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
- 1060 –Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary.
- 1534 –The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.
- 1790 –The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1877 –Thomas Edison, using his new phonograph, makes one of the earliest recordings of a human voice, reciting “Mary Had a Little Lamb”.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 USSR takes place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, against the backdrop of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
- 1969 –Meredith Hunter is killed by the Hells Angels during a The Rolling Stones’s concert at the Altamont Speedway in California.
- 1975 –Balcombe Street Siege: An IRA Active Service Unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street, London.
- 1982 –Droppin Well bombing: The Irish National Liberation Army detonate a bomb in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, killing eleven British soldiers and six civilians.
- 1991 –In Croatia, forces of the Yugoslav People’s Army bombard Dubrovnik after laying siege to the city since May.
- 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 –Several villagers are shot dead during protests in Dongzhou, China.
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