{| style="float:right;" |- |{{DecemberCalendar}} |- |{{ThisDateInRecentYears|Month=December|Day=6}} |} {{PAGENAME}} is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian_calendar. There are 25 days remaining. ==Events== * 963 - Leo_VIII is elected Pope. *1240 - Mongol_invasion_of_Rus: Kiev under Danylo_of_Halych and Voivode_Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu_Khan. *1534 - The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián_de_Belalcázar. *1768 - The first edition of the ''Encyclopædia_Britannica'' is published. *1790 - The U.S. Congress moves from New_York_City to Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania *1845 - Alpha_Sigma_Phi Fraternity was founded at Yale_College by Louis_Manigault, Horace_Spangler_Weiser, and Stephen_Ornsby_Rhea. *1849 - American Abolitionist Harriet_Tubman escapes from slavery. *1865 - The Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution is ratified, banning Slavery. *1877 - The ''Washington_Post'' newspaper is first published. *1884 - The Washington_Monument in Washington_D.C. is completed. *1897 - London becomes the world's first city to host motorised taxi cabs. *1907 - A coal mine explosion at Monongah,_West_Virginia kills 362 workers. *1916 - David_Lloyd_George becomes Prime Minister of Britain. *1917 - Finland declares its independence from Russia. * 1917 - Halifax_Explosion: In Canada, a munitions explosion kills more than 1900 people and destroys part of the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. *1921 - The Anglo-Irish_Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives *1922 - One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish_Free_State comes into existence. *1933 - U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James_Joyce novel ''Ulysses'' is not obscene. *1947 - The Everglades_National_Park in Florida is dedicated. *1957 - Project_Vanguard: A launchpad explosion thwarts the first United_States attempt to launch a Satellite. *1965 - Pakistan's Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommended that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduation level. *1969 - Meredith_Hunter is killed by Hell's_Angels during The_Rolling_Stones's concert at the Altamont speedway in California. *1971 - Pakistan snaps diplomatic ties with India following New Delhi's recognition of Bangladesh. * 1971 - King Faisal_of_Saudi_Arabia condemns Indian aggression on Pakistan. *1973 - The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United_States_House_of_Representatives votes 387 to 35 to confirm Gerald_Ford as Vice_President_of_the_United_States (on November_27, the Senate confirmed him 92 to 3). *1975 - Balcombe_Street_Siege: An IRA Active_Service_Unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street, London. *1977 - South_Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country *1978 - Spain approves its latest constitution in a referendum. *1989 - École_Polytechnique_Massacre: Marc_Lépine kills 14 young women in Montreal,_Quebec. *1991 - In Croatia, forces of the Yugoslav_People's_Army bombard Dubrovnik after laying siege there since May. *1992 - Extremist Hindu activists demolish Babri_Masjid - a 16th century Mosque in Ayodhya, India. *1997 - A Russian Antonov AN-124 transport cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67. *2001 - Name of the Canadian province of Newfoundland changed to Newfoundland_and_Labrador. *2005 - Several villagers shot dead during protests in Dongzhou, China. ==Births== * 846 -Hasan_al-Askari, Shia_Imam (d. 874) *1285 - King Ferdinand_IV_of_Castile (d. 1312) *1421 - King Henry_VI_of_England (d. 1471) *1478 - Baldassare_Castiglione, Italian diplomat and author (d. 1529) *1550 - Orazio_Vecchi, Italian composer (baptism) (d. 1605) *1586 - Niccolo_Zucchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1670) *1608 - George_Monck,_1st_Duke_of_Albemarle, English soldier (d. 1670) *1637 - Sir Edmund_Andros, English