December 6 - Events

Events

• 1060 – Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary
• 1240 – Mongol invasion of Rus: Kievunder Danylo of Halych and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols underBatu Khan.
• 1534 – The city of Quito in Ecuadoris founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.
• 1648 – Colonel Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead; came to be known as "Pride's Purge".
• 1704 – Battle of Chamkaur
• 1745 – Charles Edward Stewart's army begins retreat during the second Jacobite Rising.
• 1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
• 1790 – The U.S. Congress moves from New York City toPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 1849 – American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.
• 1865 – The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitutionis ratified, banning slavery.
• 1877 – The first edition of the Washington Post is published.
• 1877 – Thomas Edison, using his new phonograph, makes one of the earliest recordings of a human voice, reciting "Mary Had a Little Lamb".
• 1884 – The Washington Monument in Washington D.C. is completed.
• 1897 – London becomes the world's first city to host licencedtaxicabs.
• 1907 – A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia kills 362 workers.
• 1916 – World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
• 1917 – Finland declares independence from Russia.
• 1917 – Halifax Explosion: In Canada, a munitions explosion kills more than 1,900 people and destroys part of the City of Halifax,Nova Scotia.
• 1921 – The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.
• 1928 – The government of Colombia sent military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
• 1922 – One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence.
• 1933 – U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.
• 1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War.
• 1947 – The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
• 1956 – A violent water polo match between Hungary and the USSRtakes place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, against the backdrop of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
• 1957 – Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite intoEarth orbit.
• 1965 – Pakistan's Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject forMuslim students from primary to graduate level.
• 1967 – Adrian Kantrowitz performed the first human heart transplant in the United States.
• 1969 – Meredith Hunter is killed by the Hells Angels during a The Rolling Stones's concert at the Altamont Speedway in California.
• 1971 – Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India following New Delhi's recognition of Bangladesh.
• 1973 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387 to 35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on November 27, the Senateconfirmed him 92 to 3).
• 1975 – Balcombe Street Siege: An IRA Active Service Unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street, London.
• 1977 – South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country.
• 1978 – Spain approves its latest constitution in a referendum.
• 1982 – Droppin Well bombing: The Irish National Liberation Armydetonate a bomb in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, killing eleven British soldiers and six civilians.
• 1988 – The Australian Capital Territory is granted self-government.
• 1989 – The École Polytechnique Massacre (or Montreal Massacre):Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal.
• 1991 – In Croatia, forces of the Yugoslav People's Army bombardDubrovnik after laying siege to the city since May.
• 1992 – Extremist Hindu activists demolish disputed structure – inAyodhya, India, which is believed to be the birthplace of Lord RAM by Hindus, in 16th century converted to mosque, which had been used as a temple since 1949, leading to widespread communal violence, including the Mumbai Riots, in all killing over 1500 people.
• 1997 – A Russian Antonov An-124 cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.
• 2001 – The Canadian province of Newfoundland is renamedNewfoundland and Labrador.
• 2005 – Several villagers are shot dead during protests in Dongzhou,China.
• 2006 – NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyorsuggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
• 2008 – The 2008 Greek riots break out upon the murder of a 15-year-old boy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, by a police officer.