About December 6
December 6, 2020 is the 341st day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 25 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 68 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 6
- 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”.
- 1745 –Charles Edward Stuart’s army begins retreat during the second Jacobite Rising.
- 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.
- 1907 –A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia kills 362 workers.
- 1917 –Halifax Explosion: In Canada, a munitions explosion kills more than 1,900 people and destroys part of the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- 1941 –World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War.
- 1957 –Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.
- 1965 –Pakistan’s Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduate level.
- 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.
- 1982 –Droppin Well bombing: The Irish National Liberation Army detonate 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.
- 1992 –The Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, India is demolished, leading to widespread riots causing the death of over 1500 people.
- 2001 –The Canadian province of Newfoundland is renamed Newfoundland and Labrador.
- 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.
- 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.
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