March 51590: Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe discovers a comet in the Pisces constellation1750: A Shakespearean play Richard III is staged for the first time in America1904: Inventor Nikola Tesla describes the process of the ball lightning formation1921: Nazar Mohammad, who scored Pakistan’s first century in Test cricket, is born1953: Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, dies1979: America’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles from Earth2004: Pakistan wins the Under-19 World Cup after beating West Indies by 25 runs in Dhaka
March 6 1475: Michelangelo, Italian artist and sculptor, is born1869: Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table1930: The first individually packaged frozen foods go on sale in Springfield, Massachusetts1941: Oscar winning American actor Robert De Niro is born1949: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz is born1964: American heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay changes his name to Muhammad Ali1971: Indian batting maestro Sunil Gavaskar makes Test debut against the West Indies1984: Pakistan fast bowler Sohail Khan is born1999: Pakistan’s fast bowler Wasim Akram takes his first Test hat-trick against Sri Lanka
March 71814: Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne1820: British astronomers and mathematicians establish Royal Astronomical Society to promote celestial research1876: Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for the invention of telephone, beating Antonio Meucci by four hours1897: Dr John Kellogg serves the world’s first cornflakes to mental patients in Battle Creek, Michigan1933: The board game Monopoly is trademarked by American businessman Charles Darrow1952: Sir Vivian Richards, the great West Indies batsman, is born1987: Sunil Gavaskar becomes the first batsman to score 10,000 Test runs1999: Twin tonnes for Pakistan’s Wajahatullah Wasti in the Asian Test Championship against Sri Lanka
March 81817: The New York Stock Exchange is founded1904: Australia’s Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick in his final Test match1946: Test cricketer Mohammad Nazir (known as Nazir Junior) is born1957: Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis1959: Fast bowler Fazal Mahmood takes 6-34 as Pakistan dismisses the West Indies for 761979: Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc publicly for the first time1992: South African fielder Jonty Rhodes runs out Inzamam-ul-Haq in one of the most picturesque moment in modern cricket
March 91934: Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut and the first man in space, is born1959: The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York1996: Darsheel Safary (of Taare Zameen Par fame) is born1996: Legendary batsman Javed Miandad plays final international match for Pakistan2000: Muttiah Muralitharan takes 10 wickets as Sri Lanka defeats Pakistan in Peshawar Test
March 101814: Napoleon Bonaparte of France is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France1938: For the first time, names of Academy Award winners are kept secret1940: Chuck Norris, American actor, is born1977: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus1982: Pakistan’s Saleem Malik becomes youngest centurion on Test debut at 18 years and 328 days2001: Pakistan Navy successfully tested surface to surface missile SM-39, and air to surface missile AM-39 from Agasta-90 submarine and Atlantic plane respectively2002: Sri Lanka were crowned Asian Test champions after an eight-wicket win over Pakistan in Lahore2010: Pakistan Cricket Board bans Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf for an indefinite period, hands out one-year bans to Shoaib Malik and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, and fines Shahid Afridi, Umar Akmal and Kamran Akmal
March 111702: England’s first national daily newspaper The Daily Courant is published for the first time1818: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the world’s first science fiction novel, is published as The Modern Prometheus1982: Pakistan’s Hasan Raza, the youngest Test cricketer at 14 years 227 days, is born1983: Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon1992: Eventual winners Pakistan defeat Australia in league match to keep themselves in the hunt for the World Cup1997: Former band member of The Beatles Sir Paul McCartney was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his ‘services to music’— OA