About December 6
December 6, 2024 is the 341st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 25 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 54 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 6
- 1534 –The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.
- 1704 –Battle of Chamkaur.
- 1745 –Charles Edward Stuart’s army begins retreat during the second Jacobite Rising.
- 1768 –The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica 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 licensed taxicabs.
- 1907 –A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia kills 362 workers.
- 1921 –The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.
- 1922 –One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence.
- 1928 –The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
- 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.
- 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 Senate confirmed him 92 to 3).
- 1975 –Balcombe Street Siege: An IRA Active Service Unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street, London.
- 1978 –Spain approves its latest constitution in a referendum.
- 1997 –A Russian Antonov An-124 cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.
- 2005 –An Iranian Air Force C-130 military transport aircraft crashes into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of Tehran, killing all 84 on board and 44 more civilians.
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