March 6, 1959 (Friday)
- Pope John XXIII issued a Notificatio banning "the spreading of images and writings that propose the devotion of The Divine Mercy" that had been the work of Sister Faustina Kowalska.
- By order of the Castro government, all rents in Cuba were reduced by 50 percent.
- Born: Tom Arnold, American actor and comedian, in Ottumwa, Iowa
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Famous quotes containing the word march:
“Unaffected by “the march of events,”
He passed from men’s memory in l’an trentiesme
De son eage; the case presents
No adjunct to the Muses’ diadem.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)