So you want to have a drink but you aren't sure why? Here are some GREAT reasons to call your friends over and have a party.

March 6th


- Alamo Day (Texas)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Foundation Day, the founding of Norfolk Island in 1788. (Territory of Norfolk Island)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Ghana from the United Kingdom in 1957. (Ghana)

March 6th


- 2008 - A Palestinian gunman shoots and kills 8 students and critically injures 11 in the library of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, in Jerusalem, Israel.
- 2007 - Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice.
- 2006 - South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signs legislation banning most abortions in the state.
- 1992 - Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
- 1988 - Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
- 1987 - The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
- 1983 - The first United States Football League game is played.
- 1981 - After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
- 1975 - For the first time, ever, the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy was shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
- 1975 - Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
- 1970 - Blast at Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
- 1967 - Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
- 1965 - Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
- 1964 - Nation of Islam's Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
- 1964 - Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
- 1957 - United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana.
- 1953 - Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1951 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
- 1946 - Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
- 1945 - Communist-dominated government under Petru Groza assumes power in Romania.
- 1945 - Cologne is captured by American Troops.
- 1921 - Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
- 1899 - Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
- 1869 - Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
- 1857 - Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
- 1853 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata receives its premiere performance in Venice.
- 1840 - Baltimore College of Dental Surgery Opened, the first Dental school.
- 1836 - Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort is captured.
- 1834 - York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
- 1820 - The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, but makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
- 1788 - The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
- 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
- 1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.

