March 06

BBC Scotland founded

March 6, 1923

John Redmond, Chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party, died

March 6, 1918

Patrick McCall, songwriter, is born in Dublin

March 6, 1861

Philip Sheridan, US Union General in the American Civil War, is born

March 6, 1831

John McHale, Archbishop of Tuam, is born in Trawler, Co. Mayo

March 6, 1791

Last claimant to the Stuart throne, Henry I of Scotland (Henry IX of England), born

March 6, 1725

King James II decreed in an Act of Parliament, that golf be utterly cried down and not used

March 6, 1457