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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.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
1534 – Over 200 Spanish settlers led by conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar founded what is now Quito, Ecuador. refimprove
1768 – The first weekly instalment of the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was released in Edinburgh, Scotland. unreferenced section
1865Slavery in the United States was officially abolished when the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. refimprove section, unreferenced section
1917 – A ship in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada, carrying TNT and picric acid caught fire after a collision with another ship and caused the world's largest man-made accidental explosion. refimprove section
1957 – An attempt to launch the first American satellite failed with an explosion on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. refimprove section

Eligible

  • 1969 – The infamous Altamont Free Concert was held in California, an event marred by considerable violence, including one homicide and three accidental deaths.

December 6: Independence Day in Finland (1917); Constitution Day in Spain

  • 1921 – The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed and then came into force exactly one year later, establishing the Irish Free State, the first independent Irish state to be recognised by the British government.
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