP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 6, In central Iraq a series of bombings and clashes near Fallujah left at least 42 people dead.
(AP, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, Lithuania says six US fighter jets and two tanker planes have arrived following a US decision to increase NATO's air policing mission of the three Baltic states.
(AP, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, Macedonia formally set April 27 as the date of the country's early parliamentary election, which was forced after government coalition partners failed to agree on a presidential candidate.
(AP, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, Niger extradited to Libya one of Moammar Gadhafi's sons, al-Saadi, who fled as his father's regime crumbled in 2011 and who was under house arrest in the desert West African nation ever since.
(AP, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, In northern Nigeria four young men were convicted of gay sex and whipped publicly as punishment in an Islamic court in Bauchi city.
(AP, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, Poland's defense minister said a mission of observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has been stopped from entering Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula by unidentified men in military fatigues.
(Reuters, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, A new video showed two members of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot attacked by a group of men who poured rubbish and bright green paint over them and shouted obscenities at them at a McDonald's restaurant in Nizhny Novgorod.
(Reuters, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 6, Saudi state news said a court has sentenced three men to death and jailed two others for up to 17 years for their part in a series of militant attacks including the deadly bombing of a foreign housing compound on Nov 8, 2003.
(Reuters, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 6, South Africa imposed rolling power cuts for the first time since 2008 as it struggled to cope with coal shortages and technical problems caused by recent heavy rains.
(AFP, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, In Syria at least 15 people were killed and 12 others wounded in a car bomb blast in Homs. At least five people were killed and more than 20 wounded in a bomb blast near a security headquarters in Hama. At least 17 jihadists were killed in fighting near the rebel-held town of Yabrud.
(AFP, 3/6/14)(AFP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 6, Tunisia's Pres. Moncef Marzouki lifted a state of emergency in force since the 2011 uprising that ousted dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
(AP, 3/6/14)(SFC, 3/7/14, p.A2)
2014 Mar 6, Uganda, under fire from Western nations, defended its toughened law on gays as being aimed at "protecting" youth from homosexuality and discouraging public displays of gay love.
(Reuters, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, Ukraine's new leadership was reported to have reached out to oligarchs for help, appointing them as governors in eastern regions where loyalties to Moscow are strong.
(AP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 6, In Ukraine two Femen protesters were arrested in Crimea's capital Simferopol after staging a topless demonstration against Russia's intervention in Ukraine in front of the regional parliament. Pavel Gubarev, the leader of the most persistent pro-Moscow protest movement in eastern Ukraine, was arrested at his home in the city of Donetsk
(AFP, 3/6/14)(Reuters, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, A Venezuelan soldier and a motorcyclist died in a confused melee sparked by the opposition's barricading of a Caracas street, boosting the death toll from nearly a month of violence to 20.
(Reuters, 3/7/14)
2015 Mar 6, US Border patrol officer Armando Gonzalez was taken into custody in San Diego County for allegedly installing a camera into a women’s restroom.
(SSFC, 3/8/15, p.A9)
2015 Mar 6, The S&P Dow Jones Indices announced that Apple will replace AT&T in the Dow Jones industrial average on March 19.
(SFC, 3/7/15, p.D1)
2015 Mar 6, NASA confirmed that its Dawn spacecraft has arrived to orbit the dwarf planet Ceres for a 16-month exploration.
(SFC, 3/7/15, p.A4)
2015 Mar 6, US regulators gave a green light to sales of the country's first copied version of a biotechnology drug, or "biosimilar," with approval of Novartis' white blood cell-boosting Zarxio.
(Reuters, 3/6/15)
2015 Mar 6, In Aurora, Colorado, police Officer Paul Jerothe shot and killed Naeschylus Carter Vinzant, an unarmed black man. Vinzant was on parole and had fled after beating his wife and taking their 2-month-old son. In 2016 the city of Aurora agreed to pay $2.6 million to settle a lawsuit by Vinzant’s relatives.
(http://tinyurl.com/ngwempn)(SFC, 11/8/16, p.A6)
2015 Mar 6, Wisconsin police fatally shot as Anthony "Tony" Robinson (19), an apparently unarmed African-American, prompting dozens of people to protest at the site of the killing. Robinson, tripping on mushrooms, had already attacked several people. Authorities said Robinson had assaulted Officer Mat Kenny (45) in an apartment. In 2017 a federal civil rights lawsuit awarded Robinson’s family $3.35 million.
(Reuters, 3/7/15)(SSFC, 3/8/15, p.A9)(SFC, 5/14/15, p.A7)(SFC, 2/24/17, p.A6)
2015 Mar 6, Scientists said a tiny, brown bird long thought to be extinct has been rediscovered in Myanmar's grasslands, but its fragmented habitat is threatened by human encroachment. The Jerdon's babbler was first discovered in the 1860s but had not been reported in 74 years.
(AP, 3/6/15)
2015 Mar 6, The African Union endorsed the creation of a regional force of up to 10,000 men to join the fight against Boko Haram, believed to have not more than 6,000 fighters.
(AFP, 3/8/15)(Econ, 2/14/15, p.44)
2015 Mar 6, Brazil’s Supreme Court approved an investigation of dozens of top politicians including a former president and leaders of congress.
(SFC, 3/7/15, p.A2)
2015 Mar 6, A leaked document said the Greek government plans to hire an army of amateur tax sleuths, including tourists, in a bid to fill the gaping hole in the country's finances.
(AFP, 3/6/15)
2015 Mar 6, Guinea-Bissau dismantled a criminal operation trafficking 54 children to Senegal, where it is believed they would have been forced by Islamic schools to beg on the streets.
(AFP, 3/8/15)
2015 Mar 6, In northeastern India Nagaland state authorities suspended the district magistrate of Dimapur, the city's police superintendent and the jail's warden after a mob lynched a jailed suspect a day earlier.
(AP, 3/7/15)
2015 Mar 6, Millions across India welcomed spring with their annual "festival of colors", celebrating by covering each other in water and dazzling paint.
(AFP, 3/6/15)
2015 Mar 6, In Iraq and Syria coalition forces led by the US military targeted Islamic State militants with 16 air strikes over the last 24 hours.
(Reuters, 3/6/15)
2015 Mar 6, Iraqi government forces and Iran-backed militiamen entered a town on the southern outskirts of Saddam Hussein's home city Tikrit, pressing on with the biggest offensive yet against Islamic State militants that seized the north last year.
(Reuters, 3/6/15)
2015 Mar 6, In Israel a Palestinian assailant rammed his car into a group of Israeli pedestrians near a police station in east Jerusalem, injuring four officers and a bystander. He lunged at security guards with a knife before being shot and wounded.
(AP, 3/6/15)
2015 Mar 6, Libya's oil security forces said they had retaken control of the Al-Ghani oilfield after militants attacked the facility. An employee watched the beheadings of the 8 oil guards and subsequently died of a heart attack. Nine foreign workers, including a Czech, an Austrian, four Filipinos, two Bangladeshis and a Ghanaian, were missing after gunmen attacked the oilfield. In 2017 Austria said it had evidence that all nine workers were killed the same year.
(Reuters, 3/7/15)(SSFC, 3/8/15, p.A3)(AP, 3/9/15)(Reuters, 9/20/17)
2015 Mar 6, Paraguayan radio journalist Gerardo Servian was reported shot to death in the Brazilian city of Ponta Pora, bordering a crime-ridden area that is a hotbed for drugs and arms smuggling.
(AP, 3/6/15)
2015 Mar 6, Russia’s Pres. Putin announced a 10% pay cut for himself and those working for him, including PM Medvedev and his entire Cabinet.
(SFC, 3/7/15, p.A2)
2015 Mar 6, Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny walked out of a Moscow detention center and promised that Russia's opposition will continue to challenge President Vladimir Putin.
(Reuters, 3/6/15)
2015 Mar 6, South Sudan's warring leaders failed to reach a deal to end more than a year of civil war, with the latest collapse in peace talks paving the way for possible sanctions.
(AFP, 3/6/15)
2015 Mar 6, In Sierra Leone Vice Pres. Sam-Sumana was kicked out of the ruling party, the All Peoples Congress, after a meeting of the party's National Advisory Council. A statement said he was expelled for several reasons including allegations that he presented a fake Master's degree certificate and that he was involved in the formation of a new political party.
(AP, 3/7/15)
2016 Mar 6, The United States and its allies conducted 18 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
(Reuters, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 6, Nancy Reagan (b.1921), former film actress and wife of Pres. Ronald Reagan, died in Los Angeles.
(SFC, 3/7/16, p.A1)
2016 Mar 6, In Idaho Pastor Tim Remington was shot and wounded in the parking lot of his church in Coeur d'Alene a day after he led prayers at a rally for Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz. Suspect Kyle Odom (30), a former marine, was arrested outside the White House on March 8.
(AFP, 3/9/16)
2016 Mar 6, Bangladesh’s elite anti-terrorism unit detained three suspected members of a militant group believed to be behind a spate of recent attacks.
(Reuters, 3/6/16)
2016 Mar 6, Benin held an election to choose a successor to President Thomas Boni Yayi who is stepping down after two terms, leaving 33 candidates to vie for power in the small West African country. PM Lionel Zinsou (28.4%) will face a run-off against businessman Patrice Talon (24.8%) in a second round of presidential elections.
(Reuters, 3/6/16)(Reuters, 3/8/16)
2016 Mar 6, China’s state media quoted Pres. Xi Jinping as saying China will never allow the tragedy of Taiwan being "split" off from the rest of the country, offering a strong warning to the island against any moves towards independence.
(Reuters, 3/6/16)
2016 Mar 6, In Dubai a yellow, two-seat Ferrari 458 Spider jumped a curb and slammed into a pole, splitting the sports car in half near the Jumeirah Lake Towers neighborhood. Those killed were identified as Boston bombing survivor Victoria McGrath, Northeastern University student Priscilla Perez Torres, Canadian boxer Cody Nixon and James Portuondo. High speed and alcohol were involved.
(AP, 3/9/16)
2016 Mar 6, In Egypt gunmen shot dead two wounded members of the security forces in an ambulance after they had been injured by a bombing in the Sinai Peninsula.
(AFP, 3/6/16)
2016 Mar 6, Thousands of Georgians formed a human chain stretching for about 7 km (4 miles) through the capital to protest negotiations between their government and Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom.
(AP, 3/6/16)
2016 Mar 6, Iran reported that a court has sentenced a well-known tycoon to death for corruption linked to oil sales during the rule of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Babak Zanjani, arrested in 2013, and two of his associates were sentenced to death for "money laundering," among other charges.
(AP, 3/6/16)
2016 Mar 6, In Iraq Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide attack with an explosive-laden fuel tanker on a police checkpoint south of Baghdad, killing 61 people and wounding more than 70.
(Reuters, 3/6/16)(AFP, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 6, Lithuanian police said two men have been killed when a shell exploded as they were dismantling it to extract metal. The unemployed men collected metal in nearby woods for a living.
(AP, 3/6/16)
2016 Mar 6, In Poland hundreds of women marched in Warsaw for a 17th year to demand greater accessibility to abortion, better working conditions and more state support in raising children.
(AP, 3/6/16)
2016 Mar 6, Spanish police arrested a pilot who was serving a prison sentence and using weekend furloughs to fly in drugs hauls. Police later raided 14 houses in locations including Madrid, Malaga, Seville and Cadiz, arresting suspects of Spanish, Moroccan, Romanian and Ecuadorian nationalities. 20 people were arrested altogether who used helicopters to bring hashish from Morocco into Spain.
(AP, 3/26/16)
2016 Mar 6, A day after Turkey's top-selling newspaper Zaman was taken over by the state, it dropped its criticisms of the government and published flattering stories on President Tayyip Erdogan.
(Reuters, 3/6/16)
2016 Mar 6, The Turkish Coast Guard rescued 15 people and recovered 18 bodies in the Aegean Sea near the town of Didim. At least 25 people drowned including 3 children.
(Reuters, 3/6/16)(SFC, 3/7/16, p.A3)
2016 Mar 6, In Ukraine about 2,000 people rallied on Independence Square in Kiev to demand that Russia release pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, with hundreds then marching to the Russian Embassy to vent their anger.
(AP, 3/6/16)
2017 Mar 6, US Pres. Donald Trump signed a revised executive order temporarily banning people from six Muslim-majority countries (Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen). The revision would become effective on March 16.
(SFC, 3/7/17, p.A1)(Econ, 3/11/17, p.29)
2017 Mar 6, US House Republicans unveiled the American Health Care Act (AHCA) to overhaul Obamacare and Pres. Trump endorsed it.
(Econ, 3/11/17, p.28)
2017 Mar 6, Researchers said 11 of 27 species of Hawaii’s reef fish are experiencing some level of overfishing.
(SFC, 3/7/17, p.A6)
2017 Mar 6, In North Carolina Oliver Funes Machada (18), reportedly an illegal immigrant from Honduras, beheaded his mother (35). In 2018 he was judged not guilty by reason of insanity.
(http://tinyurl.com/ybx4eysy)(SFC, 10/23/18, p.A7)
2017 Mar 6, CSX appointed E. Hunter Harrison (72), a veteran railway executive, as CEO. Harrison had announced his departure from Canadian National (CN) on Jan 18.
(Econ, 3/11/17, p.63)
2017 Mar 6, IBM released the first commercial program for universal quantum computers. Various startups have released their own quantum software.
(Econ, 3/11/17, TQ p.10)
2017 Mar 6, Afghan officials said they have ordered the Afghan Turk CAG Educational NGO (ATCE), a network of schools regarded with suspicion by the Turkish government, to be transferred to a foundation approved by Ankara.
(Reuters, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, Bahrain's government filed a lawsuit to dissolve the secular Waad political party, the second-such organization it has targeted in the last year as part of an intense crackdown on opposition in the island nation.
(AP, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, The European Union approved plans for a military headquarters to coordinate overseas security operations. The facility will initially run three operations: civil-military training missions in Mali, the Central African Republic and Somalia.
(AFP, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, The European Union said it has cleared Hungary to build two nuclear reactors with Russian help after Budapest made commitments to safeguard competition in the energy sector.
(AP, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, French carmaker PSA announced the acquisition of General Motors' European subsidiary, which includes the Opel and Vauxhall brands, for 1.3 billion euros ($1.38 billion).
(AFP, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, The French-made Peugeot 3008 was voted European car of the year on the eve of the opening of the Geneva motor show.
(Econ, 3/11/17, p.63)
2017 Mar 6, Greek authorities said they have seized more than half a million illegally made amphetamine pills, their largest haul to date and thought to be destined for the Middle East.
(Reuters, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, Israeli police questioned PM Benjamin Netanyahu for a fourth time in a corruption investigation that has prompted political rivals to start looking to a "post-Bibi" Israel.
(Reuters, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, In Kenya the body of rancher Tristan Voorspuy was found 190 km (118 miles) north of Nairobi. He was shot dead while inspecting some of his lodges, which had been burned by attackers. 379 pastoralist herders were soon arrested for invading ranches that led to the killing of the British farmer. Samson Lokayi (25), suspected of involvement in the death of Voorspuy, was arrested on March 12.
(AP, 3/6/17)(AFP, 3/14/17)
2017 Mar 6, In Kenya one of Africa's oldest and largest elephants was killed by poachers in Tsavo National Park. Two poachers believed to be responsible for the killing were soon apprehended.
(AFP, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, In Myanmar some 30 people died in clashes between ethnic rebels and security forces after fighters from the predominantly ethnic Chinese Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) launched a pre-dawn attack on police posts in the capital of the northeastern Kokang region, Laukkai.
(Reuters, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, Nepali police shot and killed at least three ethnic Madhesis in the country's restive southern plains as they tried to disrupt an opposition rally organized by the Communist Unified Marxist-Leninist (UML) party that opposes any change to the country’s post-monarchy charter.
(Reuters, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, Nigeria’s former Adamawa state governor James Bala Ngilari was jailed for five years after being found guilty of corruption related to procurement of cars while in office.
(Reuters, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, North Korea fired four banned ballistic missiles that flew about 1,000 km (620 miles) on average, with three of them landing in waters that Japan claims as its exclusive economic zone. The EU condemned North Korea for firing four banned ballistic missiles and said it would consult with Japan and international partners on how to react.
(AP, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, North Korea said it has ordered Malaysia's ambassador out of the country in a tit-for-tat after Malaysia expelled North Korea's envoy over the death of Kim Jong Nam at Kuala Lumpur's airport.
(AP, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, Palestinian militant Basil al-Araj (31) was killed in a shootout with Israeli forces in the West Bank. Police said he headed a group planning attacks against Israeli targets and collected weapons for the group.
(AP, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte signed an executive order creating a joint command to mobilize 21 state agencies behind his bloody war on drugs, prioritizing "high-value" targets and going after all levels of the illicit trade. The order was published on March 10.
(Reuters, 3/10/17)
2017 Mar 6, Retired Philippine police officer Arturo Lascanas testified that President Rodrigo Duterte and his men were linked to nearly 200 killings that the officer and a "death squad" carried out when Duterte was mayor of Davao City.
(AP, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, Russian and South African communications officials pledged to work on collaborative media activities.
(Econ, 3/18/17, p.53)
2017 Mar 6, South Korea received the first components of THAAD, an American anti-missile system.
(Econ, 3/18/17, p.41)
2017 Mar 6, In Syria US-backed militias cut the last main road out of Islamic State-held Raqqa, severing the highway between the group's de facto capital and its stronghold of Deir al-Zor province.
(Reuters, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, In Thailand a statement from the Royal Palace said King Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun has approved stripping the honorary title from Phra Dhammajayo (72), head of the Dhammakaya sect, because of the criminal charges against him.
(AP, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, Turkish security forces launched one of their largest "anti-terrorist" operations in recent years in the restive south-east against Kurdish militants.
(AFP, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister accused Russia of financing terrorism by shipping arms, ammunition and funds to separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine and of discriminating against non-Russians in the annexed Crimean Peninsula.
(SFC, 3/7/17, p.A2)
2017 Mar 6, In Yemen the United States carried out at least one new air strike on al Qaeda overnight. Two boys were killed in a drone strike while walking on a road in al-Bayda province used by al Qaeda militants who have been subject to repeated strikes by US forces in recent days. Three suspected al Qaeda militants were killed in a separate strike in Qifa in the same province.
(Reuters, 3/6/17)(Reuters, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 6, In Zambia eight people died and 28 were injured in a stampede during food handouts at a youth center in the capital, Lusaka.
(AP, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, Zimbabwe's government agreed to pay outstanding cash bonuses, bringing an end to a brief sit-in protest by public workers.
(Reuters, 3/6/17)
2018 Mar 6, The Trump administration filed suit accusing California of unconstitutionally interfering with immigration enforcement.
(SFC, 3/7/18, p.A1)
2018 Mar 6, US White House officials said Gary Cohn, Pres. Trump's top economic adviser, plans to resign.
(SFC, 3/7/18, p.A4)
2018 Mar 6, The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized 23andMe, based in Mountain View, Ca., to test for a breast cancer genetic mutation directly to consumers.
(SFC, 3/7/18, p.A1)
2018 Mar 6, In Los Angeles adult film actress Stormy Daniels, aka Stephanie Clifford, filed a lawsuit seeking to invalidate a nondisclosure agreement that she signed days before the 2016 presidential election, which prevented her from discussing alleged sexual encounters with Donald Trump.
(SFC, 3/7/18, p.A4)
2018 Mar 6, San Francisco ten police officers fired 99 times into the trunk of a car from where where Jesus Delgado Duarte (19) hid following an armed robbery near 21st and Capp in the Mission district. Delgado fired once from the trunk after failing to surrender and died after being hit 25 times. On March 17 police officials released the names of the officers involved.
(SFC, 3/13/18, p.C1)(SFC, 3/17/18, p.C4)
2018 Mar 6, Missouri police officers responding to a 911 call were sent to the wrong house in Clinton, where James Waters opened fire killing Officer Christopher Ryan Morton (30) and wounding two others before he died. The man who opened fire on the officers was out on bail for weapons and methamphetamine charges and was under investigation for a rape.
(http://tinyurl.com/yd8t7wxu)(SFC, 3/9/18, p.A5)
2018 Mar 6, Oregon's Gov. Kate Brown signed a bill prohibiting domestic abusers and people under restraining orders from owning firearms.
(SFC, 3/7/18, p.A4)
2018 Mar 6, Nashville Mayor Megan Barry (54) resigned after pleading guilty to cheating the city out of thousands of dollars as she carried on an affair with her bodyguard, police Sgt. Robert Forrest.
(SFC, 3/7/18, p.A10)
2018 Mar 6, West Virginia's lawmakers ceded teachers a 5% pay raise ending a 9-day classroom walkout. The pay hikes were extended to all state workers.
(SFC, 3/7/18, p.A4)
2018 Mar 6, Australia and East Timor signed a historic treaty drawing their maritime boundary, ending years of bitter wrangling over billions of dollars of oil and gas riches lying beneath the Timor Sea and opening a new chapter in relations.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 6, Bulgaria chose Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG (RSK MiG) to overhaul and maintain its 15 aging, Soviet-made MiG-29 fighter jets until 2022. Sofia has said it needs to keep its Soviet-era aircraft operational after plans to buy eight new fighter jets from a fellow NATO state hit a procedural snag.
(Reuters, 3/14/18)
2018 Mar 6, China's ceremonial legislature said that a broad consensus has been reached on amendments to the constitution, including one to abolish term limits that will allow Xi Jinping to continue as president indefinitely.
(AP, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, Czech Communist lawmaker Zdenek Ondracek resigned as chair of a parliamentary commission overseeing police internal affairs, after thousands protested the appointment because of his past in a communist-era special unit.
(Reuters, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, A group of 25 European Union countries agreed to develop their first joint defense projects under a pact that excludes Britain, giving London a taste of life outside the bloc's foreign policy decision-making process.
(Reuters, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, Leading French advertisers and the country's broadcast watchdog launched a nationwide plan to fight sexist stereotypes in ads - from half-naked women selling vacuum cleaners to violent video games marketed to boys.
(AP, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, Greece rejected a Turkish extradition request for Naci Ozpolat (48), the second of nine Turkish citizens who were arrested on terror charges in Athens, days before a visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
(AP, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, Greece's anti-terrorism squad arrested five men suspected of participating in a far-right criminal group and of involvement in arson attacks and explosions.
