List of December 6 Historical Events and Facts
- 1534: The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.
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1704: Battle of Chamkaur: During the Mughal-Sikh Wars, an outnumbered Sikh Khalsa defeats a Mughal army.
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1745: Charles Edward Stuart’s army begins retreat during the second Jacobite Rising.
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1768: The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
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1790: The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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1865: The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery.
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1877: The first edition of the Washington Post is published.
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1877: Thomas Edison, using his new phonograph, makes one of the earliest recordings of a human voice, reciting “Mary Had a Little Lamb”.
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1884: The Washington Monument in Washington DC is completed.
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1897: London becomes the world’s first city to host licensed taxicabs.
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1904: Theodore Roosevelt announced his “Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
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1916: World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
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1917: Finland declares independence from Russia.
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1921: The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.
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1922: One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence.
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1933: U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce’s novel Ulysses is not obscene.
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1941: World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War.
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1947: The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
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1953: Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.
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1957: Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.
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1965: Pakistan’s Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduate level.
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1967: Adrian Kantrowitz performed the first human heart transplant in the United States.
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1969: Meredith Hunter is killed by the Hells Angels during a The Rolling Stones’s concert at the Altamont Speedway in California.
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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 .
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1978: Spain approves its latest constitution in a referendum.
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1988: The Australian Capital Territory is granted self-government.
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1991: In Croatia, forces of the Yugoslav People’s Army bombard Dubrovnik after laying siege to the city since May.
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1997: A Russian Antonov An-124 cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.
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2005: Several villagers are shot dead during protests in Dongzhou, China.
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2006: NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
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2008: The 2008 Greek riots break out upon the killing of a 15-year-old boy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, by a police officer.
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