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Historical Events

06 Dec 1060
Bla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary
06 Dec 1160
Jean Bodels Jeu de St Nicholas premieres in Arras
06 Dec 1196
Northern Dutch coast flooded Saint-Nicolas Flood
06 Dec 1240
Mongols under Batu Khan occupy and destroy Kiev out of 50000 people in the city only 2000 survive
06 Dec 1631
1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed
06 Dec 1641
Don Francisco de Mello appointed land guardian of South Netherlands
06 Dec 1648
Prides Purge Thomas Pride prevents 96 presbyterians from sitting in English parliament
06 Dec 1723
Emperor Karel VIs Pragmatic Sanctie declares Constitution
06 Dec 1732
1st play in American colonies acted by professional players in New York
06 Dec 1735
First recorded appendectomy performed by Claudius Amyand at St Georges Hospital in London
06 Dec 1745
Bonnie Prince Charlies army retreats to Scotland
06 Dec 1756
British troops under Robert Clive occupy Fulta India
06 Dec 1768
1st edition of Encyclopedia Brittanica published in Scotland
06 Dec 1787
Laurens Pieter van de Speigel is appointed Dutch pension advisor
06 Dec 1790
The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
06 Dec 1845
Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity is founded at Yale College.
06 Dec 1846
Opera La Damnation de Faust by Hector Berlioz is produced in Paris
06 Dec 1865
13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified abolishing slavery
06 Dec 1866
Chicago water supply tunnel 3227 m into Lake Michigan completed
06 Dec 1873
1st international football game in US Yale 2 Eton (England) 1 in New Haven Connecticut
06 Dec 1876
1st crematorium in US begins operation Washington Pennsylvania
06 Dec 1884
Aluminum capstone set atop Washington Monument Washington D.C.
06 Dec 1896
D T Suzuki found the awakening at Engakuji temple in Kamakura
06 Dec 1897
London becomes the worlds first city to host licenced taxicabs
06 Dec 1903
Sumatra Atjehs guerilla leader Panglima Polim surrenders
06 Dec 1907
Coal mine explosions in Monongah West Virginia kills 361
06 Dec 1913
White Sox beat Giants 9-4 in exhibition game in Tokyo
06 Dec 1916
German army under Gen Mackensen occupies Bucharest
06 Dec 1916
World War I The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
06 Dec 1917
French munition ship Mont Blanc explodes in Halifax kills 1700
06 Dec 1917
Taking advantage of the temporary relaxation of authority in Russia Finland declares itself a republic following the Ukraine on 20 November
06 Dec 1922
1st constitution of Irish Free State comes into operation
06 Dec 1922
1st electric power line commercial carrier in US Utica NY
06 Dec 1925
Italy Britain & Egypt sign Jaghbub accord (Italy)
06 Dec 1925
Record 73000 pay to watch Chicago Bears beat NY Giants 19-7
06 Dec 1930
CFL Grey Cup Varsity Stadium Toronto Toronto Balmy Beach win their 2nd and final title defeat Regina Roughriders 11-6
06 Dec 1938
117 Spanish knights under capt Piet Laros return to Netherlands
06 Dec 1939
5th Heisman Trophy Award Nile Kinnick Iowa (HB)
06 Dec 1939
Cole Porters musical Du Barry was a Lady premieres in NYC
06 Dec 1940
Gestapo arrest German resistance fighterposter artist Helen Ernst
06 Dec 1940
Pietro Badoglio resigns as viceroy of Ethiopia
06 Dec 1941
Dutch & British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore
06 Dec 1941
NYC Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens
06 Dec 1947
The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
06 Dec 1950
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Mirabile illud
06 Dec 1952
Czech government tells Israeli ambassador that he is persona non grata
06 Dec 1953
Browns Lou Toe Groza kicks 8 PATs beating Giants 62-14
06 Dec 1955
New York psychologist Joyce Brothers wins 64000 Question with topic of boxing
06 Dec 1956
Happy Hunting opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 413 performances
06 Dec 1956
Australian swimmer David Theile sets world record 102.2 to win the 100m backstroke gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics
06 Dec 1956
Australian womens 4 100m freestyle relay team of Dawn Fraser Faith Leech Sandra Morgan & Lorraine Crapp swim world record 417.1 and beat powerful US team to win the gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics
06 Dec 1956
Against the background of the Soviet invasion of Hungary the nations square off at the Melbourne Olympics in a famous water polo match game called off with Hungary leading 4-0 and near riot halted by police Hungary goes on to win gold medal
06 Dec 1956
Randhir Singh Gentle scores the winner as India beats Pakistan 1-0 in the Melbourne Olympics field hockey final to win its 6th consecutive gold medal in the sport
06 Dec 1956
German WWII prisoner of war Helmut Bantz and Soviet gymnast Valentin Muratov tie for the vault gold medal with 18.85 points at the Melbourne Olympics
06 Dec 1956
Soviet gymnast Viktor Chukarin follows his parallel bars gold medal with the individual all-round title and teams gold at the Melbourne Olympics
