About the day » Saturday March 6, 1982Calender converter

• Scott Arend Hinrichs († 1983)

• Cloda Ethel Bolin (81), Boswell, Benton, Indiana
• Caroline Wilhelmina Mul (76), 's Gravenhage
• Anna (Annie) Verdegaal (71), Hillegom, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dirkje Polinder (80), Epe, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelia Lems (62), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bastiana Justine Cornelia Kok (74), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Daniel Joseph Rush (79), Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States
• Antonius Petrus Stephanus Smits (55), Tilburg, Nederland
• Baukje Bodzinga (51), Terwispel
• Arie Johannes van Driel (74)

• 1979 » Érik Bédard, Canadian baseball player
• 1979 » Clint Barmes, American baseball player
• 1979 » David Flair, American wrestler
• 1979 » Tim Howard, American soccer player
• 1980 » Emílson Cribari, Brazilian footballer
• 1981 » Ellen Muth, American actress
• 1983 » Andranik Teymourian, Armenian-Iranian footballer
• 1984 » Chris Tomson, American drummer
• 1984 » Daniël de Ridder, Dutch footballer
• 1984 » Eskil Pedersen, Norwegian politician

• 1977 » Alvin R. Dyer, American religious leader (b. 1903)
• 1978 » Dennis Viollet, English-American soccer player and manager (b. 1933)
• 1981 » George Geary, English cricketer and coach (b. 1893)
• 1981 » Rambhau Mhalgi, Indian politician and member of the Lok Sabha (b. 9 July 1921)
• 1982 » Ayn Rand, Russian-American philosopher, author, and playwright (b. 1905)
• 1984 » Billy Collins, Jr., American boxer (b. 1961)
• 1984 » Henry Wilcoxon, Dominican-American actor and producer (b. 1905)
• 1984 » Homer N. Wallin, American admiral (b. 1893)
• 1984 » Martin Niemöller, German pastor and theologian (b. 1892)
• 1986 » Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (b. 1887)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Saturday, May 29, 1982 to Thursday, November 4, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt III, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
• May 29 » Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
• June 14 » Falklands War: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley conditionally surrender to British forces.
• June 18 » Italian banker Roberto Calvi's body is discovered hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, England.
• June 20 » The Argentine Corbeta Uruguay base on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War.
• October 14 » U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
• November 14 » Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.

The temperature on March 6, 1982 was between -4.0 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.