March 6th


- 2001 - Aryana Engineer, Canadian actress
- 1992 - Momoko Tsugunaga, Japanese singer
- 1990 - Patricia Rodríguez, Spanish model
- 1989 - Agnieszka Radwa?ska, Polish tennis player
- 1988 - Agnes Carlsson, Swedish singer
- 1987 - Hannah Taylor-Gordon, English actress
- 1986 - Eli Marienthal, American actor
- 1986 - Charlie Mulgrew, Scottish football player
- 1985 - Albert Reed, American model
- 1984 - Becky, Japanese-British entertainer
- 1984 - Paolo Facchinetti, Italian footballer
- 1984 - Alex Pederzoli, Italian footballer
- 1983 - Andranik Teymourian, Iranian soccer player
- 1983 - Coby Karl, American basketball player; son of George Karl
- 1981 - Ellen Muth, American actress
- 1980 - Daniel DeSanto, Canadian actor
- 1979 - David Flair, American professional wrestler
- 1979 - Érik Bédard, Canadian baseball player
- 1979 - Ryan Nyquist, American BMX rider
- 1979 - Clint Barmes, American baseball player
- 1978 - Lara Cox, Australian actress
- 1978 - Salvatore Perugini, Italian rugby player
- 1978 - Sage Rosenfels, American Football Player
- 1977 - Giorgos Karagounis, Greek soccer player
- 1977 - Marcus Thames, American baseball player
- 1976 - Ken Anderson, American professional wrestler
- 1975 - Aracely Arambula, Mexican actress and singer
- 1973 - Terry Adams, American baseball player
- 1973 - Michael Finley, American basketball player
- 1973 - Greg Ostertag, American basketball player
- 1973 - Peter Lindgren, Swedish guitarist (ex-Opeth)
- 1972 - Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player
- 1972 - Jaret Reddick, American musician (Bowling For Soup)
- 1971 - Sean Morley, American professional wrestler
- 1971 - Darrick Martin, American basketball player
- 1970 - Chris Broderick, American musician (Megadeth)
- 1969 - Andrea Elson, American actress
- 1969 - Tari Phillips, American basketball player
- 1969 - Amy Pietz, American actress
- 1969 - Greg Scott, British TV personality
- 1968 - Michael Romeo, American musician (Symphony X)
- 1968 - Moira Kelly, American actress
- 1967 - Connie Britton, American actress
- 1967 - Julio Bocca, Argentine ballet dancer
- 1966 - Alan Davies, British comedian and actor
- 1965 - Amparo Noguera, Chilean actress
- 1964 - Skip Ewing, American country music singer and songwriter
- 1964 - Madonna Wayne Gacy, American musician
- 1963 - D. L. Hughley, American comedian and actor
- 1962 - Jonathan Scott-Taylor, English actor
- 1960 - Sleepy Floyd, American basketball player
- 1959 - Saul Anuzis, American politician
- 1959 - Tom Arnold, American actor and comedian
- 1958 - Eddie Deezen, American actor
- 1955 - Alberta Watson, Canadian actress
- 1953 - Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author
- 1953 - Jacklyn Zeman, American actress
- 1952 - John David Carson, American actor (d. 2009)
- 1951 - Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (d. 2004)
- 1950 - Hirotaka Suzuoki, Japanese Seiyu (d. 2006)
- 1949 - Shaukat Aziz, Pakistani statesman
- 1949 - Martin Buchan, Scottish soccer player
- 1948 - Anna Maria Horsford, American actress
- 1947 - Kiki Dee, British singer
- 1947 - Dick Fosbury, American athlete
- 1947 - Martin Kove, American actor
- 1947 - Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author
- 1947 - Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian, and film producer
- 1946 - David Gilmour, British musician (Pink Floyd)
- 1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealander opera singer
- 1944 - Mary Wilson, American singer (The Supremes)
- 1942 - Ben Murphy, American actor
- 1940 - Willie Stargell, American baseball player (d. 2001)
- 1940 - Joanna Miles, American actress
- 1939 - Adam Osborne, British author and computer designer (d. 2003)
- 1939 - Infanta Margarita of Spain, duchess of Soria
- 1939 - Cookie Rojas, Cuban baseball player
- 1939 - Kit Bond, American politician
- 1937 - Ivan Boesky, American stock trader
- 1937 - Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet cosmonaut
- 1936 - Bob Akin, American industrialist and race car driver (d. 2002)
- 1936 - Elmira Zherzdeva, Soviet singer and voice actress
- 1936 - Marion Barry Jr., American politician
- 1936 - Jean Boht, English actress
- 1935 - Ron Delany, Irish athlete
- 1934 - John Noakes, British television presenter
- 1933 - Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (d. 2004)
- 1932 - Marc Bazin, Haitian politician (d. 2010)
- 1931 - Hal Needham, American stuntman
- 1930 - Lorin Maazel, French-born American conductor
- 1927 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1927 - Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (d. 2004)
- 1927 - Norman Treigle, American bass-baritone (d. 1975)
- 1927 - Jim Owens, American college football head coach (d. 2009)
- 1926 - Alan Greenspan, American economist
- 1926 - Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director
- 1925 - Wes Montgomery, American musician (d. 1968)
- 1923 - Ed McMahon, American television personality (d. 2009)
- 1923 - Herman Leonard, American photographer (d. 2010)
- 1919 - Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (d. 2006)
- 1917 - Will Eisner, American illustrator and cartoonist (d. 2005)
- 1917 - Frankie Howerd, English comedian (d. 1992)
- 1917 - Donald Davidson, American philosopher (d. 2003)
- 1915 - Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, 52nd Da'i al Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohras
- 1915 - Pete Gray, American baseball player (d. 2002)
- 1914 - Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (d. 1981)
- 1910 - Ejler Bille, Danish artist, member of the COBRA group (d. 2004)
- 1906 - Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (d. 1959)
- 1905 - Bob Wills, American singer (d. 1975)
- 1904 - José Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician (d. 1960)
- 1903 - Empress K?jun of Japan (d. 2000)
- 1900 - Lefty Grove, American Baseball Player (d. 1975)
- 1893 - Furry Lewis, American blues guitarist (d. 1981)
- 1885 - Ring Lardner, American writer (d. 1933)
- 1882 - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (d. 1980)
- 1870 - Oscar Straus, Viennese operetta composer (d. 1954)
- 1846 - Henry Radcliffe Crocker, British dermatologist (d. 1909)
- 1834 - George du Maurier British illustrator and writer (d. 1896)
- 1831 - Philip Sheridan, American Civil War Union cavalry officer (d. 1888)
- 1818 - William Claflin, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)
- 1817 - Princess Clémentine of Orléans (d. 1907)
- 1812 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison American watch manufacturer (d. 1895)
- 1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British poet (d. 1861)
- 1787 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (d. 1826)
- 1779 - Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (d. 1869)
- 1761 - Antoine-Francois Andreossy, French General (d. 1828)
- 1716 - Pehr Kalm, Swedish explorer and naturalist (d. 1779)
- 1706 - George Pocock, British admiral (d. 1792)
- 1663 - Francis Atterbury, British man of letters (d. 1732)
- 1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier, poet (d. 1655)
- 1495 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (d. 1556)
- 1483 - Francesco Guicciardini, Italian statesman and historian (d. 1540)
- 1475 - Michelangelo, Italian artist and sculptor (d. 1564)
- 1459 - Jacob Fugger, German banker (d. 1525)
- 1405 - King John II of Castile (d. 1454)
- 1340 - John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (d. 1399)