On this day

On this day

March 6: Independence Day in Ghana (1957)

845 – The Abbasid Caliphate executed 42 Byzantine officials who had been captured in the Sack of Amorium of 838 for refusing to convert to Islam.

1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata premiered at La Fenice in Venice, but the performance was considered so bad that it caused him to revise portions of the opera.

1930 – Organized by the Communist International, hundreds of thousands of people in major cities around the world marched to protest mass unemployment associated with the Great Depression.

1943 – World War II: National Liberation Front forces defeated Italian occupiers in the Battle of Fardykambos, a major sign of the Greek Resistance's growth.

1967 – Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva (pictured) defected to the United States.

Luigi Alamanni (b. 1495) · Ella P. Stewart (b. 1893) · Francisco Xavier do Amaral (d. 2012)