Template:Selected anniversaries/March 6

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  1665: The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

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  1846: Social activist and alleged superhero The Governess warns the United States of America not to begin its upcoming Civil War ahead of schedule.

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  1847: Mathematician Cesare Arzelà born. He will contribute to the theory of functions, notably his characterization of sequences of continuous functions.

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  1876: Mathematician Thomas Joannes Stieltjes uses continued fraction theory to fight crimes against mathematical constants.

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  1921: Physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist Akiva Yaglom born. He will contribute to statistical turbulence theory and random processes theory.

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  1939: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann dies. He proved (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number.

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  1981: Modern dance company Rhizolith Group debuts new work based on the life of Ayn Rand.

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  1982: Writer and philosopher Ayn Rand dies.

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  2009: Priceless block of four Superimposed Fraunhofer stamps, stolen the year before by the Forbidden Ratio gang, recovered by APTO field agents.

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  2015: The Dawn space probe, having left Vesta, enters Ceres' orbit. Dawn will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt.

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  2017: The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling awarded Pulitzer Prize, declared "the most entertaining illustration of the year."

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  2018: Signed first edition of Green Sprouts used in high-energy literature experiments spontaneously develops artificial intelligence.