(Reuters, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, Greek train routes were suspended for the day as railway workers staged a 24-hour strike to protest the privatization of the rolling stock maintenance company and a lack of staff.
(AP, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, The Maersk Honam container vessel, a unit of Danish shipping firm A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S built in 2017, caught fire in the Arabian Sea. 23 crew members were safely evacuated from the vessel, but four remained missing.
(Reuters, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 6, A magnitude 6.7 earthquake shook a remote Papua New Guinea region that was badly damaged by a powerful quake last week. The quake was followed by two others measuring magnitude 5.0 and 5.1.
(AP, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, South African triathlete Mhlengi Gwala suffered severe injuries when attackers cut his legs with a saw. Gwala, following surgery, said he will focus on recovery so he can run and cycle again.
(AP, 3/8/18)
2018 Mar 6, South Korea's presidential office announced that North Korea and South Korea have agreed to hold a summit next month at a truce village inside the Demilitarized Zone that divides their countries.
(AP, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, A senior South Korean official, after returning from the North, said North Korean leader Kim Jung Un has expressed a willingness to discuss nuclear disarmament with the US and impose a moratorium on nuclear and missile tests during such talks.
(AP, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, In South Korean Ahn Hee-jung, the governor of South Chungcheong province, resigned after his secretary publicly accused him of raping her, making him the highest-profile South Korean man taken down by the #MeToo movement. He had been seen as a leading presidential contender.
(AP, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, Sri Lanka's president declared a state of emergency amid fears that anti-Muslim attacks in several central hill towns could spread.
(AP, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, Syria's SANA state news agency said troops have captured the village of Muhamadiya at the southeast edge of the eastern Ghouta enclave. Heavy air strikes and clashes shook Eastern Ghouta killing at least 19 civilians. France and Britain called for an emergency UN Security Council meeting on the escalating violence.
(Reuters, 3/6/18)(AFP, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, In Syria a Russian military transport plane crashed at the Hmeymim air base in Latakia Province, killing all 39 people on board.
(Reuters, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, In Syria a US-backed alliance of Syrian fighters announced it would redeploy around 1,700 members from front lines against the Islamic State group to the Kurdish enclave in Afrin under Turkish attack.
(AFP, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, Turkey said it is working to set up camps to settle 170,000 displaced people near the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib and in Turkish-controlled areas to the east of it.
(Reuters, 3/6/18)
2019 Mar 6, A US federal appeals court upheld fraud convictions against two men for their roles in a Connecticut auto insurance scam that involved as many as 50 staged car crashes between 2011 and 2014. The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York rejected the appeals of Mackenzy Noze and Jonas Joseph.
(AP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, The US federal government said it is awarding $27 million in grants to the US Virgin Islands to help expand and renovate two airports damaged in 2017 by Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
(AP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, The Wall Street Journal reported that Microsoft has detected cyberattacks linked to Iranian hackers that targeted thousands of people at more than 200 companies over the past two years. Microsoft attributed the attacks to a group it calls Holmium, and which other security researchers call APT33.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 6, Militants in Afghanistan set off a suicide blast and stormed a construction company near the airport in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, killing at least 17 people.
(AP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, Algerian war veterans said that protesters demanding ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika step down after 20 years in power had legitimate concerns and they urged all citizens to demonstrate.
(Reuters, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, Angola's Pres. Joao Lourenco met with Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa in Luanda in a top-level encounter between nations whose relations have previously been strained by anti-corruption issues.
(AFP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, London's Central Criminal Court sentenced Muslim convert Lewis Ludlow to at least 15 years in prison for plotting a van attack on crowds in London's busy Oxford Street shopping district.
(AP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, China said that it is blocking some imports of the agricultural product canola from Canada because of fears of insect infestation. A day earlier Richardson International Ltd., said that China had revoked its permit to export canola there.
(AP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, An inquiry into the demise of Cyprus' Co-operative bank faulted senior executives for bad judgment, inaction and ineptitude in dealing with a mountain of bad loans, while blaming the finance minister for failing to take corrective actions.
(AP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, Amnesty International said Egyptian activists and journalists have been targeted by phishing attacks coinciding with political events in an intensifying crackdown on dissent since the start of the year.
(Reuters, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, In Estonia Liberal party leader Kaja Kallas, on track to become the country's first female prime minister, announced talks for a grand coalition with the center-left party of outgoing PM Juri Ratas.
(AFP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, In France prison guards blocked access to 18 jails to protest working conditions after the stabbing of two guards by a radicalized inmate.
(AFP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, A manhunt was underway in western Germany for at least two masked suspects who attacked a money transport truck at the Cologne-Bonn airport and shot a guard.
(AP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, In Germany the body of a 21-year-old woman was found with several stab wounds at her parents' home. A 22-year-old Tunisian man she had been in a relationship with was arrested the next day on suspicion of homicide.
(AP, 3/9/19)
2019 Mar 6, Indian and Pakistani soldiers shelled military outposts and villages along their highly militarized frontier in disputed Kashmir, in an outbreak of new violence despite stepped-up diplomatic efforts by the rival countries to ease tensions.
(AP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, An activist group said Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent human rights lawyer in Iran who defended protesters against the Islamic Republic's mandatory headscarves for women, has been convicted and faces years in prison. She had previously served three years in prison for her work.
(AP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu designated Al-Aqsa television channel of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas a "terrorist organization".
(AFP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, Italy's populist government opened its new minimum income welfare program, fulfilling a key campaign promise of the 5-Star Movement to try to reduce poverty and unemployment in the eurozone's third-largest economy.
(AP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, In Kenya thousands of air passengers were stranded after a strike by aviation workers at the main Nairobi airport led to the cancellation and delay of scores of flights and the use of riot police to break up the industrial action. By the end of the day however, most scheduled arrivals had been processed while the departures backlog was being cleared.
(Reuters, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, Bankers and diplomats said Libya's parallel government in the east has sold bonds worth more than $23 billion to fund its wage bill, bypassing the central bank in Tripoli and creating a potential financial black hole if the country reunifies.
(Reuters, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, In Pakistan Mohammed Afzal (31), also known as Afzal Kohistani, was shot dead in the northwestern district of Abbotabad. The young rights campaigner had fought for seven years for justice for five possible victims of so-called honor killings. Police soon identified the killer as his nephew.
(Reuters, 3/8/19)
2019 Mar 6, In Puerto Rico trucks laden with food, water and gasoline began arriving on the tiny islands of Vieques and Culebra after the governor activated the National Guard due to a breakdown of two ferries that carry supplies.
(AP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, Scientists set off on a mission to explore the depths of the Indian Ocean. The Britain-based Nekton non-profit research institute has chartered the Ocean Zephyr, a Danish-flagged supply ship, to explore the waters around the Seychelles. This is the first of a half-dozen regions the Nekton Mission plans to explore before the end of 2022, when scientists will present their research at a summit on the state of the Indian Ocean.
(AP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, A South African court handed jail terms of 23 and 18 years to two white farmers who murdered a black teenager suspected of stealing sunflowers in a remote farming community. Pieter Doorewaard (28) and Philip Schutte (35) were found to have killed 15-year-old Matlhomola Mosweu, also spelt Moshoeu, on April 20, 2017, after claiming they caught him taking a plant from a farm in the area.
(AFP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, South Korean President Moon Jae-in proposed a joint project with China to use artificial rain to clean the air in his country, where an acute increase in pollution has caused alarm.
(AP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, In eastern Syria hundreds more people made their way out of Islamic State's last pocket, besieged by a US-backed militia. An SDF source put the number of people who left the Baghouz pocket this morning at more than 2,000. The SDF militia captured 400 Islamic State fighters who were trying to escape the enclave.
(Reuters, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said that she is seeking access to China to verify continuing reports of disappearances and arbitrary detentions, particularly of Muslims in the Xinjiang region.
(Reuters, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said sanctions had exacerbated the crisis in Venezuela but also slammed Maduro's "violations of civil and political rights" in her annual report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
(AFP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, Venezuela's government said it will expel the German ambassador, Daniel Martin Kriener, for interfering in the country's internal affairs and gave him 48 hours to leave.
(Reuters, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, A Vietnamese fishing boat capsized after reportedly being rammed by a Chinese vessel in the South China Sea's contested Paracel Islands. China said its boat came upon the fishing vessel after it started sinking and sought help for the crew.
(AP, 3/8/19)
2020 Mar 6, Pres. Donald Trump signed an $8.3 billion measure to help tackle the coronavirus outbreak that has killed 14 people in the US and infected more than 200.
(AP, 3/6/20)(Reuters, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, US President Donald Trump announced he had made a major staff overhaul, replacing his acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney with Republican Rep. Mark Meadows. Trump said Mulvaney would become the US special envoy for Northern Ireland.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, The US State Department raised its alert level for travel to Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. Neither country has reported many cases but both border Iran, which has been hard hit by the coronavirus.
(Reuters, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, The United States ordered Beijing Shiji Information Technology to divest entirely from mobile hotel property firm StayNTouch, with President Donald Trump saying in an order that its acquisition of the Maryland-based company may threaten national security.
(Reuters, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, The Grand Princess cruise ship, with 3,500 aboard, remained docked 70 miles off the coast of San Francisco as health officials await results from dozens of coronavirus tests. Samples were collected from 45 people currently on board who were showing symptoms. At least 19 passengers and two crew members on Carnival Corp.’s Grand Princess, currently off the coast of California, have tested positive for the coronavirus virus.
(AP, 3/6/20)(SFC, 3/6/20, p.A9)(Bloomberg, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 6, In the SF Bay Area Santa Clara County reported 24 cases of coronavirus.
(SSFC, 3/8/20, p.A1)
2020 Mar 6, Florida health officials confirmed the state’s first two deaths from coronavirus as well the first pair of cases in the Miami metropolitan area.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 6, Kentucky reported its first coronavirus case.
(Bloomberg, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 6, Nebraska reported its first coronavirus case.
(Bloomberg, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 6, Jazz pianist McCoy Tyner died at his home in New Jersey. His more than 80 albums included "A Love Supreme" (1965), recorded with the John Coltrane Quartet.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCoy_Tyner)(SFC, 3/9/20, p.C3)
2020 Mar 6, The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in New York doubled to 22. More than 2,700 people were isolated at home.
(NY Times, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Tennessee officials believed that remains found on property belonging to family member of Megan Boswell in Blountville, are that of Evelyn Boswell, the 15-month-old girl last seen in December but only reported as missing in February. Megan Boswell (18) was charged on Feb. 25 with one count of false reporting. Evelyn’s grandmother, Angela Boswell, and another man William McCloud, were arrested and charged with possession of stolen property on Feb. 20.
(ABC News, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Utah confirmed its first coronavirus case.
(Good Morning America, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 6, In Washington state two Microsoft employees have been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus. Facebook announced it is closing its Seattle office until March 9 after a contractor tested positive for the virus.
(Good Morning America, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, In the US the number of cases passed 230 people scattered across 18 states. The new coronavirus hit a milestone, infecting more than 100,000 people worldwide as it wove itself deeper into the daily lives of millions, infecting the powerful, the unprotected poor and the vast masses in between.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, US drugmaker Biogen Inc said three of its employees tested positive for the coronavirus after attending a meeting in Boston last week, and that their condition was improving under medical care.
(Reuters, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Boeing's proposal to leave wiring bundles in place on the grounded 737 MAX failed to get the backing of US aviation regulators, potentially delaying the plane's return to service.
(Reuters, 3/9/20)
2020 Mar 6, SpaceX successfully lunched a Falcon rocket from Cape canaveral with 4,300 pounds of supplies for the Int'l. Space Station. The booster landed for a 50th successful touchdown.
(SSFC, 3/8/20, p.A9)
2020 Mar 6, In Afghanistan gunmen opened fire at a ceremony in Kabul attended by prominent political leaders, killing at least 32 people and wounding dozens more before the two attackers were slain by police.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, In Belgium the number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus more than doubled to 109 after 59 new patients tested positive.
(Good Morning America, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, An American tourist became the 1st confirmed case in Bhutan.
(Good Morning America, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Gilbert Khoo, a seafood salesman in the UK, received a two-year suspended sentence for six offenses related to the transport of $7 million worth of endangered eels.
(Business Insider, 3/8/20)
2020 Mar 6, Cameroon announced its first coronavirus infection.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, China reported 143 new cases, the same as a day earlier and about one-third what the country was seeing a week ago. Health authorities said the northwestern Chinese province of Gansu has confirmed 17 new coronavirus cases imported from Iran, bringing the total imported cases to 28.
(AP, 3/6/20)(Reuters, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Egyptian officials said 12 people from a Nile cruise ship have tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo set the tone for new rules due to coronavirus, warning everybody to improve personal hygiene and avoid crowds, at the celebrations of Ghana's 63rd independence anniversary. He ostentatiously kept both his hands resolutely behind his back when he arrived at the ceremony to greet those seated on the dais.
(BBC, 3/25/20)
2020 Mar 6, Clashes between Greek riot police and migrants attempting to cross the border from Turkey erupted anew as European Union foreign ministers took aim at what they called “Turkey's use of migratory pressure for political purposes".
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Four cases of the coronavirus have been identified in Hungary thus far, including a pair of Iranian students who recently visited their homeland.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, India braced for a potential explosion of coronavirus cases as authorities rushed to trace, test and quarantine contacts of 31 people confirmed to have the disease.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Iran announced that the new coronavirus has killed 124 people amid 4,747 confirmed cases. The virus now was in all of Iran's 31 provinces.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Iraq said it will halt border trade with Iran and Kuwait between March 8 and 15 to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 6, In Ireland more than 60 staff at a hospital were asked to self-isolate after the country's first community transmission of coronavirus was found there.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, In Italy at least 3,296 people have been infected with the coronavirus. The death reached at least 148.
(Good Morning America, 3/6/20)(Reuters, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Japanese carmaker Nissan said it is pushing on with plans to build its new Qashqai sports utility vehicle at its British factory despite warnings over Brexit. Nissan announced a 52-million pound investment in a new press line at the site.
(Reuters, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, In Japan confirmed coronavirus infections rose to 1,057.
(Reuters, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Liberia suspended the licenses of all fuel importers, including France's Total, to conduct performance reviews after some of the companies overdrew from reserves in state-run facilities, leading to gasoline shortages.
(Reuters, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Mexico's bishops said the Vatican had suspended a clerical sex abuse fact-finding and assistance mission to Mexico due to the spreading coronavirus in Italy and now the Vatican.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, The Netherlands reported its first coronavirus death.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Peru announced its first coronavirus infection.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Poland's Pres. Andrzej Duda signed a bill earmarking nearly $510 million to fund public television and radio. The broadcast outlets have become mouthpieces for the country's far-right government.
(https://tinyurl.com/r4htf6s)(SSFC, 3/8/20, p.A4)
2020 Mar 6, Serbia announced its first coronavirus infection.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Slovakia announced its first coronavirus infection.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, South Korea reported 505 additional cases, down from a high of 851 on March 3. The US military confirmed its seventh case among those stationed there.
(AP, 3/6/20)(Reuters, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Spain confirmed its fifth coronavirus death, with 365 confirmed cases.
(Reuters, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Switzerland reported 130 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the national total to 210.
(Good Morning America, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, In northwestern Syria a cease-fire deal brokered by Turkey and Russia took hold in Idlib province. Farhad Dabirian, a commander with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, was killed near Damascus.
(AP, 3/6/20)(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 6, Togo confirmed its first case of coronavirus, bringing the number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa hit by the epidemic to five.
(Reuters, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, In Tunisia two suicide bombers blew themselves up near the US Embassy on the outskirts of Tunis, killing a police officer and wounding four others.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Lyon Cardinal Philippe Barbarin (69), who was convicted and then acquitted of covering up for a pedophile priest in a case that fueled a reckoning over clergy sexual abuse in France.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Vatican City confirmed its first coronavirus case, but did not say who was infected.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2021 Mar 6, US President Joe Biden said that Senate passage of his $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid bill means that $1,400 payments to most Americans will start to go out this month and the bill's provisions will speed up manufacturing and distribution of vaccines.
(Reuters, 3/6/21)
2021 Mar 6, It was reported that more than 20,000 businesses, government offices, and schools in the United States have been compromised during a cyberattack on Microsoft's Outlook email software. Multiple hacking groups with links to the Chinese government have reportedly been identified as the culprits behind the hack.
(The Week, 3/6/21)
2021 Mar 6, California to date had 3,571,430 cases of coronavirus and 53,971 deaths. The SF Bay Area had 410,430 cases and 5,519 deaths. Total cases nationwide reached over 28,938,762 with the death toll at 524,066.
(sfist.com, 3/6/21)
2021 Mar 6, Carla Wallenda (85), a member of “The Flying Wallendas" high-wire act and the last surviving child of the famed troupe's founder, died in Sarasota, Fl.
(AP, 3/8/21)
2021 Mar 6, In Idaho at least 100 people gathered at the front of the Capitol in Boise to burn masks in a protest against measures taken to limit infections and deaths caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
(SFC, 3/8/21, p.A4)
2021 Mar 6, US drugmaker Merck & Co Inc said the experimental antiviral drug molnupiravir it is developing with Ridgeback Bio showed a quicker reduction in infectious virus in its phase 2a study among participants with early COVID-19.
(Reuters, 3/6/21)
2021 Mar 6, In Australia the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in Sidney went ahead at the Sidney Cricket Ground. Up tp 23,000 spectators were allowed in the stands while performers paraded on the field.
(SSFC, 3/7/21, p.A7)
2021 Mar 6, China said it has confirmed outbreaks of African swine fever in its key pork producing provinces of Sichuan and Hubei.
(Reuters, 3/6/21)
2021 Mar 6, Pro-Beijing Hong Kong lawmaker Martin Liao said China's proposal for Hong Kong electoral reforms could prevent a "dictatorship of the majority." The Chinese parliament is discussing plans to overhaul Hong Kong's electoral system to ensure Beijing loyalists are in charge.
(Reuters, 3/6/21)
2021 Mar 6, India's federal government asked local authorities to prioritize COVID-19 vaccinations in several districts of eight states including New Delhi that have seen a spike in coronavirus cases in recent weeks.
(Reuters, 3/6/21)
2021 Mar 6, In India thousands of farmers blocked a major expressway on the edges of New Delhi to mark the 100th day of protests against agricultural laws they say will devastate their income.
(SSFC, 3/7/21, p.A6)
2021 Mar 6, Ivory Coast voted on in a legislative election, with President Alassane Ouattara's allies facing a combined challenge from opposition parties led by two of his predecessors. The poll comes only months after Ouattara won a third term in an election marred by unrest that killed at least 85 people.
(Reuters, 3/6/21)
2021 Mar 6, Lebanon's caretaker PM Hassan Diab warned that the country was quickly headed toward chaos and appealed to politicians to put aside differences in order form a new government that can attract desperately needed foreign assistance.
(AP, 3/6/21)
2021 Mar 6, Myanmar police reportedly used tear gas and stun grenades to break up an anti-coup protest in Yangon, one of several sporadic demonstrations across the country.
(AP, 3/6/21)
2021 Mar 6, Dance music lovers in Amsterdam were offered a short relief from COVID-19 lockdown, treated to their first live show in over a year while serving as guinea pigs in a research project. All guests needed to test negative for coronavirus 48 hours in advance and were urged to take another test five days after the event.
(Reuters, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 6, President Muhammadu Buhari had his first COVID-19 vaccine shot, part of a bid to boost public confidence as Nigeria attempts to inoculate 80 million people this year.
(Reuters, 3/6/21)
2021 Mar 6, In Senegal a teenager in the southern city of Diaobe became the fifth person known to have died in clashes with security forces in various parts of the country.
(BBC, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 6, Spanish authorities said the culling of nearly 900 cattle that were deemed unfit after spending more than two months at sea and on a ship has begun in the Mediterranean port of Cartagena.
(AP, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 6, Pope Francis met with Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. After the meeting al-Sistani issued a statement affirming that Christians should "live like all Iraqis, in security and peace and with full constitutional rights," adding that religious authorities should play a role in protecting them. Chaldean Catholics are believed to represent around 80 percent of the estimated 300,000 Christians left in Iraq.
(The Week, 3/6/21)(AP, 3/6/21)
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1255 Mar 6, Pope Alexander IV permitted Mindaugas to crown his son as king of Lithuania.
(LHC, 3/6/03)
1454 Mar 6, Casimir proclaimed the attachment of Prussia to Polish rule. This began a 13-year war over Prussia (1454-1466).
(LHC,3/6/03)
1475 Mar 6, Michelangelo Buonarroti (d.1564), painter, sculptor and architect, was born. His early mentor was Bertoldo di Giovanni, a pupil of Donatello. His work included “The Creation of Adam" and the “Pieta Rondanini." He at one time proposed to sculpt the 5,000 foot Monte Sagro in Carrara into the statue of a giant.
(WUB, 1994, p. 904)(WSJ, 2/29/96, p.A-14)(AAP, 1964)(SFEC, 7/13/97, p.T11) (SFEC,10/19/97, p.T4)(HN, 3/6/98)
1513 Mar 6, Niccolo Machiavelli was released from jail in Florence. He complained in verse that it was difficult to write poetry there because people kept beating him up.
(ON, 11/04, p.4)
1521 Mar 6, Magellan discovered Guam.
(HFA, '96, p.26)(HN, 3/6/98)
1646 Mar 6, Joseph Jenkes received the 1st colonial machine patent.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1665 Mar 6, Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society started publishing.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1674 Mar 6, Johann Paul Schor (58), German baroque painter, died.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1708 Mar 6, Francis de Laval (b.1623), the first bishop of Quebec, died. He was beatified in 1980 and canonized in 2014.
(http://www.carrefourkairos.net/belineng.htm)
1714 Mar 6, the Treaty of Rastatt ended the war between Austria and Spain. It complemented the Treaty of Utrecht, which had, the previous year, ended hostilities with Britain and the Dutch Republic. The Spanish Netherlands became the Austrian Netherlands, and Spain gave up her possession in Italy, Luxembourg and Flanders. A third treaty, the Treaty of Baden (Sep 7, 1714), was required to end the hostilities between France and the Holy Roman Empire.
