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.
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 or picture of the day.
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Ad for Encyclopædia Britannica from National Geographic, 1913 -
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Vanguard rocket exploded on the launch pad -
Sebastian de Belalcazar
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Rear view of Babri Mosque
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Bust of Béla I of Hungary -
Flag of the Australian Capital Territory
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Constitution Day in Spain | refimprove section |
| 1534 – Over 200 Spanish settlers led by conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar founded what is now Quito, Ecuador. | unreferenced sections |
| 1768 – The first weekly instalment of the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was released in Edinburgh, Scotland. | unreferenced section; date not in Britannica article |
| 1928 – At the behest of the United States, the Colombian Army violently suppressed a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers. | unreferenced section |
| 1956 – In a contest that became known as the "Blood in the Water match" at the Melbourne Olympics, the Hungarian water polo team defeated the USSR, 4–0, against the background of the Hungarian Revolution. | unreferenced section |
| 1995 – Khabarovsk United Air Group Flight 3949 crashed into Bo-Dzhausa Mountain in Russia, killing all ninety-eight people aboard. | short |
Eligible
- 1907 – At least 362 miners were killed when an explosion destroyed a mine in Monongah, West Virginia, leading to the establishment of the United States Bureau of Mines.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1953 – Vladimir Nabokov completed his controversial novel Lolita, five years after starting it.
- 1956 – At the Melbourne Olympics, 14-year-old swimmer Sandra Morgan became the youngest Australian to win an Olympic gold medal.
- 1957 – The first US attempt to launch a satellite failed with an explosion on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.
- 1969 – The infamous Altamont Free Concert was held in California, an event marred by considerable violence, including one homicide and three accidental deaths.
- 1982 – The Irish National Liberation Army exploded a time bomb in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, killing eleven British Army soldiers and six civilians.
- 1988 – The Australian Capital Territory was granted self-government.
- 1989 – Claiming that he was "fighting feminism", 25-year-old Marc Lépine killed fourteen women before committing suicide at École Polytechnique in Montreal.
- 1992 – The Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, India, was destroyed by members of the Vishva Hindu Parishad and associated groups, who believed that it was built on the birthplace of Rama.
- 2005 – An Iranian Air Force C-130 military transport aircraft crashed into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of Tehran, killing all 84 on board and 44 bystanders.
December 6: Hanukkah begins at sunset (Judaism, 2015); Independence Day in Finland (1917)
- 1060 – Béla I the Champion was crowned King of Hungary.
- 1865 – Slavery in the United States was officially abolished when the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified.
- 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 second-largest man-made accidental explosion in history (pictured).
- 1975 – Four members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army took two people hostage in a house on Balcombe Street in Marylebone, London, surrendering six days later.
- 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.