Notable Historical Events on December 6th
December 6th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
963 |
Leo VIII elected Pope |
1060 |
Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary |
1160 |
Jean Bodels "Jeu de St Nicholas" premieres in Arras |
1196 |
Northern Dutch coast flooded, "Saint-Nicolas Flood" |
1240 |
Mongols under Batu Khan occupy & destroy Kiev |
1424 |
Don Alfonso V of Aragon grants Barcelona the right to exclude Jews |
1527 |
Pope Clemens VII flees to Orvieto |
1534 |
Quito, Ecuador, founded by Spanish |
1631 |
1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed |
1641 |
Don Francisco de Mello appointed land guardian of South Netherlands |
1648 |
Pride's Purge: Thomas Pride prevents 96 presbyterians from sitting in English parliament |
1723 |
Emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctie declares Constitution |
1732 |
1st play in American colonies acted by professional players, NYC |
1745 |
Bonnie Prince Charlies army retreats to Scotland |
1756 |
British troops under Robert Clive occupy Fulta India |
1768 |
1st edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published (Scotland) |
1787 |
Laurens Pieter van de Speigel appointed Dutch pension advisor |
1790 |
The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
1822 |
Veterinary school in Utrecht opens |
1825 |
Pres John Adams suggests establishment of a US observatory |
1833 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs Rio de la Plata |
1841 |
Robert Schumann's 4th Symphony in D premieres |
1843 |
Amsterdam-Utrecht railway opens |
1845 |
Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity is founded at Yale College. |
1846 |
Opera "La Damnation de Faust" is produced (Paris) |
1849 |
Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland for the 2nd and final time |
1862 |
Pres Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians |
1864 |
Battle of Deveaux's Neck, SC |
1865 |
13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing slavery |
1866 |
Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed |
1870 |
Joseph H Rainey, 1st black in House of Reps (SC) |
1873 |
1st international football game in US: Yale 2, Eton (England) 1 |
1875 |
44th Congress (1875-77) convenes |
1876 |
1st crematorium in US begins operation, Washington, Penn |
1876 |
City of Anaheim incorporated for 2nd time |
1876 |
US Electorial College picks Rep Hayes as pres (although Tilden won) |
1877 |
1st sound recording made (Thomas Edison) |
1877 |
Washington Post publishes 1st edition |
1882 |
Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit |
1884 |
Aluminum capstone set atop Washington Monument, Wash, DC |
1896 |
D T Suzuki found the awakening at Engakuji temple, in Kamakura |
1897 |
London becomes the world's first city to host licenced taxicabs. |
1903 |
Sumatra Atjehs guerilla leader Panglima Polim surrenders |
1904 |
Theodore Roosevelt confirms Monroe-doctrine (Roosevelt Corollary) |
1906 |
The British grant Transvaal self-government |
1907 |
Coal mine explosions in Monongah, WV, kills 361 |
1912 |
China votes for universal human rights |
1913 |
White Sox beat Giants 9-4 in exhibition game in Tokyo |
1914 |
German troops over run Lodz |
1916 |
German army under Gen Mackensen occupies Bucharest |
1916 |
World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest. |
1917 |
Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day) |
1917 |
French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, kills 1,700 |
1921 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland |
1922 |
1st constitution of Irish Free State comes into operation |
1922 |
1st electric power line commercial carrier in US, Utica, NY |
1923 |
1st US Presidential address broadcast on radio by President Calvin Coolidge |
1925 |
Italy, Britain & Egypt sign Jaghbub accord (Italy) |
1925 |
Record 73,000 pay to watch Chic Bears beat NY Giants 19-7 |
1929 |
Turkey introduces female suffrage |
1930 |
18th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeat Regina Roughriders, 11-6 |
1933 |
Ban on James Joyce' "Ulysses" in US lifted |
1938 |
117 Spanish knights under capt Piet Laros return to Netherlands |
1938 |
French/German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact) |
1939 |
5th Heisman Trophy Award: Nile Kinnick, Iowa (HB) |
1939 |
Cole Porter's musical "Du Barry was a Lady" premieres in NYC |
1940 |
Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter/poster artist Helen Ernst |
1940 |
Pietro Badoglio resigns as viceroy of Ethiopia |
1941 |
Dutch & British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore |
1941 |
NYC Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens |
1942 |
Queen Wilhelmina announces Dutch Commonwealth |
1942 |
RAF bombs Philips factory (150 die) |
1944 |
US 95th Infantry division reaches Westwall |
1947 |
The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated. |
1950 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Mirabile illud |
1952 |
Czech government tells Israeli ambassador, he's persona non grata |
1953 |
Brown's Lou "Toe" Groza kicks 8 PATs, beating Giants 62-14 |
1954 |
Simone de Beauvoir receives Prix Goncourt |
1955 |
NY psychologist Joyce Brothers won "$64,000 Question" on boxing |
1956 |
"Happy Hunting" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 413 performances |
1956 |
Nelson Mandela & 156 others arrested for political activities in S Africa |
1957 |
1st US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up |
1957 |
AFL-CIO votes to expel Teamsters (readmitted in October 1987) |
1957 |
Indonesia begins nationalizing Dutch possessions |
1958 |
US lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back |
1960 |
AL grants Gene Autry a franchise, LA Angels |
1961 |
27th Heisman Trophy Award: Ernie Davis, Syracuse (HB) |
1962 |
US abandons Skybolt balistic missile program |
1963 |
Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fans |
1963 |
Test Cricket debut of Graeme Pollock at the Gabba |
1964 |
"Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" 1st airs on TV |
1964 |
KTVR TV channel 13 in La Grande, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1964 |
President Segni of Italy resigns |
1965 |
2 trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers (Sotouboua Togo) kills 125 |
1965 |
Pakistan's Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduate level. |
1966 |
Polio vaccination becomes obligatory in Belgium |
1967 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR |
1968 |
Baseball dismisses Commissioner William Eckert after 3 years |
1968 |
PBA National Championship won by Wayne Zahn |
1968 |
WKID (WSCV) TV channel 51 in Fort Lauderdale, FL (IND) 1st broadcast |
1969 |
"Buck White" closes at George Abbott Theater NYC after 7 performances |
1969 |
300,000 attend Altamont California, rock concert feature Rolling Stones |
1969 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1970 |
Cleveland Cavaliers 1st NBA home victory, beating Buffalo Braves 108-106 |
1971 |
Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice |
1971 |
A woman dies trying to salvage property from the Salvation Army Citadel in Belfast after bomb which started a large fire in an adjoining building |
1973 |
Bahrain's constitution goes into effect |
1973 |
Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected VP, succeeds Spiro T Agnew |
1973 |
NL votes to move San Diego Padres to Washington DC (doesn't happen) |
1974 |
George Harrison releases "Ding Dong, Ding Dong" |
1975 |
41st Heisman Trophy Award: Archie Griffin, Ohio State (RB) |
1975 |
Balcombe Street Siege: for 6 days, four Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers hold two hostages at an apartment in London, England |
1976 |
War criminal Pieter Menten arrested in Zurich |
1977 |
South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence |
1978 |
Spain adopts constitution |
1980 |
Jim Bakker rapes Jessica Hahn |
1980 |
NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 502 |
1981 |
Rob de Castella of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:18 |
1982 |
Droppin Well bombing: 11 British soldiers and 6 civilians are killed by an Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) time bomb at the Droppin' Well Bar in Ballykelly, County Londonderry |
1983 |
A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, kills 6 Israelis |
1984 |
France performs nuclear test |
1984 |
Hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage |
1986 |
52nd Heisman Trophy Award: Vinny Testaverde, Miami Fla (QB) |
1986 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1987 |
3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun" |
1987 |
Christa Rothenburger skates female world record 500m (39.39 sec) |
1987 |
Jane Crafter/Steve Jones wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
1988 |
Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden |
1988 |
Carlos Andres Perez re-elected president of Venezuela |
1988 |
Merv Hughes takes 13 wickets v WI at the WACA but Australia lose |
1988 |
Milwaukee Bucks win their 1,000th NBA game (2nd fastest) |
1988 |
Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown |
1988 |
STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission |
1988 |
Agnes Neil Williams purchases Baltimore Orioles for $70 million Eli Jacobs becomes CEO of Balt Orioles |
1989 |
Mafia drug kingpin bombs security force at Bogota, kills 52 |
1989 |
Worst Canadian mass murder: Marc Lepine kills 14 women at U Montreal |
1990 |
NHL grants conditional membership to Tampa Bay Lightning |
1990 |
Saddam anounces release of all foriegn hostages |
1990 |
Shoeless Joe Jackson's signature is sold for $23,100 |
1991 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Circustheater, Scheveningen |
1991 |
"Star Trek VI-Undiscovered Country" premieres |
1992 |
300,000 hindus destroy mosque of Babri India, 4 die |
1992 |
81st Davis Cup: USA beats Switzerland in Fort Worth (3-1) |
1992 |
Dottie Mochrie/Dan Forsmann wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
1992 |
San Francisco 49ers Jerry Rice catches NFL record 101st touchdown |
1992 |
SF Giants renege on $43 million pact with Barry Bonds |
1993 |
Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 5 km 7:13.29 |
1994 |
Maltese Falcon auctioned for $398,590 |
1994 |
Orange County California files for bankruptcy |
1994 |
Warner Brothers announces a 5th TV network to begin on Jan 11, 1995 |
1995 |
6th Billboard Music Awards: TLC & Hootie & The Blowfish win |
1995 |
Michael Jackson collapses while rehearsing for an HBO special |
1996 |
Mashonaland defeat England in first-class tour match |
1998 |
JC Penney Golf Classic |
1998 |
Hugo Chávez Frías, Venezuelan military and politician, is elected President of Venezuela. |
1998 |
87th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Italy in Milan (4-1) |
2001 |
The Canadian province of Newfoundland is renamed Newfoundland and Labrador. |
2005 |
Several villagers are shot dead during protests in Dongzhou, China. |
2006 |
NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars. |
2008 |
American pin-up model Bettie Page (85) is hospitalized in critical condition after suffering a heart attack |
2009 |
98th Davis Cup: Spain beats Czech Republic in Barcelona (5-0) |
2009 |
Final Broadway performance of "A Steady Rain", starring Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig |
2012 |
7 people are killed and 770 injured during Egyptian protests |
2012 |
Typhoon Bopha's death toll rise to 418 with 318 missing and 179,000 displaced |
2012 |
A 243 million year old Nyasasaurus fossil is discovered in Tanzania |
2013 |
Pope Francis gives his ascent to a proposal to create a permanent post on the Pontifical Commission on cases of sin and sexual abuse of minors |
2013 |
A 2-year old boy dies from Ebola in Meliandou, Guinea |
2015 |
One dead, 29 missing in Azerbaijan oil explosion |
2017 |
US flies B-1B over South in show of force against N. Korea |
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