(PCh, ed. 1992, p.279)(http://tinyurl.com/b8uxbje)
1763 Mar 6, Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer, was born.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1779 Mar 6, The US Congress declared that only the federal government, and not individual states, had the power to determine the legality of captures on the high seas. This was the basis for the 1st test case of the US Constitution in 1808.
(ON, 12/01, p.9)
1791 Mar 6, Anna Claypoole Peale, painted miniatures, was born.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1799 Mar 6, Napoleon captured Jaffa, Palestine. [see Mar 7]
(MC, 3/6/02)
1806 Mar 6, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (d.1861), English poet, was born in Durham, England. She wrote "Sonnets from the Portuguese." "Since when was genius found respectable?"
(AP, 3/6/98)(HN, 3/6/99)(AP, 8/12/99)
1808 Mar 6, 1st college orchestra in US was founded at Harvard.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1810 Mar 6, Illinois passed the 1st state vaccination legislation in US.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1812 Mar 6, Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watch making, was born.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1816 Mar 6, Jews were expelled from Free city of Lubeck, Germany.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1819 Mar 6, The US Supreme Court ruled in McCulloch v. Maryland that the state could not impose a tax on the notes of banks not chartered in the state. Luther Martin represented Maryland in the landmark case.
(WSJ, 9/20/08, p.A21)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCulloch_v._Maryland)
1820 Mar 6, The Missouri Compromise, enacted by Congress, was signed by President James Monroe. This compromise provided for the admission of Missouri into the Union as a slave state, but prohibited slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory. The compromise was invalidated in the 1856 Scott vs. Sanford case. [see Mar 3]
(HN, 3/6/98)(SFC, 11/30/00, p.A3)
1831 Mar 6, Philip Henry Sheridan, Union Army General and hero of the Battle of Cedar Creek, was born.
(HN, 3/6/99)
1831 Mar 6, Edgar Allan Poe failed out of West Point. He was discharged from West Point for “gross neglect of duty." His parade uniform was supposedly incorrect.
(SFEC, 4/13/97, Z1 p.4)(HN, 3/6/98)
1834 Mar 6, The city of York in Upper Canada was incorporated as Toronto.
(AP, 3/6/98)
1835 Mar 6, Charles Ewing (d.1883), Brig General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1836 Mar 6, The Alamo fell after fighting for 13 days. Angered by a new Mexican constitution that removed much of their autonomy, Texans seized the Alamo in San Antonio in December 1835. Mexican president General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna marched into Texas to put down the rebellion. By late February, 1836, 182 Texans, led by Colonel William Travis, held the former mission complex against Santa Anna’s [3,000] 6,000 troops. At 4 a.m. on March 6, after fighting for 13 days, Santa Anna’s troops charged. In the battle that followed, all the Alamo defenders were killed while the Mexicans suffered about 2,000 casualties. Santa Anna dismissed the Alamo conquest as “a small affair," but the time bought by the Alamo defenders’ lives permitted General Sam Houston to forge an army that would win the Battle of San Jacinto and, ultimately, Texas’ independence. Mexican Lt. Col. Pena later wrote a memoir: "With Santa Anna in Texas: Diary of Jose Enrique de la Pena," that described the capture and execution of Davy Crockett (49) and 6 other Alamo defenders. In 1975 a translation of the diary by Carmen Perry (d.1999) was published. Apparently, only one Texan combatant survived Jose María Guerrero, who persuaded his captors he had been forced to fight. Women, children, and a black slave, were spared.
(AP, 3/6/98)(HN, 3/6/98)(HNPD, 3/6/99)(SFC, 6/15/99, p.C6)
1836 Mar 6, HMS Beagle and Darwin reached King George's Sound, Australia.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1844 Mar 6, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, orchestrator, composer, was born. His work included: Flight of the Bumble Bee, Sadko, Mlada, Capriccio Espagnol, The Tsar's Bride, Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1853 Mar 6, Giuseppe Verdi's Opera, "La Traviata," premiered in Venice.
(AP, 3/6/98)(MC, 3/6/02)
1857 Mar 6, After years in litigation, the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Roger Taney, ruled that Dred Scott did not gain his freedom by living in a free territory. Taney wrote that African Americans could not have rights of their own and were inferior to white people. The essence of the decision was that as a slave, Dred Scott was not a citizen and therefore could not sue in a federal court. The opinion also stated that Congress could not exclude slavery in the territories and that blacks could not become citizens. That ruling further increased the tension already simmering between the North and the South. Dred Scott was a slave who accompanied his owner, army surgeon John Emerson, to military posts in Wisconsin and Illinois in 1834-35. In 1846 Scott, backed by abolitionists, sued for his freedom on the grounds that he became free when he lived in an area where slavery was outlawed. Montgomery Blair (b.1813) was one of the lawyers in the Scott vs. Sanford case. In this case the Supreme Court invalidated the 1820 Missouri Compromise. In 2017 Charles Taney IV apologized to the family of Dred Scott for the words of his great-great-grand-uncle.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_B._Taney)(AP, 3/6/98)(SFC, 11/30/00, p.A3)(SFC, 3/8/17, p.A5)
1860 Mar 6, While campaigning for the presidency, Abraham Lincoln made a speech defending the right to strike.
(HN, 3/6/99)
1861 Mar 6, Provisionary Confederate Congress established Confederate Army.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1862 Mar 6, Pres. Lincoln proposed to Congress a revised plan of compensated emancipation for slave-owners in the District of Columbia and the border states.
(ON, 6/10, p.1)
1862 Mar 6, Battle of Pea Ridge, AR (Elkhorn Tavern). [see Mar 7]
(MC, 3/6/02)
1865 Mar 6, President Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Ball was held.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1865 Mar 6, The last Confederate victory of the Civil War occurred at Natural Bridge crossing near Tallahassee, Fla., when the forces of Union Gen’l. John Newton were routed by entrenched southerners.
(HT, 3/97, p.10)(HN, 3/6/98)
1866 Mar 6, Rev Dr William Whewell (b.1794), an English polymath, died in Cambridge. He was also a scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, historian of science and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. One of Whewell's greatest gifts to science was his wordsmithing. He often corresponded with many in his field and helped them come up with new terms for their discoveries. Whewell contributed the terms scientist, physicist, linguistics, consilience, catastrophism, uniformitarianism, and astigmatism amongst others; Whewell suggested the terms electrode, ion, dielectric, anode, and cathode to Michael Faraday.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Whewell)
1870 Mar 6, Oscar Strauss, composer (Ein Walzertraum), was born in Vienna, Austria.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1884 Mar 6, Over 100 suffragists, led by Susan B. Anthony, presented President Chester A. Arthur with a demand that he voice support for female suffrage.
(HN, 3/6/99)
1885 Mar 6, Ring Lardner (d.1933), American humorist and writer, was born. His books included You Know Me Al (1916). "The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have."
(AP, 5/14/99)(HN, 3/6/01)(WSJ, 12/2/06, p.P8)
1886 Mar 6, The 1st US alternating current power plant started in Great Barrington, MA.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1888 Mar 6, William Bonwill of Philadelphia patented revolving-hammer mechanical dental pluggers, by which the plugging-tool is hit a rapid series I 5 of blows to impact the gold in the teeth.
(http://www.google.com/patents/US378920)
1888 Mar 6, Louisa May Alcott (b.1832) died in Boston just hours after the burial of her father. Her novels included "Little Women" (1868). In 1998 "Little Women" premiered in Houston as an opera by Mark Adomo. In 2010 Susan Cheever authored “Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography."
(WSJ, 8/29/01, p.A12)(SSFC, 12/5/10, p.F3)
1896 Mar 6, Charles B. King rode his "Horseless Carriage," the 1st auto in Detroit.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1899 Mar 6, Richard Leo Simon, publisher, partner of Max Schuster, was born.
(HN, 3/6/01)
1899 Mar 6, Aspirin was patented following Felix Hoffman’s discoveries about the properties of acetylsalicylic acid. Duisberg’s Bayer team released a drug they named aspirin. In 2004 Diarmuid Jeffreys authored “Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug."
(HN, 3/6/01)(SSFC, 10/24/04, p.M6)
1900 Mar 6, Gottlieb Daimler (65), designer of the 1st motorcycle, died.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1901 Mar 6, A would-be assassin tried to kill Wilhelm II in Bremen.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1906 Mar 6, Lou Costello (d.1959), American film comedian, was born in Paterson, NJ. He paired with Bud Abbott in numerous films and the famous "Who's on First" routine.
(HN, 3/6/99)(MC, 3/6/02)
1909 Mar 6, Gerhart Hauptmann's "Griselda," premiered in Vienna.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1909 Mar 6, Stanislaw J. Lec (d.1906), Polish poet, author and satirist: "THINK before you think!"
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Jerzy_Lec)(AP, 8/28/98)
1910 Mar 6, In San Francisco a dance marathon at Puckett’s Cotillion Hall ended and Manager Puckett awarded $145 to six couples who broke the world record of 14 hours and 41 minutes. The contest had begun the previous evening with 17 couples.
(SSFC, 2/28/10, DB p.42)
1913 Mar 6, Stewart Granger, actor (Saraband for Dead Lovers, Scaramouche), was born.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1914 Mar 6, Kirill P. Kondrashin, conductor (Hollywood Bowl 1981), was born in Moscow, Russia.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1914 Mar 6, German Prince Wilhelm de Wied was crowned as King of Albania.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1916 Mar 6, Rochelle Hudson (d.1972), American film actress (That's My Boy), was born in Oklahoma City, Ok.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochelle_Hudson)
1916 Mar 6, The Allies recaptured Fort Douamont in France. A line of bayonets protruding from the earth still testifies to French valor at Verdun in World War I.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1917 Mar 6, Dr. Chandra Chakraverty was arrested in NYC for violating US neautrality laws. He had been by Berlin to arrange for arms sales to India in the Annie Larsen affair. German military attache Franz von Papen had arranged for 10,000 rifles to be loaded on a chartered ship called the Annie Larsen. The plot failed when US federal agents seized office files of German official Wolf Von Igel in NYC. The files contained information about the entire conspiracy.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Larsen_affair)(SFC, 3/7/20, p.C2)
1918 Mar 6, US naval boat "Cyclops" disappeared in "Bermuda Triangle."
(MC, 3/6/02)
1921 Mar 6, Julius Rudel, conductor (NYC Opera), was born in Vienna, Austria.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1921 Mar 6, The National Association of Moving Picture Industry announced their intention to censor U.S. movies.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1921 Mar 6, Police in Sunbury, Penn., issued an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1922 Mar 6, G.B. Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh III/IV," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1923 Mar 6, The Turkish National Assembly rejected the Lausanne Treaty in Angora.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1924 Mar 6, Sarah Caldwell, conductor, opera director (Flagstaff), was born in Maryville, Mo.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1924 Mar 6, William H. Webster, US judge, head FBI and CIA, was born.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1926 Mar 6, Alan Greenspan, economist, presidential advisor, was born.
(SSFC, 3/6/05, p.E1)
1927 Mar 6, Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. (d.2004), USAF astronaut (Mer 9, Gem 5), was born in Shawnee, Okla.
(SFC, 10/5/04, p.B7)
1927 Mar 6, Norman Treigle, bass-baritone (Mefistofele), was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1928 Mar 6, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Columbian-born novelist and Nobel Prize winner (1982), was born. In 2009 Gerald martin authored “Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez)(SSFC, 6/7/09, Books p.J1)
1928 Mar 6, A Communist attack on Peking, China resulted in 3,000 dead and 50,000 fleeing to Swatow.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1930 Mar 6, Clarence Birdseye of Brooklyn developed a method for quick freezing food.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1932 Mar 6, John Philip Sousa (77), US composer (Stars & Stripes Forever), died.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1933 Mar 6, A nationwide bank holiday declared by President Roosevelt went into effect. Overseas deposits shrank by just 2% as a result of the closure.
(AP, 3/6/98)(Econ, 5/15/10, SR p.13)
1933 Mar 6, Anton J. Cermak (b.1873), Czech-born 35th mayor of Chicago, died in Miami following the Feb 15th assassination attempt by Giuseppe Zangara, who was trying to shoot FDR. Zangara was executed in the electric chair on March 21, 1933. Cermak became the 2nd US mayor to die in a political killing.
(SFC, 11/28/03, p.E2)(www.cermak.com/mayor/index3.html)
1933 Mar 6, Poland occupied free city Danzig (Gdansk).
(MC, 3/6/02)
1935 Mar 6, Retired Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. died in Washington.
(AP, 3/6/98)
1936 Mar 6, Marion S. Barry, (Mayor-D-Wash DC), was born.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1937 Mar 6, The tanker ship Frank H. Buck sank off the coast of San Francisco. It was visible during low tide from between Point Vista and the Palace of the Legion of Honor.
(http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?142746)(SFC, 9/17/14, p.A10)
1937 Mar 6, Jose Pena Gomez (d.1998 at 61), advocate for the poor and later mayor of Santo Domingo, was born in Valverde, Dominican Republic, to Haitian immigrants. According to Jose Pena Gomez, a Dominican massacre of Haitians forced his parents to flee back to Haiti. Jose was adopted by a Dominican family.
(SFC, 5/12/98, p.A21)
1937 Mar 6, Valentina Nikolayeva-Tereshkova, Russian astronaut, was born. In 1963 she became the first women to orbit the Earth on Vostok 6.
(HN, 3/6/99)(MC, 3/6/02)
1939 Mar 6, Miron Cristea, PM of Romania (1938-1939), died. Cristea was also the first Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (1925-1939).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miron_Cristea)
1939 Mar 6, Jose Miaja took over the Madrid government after a military coup and vowed to seek "peace with honor."
(HN, 3/6/98)
1941 Mar 6, John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (b.1867), sculptor (Mount Rushmore), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutzon_Borglum)
1943 Mar 6, British RAF fliers bombed Essen and the Krupp arms works in the Ruhr, Germany.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1943 Mar 6, Battle at Medenine, North-Africa: Rommel's assault attack.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1944 Mar 6, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, operatic soprano (Don Giovanni), was born in Gisborne, NZ.
(HN, 3/6/01)(MC, 3/6/02)
1944 Mar 6, US heavy bombers hit Berlin during World War II.
(AP, 3/6/98)
1945 Mar 6, Rob Reiner, actor, director (All in the Family, Stand By Me), was born in Bronx, NY.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1945 Mar 6, Federico Garcia Lorca's "La Casa," premiered in Buenos Aires.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1945 Mar 6, Cologne, Germany, fell to General Hodges' First Army.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1945 Mar 6, Erich Honnecker and Erich Hanke fled Nazis.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1945 Mar 6, In Holland SS General Hans Albin Rauter, was ambushed, and his driver and orderly were killed. Rauter was seriously wounded. SS Brigadefuhrer Dr. Eberhardt Schongarth immediately ordered reprisals and a total of 263 people were shot. A Special Court of Justice in the Hague sentenced Rauter to death and he was executed March 25, 1949. Schongarth was tried by a British Military Court, found guilty on another war crime charge, sentenced to death and was hanged in 1946.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~gduncan/massacres.html
(WW2D, p.610)
1946 Mar 6, France recognized Vietnam statehood within the Indo-Chinese federation.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1947 Mar 6, Winston Churchill opposed the withdrawal of troops from India.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1947 Mar 6, Ludwig Weber (55), composer, died.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1948 Mar 6, During talks in Berlin, the Western powers agreed to internationalize the Ruhr region.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1949 Mar 6, Robert Storm Petersen (b.1882), Danish cartoonist, writer, animator, illustrator, painter and humorist, died. He is known almost exclusively by his pen name Storm P.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Storm_Petersen)
1950 Mar 6, Silly Putty was invented. [see Mar 2]
(MC, 3/6/02)
1953 Mar 6, Upon Josef Stalin's death, Georgi Malenkov was named Soviet premier. [see Mar 6]
(HN, 3/6/98)
1955 Mar 6, A US Atomic Energy Spokesman said a cloud from the atomic blast at Nevada’s Yucca Flat passed over the Central California coastline.
(SFC, 3/4/05, p.F3)
1957 Mar 6, The former British African colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent state of Ghana. Kwame Nkrumah led Ghana to independence from Britain. US VP Nixon and Martin Luther King attended the independence ceremony.
(SFC, 12/6/96, p.B1)(SFEM, 2/2/97, p.15)(SSFC, 2/11/07, p.C1)
1958 Mar 6, Form letters from Pres. Eisenhower to 6 civilians appointees provided for them to take office in the event of a national emergency. The group met in 1960 with the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization to discuss staffing for their agencies. Pres. Kennedy relieved the group of its duties in 1961.
(SSFC, 3/21/04, p.A2)
1959 Mar 6, Candy Rogers was selling camp fire mints in her Spokane neighborhood when she vanished. Sixteen days later, after a sprawling search effort, her body was found in the woods a few miles from her home. Two airmen with the Air Force died during the search after their helicopter struck a power line. In 2021 DNA evidence led to John Reigh Hoff, a door-to-door salesman, who died by suicide at age 31 in 1970.
(NBC News, 11/19/21)
1960 Mar 6, The Swiss granted women the right to vote in municipal elections.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1961 Mar 6, 1st London minicabs were introduced.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1962 Mar 6, US promised Thailand assistance against "communist" aggression.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1963 Mar 6, Jimmy Lee Smith and Gregory Powell (d.2012 at 79) abducted 2 Los Angeles police officers from a Hollywood street, drove them to an onion field in Bakersfield and shot officer Ian Campbell to death. Officer Karl Hettinger managed to escape. Smith served 19 years for his role in the case before he was paroled. In 1973 Joseph Wambaugh authored “The Onion Field," a novel based on the murder. The novel was turned into a film in 1979.
(SFC, 6/28/05, p.B8)(SFC, 8/14/12, p.A4)
1965 Mar 6, "How to Succeed in Business" closed at 46th St NYC after 1415 performances.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1965 Mar 6, The U.S. announced that it would send 3,500 troops to Vietnam.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1967 Mar 6, US Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson announced his plan to establish a draft lottery.
(www.historynet.com/tdih0306.htm)
1967 Mar 6, Elijah Muhammad, Nation of Islam sect leader, gave a radio address in which he declared the name Cassius Clay lacked a "divine meaning." He gave Clay the Muslim name "Muhammad Ali." Muhammad meant one worthy of praise, and Ali was the name of a cousin of the prophets.
(http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00014063.html)
1967 Mar 6, Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of Josef Stalin, appeared at the US Embassy in India and announced her intention to defect to the West. She arrived at New York in April and held a press conference during which she denounced her father's regime.
(AP, 3/6/07)(www.economicexpert.com/a/Svetlana:Alliluyeva.htm)
1967 Mar 6, Nelson Eddy (b.1901), US baritone and actor, died. “Rose Marie" (1936) is probably his most-remembered film. Eddy sang "Song of the Mounties" and "Indian Love Call" by Rudolf Friml. His definitive portrayal of the steadfast Mountie became a popular icon.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Eddy)
1967 Mar 6, Zoltan Kodaly (b.1882), Hungarian composer, died. His major works, notably the comic opera Hary Janos, the Psalmus hungaricus, the Peacock Variations for orchestra and the Dances of Marosszek and Galanta drew on Magyar folk music.
(www.malaspina.org/kodalyz.htm)
1969 Mar 6, Black Panther Anthony Garnet Bryant, aka Tony Bryant (d.1999 at 60), hijacked a National Airlines plane enroute from NY to Miami and directed it to Cuba. He was arrested in Cuba and spent a year and a half in jail and was pardoned in 1980. His 1984 book "Hijack" described his experience in Cuban prisons.
(SFEC, 12/26/99, p.C10)(http://tinyurl.com/aopyo)
1970 Mar 6, In NYC’s Greenwich Village a townhouse at 18 West 11th St. exploded. SDS Weathermen members Diana Oughton, Ted Gold and Terry Robbins were killed at the site where a bomb was being manufactured. Other members went underground and became known as the Weather Underground. The 1988 film "Running on Empty" was based on Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers. In 2001 Bill Ayers, former Weatherman, authored "Fugitive Days, A Memoir."
(SSFC, 9/9/01, DB p.67)(SFC, 7/21/03, p.D2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Oughton)
1970 Mar 6, The Beatles released "Let it Be" in UK.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Be_(song))
1972 Mar 6, Shaquille O'Neal, NBA center (Magic, Lakers, Oly-gold-96), was born in Newark, NJ.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaquille_O'Neal)
1972 Mar 6, Jack Nicklaus, passed Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner. He captured the Doral Eastern Open golf tournament to run his career earnings up to $1,477,200.
(http://440.com/twtd/archives/mar06.html)(http://tinyurl.com/5exc6t)
1973 Mar 6, President Richard Nixon imposed price controls on oil and gas.
(WSJ, 11/4/96, p.C1)(HN, 3/6/98)
1973 Mar 6, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (b.1892), author, died in Vermont. Her books included “The Good Earth" (1931), for which she won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2010 Hilary Spurling authored “Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_S._Buck)(Econ, 4/10/10, p.85)
1974 Mar 6, "Over Here" opened at Shubert Theater in NYC for 341 performances.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1975 Mar 6, OPEC held a meeting in Algiers attended for the first time by its members’ top leaders. Here the Algiers Accord between Baghdad and Teheran put an end to their border dispute and brought all Iranian help to the Kurdish rebellion to a halt. The United States abruptly withdrew its support for the Kurds and the rebellion collapsed. Many thousands of Kurdish fighters and their families were forced to flee to Iran to escape the pursuing Iraqi army.
(http://mondediplo.com/2002/10/06timeline)(SFC, 11/19/07, p.A11)
1978 Mar 6, Pres. Carter invoked the Taft-Hartley Act for an 80-day cooling off period in a coal strike. Miners had struck 3 months earlier after coal companies demanded wage and benefit cuts and refused to be forced back to work. They ended the strike after 110 days when most company demands were dropped.
