Quick glance of 6 March in the pages of History

March 6: Here are the major events that occurred on 6 March….

• 6 March, 1508: Emperor Humayun, son of Babar, was born in Kabul.
• 6 March, 1775: Raghunath Rao signed treaty of Surat with British ending the first Anglo-Maratha War.
• 6 March, 1915: Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore met for the first time at Shantiniketan.
• 6 March, 1947: Churchill opposes troop withdrawal from India at London.
• 6 March, 1961: India’s first Financial daily ‘The Economic Times’ started publication from Bombay.
• 6 March, 1962: Death anniversary of Shri Ambika Chakrabarty, a great Indian revolutionary who later worked as a leader of Communist Party and became a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.
• 6 March, 1971: Test debut of Sunil Gavaskar vs West Indies at Port-of-Spain.
• 6 March, 1990: India wins Indira Gandhi Gold Cup hockey tournament.
• 6 March, 1991: Chandrasekhar, who was the Indian prime minister for seven months, resigned. His tenure was the second shortest period after Chaudhari Charan Singh.
• 6 March, 1997: A gunman stole “Tete de Femme,” a million-dollar Picasso portrait, from a London gallery. The painting was recovered a week later.
• 6 March, 2000: India and China begin the first ever bilateral security dialogue in Beijing on global and regional issues of mutual interest.