1. On March 6, 1869, the state of Delaware became the first state to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which granted voting rights to African American men.
2. American writer and Delaware native, John Masefield, was born on March 6, 1878. He went on to become the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in 1930.
3. On March 6, 1781, Delaware native Thomas McKean was elected President of the Continental Congress. He was a signer of both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
4. The last documented sighting of the now-extinct passenger pigeon was on March 6, 1910 in Pike Creek, Delaware.
5. On March 6, 1975, Delaware became the first state to allow people to divorce without proving fault or grounds, with the introduction of "no-fault" divorce legislation.