(SFC, 10/4/02, p.A17)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bituminous_Coal_Strike_of_1977-1978)
1978 Mar 6, The US Supreme Court in its Oliphant decision ruled that tribes could not try non-Indian defendants in tribal courts. It centered on the arrest of Mark Oliphant, a non-Indian, by tribal police. He argued that the tribal court does not have criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliphant_v._Suquamish_Indian_Tribe)
1978 Mar 6, Larry Flynt (b.1942), founder of "Hustler Magazine," was shot and wounded outside a Georgia courtroom. He was left partially paralyzed. His story was the subject of the 1996 film "The People vs. Larry Flynt."
(SFEC, 12/15/96, DB p.41)(www.imdb.com/name/nm0283658/bio)
1980 Mar 6, Islamic militants in Tehran said that they would turn over the American hostages to the Revolutionary Council.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1981 Mar 6, President Reagan announced plans to cut 37,000 federal jobs.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1981 Mar 6, Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time as principal anchorman of "The CBS Evening News."
(AP, 3/6/00)
1981 Mar 6, In Lubeck, Germany, Klaus Grabowski, a child molester, was shot and killed by the mother of a girl he had molested and strangled. Grabowski had earlier avoided a life sentence by agreeing to castration.
(http://tinyurl.com/3dgxwq)
1982 Mar 6, In East Cleveland, Ohio, Reginald Brooks (66) fatally shot his 3 sons while they slept shortly after his wife filed for divorce. Brooks was executed in Lucasville by lethal injection on Nov 15, 2011. He was oldest person put to death since Ohio resumed executions in 1999.
(SFC, 11/16/11, p.A6)(http://tinyurl.com/7g4a4up)
1982 Mar 6, Ayn Rand (b.1905), author and founder of the Objectivist philosophy, died in NY. Her novels included "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead." In 1987 Barbara Branden wrote the biography titled "The Passion of Ayn Rand." In 1999 Nathaniel Branden published "My Years With Ayn Rand," an account of his 18-year relationship with Rand. In 1999 the US Postal Service issued a 33 cent stamp in her honor. In 2009 Anne Heller authored “Ayn Rand and the World She Made," and Jennifer Burns authored “Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right."
(http://tinyurl.com/2nl7hk)(http://tinyurl.com/3a34t9)(SFEC, 8/18/96, PM p. 2)(SFC, 10/25/98, p.D8)(Econ, 10/24/09, p.95)
1983 Mar 6, "On Your Toes" opened at Virginia Theater in NYC for 505 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4208)
1983 Mar 6, Country Music Television (CMT) began showing.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_Music_Television)
1983 Mar 6, In a case that drew much notoriety, a woman in New Bedford, Mass., reported being gang-raped atop a pool table in a tavern; four men were later convicted.
(AP, 3/6/98)
1983 Mar 6, Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU won West German parliament elections.
(www.germanculture.com.ua/march/march6.htm)
1984 Mar 6, Martin Niemoller (92), German U-boat captain, anti-Nazi minister, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Niem%C3%B6ller)
1985 Mar 6, Yul Brynner appeared in his 4,500th performance of "King & I."
(www.weekender.co.jp/new/040305/this-month-history.html)
1985 Mar 6, In Mexico authorities found the body of kidnapped US drug agent Enrique Camarena Salazar and a Mexican pilot at a ranch east of Guadalajara.
(AP, 3/6/05)
1986 Mar 6, Ken Ludwig's "Lend me a Tenor," premiered in London.
(www.thisistheatre.com/shows/gielgud123.html)
1986 Mar 6, USSR's Vega 1 flew by Halley's Comet at 8,890 km.
(www.iki.rssi.ru/ssp/vega.html)
1986 Mar 6, Georgia O'Keefe (98), US painter (Flowers), died in Santa Fe, NM.
(SSFC, 6/22/03, p.C8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O'Keeffe)
1987 Mar 6, The British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized in the Channel off the coast of Belgium after water rushed through the open bow doors. 189 people died when the ferry capsized off the Belgian port of Zeebrugge.
(HN, 3/6/98)(AP, 3/6/98)
1988 Mar 6, The board of trustees at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., a liberal arts college for the deaf, selected Elisabeth Zinser, a hearing woman, to be school president. Outraged students shut down the campus, forcing the selection of a deaf president, I. King Jordan, instead.
(AP, 3/6/08)
1988 Mar 6, British SAS officers killed 3 IRA suspects in Gibraltar.
(http://tinyurl.com/2xbne)
1989 Mar 6, With nearly 90 percent of its pilots honoring the picket lines of striking machinists, Eastern Airlines shut down operations on all but three routes.
(AP, 3/6/99)
1989 Mar 6, Harry Andrews (b.1911), English actor, died in Sussex, England. His films included “Helen of Troy" (1956) and “Equus" (1977).
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0028674/)
1990 Mar 6, The Soviet parliament overwhelmingly approved legislation allowing people to own factories and hire workers for the first time in nearly seven decades.
(AP, 3/6/00)
1991 Mar 6, Following Iraq’s capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told a cheering joint session of Congress that “aggression is defeated. The war is over."
(AP, 3/6/01)
1992 Mar 6, Personal computer users braced for a virus known as “Michelangelo," set to trigger on March 6, but only scattered cases of lost files were reported. The Michelangelo computer virus threatened computer systems around the world. It was designed to lodge itself into a corner of the system and infect any floppies put into the system, and to eventually mangle the hard drive.
(Sp., 5/96, p.68)(AP, 3/6/02)
1993 Mar 6, As a standoff at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended its first week, authorities appealed publicly to David Koresh and his followers to give themselves up.
(AP, 3/6/98)
1994 Mar 6, Two top Clinton administration officials, Vice President Al Gore and White House adviser George Stephanopoulos, appeared on the Sunday TV talk shows to blame Republican sniping for much of the furor over Whitewater.
(AP, 3/6/99)
1994 Mar 6, In Arizona a 2nd 7-member crew entered the Biosphere 2. Their mission was cut short under management problems and reorganization.
(SFC, 11/25/96, p.A3)
1994 Mar 6, Melina Mercouri (b.1920), Greek born actress turned politician, died of lung cancer in New York City.
(AP, 3/6/99)(www.imdb.com/name/nm0580479/)
1995 Mar 6, The Republican-controlled House took up business-backed legislation to alter the civil legal system over White House objections that some of the proposals were too extreme. The House passed the measure the following day.
(AP, 3/6/00)
1996 Mar 6, A federal appeals court struck down Washington state’s ban on doctor-assisted suicide.
(AP, 3/6/01)
1996 Mar 6, Lamar Alexander and Dick Lugar announced they were dropping out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
(AP, 3/6/01)
1996 Mar 6, Reports said that at least 10,000 Chechens have fled to this neighboring republic [Dagestan] of the Russian Union.
(WSJ, 3/6/96, p. A-1)
1997 Mar 6, The first ever Webby Awards ceremony was held in SF at Bimbo’s 365 Club in North Beach.
(SFC, 3/7/96, p.A1)
1997 Mar 6, A gunman stole "Tete de Femme," a million-dollar Picasso portrait, from a London gallery. A week later, the painting was recovered and two suspects arrested.
(AP, 3/6/98)
1997 Mar 6, A new “on the spot" litmus test for the toxins of the E. coli bacteria was announced.
(WSJ, 3/6/97, p.A1)
1997 Mar 6, In Angola an armed group killed 30 people at a Roman Catholic mission in southern Angola and held 6 missionaries hostage.
(SFC, 3/13/97, p.A13)
1997 Mar 6, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II launched the first official royal Web site.
(AP, 3/6/98)
1997 Mar 6, China introduced new laws to bolster its campaigns against dissent, ethnic separatism and subversive Western ideals.
(AP, 3/6/98)
1997 Mar 6, Dr. Cheddi Jagan (78), president of Guyana, died.
(SFC, 3/7/97, p.A24)
1997 Mar 6, In Jamaica former Prime Minister Michael Manley (b.Dec 10, 1924) died.
(SFC, 3/8/96, p.A21)
1997 Mar 6, In Nepal the 17-month coalition of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba was defeated and Deuba resigned. King Birendra asked Deuba’s centrist Nepali Congress Party to continue until the formation of a new council of ministers.
(SFC, 3/7/97, p.A17)
1997 Mar 6, In Sri Lanka Tamil Tiger rebels overran the army base at Vavunativu and left more than 200 dead.
(SFC, 3/7/97, p.A24)
1997 Mar 6, In Turkey Prime Minister Erbakan signed on to the list of 18 measures submitted by the military to curb ultra-religious schools, publications and organizations.
(WSJ, 3/7/97, p.A10)
1998 Mar 6, It was reported that the conservative Tax Foundation estimated that the state of Mississippi received $1.64 for a $1.00 it sent to Washington.
(WSJ, 3/6/98, p.A1)
1998 Mar 6, The Army honored three Americans who risked their lives and turned their weapons on fellow soldiers to stop the slaughter of Vietnamese villagers at My Lai in 1968.
(AP, 3/6/99)
1998 Mar 6, Matthew Beck (35), a Connecticut state lottery accountant, shot to death three supervisors and the lottery chief before killing himself.
(SFC, 3/7/98, p.A3)(AP, 3/6/99)
1998 Mar 6, It was reported that Panama hired a Canadian Indian tribe, the Tsuu T’ina, to clean out unexploded bombs and shells from an area of Empire Range, which US military forces abandoned.
(SFC, 3/6/98, p.A12)
1998 Mar 6, The IMF announced that it would delay the release of $3 billion in aid to Indonesia because basic requirements were not yet met.
(SFC, 3/9/98, p.A11)
1998 Mar 6, Francesca Trombino, lawyer, was bludgeoned to death in Pordenone. She was representing a US Marine in the Feb 3 cable-car disaster. She was also representing the wife of the captured suspect in a divorce case.
(SFC, 3/7/98, p.A7)
1998 Mar 6, Police in Kosovo reported that they killed Adem Jashari, a leader in the Kosovo Liberation Army, in Donji Prekaz in the Drenica region. 45 Albanians and 6 Serb police were reported dead. Of the 46 bodies 11 were women and 9 children. Six of the men were elderly.
(SFC, 3/7/98, p.A6)(SFC, 3/10/98, p.A8)
1999 Mar 6, The emir of Bahrain, Sheik Issa bin Salman Al Khalifa (65), a key Western ally who had ruled for nearly four decades, died shortly after a meeting with Defense Secretary William Cohen. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Crown Prince Hamed ibn Issa Khalifa (49). King Hamed al-Khalifa soon ended a 25-year-long state of emergency.
(SFEC, 3/7/99, p.D8)(AP, 3/6/00)(WSJ, 10/25/01, p.A1)(Econ, 11/25/06, p.46)
1999 Mar 6, From Brazil it was reported that heavy flooding had hit Sao Paulo. 27 people were killed and 10,000 left homeless.
(SFC, 3/6/99, p.A8)
1999 Mar 6, Ta Mok (72), aka "the butcher," the one-legged last senior leader of the Khmer Rouge, was arrested.
(SFEC, 3/7/99, p.A17)(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A12)
1999 Mar 6, From El Salvador it was reported that extermination squads were killing gang members at the rate of 1-2 a week.
(SFC, 3/6/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 6, Some 40 Haitians were apparently drowned when 2 boats loaded with refugees sank. There were 3 survivors.
(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A4)
1999 Mar 6, From Kiribati it was reported that state of emergency had been declared after a prolonged drought nearly exhausted the underground fresh water supply of the 81,000 inhabitants.
(SFC, 3/6/99, p.A8)
2000 Mar 6, Eric Clapton was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the third time; among the newest honorees were James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt and Earth, Wind and Fire.
(AP, 3/6/01)
2000 Mar 6, Three white New York City officers were convicted of a cover-up in a brutal police station attack on Haitian immigrant Abner Louima.
(AP, 3/6/01)
2000 Mar 6, Gasoline prices in California reached an average $1.63 per gallon.
(SFC, 3/7/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 6, California voters passed Prop. 22, the gay marriage ban and Prop. 1A, an approval of Indian gaming rights. Prop. 1A enabled tribes to negotiate compacts with the state to operate casinos with slot machines and house banking.
(SFC, 3/9/00, p.A1)(SSFC, 6/1/03, p.D6)
2000 Mar 6, California voters approved Prop. 21 by 61% authorizing prosecutors to try juveniles as adults for serious crimes.
(SFC, 10/2/14, p.D2)
2000 Mar 6, MGM Grand Inc. led by Kirk Kerkorian acquired Mirage Resorts, founded by Stephen A. Wynn, for $4.4 billion in cash.
(SFC, 3/7/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 6, In Chechnya some 30 rebels held positions at Komsomolskoye's mosque under Russian shelling. 50 Russian troops were reported killed in the last 2 days.
(SFC, 3/7/00, p.A14)
2000 Mar 6, China introduced a $111.1 billion budget that cut its deficit and added funds for military spending.
(WSJ, 3/7/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 6, The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited together with Hong Kong Securities Clearing Company Limited merged under a single exchange HKEX. In June Hong Kong sold shares in its combined stock exchange and clearing house to the public. In 2007 HKEX bought back a stake of almost 6%.
(Econ, 9/15/07, p.93)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Exchanges_and_Clearing)
2000 Mar 6, Serbia sealed its border with Montenegro as relations worsened.
(WSJ, 3/7/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 6, In Sierra Leone some 150 former rebel fighters were reported killed after a clandestine diamond mine they were working collapsed.
(SFC, 3/8/00, p.C4)
2000 Mar 6, In Uganda an overloaded boat sank on Lake Victoria and at least 45 people drowned.
(WSJ, 3/9/00, p.A1)
2001 Mar 6, Bill Mazeroski was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, along with former Negro League player Hilton Smith.
(AP, 3/5/02)
2001 Mar 6, Calling it the “most accurate census in history," the Bush administration refused to adjust the 2000 head count.
(AP, 3/5/02)
2001 Mar 6, The US Senate voted to repeal rules issued 4 months ago by former Pres. Clinton that were intended to reduce workplace injuries. The House followed suit the next day.
(SFC, 3/7/01, p.A1)(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A3)
2001 Mar 6, US District Judge Marilyn Patel ordered Napster to block access to its files of Millions of downloadable songs protected by copyrights.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D3)
2001 Mar 6, Two American women died when their twin-engine plane crashed after take-off from Iceland. They were on their way to Britain for a long-distance air race.
(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A16)
2001 Mar 6, In Argentina Federal Judge Gabriel Cavallo struck down amnesty laws that protected hundreds of soldiers accused of torture, murder and kidnapping during the dictatorship of 1976-1983.
(SFC, 3/7/01, p.A9)
2001 Mar 6, It was reported that Chinese psychiatrists have decided to stop classifying homosexuality as a mental illness.
(SFC, 3/6/01, p.A11)
2001 Mar 6, In China an explosion at an elementary school in Jiangxi province left 37 students and 4 teachers dead. 42 people, mostly students, were killed in a schoolhouse explosion in southern China; parents said the students had been forced to make fireworks by school officials. Teachers, to enhance their meager salaries, had forced students to make firecrackers during their lunch breaks. Prime Minister Zhu Rongji said the blast was caused by a “deranged suicide bomber."
(WSJ, 3/7/01, p.A1)(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A1)(SFC, 3/9/01, p.A14)(AP, 3/5/02)
2001 Mar 6, The EU ordered all livestock markets closed for 2 weeks to contain foot-and-mouth disease.
(SFC, 3/7/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 6, In Kenya the 1st experimental AIDS vaccine, specifically designed for Africa, was administered.
(SFC, 3/7/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 6, In Nigeria 30 girls died from a fire at the Gindiri Girls School in Jos. They were reportedly locked in for the night so as not to mix with boys.
(WSJ, 3/8/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 6, In Rwanda local elections were held for the 1st time since the 1994 mass slaughter of Tutsis.
(WSJ, 3/7/01, p.A1)
2002 Mar 6, Independent Counsel Robert Ray issued his final report in which he wrote that former President Clinton could have been indicted and probably would have been convicted in the scandal involving former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2002 Mar 6, Federal regulators approved the proposed $22 billion merger of Hewlett-Packard Co. and Compaq Computer Corp.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2002 Mar 6, US commanders in Afghanistan committed an additional 300 troops to the battle zone in the Shah-I-Kot mountains. Taliban and al-Qaeda forces were reported to have swollen by as many as 500 fighters. US jets killed 14 people in the area including women and children.
(SFC, 3/7/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/13/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 6, It was reported that a 3-year study of heavy marijuana users showed that long-term pot smoking impaired brain function.
(SFC, 3/6/02, p.A2)
2002 Mar 6, It was reported that a diet rich in tomato products can lower the risk of prostate cancer (Journal of National Cancer Institute).
(SFC, 3/6/02, p.A2)(WSJ, 3/6/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 6, Astronauts successfully replaced a power-control unit on the Hubble space telescope.
(WSJ, 3/7/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 6, In Kabul, Afghanistan, 3 Danish and 2 German peacekeeping soldiers were killed while defusing a soviet era missile.
(WSJ, 3/7/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 6, China announced a 17.6% increase in defense spending.
(SFC, 3/7/02, p.A7)
2002 Mar 6, It was reported that new regulations (Kuschelregel, the cuddle rule) required German pig farmers to spend at least 20 seconds each day looking at each pig.
(WSJ, 3/6/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 6, Israeli forces struck Palestinian targets by land and sea. 13 Palestinians and 2 Israelis were left dead.
(SFC, 3/7/02, p.A6)(WSJ, 3/7/02, p.A1)
2003 Mar 6, President Bush held a new conference and warned that he was prepared to go to war soon in Iraq with or without UN backing.
(AP, 3/7/03)(SFC, 3/7/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 6, The United States ratified a treaty on cutting active U.S. and Russian long-range nuclear warheads by two-thirds.
(AP, 3/6/04)
2003 Mar 6, Democrats blocked President Bush's nomination of Miguel Estrada to a federal appeals court.
(AP, 3/6/04)
2003 Mar 6, An Air Algerie Boeing 737 jet crashed killing 102 passengers and crew in the southern Algerian province of Tamanrasset. At least 1 person survived.
(AP, 3/6/03)(SFC, 3/7/03, p.A14)
2003 Mar 6, Britain offered to compromise on a US-backed resolution by giving Saddam Hussein a short deadline to prove he has eliminated all banned weapons or face an attack.
(AP, 3/6/03)
2003 Mar 6, The Chinese government committed itself to helping its poorest citizens, unveiling a new budget aimed at helping the countryside and maintaining growth. Defense was budgeted a 9.3% rise, the lowest in 14 years, and plans were made to abolish the agency in charge of five-year plans.
(AP, 3/6/03)(SFC, 3/6/03, p.A14)(WSJ, 3/6/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 6, The Congolese government and rebels have agreed in Pretoria to meld their armed forces into a new national army in a bid to end a 4 ½-year civil war and reunify the vast central African nation.
(AP, 3/7/03)
2003 Mar 6, Pres. Fidel Castro was elected a sixth term and he wasted no time in criticizing the US, warning that Cuba doesn't need its foreign office.
(AP, 3/7/03)
2003 Mar 6, Zdenek Adamec (19) set himself on fire in downtown Prague on to protest the Czech political situation and what he called the domination of the wealthy in the world.
(AP, 3/6/03)
2003 Mar 6, Israeli troops hunting Islamic militants after a deadly suicide bombing stormed the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza in a raid that left 11 Palestinians dead and 110 wounded.
(AP, 3/6/03)
2003 Mar 6, Italian police raided a house in Palermo and captured Salvatore Rinella (49), a top Mafia boss.
(AP, 3/7/03)
2004 Mar 6, President Bush backed off on plans to require frequent Mexican travelers to the United States to be fingerprinted and photographed before crossing the border.
(AP, 3/6/05)
2004 Mar 6, A water taxi carrying about 25 passengers capsized in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, killing one person. Three others were missing and presumed dead. Navy reservists rescued 21 people.
(AP, 3/6/04)(SFC, 3/08/04, p.A3)
2004 Mar 6, China handed its enormous military a double-digit spending increase in a show of support. According to China's 2004 budget, military spending for the PLA will rise 11.6 percent this year, an increase of $2.6 billion.
(AP, 3/6/04)
2004 Mar 6, Thousands of women marched through Paris to press for equal rights for women and show support for a law to ban Islamic head scarves in public schools.
(AP, 3/6/04)
2004 Mar 6, It was reported that 4 compromising videos have been released showing Mexican political party leaders and public servants accepting briefcases full of cash, gambling at the high rollers' table in Las Vegas and offering to procure business contracts for millions of dollars.
(AP, 3/6/04)
2004 Mar 6, Palestinian gunmen and car bombers attacked a major crossing point between the Gaza Strip and Israel. At least four attackers and two Palestinian policemen were killed, and no Israeli soldiers were hurt.
(AP, 3/6/04)
2004 Mar 6, Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans marched through Caracas to protest the rejection of a petition aimed at recalling President Hugo Chavez.
(AP, 3/7/04)
2005 Mar 6, Hans Bethe (b.1906), German-born peace worker and Nobel Prize winning physicist (1967), died in Ithaca, NY. In the 1930s Bethe, one of the greatest innovative theoretical physicists of our time, unraveled the mysterious nuclear cycles by which stars produce prodigious amounts of energy for billions of years without burning out.
(SFC, 3/8/05, p.B5)(Econ, 3/19/05, p.90)
2005 Mar 6, Actress Teresa Wright died in New Haven, Conn., at age 86.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2005 Mar 6, In Bolivia President Carlos Mesa said he would submit his resignation to Congress after 17 months in office, warning that growing protests against Bolivia's oil and gas laws could soon block the country's highways and isolate its main cities.
(AP, 3/7/05)
2005 Mar 6, China convened its National People’s Congress.
(WSJ, 3/7/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 6, Shanghai became the 1st Chinese city to levy a capital gains tax on the sale of private property held for less than a year.
(Econ, 3/26/05, p.73)
2005 Mar 6, Israeli investigators said police had arrested 22 employees of a Tel Aviv bank branch on suspicion they helped launder hundreds of millions of dollars in one of the largest such rings in the country's history.
(AP, 3/6/05)
2005 Mar 6, Giuliana Sgrena, the Italian journalist wounded by American troops in Iraq after her release by insurgents, rejected the U.S. military's account of the shooting and declined to rule out the possibility she was deliberately targeted. The White House called the shooting a "horrific accident" and restated its promise to investigate fully.
