About December 6
December 6, 2022 is the 340th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 25 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 47 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.
- 1240 –Mongol invasion of Rus': Kiev under Danylo of Halych and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
- 1704 –Battle of Chamkaur.
- 1877 –The first edition of the Washington Post 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”.
- 1897 –London becomes the world’s first city to host licensed taxicabs.
- 1917 –Halifax Explosion: In Canada, a munitions explosion kills more than 1,900 people and destroys part of the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- 1917 –World War I: USS Jacob Jones is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine ship SM.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1957 –Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.
- 1967 –Adrian Kantrowitz performed the first human heart transplant in the United States.
- 1978 –Spain approves its latest constitution in a referendum.
- 1988 –The Australian Capital Territory is granted self-government.
- 1991 –In Croatia, forces of the Yugoslav People’s Army bombard Dubrovnik after laying siege to the city since May.
- 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.
- 2006 –NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
- 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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