Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 6
March 6: Independence Day in Ghana (1957).
- 1836 – Texas Revolution: Mexican forces captured the Alamo after a 13-day siege.
- 1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first Periodic Table of Elements to the Russian Chemical Society.
- 1945 – Petru Groza (pictured) of the Ploughmen's Front, a party closely associated with the Communists, became Prime Minister of Romania.
- 1964 – In a radio broadcast, Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad announced that American boxer Cassius Clay would change his name to Muhammad Ali, symbolizing his new identity as a member of the religious, social and political organization.
- 1988 – In Operation Flavius, the British Special Air Service killed Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers Daniel McCann, Seán Savage and Mairéad Farrell while they were conspiring to bomb a parade of British military bands in Gibraltar.