(AP, 3/6/05)
2005 Mar 6, Moldova held national elections. Nine special stations were opened near the border with Trans-Dniester so the separatist region's 700,000 residents can vote. Trans-Dniester authorities have refused to allow any polling stations on their territory. The governing pro-Western Communists won a parliamentary majority, but fell short of taking enough seats to re-elect President Vladimir Voronin.
(AP, 3/6/05)(AP, 3/7/05)
2005 Mar 6, In Norway 3 works by Edvard Munch were stolen from a hotel, the second theft of the renowned Norwegian's art in less than seven months.
(AP, 3/7/05)
2005 Mar 6, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, ending years of chilly relations with Uzbekistan, promised to catch and extradite any Uzbek-born terrorist hiding in his country.
(AP, 3/6/05)
2005 Mar 6, Palestinian militants shot and wounded two Israeli border policemen in an attack on a military post near a West Bank shrine.
(AP, 3/7/05)
2005 Mar 6, More than 15,000 protesters marched in Taiwan, denouncing China's planned anti-secession law and pledging to fight what they claim is Beijing's attempt to force this self-ruled, democratic island to unify with the mainland.
(AP, 3/6/05)
2005 Mar 6, In Turkey riot police kicked and beat women and young people who had gathered for an unauthorized demonstration in Istanbul marking International Women's Day.
(AP, 3/7/05)
2006 Mar 6, The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously that colleges that accept federal money must allow military recruiters on campus, despite university objections to the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Gov. Mike Rounds of South Dakota signed a sweeping state abortion ban. It was an intentional provocation to set up a legal challenge to the 1973 Supreme Court Roe vs. Wade decision that made abortion legal. Abortion-rights groups were able to get enough signatures to put the measure to a vote, and the ban was rejected in the November election.
(SFC, 3/7/06, p.A8)(AP, 3/6/07)
2006 Mar 6, A San Francisco judge ordered the Univ. of California to pay over $33.8 million to some 40,000 students, who claimed their fees had been improperly raised.
(SFC, 3/7/06, p.A1)
2006 Mar 6, General Motors Corp. said it will sell a 17.4% stake in Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp. for $2 billion, scaling down its share in an effort to gain much-needed cash. GM and Suzuki said the partnership between the automakers will continue.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, US scientists issued a forecast that the next sunspot cycle would start in late 2007 or 2008 and peak in 2012. Solar storms in the 11-year cycle could disrupt power and communications around the world.
(SFC, 3/7/06, p.A5)
2006 Mar 6, Dana Reeve (44), singer, actress and non-smoker, died of lung cancer. She won worldwide admiration for her devotion to her "Superman" husband, Christopher Reeve (d.2004), through his decade of near-total paralysis.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 6, Baseball Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett died in Phoenix at age 45.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2006 Mar 6-2006 Mar 7, Armenian and Azerbaijani forces exchanged heavy gunfire and mortars at several points along their border in the most serious fighting in months.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 6, PM John Howard in New Delhi said Australia will consider selling uranium to India if it is convinced about New Delhi's commitment to follow global nuclear safeguards for its civilian atomic reactors.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Austrian authorities said several cats have tested positive for the deadly strain of bird flu in their first reported case of the disease spreading to an animal other than a bird.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Bangladesh's second top Islamist militant was captured after a gunbattle with security forces. Siddiqul Islam Bangla Bhai, chief of the outlawed Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh group (JMB), was arrested along with his wife at his hideout with two of his associates in the northern district of Mymensingh.
(Reuters, 3/6/06)(Econ, 3/25/06, p.45)
2006 Mar 6, President Evo Morales accused the US government of trying to intimidate Bolivia by announcing it would cut some aid because of a disagreement over the appointment of a military commander.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, A Chinese lawmaker called for police to tape interrogations in possible death penalty cases following widespread complaints of confessions being forced by torture.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, France's highest administrative body ruled that Sikhs must remove their turbans for driver's license photos, calling it a question of public security and not a restriction on freedom of religion.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, German drugmaker Bayer AG said its fourth-quarter profit fell 33% after it set aside 275 million euros ($330.5 million) to settle claims that it colluded on prices of rubber and plastic in the US.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, In Iraq explosions killed at least 10 people and wounded 36 in Baghdad and Baqouba. In Iraq 2 men were burned to death in their car after a shootout with Iraqi police in Basra. Security officials said the victims were British citizens. A car bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol exploded near a market north of Baghdad, killing at least five people. A Sunni general in charge of Baghdad defenses was killed by snipers. Attacks across Iraq killed at least 25 people.
(AP, 3/6/06)(WSJ, 3/7/06, p.A1)
2006 Mar 6, Israeli aircraft blew up a truck carrying Islamic Jihad militants, killing two of them and three bystanders, including two children. The Israeli military confirmed it attacked the truck, saying the target was one of the dead men, Islamic Jihad operative Moner Sukar, who had carried out rocket attacks against Israel.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Zeev Rosenstein (51), a suspected Israeli mob boss, was extradited to the US. Rosenstein was suspected in the distribution of more than 1 million Ecstasy pills in the US, mostly in NY and Miami.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, In Mexico Diego Santoy (21) was captured at a police roadblock in the southern state of Oaxaca, four days after he allegedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend, Erika Pena, 18, strangled her 3-year-old sister and stabbed to death her 7-year-old brother.
(AP, 3/8/06)
2006 Mar 6, Nigeria unveiled details of spending plans in its record 14.8-billion-dollar (12.3-billion-euro) federal budget and made ambitious predictions for strong economic growth.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Pakistani authorities clamped a curfew on a Miran Shah and negotiated with tribesmen to try to end three days of clashes that have left more than 120 pro-Taliban rebels dead. Thousands of residents joined an exodus out of the town.
(AFP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, In comments aimed at Afghanistan's leader, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said that the "bad-mouthing" of his country must stop and that Pakistani officials have caught terrorists "and will continue to do so."
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Hamas lawmakers in Palestine voted to revoke decisions made by the Fatah-led parliament at its last meeting in February, including more power for Pres. Abbas.
(WSJ, 3/7/06, p.A1)
2006 Mar 6, President Vladimir Putin signed a measure into law that allows the Russian military to shoot down hijacked planes, the latest in a series of bills passed following terrorist attacks.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Russia's environmental agency gave final approval to a much-criticized plan to build a 2,550-mile oil pipeline past Lake Baikal, the world's largest freshwater lake.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, In Seoul representatives of South Korea and the US agreed to begin negotiations in June on establishing a free trade agreement. A block away movie actors, directors and farmers staged protests against any such deal.
(AFP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Leaders from the main Darfur rebel group renounced Abdel Wahed Mohamed el-Nur, their party president, saying he was acting unilaterally and endangering fragile peace talks.
(Reuters, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Sandjar Umarov, chairman of the opposition Sunshine Uzbekistan group, was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison on charges of organizing a criminal group, tax evasion and money laundering. Umarov pleaded innocent to all charges.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2007 Mar 6, Democratic lawmakers accused the Bush administration of carrying out a political purge by firing at least 8 US attorneys.
(SFC, 3/7/07, p.A3)
2007 Mar 6, Former US White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was convicted of lying and obstructing an investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's identity. Sentencing was scheduled for June.
(AP, 3/7/07)(Econ, 3/10/07, p.27)
2007 Mar 6, More than 30 Vermont towns passed resolutions seeking to impeach President Bush, while at least 16 towns in the tiny New England state called on Washington to withdraw US troops from Iraq.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 6, US Army medic Spc. Agustin Aguayo, who refused to return to Iraq because of his opposition to the war, was convicted in Germany of desertion at his court martial. He was sentenced to eight months in prison, far short of the maximum seven-year sentence.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, It was reported that Myers Development Co. of SF planned to start construction next month on its $428 million Mandalay Terrace project on the west side of San Bruno Mountain in South San Francisco. It included 12 and 21-story office towers.
(SFC, 3/6/07, p.B6)
2007 Mar 6, Researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that pollution from Asia is helping generate stronger storms over the North Pacific, according to new research. Satellite measurements have shown an increase in tiny particles generated from coal burning in China and India in recent decades.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Ernest Gallo (97), who parlayed $5,900 and a wine recipe from a public library into the world's largest winemaking empire, died at his home in Modesto, Ca.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 6, In southern Afghanistan a remote-control bomb targeting a police vehicle on killed one policeman and wounded another in the Murja district of Helmand province. Afghan soldiers caught Mullah Mahmood, a senior Taliban commander at a checkpoint in Kandahar province. He was wearing a burqa, the all-encompassing Islamic veil worn by women. One British soldier and four Taliban fighters were killed. A Canadian soldier died from a gunshot wound to the chest. Enemy action was ruled out as the cause. The Taliban claimed that it had kidnapped 4 journalists, including a Briton and an Italian.
(AP, 3/6/07)(AP, 3/7/07)(WSJ, 3/7/07, p.A1)
2007 Mar 6, A fire raged through a congested slum in southeastern Bangladesh, killing at least 21 people, including 10 children.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Central African Republic forces (FACA) peacefully took back control of the airfield at Birao that they had abandoned following rebel attacks at the weekend.
(AFP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, The government of Chad refused to allow the UN to send an advance mission to prepare for the possible deployment of UN peacekeepers, a setback to plans to help thousands of civilians caught in the spillover of the Darfur conflict in neighboring Sudan.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 6, An explosion at a coal mine in south China killed at least 15 workers.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 6, Fortunat Lumu, the head of Congo's atomic energy commission, was arrested along with an aide on suspicion of illegally selling uranium.
(AP, 3/8/07)
2007 Mar 6, In eastern Ethiopia 2 US troops were reported killed and another injured in a single-vehicle traffic accident.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, France and the United Arab Emirates signed an agreement to open a branch of the Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi, despite criticism that the French government is peddling the country's artistic treasures.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Jean Baudrillard (b.1929), French philosopher and social theorist, died. He was best known for his writings on gender relations and consumerism.
(Econ, 3/17/07, p.93)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard)
2007 Mar 6, Volkswagen's new chief executive Martin Winterkorn has been nominated as chairman of Swedish truck maker Scania in a new phase in the plans for a three-way tie-up with German group MAN. VW is Scania's biggest shareholder with a voting stake of 34 percent and traditionally holds the chair of the Swedish truck maker's supervisory board.
(AFP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Guatemala's president ordered the national police to clean out corrupt officers and upgrade training after six members of the force were accused of killing three Central American Parliament members.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, In western India wildlife officials said poachers had killed three highly endangered Asiatic lions in their only remaining sanctuary, removing their claws and bones and raising fears for the future of these rare cats. Tiger numbers in India had collapsed to around 1,800 in the wild, about half the world’s total.
(AP, 3/6/07)(Econ, 5/26/07, p.41)
2007 Mar 6, In western Indonesia a 6.3 earthquake crumpled houses across a large swath of Sumatra Island, killing over 70 people and injuring hundreds.
(AP, 3/7/07)(AP, 3/10/07)
2007 Mar 6, Iran said its former deputy defense minister was missing while on a private trip to neighboring Turkey, and its top police chief accused Western intelligence services of possibly kidnapping the official.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, In Iraq 2 suicide bombers blew themselves up in a crowd of Shiite pilgrims streaming toward a shrine at Hillah, killing at least 120 people and wounding about 190. In the south Baghdad neighborhood of Dora gunmen pumped bullets into a minibus, killing all eight passengers inside. A car bomb nearby killed at least 7 people.
(AP, 3/6/07)(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 6, In Iraq US Staff Sgt. Michael Barbera took a knee, leveled his rifle and killed two unarmed brothers as they herded cattle in a grove. Barbera faced a US military trial in 2014.
(SFC, 4/24/14, p.A6)
2007 Mar 6, Italian prosecutors cleared a physician who disconnected the respirator of a paralyzed man who had asked to die.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, In Mexico gunmen wounded Gen. Francisco Fernandez, the top security official in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco, and killed his driver.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 6, Moroccan officials arrested Saad Houssaini, an alleged member of a terrorist group that is believed linked to the 2004 Madrid bombings and 2003 attacks in Casablanca.
(AFP, 3/9/07)
2007 Mar 6, Dutch judges ruled that a chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang is not a criminal organization, rejecting prosecutors' attempts to have the group outlawed.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, In northwestern Pakistan armed tribesmen attacked suspected Uzbek militants, triggering a battle in which 15 people were killed.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo signed into law a package of anti-terror measures that has drawn protests as a threat to civil liberties.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Interfax news agency said 2 American women were hospitalized in Moscow for treatment of thallium poisoning. The women became ill Feb. 24 and were being treated at Moscow's Sklifosovsky clinic.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, In Somalia mortar rounds slammed into Mogadishu's airport during a ceremony welcoming the arrival of peacekeepers. At least 3 people were killed when a firefight erupted between unidentified insurgents and Ethiopian troops near a military base in Mogadishu.
(AP, 3/6/07)(AFP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Sudan said it will try three Sudanese for crimes committed in Darfur, including a member of the country's security forces who is being sought by an international war crimes court.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Thailand's military-installed government took over the country's only independent television station and said it would be temporarily pulled off the air after it failed to pay millions of dollars in unpaid license fees.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Venezuelan authorities arrested, Gen. Ramon Guillen Davila, a retired National Guard general, on accusations that he plotted to overthrow President Hugo Chavez.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 6, In Zimbabwe at least 34 people were killed when a train collided with a minibus at rail crossing on the outskirts of the capital Harare.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2008 Mar 6, In Nevada letters began arriving this week to patients who received injected anesthesia at the endoscopy center from March 2004 to mid-January were urged to get tested for hepatitis B and C, and HIV. The Las Vegas clinic was found to be reusing syringes and vials of medication for nearly four years.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, A lawmaker said Abkhazia, a region that broke away from Georgian government control in the 1990s, intends to seek international recognition as an independent nation, citing Kosovo as a precedent.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, In Albania a boat carrying partygoers celebrating the birthday of 5-year-old twins sank just after midnight in a lake near the capital, killing 16 people, including the two children.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, Britain unveiled a timetable for the introduction of controversial biometric identity cards, starting with non-European foreigners who will be obliged to have them from later this year.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, In Britain the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) said that up to 700 hundred personnel of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) had begun a 24-hour stoppage in response to poor pay conditions and below-inflation wage increases over the past few years.
(AFP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, In Colombia Pedro Pablo Montoya, a guerrilla known as Rojas, came to government troops with the severed right hand of FARC rebel leader Ivan Rios (46), a laptop computer and ID, saying he had killed his boss three days earlier. Rojas handed himself over to the soldiers. The US State Department had a bounty of $5 million for Rios' capture. In 2011 Rojas was sentenced to 40 years for his role in a 1999 attack on the northwestern town of Narino, in which 9 police and 7 civilians were killed. A march protesting the Colombian government and paramilitary death squads drew tens of thousands of people and 6 organizers were killed.
(AP, 3/7/08)(AP, 3/14/08)(AP, 11/10/11)
2008 Mar 6, In Egypt police arrested 26 members of the Muslim Brotherhood in an ongoing crackdown on Egypt's largest Islamic opposition group ahead of next month's local election.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, Greece's main power company extended rolling blackouts as a strike by the company's workers entered its fourth day.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, Officials said authorities in Indian Kashmir have begun poisoning stray dogs in an anti-rabies drive that aims to kill some 100,000 dogs in the region's main city.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, In Iraq an attack killed 68 people in a Baghdad shopping district. 120 were wounded. Many of the victims were teens or young adults.
(AP, 3/7/08)
2008 Mar 6, A gunman infiltrated a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem and opened fire in a library, killing 8 students and wounding dozens before an Israeli army officer nearby shot the gunman dead. In Gaza, the Islamic militant Hamas praised the attack.
(AP, 3/6/08)(AP, 3/7/08)
2008 Mar 6, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega announced that he is breaking off relations with Colombia because of his country's opposition to the Colombian raid on a guerrilla base in Ecuador.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, A massive power outage struck Pakistan's largest city of Karachi and left the entire city of more than 15 million people without electricity.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, Palestinian militants ambushed an Israeli army jeep on the border with Gaza, killing one soldier and wounding three. Deputies of Egypt's intelligence chief Omar Suleiman met with officials from the Islamic militant Hamas and the smaller Islamic Jihad in the Egyptian Sinai city of el-Arish to persuade Hamas to accept a truce that would halt rocket attacks.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, Serbia's tottering coalition government voted down a bid by nationalist PM Vojislav Kostunica to rule out any deal with the EU until it revokes the independence of Kosovo.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, K. Sivanesan (51), a Sri Lankan Tamil lawmaker, was killed in a roadside bomb attack by government security forces. At least 61 Tamil Tiger rebels and five government troops were killed in 2 days of fresh fighting across Sri Lanka's embattled north.
(AFP, 3/6/08)(AFP, 3/7/08)
2008 Mar 6, Journalists and a security official said Sudanese authorities have reimposed daily censorship of newspapers after they published reports accusing the government of backing Chadian rebels.
(Reuters, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, Viktor Bout, a suspected Russian arms dealer, was arrested at a five-star hotel in downtown Bangkok on allegations that he supplied Colombian rebels with arms and explosives. He had been accused of flouting UN embargoes and was wanted by Interpol.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, A Kurdish demonstrator wounded a day earlier in clashes with police in eastern Turkey died of his injuries.
(AP, 3/7/08)
2008 Mar 6, About 700 Turkish school children were hospitalized for apparent food poisoning.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2009 Mar 6, The US Labor Department reported that the nation's unemployment rate bolted to 8.1 percent in February, the highest since late 1983, as cost-cutting employers slashed 651,000 jobs amid a deepening recession.
(AP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, The IRS said it would not renew its expiring contracts with two private debt collection agencies. An in-house tax collection program was cited as more effective.
(WSJ, 3/7/09, p.A4)
2009 Mar 6, The CIA destroyed a dozen videotapes of harsh interrogations of terror suspects, according to documents filed in a lawsuit over the government's treatment of detainees. The 12 tapes were part of a larger collection of 92 videotapes of terror suspects that the CIA destroyed. The extent of the tape destruction was disclosed through a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union against the government.
(AP, 3/7/09)
2009 Mar 6, In California Annette Yeomans (51) surrendered at the Vista jail and was booked for investigation of grand theft and embezzlement. The former bookkeeper reportedly embezzled $9.9 million, forcing her company to make layoffs as she bought 400 pairs of shoes that she kept in a room-sized closet decorated with a crystal chandelier and a plasma television. Authorities alleged that Yeomans embezzled the money from 2001 to 2007 while she was chief financial officer for Quality Woodworks, Inc., a cabinetry business in San Marcos.
(AP, 3/8/09)
2009 Mar 6, NASA's planet-hunting telescope, Kepler, rocketed into space on a historic voyage to track down other Earths in a faraway patch of the Milky Way galaxy. The $600 million satellite experienced a communication failure in 2013. It continued limited operations until 2018.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_space_telescope)(AP, 3/7/09)(Econ, 10/18/14, p.83)
2009 Mar 6, In Argentina Claudio Lifschitz, a criminal attorney who accused former President Carlos Menem of covering up the nation's worst terrorist attack, was kidnapped and tortured by masked gunmen seeking information about the case.
(AP, 3/12/09)
2009 Mar 6, Colombia’s anti-narcotics police seized 5.7 tons of cocaine and cocaine base in a jungle laboratory reportedly run by the Black Eagles, the largest of a new generation of paramilitary groups.
(SFC, 3/7/09, p.A4)
2009 Mar 6, The EU and Kenya agreed to allow the country to prosecute suspected pirates captured by European forces on the high seas.
(AP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, India's government said it assisted an Indian businessman in his successful $1.8 million bid for Mohandas Gandhi's eyeglasses and other items, despite initially protesting the auction as a "crass commercialization" of the pacifist leader's legacy. An Indian court had even filed an injunction in an attempt to prevent the auction in New York.
(AP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 5, Indonesia and South Korea agreed to cooperate more closely on a range of issues including defense, the global financial crisis and alternative sources of energy.
(AP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, The Israeli foreign ministry said it had closed its embassy after the government of Mauritania asked the Israeli ambassador and his staff to leave.
(AP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, Kyrgyz lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to suspend an agreement that allows US-led coalition forces fighting in Afghanistan to use an air base on its territory.
(AP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, Mexico published a new law allowing the planting of genetically modified corn for experimental reasons.
(SFC, 3/7/09, p.A2)
2009 Mar 6, Morocco cut diplomatic links with Iran after an outcry in the Sunni Muslim world over a statement by an Iranian official questioning Sunni-ruled Bahrain's sovereignty.
(Reuters, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, In Paraguay about 100 women disrobed in a square in downtown Asuncion to protest nuclear weapons.
(AP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, The Sri Lankan government appealed for tens of thousands of civilians to flee the northern war zone and said it would open two safe passages for the exodus. Sri Lankan soldiers assailed the last slice of land still controlled by ethnic Tamil separatists, killing at least 32 rebels in Mullaitivu.
(AP, 3/6/09)(AP, 3/7/09)
2009 Mar 6, A UN spokesman said its human rights office will examine whether Sudan's decision to expel aid groups constitutes a breach of basic human rights and possibly a war crime. UN agencies warned that Sudan's decision to expel 13 international aid groups will leave more than a million people without food or health care and could threaten thousands of lives.
(AP, 3/6/09)(AFP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, A senior employee of Taiwan's presidential office was indicted on charges of providing classified information to rival China. Wang Jen-bing was charged with violating the national security law by leaking documents gathered during the last three years of former President Chen Shui-bian's eight-year tenure. Chen Pin-jen, a legislative aid, was indicted on similar charges.
(AP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, In Thailand Chiranuch Premchaiporn was arrested for violating the country’s Computer Crime Act. She faced 10 charges for not preventing comments on bulletin boards that might have offended the royal family.
(http://tinyurl.com/4j6w77d)(Econ, 2/5/11, p.54)
2009 Mar 6, In Zimbabwe PM Morgan Tsvangirai was injured in a car crash that killed his wife. Tsvangirai was flown the next day to neighboring Botswana for medical tests.
(Reuters, 3/7/09)(AFP, 3/7/09)
2010 Mar 6, Sandra Bullock won worst-actress for her romantic comedy flop "All About Steve" at the Razzies, a spoof of the Oscars that mocks Hollywood's low-points of the year.
