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Nefertiti Bust
Bust of Béla I of Hungary
Encyclopædia Britannica
The failed Vanguard TV-3 now in a museum
Sebastian de Belalcazar
Flag of the Australian Capital Territory
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Constitution Day in Spain
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1534 – Over 200 Spanish settlers led by conquistador
Sebastián de Belalcázar founded what is now
Quito , Ecuador.
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1922 – Per the terms of the
Anglo-Irish Treaty signed exactly one year previous, establishing the
Irish Free State , the first independent Irish state to be recognised by the British government.
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1953 –
Vladimir Nabokov completed his controversial novel
Lolita five years after starting it.
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1969 – The
Altamont Free Concert was held in California, an event marred by considerable violence, including one homicide and three accidental deaths.
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1995 –
Khabarovsk United Air Group Flight 3949 crashed into
Bo-Dzhausa Mountain in Russia, killing all ninety-eight people aboard.
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2005 – Members of the
People's Armed Police
shot and killed several people in
Dongzhou, Guangdong , China, who were protesting government plans to build a new power plant.
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963 –
Pope Leo VIII began his papacy as
antipope of Rome.
1847 –
Mexican–American War : American and Mexican forces clashed at the
Battle of San Pasqual , a series of skirmishes near
San Diego, California .
1865 –
Slavery in the United States was officially abolished when the
Thirteenth Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution was ratified.
1907 – At least 362 miners were killed when an explosion
destroyed a mine in
Monongah, West Virginia , leading to the establishment of the
United States Bureau of Mines .
1912 – The
Nefertiti Bust , listed among the "Top 10 Plundered Artifacts" by
Time magazine, was found in
Amarna , Egypt, before being taken to Germany.
1917 – A ship in
Halifax Harbour ,
Nova Scotia , Canada, carrying
TNT and
picric acid caught fire after a collision with another ship and
caused the
second-largest man-made accidental explosion in history.
1917 –
World War I :
USS Jacob Jones became the first American
destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it was
torpedoed by German submarine
SM U-53 .
1928 – At the behest of the United States, the
Colombian Army
violently suppressed a month-long strike by
United Fruit Company workers.
1941 – The British
Secret Intelligence Service established a facility known as "
Camp X " in
Ontario , Canada, to train covert agents in
clandestine operations .
1942 –
The Holocaust : Members of German
Ordnungspolizei
massacred 31 people in
occupied Poland for helping Jews.
1956 – At the
Melbourne Olympics , 14-year-old swimmer
Sandra Morgan became the youngest Australian to win an Olympic gold medal.
1956 – In what became known as the
"Blood in the Water" match at the
Melbourne Olympics , the
Hungarian water polo team defeated the
USSR 4–0 against the background of the
Hungarian Revolution .
1957 – The first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite failed with
an explosion on the
launch pad at
Cape Canaveral .
1967 – American physician
Adrian Kantrowitz and his team performed the world's first pediatric
heart transplant at
Maimonides Medical Center in New York City.
1982 – The
Irish National Liberation Army
exploded a time bomb in
Ballykelly , Northern Ireland, killing eleven British Army soldiers and six civilians.
1988 – The
Australian Capital Territory
was granted self-government.
1989 – Claiming to be "fighting feminism", 25-year-old
Marc Lépine
killed fourteen women before committing suicide at the
École Polytechnique in
Montreal , Canada.
1992 – The
Babri Masjid in
Ayodhya , India, was
demolished by Hindu
Kar Sevaks , who believed that it was built on the birthplace of
Rama .
1999 – The
Recording Industry Association of America filed
a lawsuit against the
peer-to-peer file sharing network
Napster , alleging that the service facilitated widespread
copyright infringement .
2005 – An Iranian
Lockheed C-130 transport aircraft
crashed into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of
Tehran , killing over 100 people.
2015 – In
Venezuela's parliamentary election , the ruling
United Socialist Party lost control of the
National Assembly for the first time since 1999.
Born/died: |
Jan van Scorel |d|1562|
Marie Adélaïde of Savoy |b|1685|
Nicholas Rowe |d|1718|
Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes |b|1721|
William Arnott |b|1827|
Hara Prasad Shastri |b|1853|
Mary Margaret O'Reilly |d|1949|
Satoru Iwata |b|1959
Notes
December 6 :
Saint Nicholas Day (Western Christianity);
Independence Day in Finland (
1917 )
Theodore Roosevelt