governor in North America (d. 1714) *1640 - Claude_Fleury, French historian (d. 1723) *1642 - Johann_Christoph_Bach, German composer (d. 1703) *1721 - James_Elphinston, British philologist (d. 1809) * 1721 - Guillaume-Chrétien_de_Lamoignon_de_Malesherbes, French statesman (d. 1794) *1778 - Joseph_Louis_Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850) *1792 - King William_II_of_the_Netherlands (d. 1849) *1805 - Adolf_Reubke, German organ builder (d. 1875) * 1805 - Jean_Eugène_Robert-Houdin, French magician (d. 1861) *1823 - Friedrich Max Müller, German orientalist (d. 1900) *1833 - John_Singleton_Mosby, American Confederate guerrilla leader (d. 1916) *1841 - Frédéric_Bazille, French painter (d. 1870) *1849 - August_von_Mackensen, German field marshal (d. 1945) *1863 - Charles_Martin_Hall, American chemist (d. 1914) *1872 - William_S._Hart, American actor (d. 1946) *1875 - Evelyn_Underhill, British poet (d. 1941) *1886 - Joyce_Kilmer, American poet (d. 1918) *1890 - Rudolf_Schlichter, German artist and writer (d. 1955) * 1890 - Yoshio_Nishina, Japanese physicist (d. 1951) *1892 - Sir Osbert_Sitwell, British author (d. 1969) *1896 - Ira_Gershwin, American lyricist (d. 1983) *1898 - Alfred_Eisenstaedt, German-born photojournalist (d. 1995) * 1898 - Gunnar_Myrdal, Swedish economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize (d. 1987) *1900 - Agnes_Moorehead, American actress (d. 1974) *1903 - Tony_Lazzeri, American baseball player (d. 1946) *1905 - James_J._Braddock, American boxer (d. 1974) *1908 - Pierre_Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 2003) *1913 - Eleanor_Holm, American swimmer (d. 2004) *1917 - Kamal_Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze (d. 1977) *1919 - Paul_de_Man, Belgian-born literary critic (d. 1983) *1920 - Dave_Brubeck, American pianist and composer * 1920 - George_Porter, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002) *1921 - Otto_Graham, American football player (d. 2003) *1928 - Bobby_Van, American singer (d. 1980) *1929 - Alain_Tanner, Swiss filmmaker * 1929 - Nikolaus_Harnoncourt, German conductor *1930 - Daniel_Lisulo, Prime_Minister_of_Zambia *1933 - Henryk_Górecki, Polish composer *1936 - David_Ossman, American comedian *1942 - Peter_Handke, Austrian writer *1945 - Shekhar_Kapur, Indian filmmaker * 1945 - Larry_Bowa, baseball player and Major League manager *1948 - JoBeth_Williams, American actress * 1948 - Keke_Rosberg, Finnish race car driver *1950 - Joe_Hisaishi, Japanese composer *1952 - Rick_Charlesworth, Australian cricketer, politician, hockey player, and coach *1953 - Tom_Hulce, American actor * 1953 - Gary_Ward, baseball player *1955 - Steven_Wright, American comedian * 1955 - Rick_Buckler, British drummer (The_Jam) *1956 - Peter_Buck, American guitarist (R.E.M.) * 1956 - Randy_Rhoads, American guitarist (d. 1982) *1958 - Nick_Park, British filmmaker and animator *1961 - David_Lovering, American drummer (The_Pixies) *1962 - Janine_Turner, American actress *1967 - Hacken_Lee, Hong Kong singer *1971 - Richard_Krajicek, Dutch tennis player * 1971 - Ryan_White, American AIDS activist (d. 1990) *1972 - Rick_Short, Baseball player *1976 - Colleen_Haskell, American television personality *1977 - Kevin_Cash, baseball player * 1977 - Andrew_Flintoff, England cricketer * 1977 - Paul_McVeigh, Irish footballer *1978 - Darrell_Jackson, American Football Player *1979 - Tim_Cahill, Australia footballer *1980 - Steve_Lovell, British footballer *1982 - Sean_Ervine, Zimbabwean cricketer *1982 - Ryan_Carnes, American actor *1983 - Bryan_Habana, South African rugby player *1986 - Cintia_Dicker, Brazilian model *1993 - Elián_González, Cuban subject of child custody battle ==Deaths== *1185 - King Afonso_I_of_Portugal (b. 1109) *1352 - Pope_Clement_VI (b. 1291) *1562 - Jan_van_Scorel Dutch painter and architect *1618 - Jacques-Davy_Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556) *1658 - Baltasar_Gracián_y_Morales, Spanish