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
- 1534 –The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.
- 1768 –The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
- 1790 –The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1865 –The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery.
- 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”.
- 1907 –A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia kills 362 workers.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1971 –Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India following New Delhi’s recognition of Bangladesh.
- 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.
- 1988 –The Australian Capital Territory is granted self-government.
- 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.
- 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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