(AP, 3/8/10)
2010 Mar 6, British PM Gordon Brown made a surprise visit to troops in Afghanistan.
(AP, 3/6/10)
2010 Mar 6, An operation in Germany to remove the gall bladder of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was "successful" and he was in hospital convalescing.
(AFP, 3/6/10)
2010 Mar 6, In Germany 4 men brandishing handguns and machetes stormed into Berlin's Grand Hyatt hotel during a million-euro poker tournament and made off with hundreds of thousands of euros in cash. A man (21), who admitted to taking part in the raid, turned himself into authorities on March 15 and identified 3 accomplices who remained on the run. Authorities issued photos of the three: Ahmad el-Awayti (20), of undetermined nationality; Jihad Chetwie, a 19-year-old German; and Mustafa Ucarkus, a 20-year-old Turkish citizen. On March 21 police arrested a 5th suspect, a Lebanese citizen (28), believed to be the organizer of the attack.
(AFP, 3/7/10)(AP, 3/17/10)(AP, 3/22/10)
2010 Mar 6, Icelanders voted in a referendum on a $5 billion deal to repay Anglo-Dutch loans. The referendum resoundingly rejected a deal to pay Britain and The Netherlands billions for losses in the Icesave bank collapse.
(Reuters, 3/6/10)(AFP, 3/7/10)
2010 Mar 6, In Indonesia a group calling itself "al-Qaida in Aceh" claimed to be the target of a police crackdown. Police have arrested 16 suspected militants in a series of raids in the deeply conservative province of Aceh since Feb 22.
(AP, 3/6/10)
2010 Mar 6, In Iraq a car bomb exploded near a bus for pilgrims in the Shiite city of Najaf, killing at least three people, including two Iranians, on the eve of key national elections.
(AP, 3/6/10)
2010 Mar 6, In northern Mexico police in the city of San Nicolas de los Garza, a suburb of the industrial hub of Monterrey, protested hours after three of their colleagues were shot to death in an ambush and a fourth was wounded. Federal police announced the arrest of three men accused of running an extortion ring that targeted Ciudad Juarez businesses. The army announced it had seized 2.6 metric tons of marijuana and detained one suspect in a mountainous area of Chihuahua.
(AP, 3/7/10)
2010 Mar 6, In Pakistan Maulvi Noor Mohammad, a Pakistani Taliban commander, was ambushed near the main town of Miran Shah, North Waziristan, by relatives of a man he recently tortured and killed.
(AP, 3/7/10)
2010 Mar 6, In the Philippines guerrillas of the communist New People's Army (NPA) killed 11 government soldiers in a gun battle on Mindoro island.
(AFP, 3/6/10)
2010 Mar 6, The Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association said that Saudi security officers stormed a book stall at the Riyadh Int’l. Book Fair last week and confiscated all work by Abdellah Al-Hamid, a well-known reformer and critic of the royal family.
(SSFC, 3/7/10, p.A6)
2010 Mar 6, In western Sudan 10 people were killed in renewed clashes between the Misseriya and Nuwayba tribes in the Darfur region.
(AFP, 3/7/10)
2010 Mar 6, In Tibet a truck loaded with people heading to an ancient monastery in the Shannan prefecture crashed killing 26 people.
(SSFC, 3/7/10, p.A6)
2011 Mar 6, Scientists at Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano said a new vent has opened, sending lava shooting up to 65 feet high.
(AP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 6, In Texas a fire following a late night party left 6 people dead in Granbury.
(SFC, 3/7/11, p.A6)
2011 Mar 6, Afghan President Hamid Karzai told General David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, his apology for a foreign air strike that killed nine children on March 1 was "not enough." 12 civilians, including 5 children, were killed when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in southeastern Paktika province.
(Reuters, 3/6/11)
2011 Mar 6, In Bahrain thousands of Shiite opposition supporters blocked the entrance to the prime minister's office but failed to disrupt a government meeting as the campaign for reform in the strategic Gulf nation enters its third week.
(AP, 3/6/11)
2011 Mar 6, Nearly 50 Bangladeshi migrant workers evacuated by sea from Libya to the Greek island of Crete jumped ship during the night, apparently to avoid being sent back to Bangladesh. Three died, 11 remained missing and many others were hospitalized.
(AP, 3/6/11)
2011 Mar 6, In China at a hastily called news conference in Beijing, Li Honghai, vice director of the city's Foreign Affairs Office, said reporters must apply for and receive government permission to conduct any newsgathering within the city center. It was the latest sign of the government's determination to prevent the formation of a Middle East-style protest movement.
(AP, 3/6/11)
2011 Mar 6, Scientists from Cyprus, England and Greece reported their ability to diagnose Down Syndrome using a simple blood test on pregnant women.
(SFC, 3/7/11, p.A7)
2011 Mar 6, Estonia held elections. The center-right, 2-party coalition government of PM Andrus Ansip won.
(SSFC, 3/6/11, p.A4)(SFC, 3/7/11, p.A2)
2011 Mar 6, In Haiti raucous crowds danced in the streets of the capital as the city celebrated its first Carnival since last year's earthquake forced the cancellation of the annual festivities.
(AP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 6, India's defense ministry said it successfully shot down a missile in a test of a homegrown missile interception system.
(AP, 3/6/11)
2011 Mar 6, In southern Iraq a roadside bomb killed six people and wounded 12 in the oil-rich city of Basra. A radio station in Kalar, called Voice, was vandalized. The independent station in the Kurdish region was established by two young journalists about two years ago.
(AP, 3/6/11)
2011 Mar 6, In Ireland the two opposition parties that triumphed in elections, conservative Fine Gael and left-wing Labor, announced they have reached agreement to form the country's next coalition government following five days of negotiations.
(AP, 3/6/11)
2011 Mar 6, In the Ivory Coast rebels, known by their French acronym FN, seized Toulepleu extending gains made earlier with the seizure of Zouan-Hounien. Both towns have historically been controlled by Laurent Gbagbo. A top Ouattara adviser said gangs of youth, actively aided and supported by uniformed police, have ransacked at least 10 houses belonging to senior ministers, mayors and other allies of the internationally recognized president. Nearly 400 people have already been killed, most of them civilians who voted for Ouattara.
(AP, 3/7/11)(AP, 3/6/11)
2011 Mar 6, Japan's foreign minister Seiji Maehara suddenly quit for having accepted a political donation from a foreigner, a violation of Japanese law, dealing another blow to the embattled administration of PM Naoto Kan.
(AP, 3/6/11)(SFC, 3/7/11, p.A2)
2011 Mar 6, Libyan helicopter gunships fired on a rebel force advancing west toward the capital along the Mediterranean coastline and forces loyal to leader Moammar Gadhafi fought intense ground battles with the rival fighters. Four people were killed in fighting at Bin Jawwad and Ras Lanouf. 21 people, including a child, were killed and dozens wounded in the rebel-held city of Misrata during fighting and shelling by Moamer Kadhafi's forces.
(AP, 3/6/11)(AFP, 3/7/11)
2011 Mar 6, Mexican police found 3 severed heads in plastic bags in the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco. Armed men attacked a police station in Acapulco, wounding an officer. The same suspects later shot at a house, wounding two people at the residence. Authorities said Julio Cesar Aguilar Garcia, a suspected high-ranking figure in the Sinaloa drug cartel, was arrested in Sonora state. Alleged Zetas leader, Marcos Carmona Hernandez, was arrested in Oaxaca state. In northwestern Sinaloa state gunmen swarmed a convoy transporting 2 prisoners, shredding 3 police vehicles with bullets and killing 7 officers and one inmate.
(AP, 3/7/11)(SFC, 3/7/11, p.A2)(AP, 3/8/11)
2011 Mar 6, Off the central Peruvian coast a gang of criminals known as "the pirates of the sea" raided a Japanese tuna trawler. The gang of some 20 criminals tied the crew's hands and feet, then took off with their money, cell phones and the ship's communication equipment.
(AFP, 3/6/11)
2011 Mar 6, In South Sudan clashes began between government soldiers and a rebel group in the village of Owachi. More than 60 people, mostly civilians, were killed over 2 days. More than 7,000 others were displaced. Soldiers from Southern Sudan's government fired indiscriminately at civilians and burned and looted homes in Upper Nile state, near the north-south border.
(AP, 4/20/11)
2011 Mar 6, In Taiwan 9 people died and 12 others were injured in a fire at a pub in the central city of Taichung. Local media reported that the packed pub first caught fire from sparks from an LED torch used by a performer.
(AP, 3/6/11)
2011 Mar 6, In southern Thailand six gunmen opened fire in a busy area of Pattani province's Yarang district and killed a retired police officer. Two insurgents on a motorcycle also in Pattani shot at a mother and son riding a motorbike back from a market. The 23-year-old son died and the mother was wounded.
(AP, 3/6/11)
2011 Mar 6, A Turkish court ordered Ahmet Sik and Nedim Sener, two leading investigative journalists, jailed pending the outcome of a trial into an alleged plot to topple the Islamic-rooted government, raising further concerns over media freedom in the country. Ahmet Sik was arrested as he prepared a book about the alleged infiltration of Islamists into the Turkish police, a sensitive theme in a nation divided over the role of religion.
(AP, 3/6/11)(Econ, 3/12/11, p.61)(AP, 4/14/11)
2011 Mar 6, In Yemen suspected al-Qaida gunmen killed four Republican Guard soldiers in the mountainous central province of Marib. Al-Qaeda militants shot and killed an army intelligence officer in the city of Zinjibar, in southern Abyan province. Another officer was shot dead in the city of Sayun, in Hadramut province, by gunmen suspected to be from Al-Qaeda. “Government thugs" descended on protesters camped out on a main square in Ibb province. One person was killed and 53 people were hurt.
(AFP, 3/6/11)(AP, 3/8/11)
2012 Mar 6, Five members of Anonymous and Lulz Security were charged in an indictment unsealed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. They included 2 men from Britain, 2 from Ireland and an American. Hector Xavier Monsegur (28), who pleaded guilty in August, served as an FBI informant leading to the new charges. Monsegur’s assistance led to the arrest of hacker Jeremy Hammond in 2013 and allowed authorities to disrupt at least 300 cyberattacks on the US government, US military as well as courts and private companies.
(AFP, 3/6/12)(SFC, 3/7/12, p.A7)(SSFC, 5/25/14, p.A8)
2012 Mar 6, A US federal court in Houston convicted R. Allen Stanford (61) of running a $7 billion investor fraud scheme that snared investors from 113 countries. He was first indicted in June, 2009.
(SFC, 3/7/12, p.A6)(Econ, 3/10/12, p.86)
2012 Mar 6, A lawsuit was filed in Washington, DC, by 8 members of the US military alleging they were raped, assaulted or harassed during their service and suffered retaliation when they reported it to their superiors.
(SFC, 3/7/12, p.A6)
2012 Mar 6, Ten US states voted in the Super Tuesday Republican primaries. Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney edged out conservative rival Rick Santorum in the vital battleground of Ohio and won five of the night's other contests. Romney also notched victories in Alaska, Idaho, Vermont, Virginia and his home-state of Massachusetts, while Santorum won North Dakota, Oklahoma and Tennessee, and Newt Gingrich carried his home state of Georgia.
(SFC, 3/7/12, p.A6)(Econ, 3/10/12, p.18)
2012 Mar 6, Georgia voters lifted a ban on Sunday sales of alcohol in 24 of 27 cities that put the issue on the ballot.
(Econ, 3/17/12, p.33)
2012 Mar 6, Dennis Kucinich, a colorful liberal in Congress who tried to have former President George W. Bush impeached over the Iraq war, was defeated in Ohio by a fellow Democratic incumbent in the first of 11 primary races this year pitting members of the US House against each other.
(Reuters, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 6, In North Carolina a decorated Green Beret leapt from the second-story of his burning home, wrapped himself in a blanket and ran back inside in an attempt to save his two young daughters. Firefighters recovered the body of Chief Warrant Officer Edward Cantrell (36) on the second floor of his Hope Mills home, not far from the remains of 6-year-old Isabella and 4-year-old Natalia.
(AP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, Louise White (81) of Newport, RI, claimed last month’s $336.4 million Powerball jackpot.
(SFC, 3/7/12, p.A7)
2012 Mar 6, Afghan President Hamid Karzai endorsed the Ulema Council's “code of conduct" document issued March 3. It allows husbands to beat wives under certain circumstances and encourages segregation of the sexes.
(AP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, Bangladesh's high court ordered police to sue 17 professors for allegedly distorting the country's liberation war history and maligning its founding leader in a school textbook.
(AFP, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 6, In Bangladesh Saudi diplomat Khalaf bin Mohammed Salem al-Ali was shot and killed on a residential street in Dhaka. Authorities said the gunman and a motive were unknown.
(AP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, The limbless and headless torso of Gemma McCluskie (29) was found when a member of the public reported a suspicious object floating close to a market in Hackney, east London. She was a former actress in the BBC's top soap opera "EastEnders" (2001) and had gone missing on March 1. On March 10 Tony McCluskie (35) was charged with killing his sister.
(AFP, 3/9/12)(AFP, 3/10/12)
2012 Mar 6, Chinese rights activist Liu Ping (47) went missing after she was detained by security officials in Beijing. She had angered officials with her advocacy of free elections as well as support of labor and women’s rights.
(SFC, 3/20/12, p.A2)(http://tinyurl.com/7jom58l)
2012 Mar 6, The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo headed by PM Adolphe Muzito resigned more than three months after legislative elections.
(AFP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, In Haiti Venel Joseph, a prominent banker whose son recently pleaded guilty in a US federal bribery case, was shot and killed in Port-au-Prince. Joseph was director of Haiti's Central Bank during former Pres. Jean-Bertrand Aristide's 2nd term from 2001 to 2004.
(AP, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 6, India's ruling Congress party and its famed Gandhi political dynasty suffered a stinging election setback in crucial state polls. Figures showed Congress winning clearly in only one of five states and suffering a landslide defeat in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India's most populous and politically significant state. Mayawati (56), India's low-caste "Dalit queen" who once saw herself as a future prime minister, was dethroned after a scandal-tainted term running UP.
(AFP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency reported that the government will grant UN inspectors access to a military complex where the UN nuclear agency suspects secret atomic work has been carried out.
(AP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, Iraqi authorities arrested four men in Salaheddin province in connection with a shooting spree a day ago that left 27 policemen dead. One of the terrorists blew himself up when they were surrounded.
(AFP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu left Washington with assurances that the US is prepared to use force to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, just not yet.
(AFP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, In Libya tribal leaders and militia commanders declared a semiautonomous region. Thousands of representatives of tribal leaders, militia commanders and politicians made the unilateral declaration at a conference in Benghazi. The conference said the eastern state, known as Barqa, would have its own parliament, police force, courts and capital at Benghazi.
(AP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, Madagascar authorities said Tropical Storm Irina killed at least 65 people, most of them residents of the Ifanadiana district in the southeast of the island, when the storm passed over the country last week.
(AFP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, Mexican authorities found 16 bodies in three clandestine graves on the outskirts of Monterrey. Authorities went to the ranch after drug gang suspects revealed the burial sites during questioning. In the border city of Piedras Negras a fierce hour-long battle took place between gunmen and police. One female officer was killed and six people were wounded.
(AP, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 6, Moldova introduced new legislation approving chemical castration for foreigners and nationals convicted of sexually abusing children.
(SFC, 3/7/12, p.A2)
2012 Mar 6, In Nigeria unknown gunmen shot dead Adamu Amadu, a senior customs officer in charge of Yobe and Borno states, both recently been rocked by Islamist attacks. Islamists attacked a prison, police station and local government office, wounding at least three police officers in Konduga, Borno state.
(AFP, 3/6/12)(AFP, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 6, In the Philippines a 5.2 earthquake struck leaving 10 people injured. It was centered at sea just two miles (3 km) north of Masbate City on the island province of Masbate.
(AP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, South Africa's powerful Cosatu labor federation vowed to rally more than 100,000 protesters against new toll roads around Johannesburg that have angered workers and businesses.
(AFP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, In South Korea journalists walked out of the state-owned Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) due to government interference. They joined colleagues at Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), already on strike for a month. Journalists claimed to have over 2,600 files pointing to illegal government surveillance carried out between 2008-2010.
(Econ, 3/3/12, p.52)(http://tinyurl.com/82ns7pl)(Econ, 4/7/12, p.48)
2012 Mar 6, Talks between Sudan and South Sudan resumed in the Ethiopian capital to resolve a furious oil dispute as tensions remain high between the two nations.
(AFP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, In Sudan Patrick Noonan, a British aid worker working for the UN World Food Program, was abducted by armed men in the Darfur region. He was released after 86 days.
(AFP, 5/30/12)
2012 Mar 6, Swedish Public Radio said the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) had secret plans since 2007 to help Saudi Arabia build a plant for the production of anti-tank weapons. Construction on "Project Simoom" was yet to begin. It involved the creation of a shell company called SSTI to handle dealings with Saudi Arabia, in order to avoid any direct links to FOI and the government.
(AFP, 3/6/12)(AFP, 3/29/12)
2012 Mar 6, Syrian troops shelled Herak and clashed with army defectors holed up inside in violence that killed a 15-year-old boy and five government soldiers. Government forces pounded rebel-held towns and blasted a bridge used by refugees to escape to Lebanon. At least 16 people were killed as regime forces launched a major assault on Herak, a town in the southern province of Daraa.
(AP, 3/6/12)(AFP, 3/6/12)(AFP, 3/7/12)
2012 Mar 6, Turkish Airlines started flying into Somalia's war-torn capital, becoming the first international company to fly passenger planes into Mogadishu in more than 20 years. Flights were scheduled for twice a week.
(AP, 3/6/12)
2012 Mar 6, In southern Yemen unknown assailants shot dead a policeman and wounded four others in the Ataq, Shabwa province. In Daleh province members of the separatist Southern Movement "opened machinegun fire at a police vehicle, wounding three policemen.
(AFP, 3/6/12)
2013 Mar 6, Arkansas adopted the country’s most restrictive ban on abortion, at 12 weeks of pregnancy. Democrat Gov. Mike Beebe called it “blatantly unconstitutional."
(SFC, 3/7/13, p.A5)
2013 Mar 6, In California a lion attacked and killed Dianna Hanson (24), a sanctuary worker at Project Survival’s Cat Haven in Dunlap.
(SFC, 3/7/13, p.A1)(SFC, 3/8/13, p.A1)
2013 Mar 6, Ohio executed Frederick Treesh for the fatal shooting of a bookstore security guard in 1994. He was pronounced dead after a single powerful dose of pentobarbital.
(SFC, 3/7/13, p.A5)
2013 Mar 6, Britain said it will provide armored vehicles, body armor and search-and-rescue equipment to Syria's opposition, but was still stopping short of arming the country's rebels.
(AP, 3/6/13)
2013 Mar 6, British travel firm Thomas Cook said it would cut 2,500 UK jobs and close 195 stores in Britain as the euro crisis, high fuel costs and unrest in key destinations like Egypt and Greece take their toll on the holiday business.
(Reuters, 3/6/13)
2013 Mar 6, An Egyptian administrative court ordered the suspension of parliamentary elections scheduled to begin next month, throwing the country's politics deeper into confusion. In Port Said military police deployed around a government complex where demonstrators have been camped out for weeks.
(AP, 3/6/13)
2013 Mar 6, An Egyptian court convicted Ahmed Ezz, a Mubarak-era steel magnate, of profiteering and squandering public funds. He was sentenced to 37 years in prison and fined $296 million. Ezz was already serving a 17-year sentence for graft and money laundering.
(SFC, 3/7/13, p.A2)
2013 Mar 6, Iranian authorities blocked many foreign-based virtual private networks, or VPNs, severely restricting access to many websites.
(AP, 3/12/13)
2013 Mar 6, Iraq's Chaldean Catholic Church enthroned a new patriarch during a ceremonial mass that was held amid tight security in Baghdad. Louis Sako (64) replaced Emmanuel III Delly, who has retired.
(AP, 3/6/13)
2013 Mar 6, Malaysian security forces battled a group of Filipino intruders in the rugged terrain of Borneo after they escaped a military assault with fighter jets and mortar fire on their hideout. One Filipino was shot and believed killed.
(AP, 3/6/13)
2013 Mar 6, In eastern Mali French and Malian forces clashed with jihadists leaving a French soldier and some 10 insurgents dead. Boukary Daou, the editor-in-chief of Mali’s The Republican newspaper was arrested. His arrest came soon after his newspaper published a letter from an army officer denouncing coup leader Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo's recently-decreed salary of $8,000 per month, a very high salary in the impoverished country.
(SFC, 3/7/13, p.A2)(AP, 3/14/13)
2013 Mar 6, In South Africa Dirk Coetzee (57), a former commander of the Vlakplaas covert police unit in apartheid-era South Africa, died of kidney failure. Coetzee had fled South Africa in 1989. He pledged allegiance to the ANC, returned in 1993 and was a witness at the trial of former police Col. Eugene de Kock. In testimony to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Coetzee confessed to plotting the 1981 murder of attorney Griffiths Mxenge.
(AP, 3/7/13)
2013 Mar 6, In Spain Alvin Lee (b.1944), British virtuoso rock guitarist, died following complications from routine surgery. He as a member of the band Ten Years After, which burst onto the US music scene following their 1969 Woodstock performance.
(SFC, 3/8/13, p.D5)
2013 Mar 6, Syrian rebels detained 21 Filipino UN peacekeepers in the area in another destabilizing twist to the country's two-year-old conflict. The number of Syrian refugees topped 1 million, half of them children. Gunmen raided a Christian village near Homs, robbing houses and shops, saying they were looking for weapons.
(AP, 3/6/13)(AP, 3/7/13)(AP, 3/11/13)
2014 Mar 6, The Obama administration slapped new visa restrictions against pro-Russian opponents to the new Ukraine government in Kiev as lawmakers in Crimea declared their intention to split from Ukraine and join Russia instead. They scheduled a referendum in 10 days for voters to decide the fate of the disputed peninsula. Russia's parliament, clearly savoring the action, introduced a bill intended to make this happen.
(AP, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, The US Climate Prediction Center (CPC) issued its first El Nino watch in almost 18 months, warning the phenomenon that can wreak havoc on weather and roil global crops could strike as early as the Northern Hemisphere summer.
