Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 6
This is a list of selected December 6 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Nefertiti Bust -
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Aerial view of Camp X -
Béla I of Hungary
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Constitution Day in Spain | refimprove section, expansion up the wazoo |
| National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada | uncited statements |
| 1534 – Over 200 Spanish settlers led by conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar founded what is now Quito, Ecuador. | unreferenced/refimprove sections, lots of CN tags (12) |
| 1922 – Per the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty signed exactly one year previous, establishing the Irish Free State, the first independent Irish state to be recognised by the British government. | refimprove |
| 1928 – At the behest of the United States, the Colombian Army violently suppressed a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers. | Too many block quotes |
| 1953 – Vladimir Nabokov completed his controversial novel Lolita five years after starting it. | original research |
| 1969 – The Altamont Free Concert was held in California, an event marred by considerable violence, including one homicide and three accidental deaths. | refimprove |
| 1995 – Khabarovsk United Air Group Flight 3949 crashed into Bo-Dzhausa Mountain in Russia, killing all ninety-eight people aboard. | short |
| 2005 – Members of the People's Armed Police shot and killed several people in Dongzhou, Guangdong, China, who were protesting government plans to build a new power plant. | needs update |
| 2005 – An Iranian Lockheed C-130 transport aircraft crashed into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of Tehran, killing over 100 people. | needs better citations |
Eligible
- 963 – Leo VIII was ordained a bishop, claiming the Holy See as an antipope supported by Otto the Great.
- 1060 – Béla I (pictured) was crowned King of Hungary in Székesfehérvár.
- 1803 – Haitian Revolution: Nearly all the final French ships in Haiti were captured by the Royal Navy when they attempted to evade the blockade of Saint-Domingue.
- 1846 – Mexican–American War: American and Mexican forces clashed at the Battle of San Pasqual, a series of skirmishes near San Diego, California.
- 1865 – Slavery in the United States was officially abolished when the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.
- 1904 – President Theodore Roosevelt announced the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, justifying the exercise of "international police power" by the U.S. in the Western Hemisphere.
- 1907 – A mine explosion in Monongah, West Virginia, killed 362 people and led to the establishment of the United States Bureau of Mines.
- 1912 – The Nefertiti Bust, listed among the "Top 10 Plundered Artifacts" by Time, was found in Amarna, Egypt, before being taken to Germany.
- 1917 – World War I: USS Jacob Jones became the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it was torpedoed by German submarine SM U-53.
- 1933 — In United States v. One Book Called Ulysses Judge John M. Woolsey ruled that James Joyce's novel Ulysses was not obscene, allowing it to be imported into the United States.
- 1941 – The British Secret Intelligence Service established a facility known as Camp X (pictured) in Ontario, Canada, to train covert agents in clandestine operations.
- 1942 – The Holocaust: Members of German Ordnungspolizei massacred 31 people in occupied Poland for helping Jews.
- 1956 – At the Melbourne Olympics, 14-year-old swimmer Sandra Morgan became the youngest Australian to win an Olympic gold medal.
- 1957 – The first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite failed with an explosion on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.
- 1967 – American physician Adrian Kantrowitz and his team performed the world's first pediatric heart transplant at Maimonides Medical Center in New York City.
- 1975 – Four members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army took two people hostage in a house on Balcombe Street in London, surrendering six days later.
- 1982 – The Irish National Liberation Army exploded a time bomb in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, killing eleven British Army soldiers and six civilians.
- 1989 – 25-year-old Marc Lépine, claiming to be "fighting feminism", killed fourteen women before committing suicide at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada.
- 1990 – An Italian Air Force military jet, abandoned by its pilot after an on-board fire, crashed into a high school near Bologna, killing 12 students and injuring 88 other people.
- 1992 – The Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, India, was demolished by Hindu Kar Sevaks, who believed that it was built on the birthplace of Rama.
- 1999 – The Recording Industry Association of America filed a lawsuit against the peer-to-peer file sharing network Napster, alleging that the service facilitated widespread copyright infringement.
- 2015 – In the Venezuelan parliamentary election, the ruling United Socialist Party lost control of the National Assembly for the first time in 16 years.
- Born/died: | Jan van Scorel |d|1562| Maria de Dominici |b|1645| Marie Adélaïde of Savoy |b|1685| Nicholas Rowe |d|1718| Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes |b|1721| Robert Spear Hudson |b|1812| William Arnott |b|1827| Johann Palisa |b|1848| Hara Prasad Shastri |b|1853| Pete Rozelle |d|1996 | Devan Nair |d|2005|
Notes
- Monroe Doctrine appears on December 2, so Roosevelt Corollary should not appear in the same year
- Christiaan Barnard appears on December 3, so Adrian Kantrowitz should not appear in the same year
- McGurk's Bar bombing (1971) appears on December 4, so Droppin Well bombing and Balcombe Street siege should not appear in the same year
- Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution appears on December 5, so 13th Amendment should not appear in the same year
December 6: Saint Nicholas's Day (Western Christianity); Independence Day in Finland (1917)
Blast cloud from the Halifax Explosion
- 1240 – After days of bombardment, Mongol invaders under Batu Khan breached the walls of Kiev and sacked the city.
- 1917 – A ship carrying TNT and picric acid in Halifax Harbour, Canada, caught fire after a collision and caused one of the largest accidental explosions in history (pictured).
- 1956 – In what became known as the Blood in the Water match at the Melbourne Olympics, the Hungarian water polo team defeated the Soviet Union 4–0 against the background of the Hungarian Revolution.
- 1988 – Self-government was granted to the Australian Capital Territory.
- 2017 – Under President Donald Trump, the United States government officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
- George H. D. Gossip (b. 1841)
- Mary Margaret O'Reilly (d. 1949)
- Satoru Iwata (b. 1959)
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