March 6 in history: • 845 – The Abbasid Caliphate executed 42 Byzantine officials who had been captured in the sack of Amorium of 838 for refusing to convert to Islam. → go there • 1447 – Tommaso Parentucelli was elected as Pope Nicholas V in Rome. → go there • 1904 – Scottish National Antarctic Expedition: Led by William Speirs Bruce (pictured), the Antarctic region of Coats Land was discovered by the Scotia. → go there • 1988 – The Troubles: In Operation Flavius, the Special Air Service killed three volunteers of the Provisional Irish Republican Army conspiring to bomb a parade of British military bands in Gibraltar. → go there • 2000 – The Marine Parade Community Building, the mural cladding of which is the largest installation art in Singapore, was opened. → go there Born 1892: Clark Shaughnessy Wiki link Born 1897: Joseph Berchtold Wiki link Born 1949: Shaukat Aziz Wiki link Born 2001: Zoi Sadowski-Synnott Wiki link Pictured: William Speirs Bruce.