December 6

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December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 25 days remaining.

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Contents

4 Holidays and observances

Events

1534 - Spanish found Quito, Ecuador.
1768 - First edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
1790 - United States Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1877 - First publication of the Washington Post
1884 - Washington Monument completed.
1917 - Finland declares its independence from Russia.
1917 - Halifax explosion kills more than 1900 people, destroys part of the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1921 - The Anglo-Irish Treaty was 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 - Federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James Joyce novel Ulysses is not obscene
1947 - Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
1957 - A launchpad explosion thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite (Project Vanguard).
1969 - Rolling Stones Altamont Disaster rock festival
1977 - South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana - not recognized by any other country
1978 - Spain approves its latest constitution in a referendum.
1989 - The École Polytechnique Massacre: a man kills 14 young women in Montreal, Quebec.
1992 - In Ayodhya, India, right-wing Hindus belonging to the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party and allied organisations demolish the Babri Masjid, a 16th century mosque, which they claim was built upon the birth place of Lord Rama.
1996 - Daylight is released, starring Sylvester Stallone.
1997 - A Russian Antonov AN-124 transport cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67
1999 - Digitally Imported, one of the largest internet radio stations dedicated to electronic dance music, is started by Ari Shohat.

Births

846 - Hasan al-Askari, Shia Imam (d. 874)
1421 - King Henry VI of England (d. 1471)
1478 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian diplomat and author (d. 1529)
1586 - Niccoli Zucchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1670)
1731 - Sophie von La Roche, German author (d. 1807)
1778 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, physicist and chemist (d. 1850)
1805 - Adolf Reubke, 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 Civil War Confederate guerrilla leader (d. 1916)
1849 - August von Mackensen, German Field Marshal (d. 1945)
1863 - Charles Martin Hall, chemist (d. 1914)
1872 - William S. Hart, actor (d. 1946)
1875 - Evelyn Underhill, English poet (d. 1941)
1886 - Joyce Kilmer, poet (d. 1918)
1887 - Lynne Fontanne, actress (d. 1983)
1890 - Rudolf Schlichter, painter, graphic artist and writer (d. 1955)
1892 - Lina Carstens, actress (d. 1978)
1892 - Sir Osbert Sitwell, English author (d. 1969)
1896 - Ira Gershwin, lyricist (d. 1983)
1898 - Alfred Eisenstaedt, photojournalist (d. 1995)
1900 - Agnes Moorehead, actress (d. 1974)
1903 - Tony Lazzeri, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1946)
1905 - James J. Braddock, boxing champion (d. 1974)
1908 - Pierre Graber, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 2003)
1913 - Eleanor Holm - American swimmer (d. 2004)
1914 - Walter W. Kelley, President of ACR
1917 - Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze (d. 1977)
1920 - Dave Brubeck, jazz musician
1921 - Otto Graham, American football star (d. 2003)
1928 - Bobby Van, singer (d. 1980)
1929 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt, German conductor
1933 - Henryk Górecki, composer
1936 - David Ossman, comedian
1942 - Peter Handke, author, playwright
1948 - JoBeth Williams, actress (Poltergeist)
1953 - Tom Hulce, actor
1953 - Gary Ward, baseball player
1955 - Steven Wright, comedian
1956 - Peter Buck, musician
1958 - Nick Park, film-maker and animator
1962 - Janine Turner, actress
1971 - Ryan White, AIDS activist (d. 1990)
1993 - Elián González, Cuban refugee

Deaths:

1185 - Afonso, first king of Portugal
1352 - Pope Clement VI
1779 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter
1868 - August Schleicher, linguist
1882 - Anthony Trollope, author
1889 - Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)
1892 - Werner von Siemens, German inventor and industrialist
1951 - Harold Ross, American magazine editor (The New Yorker) (b. 1892)
1955 - Honus Wagner, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1874)
1956 - Dr. Bhimji Ramji Ambedkar, lawyer & Minister of Law, India
1976 - Joao Goulart, president of Brazil (1961-March 31, 1964) (b. 1918)
1985 - Burr Tillstrom, puppeteer
1988 - Roy Orbison, musician (b. 1936)
1989 - Frances Bavier, actress
1993 - Don Ameche, actor
1997 - Billy Bremner, footballer
2001 - Gerhard Löwenthal, journalist
2001 - Sir Peter Blake, yachtsman
2002 - Philip Berrigan, civil rights activist
2002 - Charles Rosen, pioneer in artificial intelligence
2003 - Jose-Maria Jimenez, professional cyclist
2003 - Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala 1970-74
2003 - Jerry Tuite, professional wrestler (b. 1966)
2004 - Raymond Goethals, former Belgian soccer coach

Undated deaths

Saint Nicholas of Myra

Holidays and observances

Independence day in Finland
Spanish Constitution Day
Canada: National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
Saint Nicholas (Santa Claus) Day in some European, mostly Roman Catholic, countries

December 5 - December 7 - November 6 - January 6 -- listing of all days

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