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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_6" title="March 6">March 6</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1853" title="1853">1853</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Verdi" title="Giuseppe Verdi">Giuseppe Verdi</a>'s <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_traviata" title="La traviata">La traviata</a></b></i> premiered at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fenice" title="La Fenice">La Fenice</a> in Venice, but the performance was considered so bad that it caused him to revise portions of the opera.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964" title="1964">1964</a> – In a radio broadcast, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_Islam" title="Nation of Islam">Nation of Islam</a> leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_Muhammad" title="Elijah Muhammad">Elijah Muhammad</a> announced that American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing" title="Boxing">boxer</a> Cassius Clay would change his name to <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali" title="Muhammad Ali">Muhammad Ali</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987" title="1987">1987</a> – The ferry <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Herald_of_Free_Enterprise" title="MS Herald of Free Enterprise"><i>Herald of Free Enterprise</i></a></b> capsized while leaving the harbour of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeebrugge" title="Zeebrugge">Zeebrugge</a>, Belgium, killing 193 people on board.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_P._Stewart" title="Ella P. Stewart">Ella P. Stewart</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1893); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand" title="Ayn Rand">Ayn Rand</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1982); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Xavier_do_Amaral" title="Francisco Xavier do Amaral">Francisco Xavier do Amaral</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2012)</p>
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