(Reuters, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, Sheila MacRae (92), Broadway and TV star, died. She was best known for playing Alice Kramden to Jackie Gleason’s Ralph on the Jackie Gleason Show (1966-1970).
(SSFC, 3/9/14, p.C12)
2014 Mar 6, In Afghanistan 5 Afghan soldiers were killed in an accidental air strike by the NATO-led force in the eastern province of Logar.
(Reuters, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, Algerian security forces arrested about 40 people protesting in central Algiers against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika standing for a fourth term next month. Public demonstrations in Algeria remain banned, despite a state of emergency being lifted in 2011.
(AFP, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, The Czech Parliament banned the sale of alcoholic beverages during sessions of the lower house.
(AP, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, Cuba said it has accepted a proposal by the EU to open negotiations on a new political accord.
(Reuters, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, European leaders said Russia will face sanctions over its military incursion in Ukraine's Crimean peninsula unless it withdraws its troops or engages in credible talks to defuse the situation. The EU froze the assets of ousted Ukraine leader Viktor Yanukovych, ex-premier Mykola Azarov and 16 former ministers, businessmen and security chiefs, all on grounds of fraud.
(AP, 3/6/14)(AFP, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, The Bank of Greece said the country’s banking sector needs to raise 6.4 billion euros ($8.9 billion) to be able to cushion potential future losses. This prompted some of the banks to outline their plans.
(AP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 6, In central Iraq a series of bombings and clashes near Fallujah left at least 42 people dead.
(AP, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, Lithuania says six US fighter jets and two tanker planes have arrived following a US decision to increase NATO's air policing mission of the three Baltic states.
(AP, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, Macedonia formally set April 27 as the date of the country's early parliamentary election, which was forced after government coalition partners failed to agree on a presidential candidate.
(AP, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, Niger extradited to Libya one of Moammar Gadhafi's sons, al-Saadi, who fled as his father's regime crumbled in 2011 and who was under house arrest in the desert West African nation ever since.
(AP, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, In northern Nigeria four young men were convicted of gay sex and whipped publicly as punishment in an Islamic court in Bauchi city.
(AP, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, Poland's defense minister said a mission of observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has been stopped from entering Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula by unidentified men in military fatigues.
(Reuters, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, A new video showed two members of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot attacked by a group of men who poured rubbish and bright green paint over them and shouted obscenities at them at a McDonald's restaurant in Nizhny Novgorod.
(Reuters, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 6, Saudi state news said a court has sentenced three men to death and jailed two others for up to 17 years for their part in a series of militant attacks including the deadly bombing of a foreign housing compound on Nov 8, 2003.
(Reuters, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 6, South Africa imposed rolling power cuts for the first time since 2008 as it struggled to cope with coal shortages and technical problems caused by recent heavy rains.
(AFP, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, In Syria at least 15 people were killed and 12 others wounded in a car bomb blast in Homs. At least five people were killed and more than 20 wounded in a bomb blast near a security headquarters in Hama. At least 17 jihadists were killed in fighting near the rebel-held town of Yabrud.
(AFP, 3/6/14)(AFP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 6, Tunisia's Pres. Moncef Marzouki lifted a state of emergency in force since the 2011 uprising that ousted dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
(AP, 3/6/14)(SFC, 3/7/14, p.A2)
2014 Mar 6, Uganda, under fire from Western nations, defended its toughened law on gays as being aimed at "protecting" youth from homosexuality and discouraging public displays of gay love.
(Reuters, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, Ukraine's new leadership was reported to have reached out to oligarchs for help, appointing them as governors in eastern regions where loyalties to Moscow are strong.
(AP, 3/7/14)
2014 Mar 6, In Ukraine two Femen protesters were arrested in Crimea's capital Simferopol after staging a topless demonstration against Russia's intervention in Ukraine in front of the regional parliament. Pavel Gubarev, the leader of the most persistent pro-Moscow protest movement in eastern Ukraine, was arrested at his home in the city of Donetsk
(AFP, 3/6/14)(Reuters, 3/6/14)
2014 Mar 6, A Venezuelan soldier and a motorcyclist died in a confused melee sparked by the opposition's barricading of a Caracas street, boosting the death toll from nearly a month of violence to 20.
(Reuters, 3/7/14)
2015 Mar 6, US Border patrol officer Armando Gonzalez was taken into custody in San Diego County for allegedly installing a camera into a women’s restroom.
(SSFC, 3/8/15, p.A9)
2015 Mar 6, The S&P Dow Jones Indices announced that Apple will replace AT&T in the Dow Jones industrial average on March 19.
(SFC, 3/7/15, p.D1)
2015 Mar 6, NASA confirmed that its Dawn spacecraft has arrived to orbit the dwarf planet Ceres for a 16-month exploration.
(SFC, 3/7/15, p.A4)
2015 Mar 6, US regulators gave a green light to sales of the country's first copied version of a biotechnology drug, or "biosimilar," with approval of Novartis' white blood cell-boosting Zarxio.
(Reuters, 3/6/15)
2015 Mar 6, In Aurora, Colorado, police Officer Paul Jerothe shot and killed Naeschylus Carter Vinzant, an unarmed black man. Vinzant was on parole and had fled after beating his wife and taking their 2-month-old son. In 2016 the city of Aurora agreed to pay $2.6 million to settle a lawsuit by Vinzant’s relatives.
(http://tinyurl.com/ngwempn)(SFC, 11/8/16, p.A6)
2015 Mar 6, Wisconsin police fatally shot as Anthony "Tony" Robinson (19), an apparently unarmed African-American, prompting dozens of people to protest at the site of the killing. Robinson, tripping on mushrooms, had already attacked several people. Authorities said Robinson had assaulted Officer Mat Kenny (45) in an apartment. In 2017 a federal civil rights lawsuit awarded Robinson’s family $3.35 million.
(Reuters, 3/7/15)(SSFC, 3/8/15, p.A9)(SFC, 5/14/15, p.A7)(SFC, 2/24/17, p.A6)
2015 Mar 6, Scientists said a tiny, brown bird long thought to be extinct has been rediscovered in Myanmar's grasslands, but its fragmented habitat is threatened by human encroachment. The Jerdon's babbler was first discovered in the 1860s but had not been reported in 74 years.
(AP, 3/6/15)
2015 Mar 6, The African Union endorsed the creation of a regional force of up to 10,000 men to join the fight against Boko Haram, believed to have not more than 6,000 fighters.
(AFP, 3/8/15)(Econ, 2/14/15, p.44)
2015 Mar 6, Brazil’s Supreme Court approved an investigation of dozens of top politicians including a former president and leaders of congress.
(SFC, 3/7/15, p.A2)
2015 Mar 6, A leaked document said the Greek government plans to hire an army of amateur tax sleuths, including tourists, in a bid to fill the gaping hole in the country's finances.
(AFP, 3/6/15)
2015 Mar 6, Guinea-Bissau dismantled a criminal operation trafficking 54 children to Senegal, where it is believed they would have been forced by Islamic schools to beg on the streets.
(AFP, 3/8/15)
2015 Mar 6, In northeastern India Nagaland state authorities suspended the district magistrate of Dimapur, the city's police superintendent and the jail's warden after a mob lynched a jailed suspect a day earlier.
(AP, 3/7/15)
2015 Mar 6, Millions across India welcomed spring with their annual "festival of colors", celebrating by covering each other in water and dazzling paint.
(AFP, 3/6/15)
2015 Mar 6, In Iraq and Syria coalition forces led by the US military targeted Islamic State militants with 16 air strikes over the last 24 hours.
(Reuters, 3/6/15)
2015 Mar 6, Iraqi government forces and Iran-backed militiamen entered a town on the southern outskirts of Saddam Hussein's home city Tikrit, pressing on with the biggest offensive yet against Islamic State militants that seized the north last year.
(Reuters, 3/6/15)
2015 Mar 6, In Israel a Palestinian assailant rammed his car into a group of Israeli pedestrians near a police station in east Jerusalem, injuring four officers and a bystander. He lunged at security guards with a knife before being shot and wounded.
(AP, 3/6/15)
2015 Mar 6, Libya's oil security forces said they had retaken control of the Al-Ghani oilfield after militants attacked the facility. An employee watched the beheadings of the 8 oil guards and subsequently died of a heart attack. Nine foreign workers, including a Czech, an Austrian, four Filipinos, two Bangladeshis and a Ghanaian, were missing after gunmen attacked the oilfield. In 2017 Austria said it had evidence that all nine workers were killed the same year.
(Reuters, 3/7/15)(SSFC, 3/8/15, p.A3)(AP, 3/9/15)(Reuters, 9/20/17)
2015 Mar 6, Paraguayan radio journalist Gerardo Servian was reported shot to death in the Brazilian city of Ponta Pora, bordering a crime-ridden area that is a hotbed for drugs and arms smuggling.
(AP, 3/6/15)
2015 Mar 6, Russia’s Pres. Putin announced a 10% pay cut for himself and those working for him, including PM Medvedev and his entire Cabinet.
(SFC, 3/7/15, p.A2)
2015 Mar 6, Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny walked out of a Moscow detention center and promised that Russia's opposition will continue to challenge President Vladimir Putin.
(Reuters, 3/6/15)
2015 Mar 6, South Sudan's warring leaders failed to reach a deal to end more than a year of civil war, with the latest collapse in peace talks paving the way for possible sanctions.
(AFP, 3/6/15)
2015 Mar 6, In Sierra Leone Vice Pres. Sam-Sumana was kicked out of the ruling party, the All Peoples Congress, after a meeting of the party's National Advisory Council. A statement said he was expelled for several reasons including allegations that he presented a fake Master's degree certificate and that he was involved in the formation of a new political party.
(AP, 3/7/15)
2016 Mar 6, The United States and its allies conducted 18 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
(Reuters, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 6, Nancy Reagan (b.1921), former film actress and wife of Pres. Ronald Reagan, died in Los Angeles.
(SFC, 3/7/16, p.A1)
2016 Mar 6, In Idaho Pastor Tim Remington was shot and wounded in the parking lot of his church in Coeur d'Alene a day after he led prayers at a rally for Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz. Suspect Kyle Odom (30), a former marine, was arrested outside the White House on March 8.
(AFP, 3/9/16)
2016 Mar 6, Bangladesh’s elite anti-terrorism unit detained three suspected members of a militant group believed to be behind a spate of recent attacks.
(Reuters, 3/6/16)
2016 Mar 6, Benin held an election to choose a successor to President Thomas Boni Yayi who is stepping down after two terms, leaving 33 candidates to vie for power in the small West African country. PM Lionel Zinsou (28.4%) will face a run-off against businessman Patrice Talon (24.8%) in a second round of presidential elections.
(Reuters, 3/6/16)(Reuters, 3/8/16)
2016 Mar 6, China’s state media quoted Pres. Xi Jinping as saying China will never allow the tragedy of Taiwan being "split" off from the rest of the country, offering a strong warning to the island against any moves towards independence.
(Reuters, 3/6/16)
2016 Mar 6, In Dubai a yellow, two-seat Ferrari 458 Spider jumped a curb and slammed into a pole, splitting the sports car in half near the Jumeirah Lake Towers neighborhood. Those killed were identified as Boston bombing survivor Victoria McGrath, Northeastern University student Priscilla Perez Torres, Canadian boxer Cody Nixon and James Portuondo. High speed and alcohol were involved.
(AP, 3/9/16)
2016 Mar 6, In Egypt gunmen shot dead two wounded members of the security forces in an ambulance after they had been injured by a bombing in the Sinai Peninsula.
(AFP, 3/6/16)
2016 Mar 6, Thousands of Georgians formed a human chain stretching for about 7 km (4 miles) through the capital to protest negotiations between their government and Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom.
(AP, 3/6/16)
2016 Mar 6, Iran reported that a court has sentenced a well-known tycoon to death for corruption linked to oil sales during the rule of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Babak Zanjani, arrested in 2013, and two of his associates were sentenced to death for "money laundering," among other charges.
(AP, 3/6/16)
2016 Mar 6, In Iraq Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide attack with an explosive-laden fuel tanker on a police checkpoint south of Baghdad, killing 61 people and wounding more than 70.
(Reuters, 3/6/16)(AFP, 3/7/16)
2016 Mar 6, Lithuanian police said two men have been killed when a shell exploded as they were dismantling it to extract metal. The unemployed men collected metal in nearby woods for a living.
(AP, 3/6/16)
2016 Mar 6, In Poland hundreds of women marched in Warsaw for a 17th year to demand greater accessibility to abortion, better working conditions and more state support in raising children.
(AP, 3/6/16)
2016 Mar 6, Spanish police arrested a pilot who was serving a prison sentence and using weekend furloughs to fly in drugs hauls. Police later raided 14 houses in locations including Madrid, Malaga, Seville and Cadiz, arresting suspects of Spanish, Moroccan, Romanian and Ecuadorian nationalities. 20 people were arrested altogether who used helicopters to bring hashish from Morocco into Spain.
(AP, 3/26/16)
2016 Mar 6, A day after Turkey's top-selling newspaper Zaman was taken over by the state, it dropped its criticisms of the government and published flattering stories on President Tayyip Erdogan.
(Reuters, 3/6/16)
2016 Mar 6, The Turkish Coast Guard rescued 15 people and recovered 18 bodies in the Aegean Sea near the town of Didim. At least 25 people drowned including 3 children.
(Reuters, 3/6/16)(SFC, 3/7/16, p.A3)
2016 Mar 6, In Ukraine about 2,000 people rallied on Independence Square in Kiev to demand that Russia release pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, with hundreds then marching to the Russian Embassy to vent their anger.
(AP, 3/6/16)
2017 Mar 6, US Pres. Donald Trump signed a revised executive order temporarily banning people from six Muslim-majority countries (Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen). The revision would become effective on March 16.
(SFC, 3/7/17, p.A1)(Econ, 3/11/17, p.29)
2017 Mar 6, US House Republicans unveiled the American Health Care Act (AHCA) to overhaul Obamacare and Pres. Trump endorsed it.
(Econ, 3/11/17, p.28)
2017 Mar 6, Researchers said 11 of 27 species of Hawaii’s reef fish are experiencing some level of overfishing.
(SFC, 3/7/17, p.A6)
2017 Mar 6, In North Carolina Oliver Funes Machada (18), reportedly an illegal immigrant from Honduras, beheaded his mother (35). In 2018 he was judged not guilty by reason of insanity.
(http://tinyurl.com/ybx4eysy)(SFC, 10/23/18, p.A7)
2017 Mar 6, CSX appointed E. Hunter Harrison (72), a veteran railway executive, as CEO. Harrison had announced his departure from Canadian National (CN) on Jan 18.
(Econ, 3/11/17, p.63)
2017 Mar 6, IBM released the first commercial program for universal quantum computers. Various startups have released their own quantum software.
(Econ, 3/11/17, TQ p.10)
2017 Mar 6, Afghan officials said they have ordered the Afghan Turk CAG Educational NGO (ATCE), a network of schools regarded with suspicion by the Turkish government, to be transferred to a foundation approved by Ankara.
(Reuters, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, Bahrain's government filed a lawsuit to dissolve the secular Waad political party, the second-such organization it has targeted in the last year as part of an intense crackdown on opposition in the island nation.
(AP, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, The European Union approved plans for a military headquarters to coordinate overseas security operations. The facility will initially run three operations: civil-military training missions in Mali, the Central African Republic and Somalia.
(AFP, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, The European Union said it has cleared Hungary to build two nuclear reactors with Russian help after Budapest made commitments to safeguard competition in the energy sector.
(AP, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, French carmaker PSA announced the acquisition of General Motors' European subsidiary, which includes the Opel and Vauxhall brands, for 1.3 billion euros ($1.38 billion).
(AFP, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, The French-made Peugeot 3008 was voted European car of the year on the eve of the opening of the Geneva motor show.
(Econ, 3/11/17, p.63)
2017 Mar 6, Greek authorities said they have seized more than half a million illegally made amphetamine pills, their largest haul to date and thought to be destined for the Middle East.
(Reuters, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, Israeli police questioned PM Benjamin Netanyahu for a fourth time in a corruption investigation that has prompted political rivals to start looking to a "post-Bibi" Israel.
(Reuters, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, In Kenya the body of rancher Tristan Voorspuy was found 190 km (118 miles) north of Nairobi. He was shot dead while inspecting some of his lodges, which had been burned by attackers. 379 pastoralist herders were soon arrested for invading ranches that led to the killing of the British farmer. Samson Lokayi (25), suspected of involvement in the death of Voorspuy, was arrested on March 12.
(AP, 3/6/17)(AFP, 3/14/17)
2017 Mar 6, In Kenya one of Africa's oldest and largest elephants was killed by poachers in Tsavo National Park. Two poachers believed to be responsible for the killing were soon apprehended.
(AFP, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, In Myanmar some 30 people died in clashes between ethnic rebels and security forces after fighters from the predominantly ethnic Chinese Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) launched a pre-dawn attack on police posts in the capital of the northeastern Kokang region, Laukkai.
(Reuters, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, Nepali police shot and killed at least three ethnic Madhesis in the country's restive southern plains as they tried to disrupt an opposition rally organized by the Communist Unified Marxist-Leninist (UML) party that opposes any change to the country’s post-monarchy charter.
(Reuters, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, Nigeria’s former Adamawa state governor James Bala Ngilari was jailed for five years after being found guilty of corruption related to procurement of cars while in office.
(Reuters, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, North Korea fired four banned ballistic missiles that flew about 1,000 km (620 miles) on average, with three of them landing in waters that Japan claims as its exclusive economic zone. The EU condemned North Korea for firing four banned ballistic missiles and said it would consult with Japan and international partners on how to react.
(AP, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, North Korea said it has ordered Malaysia's ambassador out of the country in a tit-for-tat after Malaysia expelled North Korea's envoy over the death of Kim Jong Nam at Kuala Lumpur's airport.
(AP, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, Palestinian militant Basil al-Araj (31) was killed in a shootout with Israeli forces in the West Bank. Police said he headed a group planning attacks against Israeli targets and collected weapons for the group.
(AP, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte signed an executive order creating a joint command to mobilize 21 state agencies behind his bloody war on drugs, prioritizing "high-value" targets and going after all levels of the illicit trade. The order was published on March 10.
(Reuters, 3/10/17)
2017 Mar 6, Retired Philippine police officer Arturo Lascanas testified that President Rodrigo Duterte and his men were linked to nearly 200 killings that the officer and a "death squad" carried out when Duterte was mayor of Davao City.
(AP, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, Russian and South African communications officials pledged to work on collaborative media activities.
(Econ, 3/18/17, p.53)
2017 Mar 6, South Korea received the first components of THAAD, an American anti-missile system.
(Econ, 3/18/17, p.41)
2017 Mar 6, In Syria US-backed militias cut the last main road out of Islamic State-held Raqqa, severing the highway between the group's de facto capital and its stronghold of Deir al-Zor province.
(Reuters, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, In Thailand a statement from the Royal Palace said King Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun has approved stripping the honorary title from Phra Dhammajayo (72), head of the Dhammakaya sect, because of the criminal charges against him.
(AP, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, Turkish security forces launched one of their largest "anti-terrorist" operations in recent years in the restive south-east against Kurdish militants.
(AFP, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister accused Russia of financing terrorism by shipping arms, ammunition and funds to separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine and of discriminating against non-Russians in the annexed Crimean Peninsula.
(SFC, 3/7/17, p.A2)
2017 Mar 6, In Yemen the United States carried out at least one new air strike on al Qaeda overnight. Two boys were killed in a drone strike while walking on a road in al-Bayda province used by al Qaeda militants who have been subject to repeated strikes by US forces in recent days. Three suspected al Qaeda militants were killed in a separate strike in Qifa in the same province.
(Reuters, 3/6/17)(Reuters, 3/7/17)
2017 Mar 6, In Zambia eight people died and 28 were injured in a stampede during food handouts at a youth center in the capital, Lusaka.
(AP, 3/6/17)
2017 Mar 6, Zimbabwe's government agreed to pay outstanding cash bonuses, bringing an end to a brief sit-in protest by public workers.
(Reuters, 3/6/17)
2018 Mar 6, The Trump administration filed suit accusing California of unconstitutionally interfering with immigration enforcement.
(SFC, 3/7/18, p.A1)
2018 Mar 6, US White House officials said Gary Cohn, Pres. Trump's top economic adviser, plans to resign.
(SFC, 3/7/18, p.A4)
2018 Mar 6, The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized 23andMe, based in Mountain View, Ca., to test for a breast cancer genetic mutation directly to consumers.
(SFC, 3/7/18, p.A1)
2018 Mar 6, In Los Angeles adult film actress Stormy Daniels, aka Stephanie Clifford, filed a lawsuit seeking to invalidate a nondisclosure agreement that she signed days before the 2016 presidential election, which prevented her from discussing alleged sexual encounters with Donald Trump.
(SFC, 3/7/18, p.A4)
2018 Mar 6, San Francisco ten police officers fired 99 times into the trunk of a car from where where Jesus Delgado Duarte (19) hid following an armed robbery near 21st and Capp in the Mission district. Delgado fired once from the trunk after failing to surrender and died after being hit 25 times. On March 17 police officials released the names of the officers involved.
(SFC, 3/13/18, p.C1)(SFC, 3/17/18, p.C4)
2018 Mar 6, Missouri police officers responding to a 911 call were sent to the wrong house in Clinton, where James Waters opened fire killing Officer Christopher Ryan Morton (30) and wounding two others before he died. The man who opened fire on the officers was out on bail for weapons and methamphetamine charges and was under investigation for a rape.
(http://tinyurl.com/yd8t7wxu)(SFC, 3/9/18, p.A5)
2018 Mar 6, Oregon's Gov. Kate Brown signed a bill prohibiting domestic abusers and people under restraining orders from owning firearms.
(SFC, 3/7/18, p.A4)
2018 Mar 6, Nashville Mayor Megan Barry (54) resigned after pleading guilty to cheating the city out of thousands of dollars as she carried on an affair with her bodyguard, police Sgt. Robert Forrest.
