Almanac - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

TOP TEN LISTS

World's Most Dangerous Animals

Deadliest animals in the world ranked by estimated number of human fatalities per year

Best Selling Musicians

Top selling musicians of all time ranked by estimated number of albums sold

Best Selling Books of All-Time

Best selling novels worldwide ranked by estimated number of copies sold

Fastest Manned Aircraft in the World

Fastest manned aircraft (excluding spacecraft) ranked by top speed

World's Most Practiced Religions

Major religions of the world ranked by estimated number of followers

Worst Genocides of the Twentieth Century

The ten worst genocides of the 20th century listed by dictators responsible; ranked by number of deaths

World's Fastest Land Animals

The fastest land animals in the world ranked by maximum speed

Home Top Ten Lists Timelines

Today in History

Friday, 06 March 2026

2008

A Palestinian gunman shoots and kills 8 students and critically injures 11 in the library of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, in Jerusalem, Israel.

2007

Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice.

2006

South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signs legislation banning most abortions in the state.

1992

Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.

1988

Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.

1987

The British ferry {{MS|Herald of Free Enterprise}} capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.

1983

The first United States Football League game is played.

1981

After 19 years of presenting the ''CBS Evening News'', Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.

1975

Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.

For the first time, ever, the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy was shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.

FACTOIDS