06 Dec 1957
1st US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up
06 Dec 1957
AFL-CIO votes to expel Teamsters (readmitted in October 1987)
06 Dec 1957
Indonesia begins nationalizing Dutch possessions
06 Dec 1957
Gardnar Mulloy becomes oldest American to win a Davis Cup tennis match at age 44 years 14 days teams with Vic Seixas to give US a match-clinching 3-0 lead over the Philippines in the Inter Zone 1st round in Adelaide Australia
06 Dec 1958
US lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107269 km falls back
06 Dec 1960
AL grants American businessman Gene Autry a franchise LA Angels
06 Dec 1961
27th Heisman Trophy Award Ernie Davis Syracuse (HB) (1st African American to win)
06 Dec 1963
The Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fans
06 Dec 1963
Test Cricket debut of Graeme Pollock at the Gabba
06 Dec 1964
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer 1st airs on TV
06 Dec 1964
KTVR TV channel 13 in La Grande OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
06 Dec 1965
2 trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers in Sotouboua Togo kills 125
06 Dec 1965
Pakistans Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduate level.
06 Dec 1966
Polio vaccination becomes obligatory in Belgium
06 Dec 1968
Baseball dismisses Commissioner William Eckert after 3 years
06 Dec 1968
WKID (WSCV) TV channel 51 in Fort Lauderdale FL (IND) 1st broadcast
06 Dec 1969
Buck White closes at George Abbott Theater NYC after 7 performances
06 Dec 1970
Cleveland Cavaliers 1st NBA home victory beating Buffalo Braves 108-106
06 Dec 1971
Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as US Supreme Court justice
06 Dec 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
06 Dec 1973
NL votes to move San Diego Padres to Washington D.C. (doesnt happen)
06 Dec 1975
41st Heisman Trophy Award Archie Griffin Ohio State (RB)
06 Dec 1975
Balcombe Street Siege for 6 days four Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers hold two hostages at an apartment in London England
06 Dec 1977
South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence
06 Dec 1981
Rob de Castella of Australia sets Marathon record at 20818
06 Dec 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
06 Dec 1983
A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes kills 6 Israelis
06 Dec 1984
Hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage
06 Dec 1984
Helena Sukov snaps Martina Navratilovas 74-match winning streak 1-6 6-3 7-5 in the semi finals of the Australian Open in Melbourne ends Navratilovas hopes of completing the Grand Slam
06 Dec 1986
52nd Heisman Trophy Award Vinny Testaverde Miami Fla (QB)
06 Dec 1987
3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for fun
06 Dec 1987
Christa Rothenburger skates female world record 500m (39.39 sec)
06 Dec 1987
Jane Crafter and Steve Jones wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
06 Dec 1988
Carlos Andres Perez re-elected president of Venezuela
06 Dec 1988
Merv Hughes takes 13 wickets v WI at the WACA but Australia lose
06 Dec 1988
Milwaukee Bucks win their 1000th NBA game (2nd fastest)
06 Dec 1988
Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison Capetown
06 Dec 1988
STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission
06 Dec 1988
Agnes Neil Williams purchases Baltimore Orioles for 70 million Eli Jacobs becomes CEO of Balt Orioles
06 Dec 1989
Mafia drug kingpin bombs security force at Bogota kills 52
06 Dec 1989
Worst Canadian mass murder Marc Lepine kills 14 women at U Montreal
06 Dec 1990
NHL grants conditional membership to Tampa Bay Lightning
06 Dec 1990
Shoeless Joe Jacksons signature is sold for 23100
06 Dec 1991
Les Miserables opens at Circustheater Scheveningen
06 Dec 1992
300000 hindus destroy mosque of Babri India 4 die
06 Dec 1992
81st Davis Cup USA beats Switzerland in Fort Worth (3-1)
06 Dec 1992
Davis Cup Tennis Ft. Worth Texas Jim Courier defeats Jakob Hlasek of Switzerland 6-3 3-6 6-3 6-4 to give the US a 3-1 victory
06 Dec 1993
Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 5 km 713.29
06 Dec 1994
Warner Brothers announces a 5th TV network to begin on Jan 11 1995
06 Dec 1995
6th Billboard Music Awards TLC & Hootie & The Blowfish win
06 Dec 1996
Mashonaland defeat England in first-class tour match
06 Dec 1998
87th Davis Cup Sweden beats Italy in Milan (4-1)
06 Dec 2001
The Canadian province of Newfoundland is renamed Newfoundland and Labrador
06 Dec 2005
Several villagers are shot dead during protests in Dongzhou China
06 Dec 2006
NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars
06 Dec 2009
98th Davis Cup Spain beats Czech Republic in Barcelona (5-0)
06 Dec 2012
7 people are killed and 770 injured during Egyptian protests
06 Dec 2012
Typhoon Bophas death toll rise to 418 with 318 missing and 179000 displaced
06 Dec 2012
A 243 million year old Nyasasaurus fossil is discovered in Tanzania
06 Dec 2013
