About December 6
December 6, 2025 is the 340th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 25 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 73 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.
- 1534 –The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.
- 1877 –Thomas Edison, using his new phonograph, makes one of the earliest recordings of a human voice, reciting “Mary Had a Little Lamb”.
- 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.
- 1921 –The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.
- 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.
- 1965 –Pakistan’s Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduate level.
- 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.
- 1975 –Balcombe Street Siege: An IRA Active Service Unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street, London.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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