HISTORY AT A GLANCE
TODAY is Monday, March 6, the 65th day of 2017. There are 300 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1946 – Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union. 1951 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins. 1953 – Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 1957 – Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain
independence from the British 1962 – Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 begins on the midAtlantic coast of the United States. 1964 – Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali. 1964 – Constantine II becomes King of Greece. 1965 – Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after
27 years in office. 1967 – Joseph Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to
the United States. 1968 – Three rebels are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation. 1970 – An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in
Greenwich Village kills three. 1975 – For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is 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. 1983 – The first United States Football League game is played. 1987 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in
about 90 seconds killing 193. 1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius. 1990 – Ed Yielding and Joseph T. Vida set the transcontinental speed record flying a SR-71 Blackbird from Los Angeles to Virginia in 64 minutes, averaging 2,124 mph. 1992 – The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect
computers. 2008 – A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.