About December 6
December 6, 2023 is the 340th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 25 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 66 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 6
- 1240 –Mongol invasion of Rus': Kiev under Danylo of Halych and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
- 1534 –The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.
- 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 –The first edition of the Washington Post is published.
- 1884 –The Washington Monument in Washington D.C. is completed.
- 1916 –World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
- 1933 –U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James Joyce’s novel Ulysses is not obscene.
- 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.
- 1965 –Pakistan’s Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduate level.
- 1967 –Adrian Kantrowitz performed the first human heart transplant in the United States.
- 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.
- 1977 –South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country.
- 1978 –Spain approves its latest constitution in a referendum.
- 1991 –In Croatia, forces of the Yugoslav People’s Army bombard Dubrovnik after laying siege to the city since May.
- 1997 –A Russian Antonov An-124 cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.
- 2006 –NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
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