A British ferry leaving Zeebrugge, Belgium, capsizes, drowning 188 people, on March 6, 1987.

Georgia O’Keeffe, the artist who gained worldwide fame for her austere minimalist paintings of the American southwest, dies in Santa Fe at the age of 98.

Helmut Kohl, the interim chancellor of West Germany since the fall of Helmut Schmidt’s Social Democrat government in 1982, is elected German chancellor as his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party is voted back into power.

On March 6, 1982, bestselling writer and philosopher Alice O’Connor—known mostly by her pen name, Ayn Rand—dies at age 77.

On March 6, 1981, CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite signs off with his trademark valediction, “And that’s the way it is,” for the final time.

On March 6, 1981, a monumental chapter in American broadcast journalism came to a heartfelt close as Walter Cronkite, revered as "the most trusted man in America," signed off for the final time as the principal anchorman of “The CBS Evening News.

Journalist Helen Thomas is named United Press International’s White House Bureau Chief on March 6, 1974.

In a poignant moment in literary history, Pearl S.

On March 6, 1964, a defining moment in sports and cultural history unfolded as heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay officially announced his name change to Muhammad Ali.

Just one day after the death of long-time Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, Georgy Malenkov is named premier and first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.