A 2-year old boy dies from Ebola in Meliandou Guinea
06 Dec 2017
Starbucks opens its largest cafe in the world in Shanghai 30000 square-feet 12 size of a football field
06 Dec 2017
Time Magazine names their Person of the Year The Silence Breakers people who came forward to report sexual misconduct
06 Dec 2017
Skirball wildfire near Los Angeles closes the Interstate 405 as thousands forced to evacuate
06 Dec 2017
Andrej Babi is sworn as Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
06 Dec 2017
Britains top Brexit negotiator David Davis admits there has been no systematic impact assessment on effects of Brexit
06 Dec 2017
Brazilian drug lord Rogrio da Silva arrested in Rio
06 Dec 2017
Supermassive most distant black hole discovery announced by astronomers in journal Nature 13 billion light-years away 800 x bigger than the Sun
06 Dec 1917
French munition ship Mont Blanc explodes in Halifax Canada killing 1700
06 Dec 1988
Agnes Neil Williams purchases Baltimore Orioles for 70 million Eli Jacobs becomes CEO of Baltimore Orioles
06 Dec 2018
Senegals new Museum of Black Civilisations is opened in Dakar by President Macky Sall
06 Dec 2018
Luxembourg is the first country to make all public transport free
06 Dec 2018
Tennessee Titans running back Derrick Henry explodes for franchise-record 238 yards & 4 touchdowns in 30-9 win v Jacksonville Jaguars in Nashville 99-yard TD run ties Dallas Cowboys HOF RB Tony Dorsetts longest run in NFL history
06 Dec 2018
Oldest-known plague sample found in 4900-year-old remains of 20-year old woman in Gkhem southern Sweden published in Cell
06 Dec 1916
World War I The Central Powers under General Mackensen capture Bucharest
06 Dec 2019
Saudi state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco raises a record 25.6 billion in its first public share offering makes it the worlds most valuable company at 1.7 trillion
06 Dec 1960
MLB American League grants American entertainer and businessman Gene Autry a franchise Los Angeles Angels
06 Dec 1990
Shoeless Joe Jacksons signature sells at aucton for 23100
06 Dec 2020
Japanese space capsule Hayabusa-2 lands safely back on earth in Australia carrying first significant rock samples from an asteroid the Ryugu
06 Dec 2020
US President Donald Trump orders about 700 troops withdrawn from Somalia
06 Dec 1534
Quito Ecuador founded by Spanish colonists on the ruins of an Inca city
06 Dec 1865
13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified abolishing slavery (except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted) [1]
06 Dec 1884
Aluminum capstone set atop Washington Monument Washington D.C. making it the tallest human-built structure in the world (overtaking Cologne Cathedral)
06 Dec 1957
Roger Sessions 3rd Symphony premieres in Boston with Charles Munch conducting the Boston Symphony
06 Dec 1963
The Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fan club members
06 Dec 2021
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announces a COVID-19 mandate for all private employers effective December 27 to combat Omicron 1st in the country
06 Dec 1865
13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified abolishing slavery (except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted) [1]
06 Dec 1917
French munition ship SS Mont Blanc collides with Norwegian SS Imo in Halifax harbour Canada resulting explosion kills at least 1700 and injures more than 9000 people - worlds largest pre-atomic explosion [1]
06 Dec 1938
French-German friendship treaty drawn up (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact)
06 Dec 1965
2 trucks crash into a crowd of dancers in Sotouboua Togo kills 125
06 Dec 1968
Major League Baseball dismisses Commissioner William Eckert after 3 years
06 Dec 1968
PBA National Bowling Championship won by Wayne Zahn (29)
06 Dec 1968
WKID (WSCV) TV channel 51 in Fort Lauderdale Florida (IND) 1st broadcast
06 Dec 2022
Argentine Vice-president Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner found guilty of fraud sentenced to six years in prison and banned from holding office [1]
06 Dec 2022
Donald Trumps real estate company Trump Organization convicted of tax fraud in New York [1]
06 Dec 2022
Indonesia passes a new criminal code outlawing sex outside marriage even for foreigners [1]
06 Dec 2022
The 1574th - and last - Boeing 747 jumbo jet rolls off of production line in Everett Washington [1]
06 Dec 1060
Bla I is crowned King of Hungary in Szkesfehrvr
06 Dec 1160
Jean Bodels mystic play Jeu de St Nicholas premieres in Arras
06 Dec 1196
Northern Dutch coast flooded the Saint-Nicolas Flood
06 Dec 1631
Johannes Kepler is the first to predict the transit of Venus though no one observes it as it occurs after sunset in Europe
06 Dec 1865
13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified abolishing slavery except as a punishment for crime where the party has been duly convicted [1]
06 Dec 1869
Colored National Labor Union 1st Black labor convention meets at Union League Hall in Washington D.C.
