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DECEMBER 6, 1957
The first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite failed with an explosion on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.
Vanguard TV-3, was the first attempt of the United States to launch a satellite into orbit around the Earth, after the successful Read More
DECEMBER 6, 1942
The Holocaust: Members of German Ordnungspolizei massacred 31 people in occupied Poland for helping Jews.
The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah (שואה), was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Read More
DECEMBER 6, 1865
Slavery in the United States was officially abolished when the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.
The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States Read More
DECEMBER 6, 1803
Haitian Revolution: Nearly all the final French ships in Haiti were captured by the Royal Navy when they attempted to evade the blockade of Saint-Domingue.
The Haitian Revolution was a successful insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti. Read More
DECEMBER 6, 1907
A mine explosion in Monongah, West Virginia, killed 362 people and led to the establishment of the United States Bureau of Mines.
The Monongah mining disaster was a coal mine explosion on December 6, 1907, at Fairmont Coal Company's Nos. 6 and 8 mines in Read More
DECEMBER 6, 2017
Under President Donald Trump, the United States government officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member Read More
DECEMBER 6, 1941
The British Secret Intelligence Service established a facility known as Camp X (pictured) in Ontario, Canada, to train covert agents in clandestine operations.
The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6, is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the Read More
DECEMBER 6, 1912
The Nefertiti Bust, listed among the "Top 10 Plundered Artifacts" by Time, was found in Amarna, Egypt, before being taken to Germany.
The Nefertiti Bust is a painted stucco-coated limestone bust of Nefertiti, the Great Royal Wife of Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten. It is on Read More
DECEMBER 6, 1975
Four members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army took two people hostage in a house on Balcombe Street in London, surrendering six days later.
The Provisional Irish Republican Army, officially known as the Irish Republican Army and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican Read More
DECEMBER 6, 1988
Self-government was granted to the Australian Capital Territory.
The history of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) as a separate administrative division began in 1911, when the land that would comprise Read More
DECEMBER 6, 1933
In United States v. One Book Called Ulysses Judge John M. Woolsey ruled that James Joyce's novel Ulysses was not obscene, allowing it to be imported into the United States.
United States v. One Book Called Ulysses, 5 F. Supp. 182, affirmed in United States v. One Book Entitled Ulysses by James Read More
DECEMBER 6, 1060
Béla I (pictured) was crowned King of Hungary in Székesfehérvár.
Béla I the Boxer or the Wisent was King of Hungary from 1060 until his death. He descended from a younger branch Read More
DECEMBER 6, 1967
American physician Adrian Kantrowitz and his team performed the world's first pediatric heart transplant at Maimonides Medical Center in New York City.
Adrian Kantrowitz was an American cardiac surgeon whose team performed the world's second heart transplant attempt at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, Read More
DECEMBER 6, 1992
The Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, India, was demolished by Hindu Kar Sevaks, who believed that it was built on the birthplace of Rama.
The Babri Masjid was a mosque located in Ayodhya, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It was claimed that the mosque Read More
DECEMBER 6, 1846
Mexican–American War: American and Mexican forces clashed at the Battle of San Pasqual, a series of skirmishes near San Diego, California.
The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War, and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Read More
DECEMBER 6, 1990
An Italian Air Force military jet, abandoned by its pilot after an on-board fire, crashed into a high school near Bologna, killing 12 students and injuring 88 other people.
The Italian Air Force is the air force of the Italian Republic. The Italian Air Force was founded as an independent service Read More
DECEMBER 6, 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.
World War I or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Read More
DECEMBER 6, 1240
After days of bombardment, Mongol invaders under Batu Khan breached the walls of Kiev and sacked the city.
The Mongol Empire invaded and conquered much of Kievan Rus' in the mid-13th century, sacking numerous cities such as Ryazan, Yaroslavl, Pereyaslavl Read More
DECEMBER 6, 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.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the music recording industry in the United States. Its Read More
DECEMBER 6, 1917
A ship carrying TNT and picric acid in Halifax Harbour, Canada, caught fire after a collision and caused one of the largest accidental explosions in history (pictured).
Trinitrotoluene, more commonly known as TNT (and more specifically 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene, and by its preferred IUPAC name 2-methyl-1,3,5-trinitrobenzene), is a chemical compound with Read More
DECEMBER 6, 2015
In the Venezuelan parliamentary election, the ruling United Socialist Party lost control of the National Assembly for the first time in 16 years.
Parliamentary elections were held in Venezuela on 6 December 2015 to elect the 164 deputies and three indigenous representatives of the National Read More
DECEMBER 6, 1904
President Theodore Roosevelt announced the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, justifying the exercise of "international police power" by the U.S. in the Western Hemisphere.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., also known as Teddy or T. R., was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. Read More

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