writer (b. 1601) *1672 - King John_II_Casimir_of_Poland (b. 1609) *1675 - John_Lightfoot, English churchman (b. 1602) *1718 - Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (b. 1674) *1746 - Lady_Grizel_Baillie, Scottish songwriter (b. 1665) *1771 - Giovanni_Battista_Morgagni, Italian anatomist (b. 1682) *1779 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon_Chardin, French painter (b. 1699) *1788 - Jonathan_Shipley, British bishop and politician (b. 1714) *1867 - Jean_Pierre_Flourens, French physician (b. 1794) *1868 - August_Schleicher, German linguist (b. 1821) *1882 - Anthony_Trollope, British author (b. 1815) * 1882 - Alfred_Escher, Swiss politician and railroad entrepreneur (b. 1819) *1889 - Jefferson_Davis, President_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America (b. 1808) *1892 - Ernst_Werner_von_Siemens, German inventor and industrialist (b. 1816) *1949 - Leadbelly, American musician (b. 1885) *1951 - Harold_Ross, American magazine editor (b. 1892) *1955 - Honus_Wagner, baseball player (b. 1874) *1956 - Dr. Bhimji Ramji Ambedkar, Indian Minister of Law (b. 1891) *1961 - Frantz_Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and writer (b. 1925) *1976 - João_Goulart, President_of_Brazil (b. 1918) *1985 - Burr_Tillstrom, American puppeteer (b. 1917) * 1985 - Burleigh_Grimes, baseball player (b. 1893) *1988 - Roy_Orbison, American singer, guitarist, and songwriter (b. 1936) *1989 - Frances_Bavier, American actress (b. 1902) *1991 - Sir Richard_Stone, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913) *1993 - Don_Ameche, American actor (b. 1908) *1997 - Billy_Bremner, Scottish footballer (b. 1942) *2001 - Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist (b. 1948) *2002 - Philip_Berrigan, American civil rights activist (b. 1923) *2003 - Carlos_Manuel_Arana_Osorio, President_of_Guatemala (b. 1918) * 2003 - Jerry_Tuite, American professional wrestler (b. 1966) *2004 - Raymond_Goethals, Belgian football coach (b. 1921) *2005 - Charly_Gaul, Luxembourg cyclist * 2005 - Devan_Nair, 3rd President_of_Singapore (b. 1923) ==Holidays and observances== * R.C. Saints - optional memorial of Saint_Nicholas * Also see December_6_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics) * Canada - National_Day_of_Remembrance_and_Action_on_Violence_Against_Women * Finland - Finland_Independence_Day (from Russia, 1917) * Spain - Constitution Day * Belgium and the Netherlands celebrate Sinterklaas, a day on which the saint gives out presents, oranges and chocolates (and other sweets) to good kids (and supposedly puts charcoal in the shoes of bad kids). * United_States - Woolseymas, a commemoration of the 1933 decision by US District Court Judge John M Woolsey that the James_Joyce novel "Ulysses" was not pornographic and therefore could not be obscene. ==Other uses== ''December 6'' is a novel by Martin_Cruz_Smith about an American Expatriate living in Japan just prior to Pearl_Harbor. ==External links== * BBC: On This Day ---- December_5 - December_7 - November_6 - January_6 — listing of all days {{months}} Af:6_Desember Ar:6_ديسمبر An:6_d'abiento Ast:6_d'avientu Bg:6_декември Be:6_сьнежня Bs:6._decembar Ca:6_de_desembre Ceb:Disyembre_6 Cv:Раштав,_6 Co:6_di_decembre Cs:6._prosinec Cy:6_Rhagfyr Da:6._december De:6._Dezember Et:6._detsember El:6_Δεκεμβρίου Es:6_de_diciembre Eo:6-a_de_decembro Eu:Abenduaren_6 Fo:6._desember Fr:6_décembre Fy:6_desimber Fur:6_di_Dicembar Ga:6_Nollaig Gl:6_de_decembro Ko:12월_6일 Hr:6._prosinca Io:6_di_decembro Id:6_Desember Ia:6_de_decembre Is:6._desember It:6_dicembre He:6_בדצמבר Jv:6_Desember Ka:6_დეკემბერი Csb:6_gòdnika Ku:6'ê_berfanbarê La:6_Decembris Lt:Gruodžio_6 Lb:6._Dezember Hu:December_6 Mk:6_декември Ms:6_Disember Nap:6_'e_dicembre Nl:6_december Ja:12月6日 No:6._desember Nn:6._desember Oc:6_de_decembre Pl:6_grudnia Pt:6_de_Dezembro Ro:6_decembrie Ru:6_декабря Se:Juovlamánu_6. 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