06 Dec 1884
Aluminum capstone is set atop the Washington Monument in Washington D.C. making it the tallest man-made structure in the world overtaking Cologne Cathedral
06 Dec 1896
Japanese Zen Buddist D. T. Suzuki has an awakening at Engakuji temple in Kamakura
06 Dec 1925
Italy Britain and Egypt sign Jaghbub accord ceding the previous Libyan territory of Jaghbub to Egypt
06 Dec 1957
First US attempt to launch a satellite fails when the Vanguard rocket explodes
06 Dec 1967
USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
06 Dec 1994
Warner Brothers announces a 5th TV network in US to begin on Jan 11 1995
06 Dec 2006
NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor that suggest the presence of liquid water on Mars
06 Dec 2018
Oldest-known plague sample is found in 4900-year-old remains of a 20-year-old woman in Gkhem southern Sweden published in Cell
06 Dec 2023
South Fork Wind the first large-scale offshore wind farm begins supplying electricity to the US 35 miles off Montauk [1]
06 Dec 1841
Robert Schumanns Symphony No. 4 in D minor premieres
06 Dec 1876
The first cremation takes place at the LeMoyne Crematory in Washington Pennsylvania in the US the first person to be cremated is Baron de Palm
06 Dec 1928
The Banana Massacre Colombian troops fire on striking United Fruit Company workers in Cinaga killing about 1000 people
06 Dec 1941
Dutch and British pilots sight the Japanese invasion fleet heading for Singapore
06 Dec 1941
New York City Council agrees to build Idlewild Airport (now JFK) in Queens
06 Dec 1955
New York psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers wins the top prize of 64000 on the TV game show The 64000 Question with her expert knowledge of boxing a subject she initially knew little about
06 Dec 1956
Australian womens 4 100m freestyle relay team of Dawn Fraser Faith Leech Sandra Morgan and Lorraine Crapp swim world record 417.1 and beat powerful US team to win the gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics
06 Dec 1975
41st Heisman Trophy Award Archie Griffin Ohio State (RB) his second consecutive win makes him the only repeat recipient
06 Dec 1990
Baseball player Shoeless Joe Jacksons signature sells for 23100 at auction
06 Dec 1992
A large mob of Hindu activists destroys the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya India leading to an estimated 2000 deaths in the ensuing riots
06 Dec 1995
Michael Jackson collapses while rehearsing for an HBO special
06 Dec 2008
American pin-up model Bettie Page (85) is hospitalized in critical condition after suffering a heart attack
06 Dec 2017
Astronomers announce the discovery of the most distant supermassive black hole ULAS J13420928 13.1 billion light-years away with a mass about 800 million times that of the Sun in the journal Nature
06 Dec 2017
Starbucks largest cafe at 30000 square feet and half the size of a football field opens in Shanghai China
06 Dec 2018
Tennessee Titans running back Derrick Henry explodes for franchise-record 238 yards and four touchdowns in 30-9 win v Jacksonville Jaguars in Nashville 99-yard TD run ties Dallas Cowboys HOF RB Tony Dorsetts longest run in NFL history
06 Dec 2018
The discovery of the oldest-known plague sample found in 4900-year-old remains of a 20-year-old woman in Gkhem southern Sweden is published in Cell
06 Dec 2022
The 1574th and last Boeing 747 jumbo jet rolls off the production line in Everett Washington [1]
06 Dec 2023
South Fork Wind the first large-scale offshore wind farm begins supplying electricity to the US 35 miles off Montauk [1]