(SFC, 3/7/18, p.A10)
2018 Mar 6, West Virginia's lawmakers ceded teachers a 5% pay raise ending a 9-day classroom walkout. The pay hikes were extended to all state workers.
(SFC, 3/7/18, p.A4)
2018 Mar 6, Australia and East Timor signed a historic treaty drawing their maritime boundary, ending years of bitter wrangling over billions of dollars of oil and gas riches lying beneath the Timor Sea and opening a new chapter in relations.
(AP, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 6, Bulgaria chose Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG (RSK MiG) to overhaul and maintain its 15 aging, Soviet-made MiG-29 fighter jets until 2022. Sofia has said it needs to keep its Soviet-era aircraft operational after plans to buy eight new fighter jets from a fellow NATO state hit a procedural snag.
(Reuters, 3/14/18)
2018 Mar 6, China's ceremonial legislature said that a broad consensus has been reached on amendments to the constitution, including one to abolish term limits that will allow Xi Jinping to continue as president indefinitely.
(AP, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, Czech Communist lawmaker Zdenek Ondracek resigned as chair of a parliamentary commission overseeing police internal affairs, after thousands protested the appointment because of his past in a communist-era special unit.
(Reuters, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, A group of 25 European Union countries agreed to develop their first joint defense projects under a pact that excludes Britain, giving London a taste of life outside the bloc's foreign policy decision-making process.
(Reuters, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, Leading French advertisers and the country's broadcast watchdog launched a nationwide plan to fight sexist stereotypes in ads - from half-naked women selling vacuum cleaners to violent video games marketed to boys.
(AP, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, Greece rejected a Turkish extradition request for Naci Ozpolat (48), the second of nine Turkish citizens who were arrested on terror charges in Athens, days before a visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
(AP, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, Greece's anti-terrorism squad arrested five men suspected of participating in a far-right criminal group and of involvement in arson attacks and explosions.
(Reuters, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, Greek train routes were suspended for the day as railway workers staged a 24-hour strike to protest the privatization of the rolling stock maintenance company and a lack of staff.
(AP, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, The Maersk Honam container vessel, a unit of Danish shipping firm A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S built in 2017, caught fire in the Arabian Sea. 23 crew members were safely evacuated from the vessel, but four remained missing.
(Reuters, 3/7/18)
2018 Mar 6, A magnitude 6.7 earthquake shook a remote Papua New Guinea region that was badly damaged by a powerful quake last week. The quake was followed by two others measuring magnitude 5.0 and 5.1.
(AP, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, South African triathlete Mhlengi Gwala suffered severe injuries when attackers cut his legs with a saw. Gwala, following surgery, said he will focus on recovery so he can run and cycle again.
(AP, 3/8/18)
2018 Mar 6, South Korea's presidential office announced that North Korea and South Korea have agreed to hold a summit next month at a truce village inside the Demilitarized Zone that divides their countries.
(AP, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, A senior South Korean official, after returning from the North, said North Korean leader Kim Jung Un has expressed a willingness to discuss nuclear disarmament with the US and impose a moratorium on nuclear and missile tests during such talks.
(AP, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, In South Korean Ahn Hee-jung, the governor of South Chungcheong province, resigned after his secretary publicly accused him of raping her, making him the highest-profile South Korean man taken down by the #MeToo movement. He had been seen as a leading presidential contender.
(AP, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, Sri Lanka's president declared a state of emergency amid fears that anti-Muslim attacks in several central hill towns could spread.
(AP, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, Syria's SANA state news agency said troops have captured the village of Muhamadiya at the southeast edge of the eastern Ghouta enclave. Heavy air strikes and clashes shook Eastern Ghouta killing at least 19 civilians. France and Britain called for an emergency UN Security Council meeting on the escalating violence.
(Reuters, 3/6/18)(AFP, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, In Syria a Russian military transport plane crashed at the Hmeymim air base in Latakia Province, killing all 39 people on board.
(Reuters, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, In Syria a US-backed alliance of Syrian fighters announced it would redeploy around 1,700 members from front lines against the Islamic State group to the Kurdish enclave in Afrin under Turkish attack.
(AFP, 3/6/18)
2018 Mar 6, Turkey said it is working to set up camps to settle 170,000 displaced people near the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib and in Turkish-controlled areas to the east of it.
(Reuters, 3/6/18)
2019 Mar 6, A US federal appeals court upheld fraud convictions against two men for their roles in a Connecticut auto insurance scam that involved as many as 50 staged car crashes between 2011 and 2014. The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York rejected the appeals of Mackenzy Noze and Jonas Joseph.
(AP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, The US federal government said it is awarding $27 million in grants to the US Virgin Islands to help expand and renovate two airports damaged in 2017 by Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
(AP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, The Wall Street Journal reported that Microsoft has detected cyberattacks linked to Iranian hackers that targeted thousands of people at more than 200 companies over the past two years. Microsoft attributed the attacks to a group it calls Holmium, and which other security researchers call APT33.
(AP, 3/7/19)
2019 Mar 6, Militants in Afghanistan set off a suicide blast and stormed a construction company near the airport in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, killing at least 17 people.
(AP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, Algerian war veterans said that protesters demanding ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika step down after 20 years in power had legitimate concerns and they urged all citizens to demonstrate.
(Reuters, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, Angola's Pres. Joao Lourenco met with Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa in Luanda in a top-level encounter between nations whose relations have previously been strained by anti-corruption issues.
(AFP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, London's Central Criminal Court sentenced Muslim convert Lewis Ludlow to at least 15 years in prison for plotting a van attack on crowds in London's busy Oxford Street shopping district.
(AP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, China said that it is blocking some imports of the agricultural product canola from Canada because of fears of insect infestation. A day earlier Richardson International Ltd., said that China had revoked its permit to export canola there.
(AP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, An inquiry into the demise of Cyprus' Co-operative bank faulted senior executives for bad judgment, inaction and ineptitude in dealing with a mountain of bad loans, while blaming the finance minister for failing to take corrective actions.
(AP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, Amnesty International said Egyptian activists and journalists have been targeted by phishing attacks coinciding with political events in an intensifying crackdown on dissent since the start of the year.
(Reuters, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, In Estonia Liberal party leader Kaja Kallas, on track to become the country's first female prime minister, announced talks for a grand coalition with the center-left party of outgoing PM Juri Ratas.
(AFP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, In France prison guards blocked access to 18 jails to protest working conditions after the stabbing of two guards by a radicalized inmate.
(AFP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, A manhunt was underway in western Germany for at least two masked suspects who attacked a money transport truck at the Cologne-Bonn airport and shot a guard.
(AP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, In Germany the body of a 21-year-old woman was found with several stab wounds at her parents' home. A 22-year-old Tunisian man she had been in a relationship with was arrested the next day on suspicion of homicide.
(AP, 3/9/19)
2019 Mar 6, Indian and Pakistani soldiers shelled military outposts and villages along their highly militarized frontier in disputed Kashmir, in an outbreak of new violence despite stepped-up diplomatic efforts by the rival countries to ease tensions.
(AP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, An activist group said Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent human rights lawyer in Iran who defended protesters against the Islamic Republic's mandatory headscarves for women, has been convicted and faces years in prison. She had previously served three years in prison for her work.
(AP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu designated Al-Aqsa television channel of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas a "terrorist organization".
(AFP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, Italy's populist government opened its new minimum income welfare program, fulfilling a key campaign promise of the 5-Star Movement to try to reduce poverty and unemployment in the eurozone's third-largest economy.
(AP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, In Kenya thousands of air passengers were stranded after a strike by aviation workers at the main Nairobi airport led to the cancellation and delay of scores of flights and the use of riot police to break up the industrial action. By the end of the day however, most scheduled arrivals had been processed while the departures backlog was being cleared.
(Reuters, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, Bankers and diplomats said Libya's parallel government in the east has sold bonds worth more than $23 billion to fund its wage bill, bypassing the central bank in Tripoli and creating a potential financial black hole if the country reunifies.
(Reuters, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, In Pakistan Mohammed Afzal (31), also known as Afzal Kohistani, was shot dead in the northwestern district of Abbotabad. The young rights campaigner had fought for seven years for justice for five possible victims of so-called honor killings. Police soon identified the killer as his nephew.
(Reuters, 3/8/19)
2019 Mar 6, In Puerto Rico trucks laden with food, water and gasoline began arriving on the tiny islands of Vieques and Culebra after the governor activated the National Guard due to a breakdown of two ferries that carry supplies.
(AP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, Scientists set off on a mission to explore the depths of the Indian Ocean. The Britain-based Nekton non-profit research institute has chartered the Ocean Zephyr, a Danish-flagged supply ship, to explore the waters around the Seychelles. This is the first of a half-dozen regions the Nekton Mission plans to explore before the end of 2022, when scientists will present their research at a summit on the state of the Indian Ocean.
(AP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, A South African court handed jail terms of 23 and 18 years to two white farmers who murdered a black teenager suspected of stealing sunflowers in a remote farming community. Pieter Doorewaard (28) and Philip Schutte (35) were found to have killed 15-year-old Matlhomola Mosweu, also spelt Moshoeu, on April 20, 2017, after claiming they caught him taking a plant from a farm in the area.
(AFP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, South Korean President Moon Jae-in proposed a joint project with China to use artificial rain to clean the air in his country, where an acute increase in pollution has caused alarm.
(AP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, In eastern Syria hundreds more people made their way out of Islamic State's last pocket, besieged by a US-backed militia. An SDF source put the number of people who left the Baghouz pocket this morning at more than 2,000. The SDF militia captured 400 Islamic State fighters who were trying to escape the enclave.
(Reuters, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said that she is seeking access to China to verify continuing reports of disappearances and arbitrary detentions, particularly of Muslims in the Xinjiang region.
(Reuters, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said sanctions had exacerbated the crisis in Venezuela but also slammed Maduro's "violations of civil and political rights" in her annual report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
(AFP, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, Venezuela's government said it will expel the German ambassador, Daniel Martin Kriener, for interfering in the country's internal affairs and gave him 48 hours to leave.
(Reuters, 3/6/19)
2019 Mar 6, A Vietnamese fishing boat capsized after reportedly being rammed by a Chinese vessel in the South China Sea's contested Paracel Islands. China said its boat came upon the fishing vessel after it started sinking and sought help for the crew.
(AP, 3/8/19)
2020 Mar 6, Pres. Donald Trump signed an $8.3 billion measure to help tackle the coronavirus outbreak that has killed 14 people in the US and infected more than 200.
(AP, 3/6/20)(Reuters, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, US President Donald Trump announced he had made a major staff overhaul, replacing his acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney with Republican Rep. Mark Meadows. Trump said Mulvaney would become the US special envoy for Northern Ireland.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, The US State Department raised its alert level for travel to Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. Neither country has reported many cases but both border Iran, which has been hard hit by the coronavirus.
(Reuters, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, The United States ordered Beijing Shiji Information Technology to divest entirely from mobile hotel property firm StayNTouch, with President Donald Trump saying in an order that its acquisition of the Maryland-based company may threaten national security.
(Reuters, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, The Grand Princess cruise ship, with 3,500 aboard, remained docked 70 miles off the coast of San Francisco as health officials await results from dozens of coronavirus tests. Samples were collected from 45 people currently on board who were showing symptoms. At least 19 passengers and two crew members on Carnival Corp.’s Grand Princess, currently off the coast of California, have tested positive for the coronavirus virus.
(AP, 3/6/20)(SFC, 3/6/20, p.A9)(Bloomberg, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 6, In the SF Bay Area Santa Clara County reported 24 cases of coronavirus.
(SSFC, 3/8/20, p.A1)
2020 Mar 6, Florida health officials confirmed the state’s first two deaths from coronavirus as well the first pair of cases in the Miami metropolitan area.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 6, Kentucky reported its first coronavirus case.
(Bloomberg, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 6, Nebraska reported its first coronavirus case.
(Bloomberg, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 6, Jazz pianist McCoy Tyner died at his home in New Jersey. His more than 80 albums included "A Love Supreme" (1965), recorded with the John Coltrane Quartet.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCoy_Tyner)(SFC, 3/9/20, p.C3)
2020 Mar 6, The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in New York doubled to 22. More than 2,700 people were isolated at home.
(NY Times, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Tennessee officials believed that remains found on property belonging to family member of Megan Boswell in Blountville, are that of Evelyn Boswell, the 15-month-old girl last seen in December but only reported as missing in February. Megan Boswell (18) was charged on Feb. 25 with one count of false reporting. Evelyn’s grandmother, Angela Boswell, and another man William McCloud, were arrested and charged with possession of stolen property on Feb. 20.
(ABC News, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Utah confirmed its first coronavirus case.
(Good Morning America, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 6, In Washington state two Microsoft employees have been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus. Facebook announced it is closing its Seattle office until March 9 after a contractor tested positive for the virus.
(Good Morning America, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, In the US the number of cases passed 230 people scattered across 18 states. The new coronavirus hit a milestone, infecting more than 100,000 people worldwide as it wove itself deeper into the daily lives of millions, infecting the powerful, the unprotected poor and the vast masses in between.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, US drugmaker Biogen Inc said three of its employees tested positive for the coronavirus after attending a meeting in Boston last week, and that their condition was improving under medical care.
(Reuters, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Boeing's proposal to leave wiring bundles in place on the grounded 737 MAX failed to get the backing of US aviation regulators, potentially delaying the plane's return to service.
(Reuters, 3/9/20)
2020 Mar 6, SpaceX successfully lunched a Falcon rocket from Cape canaveral with 4,300 pounds of supplies for the Int'l. Space Station. The booster landed for a 50th successful touchdown.
(SSFC, 3/8/20, p.A9)
2020 Mar 6, In Afghanistan gunmen opened fire at a ceremony in Kabul attended by prominent political leaders, killing at least 32 people and wounding dozens more before the two attackers were slain by police.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, In Belgium the number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus more than doubled to 109 after 59 new patients tested positive.
(Good Morning America, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, An American tourist became the 1st confirmed case in Bhutan.
(Good Morning America, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Gilbert Khoo, a seafood salesman in the UK, received a two-year suspended sentence for six offenses related to the transport of $7 million worth of endangered eels.
(Business Insider, 3/8/20)
2020 Mar 6, Cameroon announced its first coronavirus infection.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, China reported 143 new cases, the same as a day earlier and about one-third what the country was seeing a week ago. Health authorities said the northwestern Chinese province of Gansu has confirmed 17 new coronavirus cases imported from Iran, bringing the total imported cases to 28.
(AP, 3/6/20)(Reuters, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Egyptian officials said 12 people from a Nile cruise ship have tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo set the tone for new rules due to coronavirus, warning everybody to improve personal hygiene and avoid crowds, at the celebrations of Ghana's 63rd independence anniversary. He ostentatiously kept both his hands resolutely behind his back when he arrived at the ceremony to greet those seated on the dais.
(BBC, 3/25/20)
2020 Mar 6, Clashes between Greek riot police and migrants attempting to cross the border from Turkey erupted anew as European Union foreign ministers took aim at what they called “Turkey's use of migratory pressure for political purposes".
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Four cases of the coronavirus have been identified in Hungary thus far, including a pair of Iranian students who recently visited their homeland.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, India braced for a potential explosion of coronavirus cases as authorities rushed to trace, test and quarantine contacts of 31 people confirmed to have the disease.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Iran announced that the new coronavirus has killed 124 people amid 4,747 confirmed cases. The virus now was in all of Iran's 31 provinces.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Iraq said it will halt border trade with Iran and Kuwait between March 8 and 15 to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 6, In Ireland more than 60 staff at a hospital were asked to self-isolate after the country's first community transmission of coronavirus was found there.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, In Italy at least 3,296 people have been infected with the coronavirus. The death reached at least 148.
(Good Morning America, 3/6/20)(Reuters, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Japanese carmaker Nissan said it is pushing on with plans to build its new Qashqai sports utility vehicle at its British factory despite warnings over Brexit. Nissan announced a 52-million pound investment in a new press line at the site.
(Reuters, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, In Japan confirmed coronavirus infections rose to 1,057.
(Reuters, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Liberia suspended the licenses of all fuel importers, including France's Total, to conduct performance reviews after some of the companies overdrew from reserves in state-run facilities, leading to gasoline shortages.
(Reuters, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Mexico's bishops said the Vatican had suspended a clerical sex abuse fact-finding and assistance mission to Mexico due to the spreading coronavirus in Italy and now the Vatican.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, The Netherlands reported its first coronavirus death.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Peru announced its first coronavirus infection.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Poland's Pres. Andrzej Duda signed a bill earmarking nearly $510 million to fund public television and radio. The broadcast outlets have become mouthpieces for the country's far-right government.
(https://tinyurl.com/r4htf6s)(SSFC, 3/8/20, p.A4)
2020 Mar 6, Serbia announced its first coronavirus infection.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Slovakia announced its first coronavirus infection.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, South Korea reported 505 additional cases, down from a high of 851 on March 3. The US military confirmed its seventh case among those stationed there.
(AP, 3/6/20)(Reuters, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Spain confirmed its fifth coronavirus death, with 365 confirmed cases.
(Reuters, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Switzerland reported 130 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the national total to 210.
(Good Morning America, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, In northwestern Syria a cease-fire deal brokered by Turkey and Russia took hold in Idlib province. Farhad Dabirian, a commander with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, was killed near Damascus.
(AP, 3/6/20)(AP, 3/7/20)
2020 Mar 6, Togo confirmed its first case of coronavirus, bringing the number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa hit by the epidemic to five.
(Reuters, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, In Tunisia two suicide bombers blew themselves up near the US Embassy on the outskirts of Tunis, killing a police officer and wounding four others.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Lyon Cardinal Philippe Barbarin (69), who was convicted and then acquitted of covering up for a pedophile priest in a case that fueled a reckoning over clergy sexual abuse in France.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2020 Mar 6, Vatican City confirmed its first coronavirus case, but did not say who was infected.
(AP, 3/6/20)
2021 Mar 6, US President Joe Biden said that Senate passage of his $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid bill means that $1,400 payments to most Americans will start to go out this month and the bill's provisions will speed up manufacturing and distribution of vaccines.
(Reuters, 3/6/21)
2021 Mar 6, It was reported that more than 20,000 businesses, government offices, and schools in the United States have been compromised during a cyberattack on Microsoft's Outlook email software. Multiple hacking groups with links to the Chinese government have reportedly been identified as the culprits behind the hack.
(The Week, 3/6/21)
2021 Mar 6, California to date had 3,571,430 cases of coronavirus and 53,971 deaths. The SF Bay Area had 410,430 cases and 5,519 deaths. Total cases nationwide reached over 28,938,762 with the death toll at 524,066.
(sfist.com, 3/6/21)
2021 Mar 6, Carla Wallenda (85), a member of “The Flying Wallendas" high-wire act and the last surviving child of the famed troupe's founder, died in Sarasota, Fl.
(AP, 3/8/21)
2021 Mar 6, In Idaho at least 100 people gathered at the front of the Capitol in Boise to burn masks in a protest against measures taken to limit infections and deaths caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
(SFC, 3/8/21, p.A4)
2021 Mar 6, US drugmaker Merck & Co Inc said the experimental antiviral drug molnupiravir it is developing with Ridgeback Bio showed a quicker reduction in infectious virus in its phase 2a study among participants with early COVID-19.
(Reuters, 3/6/21)
2021 Mar 6, In Australia the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in Sidney went ahead at the Sidney Cricket Ground. Up tp 23,000 spectators were allowed in the stands while performers paraded on the field.
(SSFC, 3/7/21, p.A7)
2021 Mar 6, China said it has confirmed outbreaks of African swine fever in its key pork producing provinces of Sichuan and Hubei.
(Reuters, 3/6/21)
2021 Mar 6, Pro-Beijing Hong Kong lawmaker Martin Liao said China's proposal for Hong Kong electoral reforms could prevent a "dictatorship of the majority." The Chinese parliament is discussing plans to overhaul Hong Kong's electoral system to ensure Beijing loyalists are in charge.
(Reuters, 3/6/21)
2021 Mar 6, India's federal government asked local authorities to prioritize COVID-19 vaccinations in several districts of eight states including New Delhi that have seen a spike in coronavirus cases in recent weeks.
(Reuters, 3/6/21)
2021 Mar 6, In India thousands of farmers blocked a major expressway on the edges of New Delhi to mark the 100th day of protests against agricultural laws they say will devastate their income.
(SSFC, 3/7/21, p.A6)
2021 Mar 6, Ivory Coast voted on in a legislative election, with President Alassane Ouattara's allies facing a combined challenge from opposition parties led by two of his predecessors. The poll comes only months after Ouattara won a third term in an election marred by unrest that killed at least 85 people.
(Reuters, 3/6/21)
2021 Mar 6, Lebanon's caretaker PM Hassan Diab warned that the country was quickly headed toward chaos and appealed to politicians to put aside differences in order form a new government that can attract desperately needed foreign assistance.
(AP, 3/6/21)
2021 Mar 6, Myanmar police reportedly used tear gas and stun grenades to break up an anti-coup protest in Yangon, one of several sporadic demonstrations across the country.
(AP, 3/6/21)
2021 Mar 6, Dance music lovers in Amsterdam were offered a short relief from COVID-19 lockdown, treated to their first live show in over a year while serving as guinea pigs in a research project. All guests needed to test negative for coronavirus 48 hours in advance and were urged to take another test five days after the event.
(Reuters, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 6, President Muhammadu Buhari had his first COVID-19 vaccine shot, part of a bid to boost public confidence as Nigeria attempts to inoculate 80 million people this year.
(Reuters, 3/6/21)
2021 Mar 6, In Senegal a teenager in the southern city of Diaobe became the fifth person known to have died in clashes with security forces in various parts of the country.
(BBC, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 6, Spanish authorities said the culling of nearly 900 cattle that were deemed unfit after spending more than two months at sea and on a ship has begun in the Mediterranean port of Cartagena.
(AP, 3/7/21)
2021 Mar 6, Pope Francis met with Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. After the meeting al-Sistani issued a statement affirming that Christians should "live like all Iraqis, in security and peace and with full constitutional rights," adding that religious authorities should play a role in protecting them. Chaldean Catholics are believed to represent around 80 percent of the estimated 300,000 Christians left in Iraq.
(The Week, 3/6/21)(AP, 3/6/21)
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