Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 6

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 * 1836 – Texas Revolution: Mexican troops captured the Alamo Mission in San Antonio from Texian forces after a 13-day siege.
 * 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.
 * 1913 – First Balkan War: The Greek army captured Bizani Fortress, near Ioannina, from the Ottomans.
 * 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.
 * 1945 – Petru Groza of the Ploughmen's Front became the first prime minister of the Communist Party-dominated government of Romania.
 * 1953 – Following Joseph Stalin's death, Georgy Malenkov succeeded him as Premier of the Soviet Union.
 * 1964 – In a radio broadcast, Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad announced that American boxer Cassius Clay would change his name to Muhammad Ali (pictured).
 * 1987 – The ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsized while leaving the harbour of Zeebrugge, Belgium, killing 193 people on board.
 * Born/died: | Alvise Loredan |d|1466| Luigi Alamanni |b|1495| Lucy Barnes |b|1780| William Claflin |b|1818| Ella P. Stewart |b|1893|  Ayn Rand |d|1982| Francisco Xavier do Amaral |d|2012|  Paul of Greece |d|1964|