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December 6December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 25 days remaining. ==Events== *963 - Leo VIII is elected pope. *1240 - Kiev falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan. *1534 - Spain found Quito, Ecuador. *1768 - First edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published. *1790 - Congress of the United States moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1849 - Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery. *1865 - Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery. *1877 - First publication of the Washington Post *1884 - Washington Monument completed. *1917 - Finland declares its independence from Russia. *1917 - Halifax explosion kills more than 1900 people, destroys part of the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. *1921 - The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed in London by British and Irish representatives *1922 - One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty the Irish Free State comes into existence. *1933 - Federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James Joyce novel ''Ulysses (novel)'' is not obscene *1947 - Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated. *1957 - A launchpad explosion thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite (Project Vanguard). *1969 - The Rolling Stones' Altamont Disaster rock festival *1977 - South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana - not recognized by any other country *1978 - Spain approves Spanish Constitution of 1978 in a referendum. *1989 - The École Polytechnique Massacre: a man kills 14 young women in Montreal, Quebec. *1992 - In Ayodhya, India, right-wing Hinduism belonging to the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party and allied organisations demolish the Babri Mosque, a 16th century mosque, which they claim was built upon the birth place of Rama. *1996 - ''Daylight (movie)'' is released, starring Sylvester Stallone. *1997 - A Russian Antonov AN-124 transport cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67 *1999 - Digitally Imported, one of the largest internet radio stations dedicated to electronic dance music, is started by Ari Shohat. ==Fictional events== *1973 - Susie Salmon slain in Norristown, Pennsylvania, in Alice Sebold's ''The Lovely Bones''. ==Births== *846 - Hasan al-Askari, Shia Imam (d. 874) *1285 - King Ferdinand IV of Castile (d. 1312) *1421 - King Henry VI of England (d. 1471) *1478 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian diplomat and author (d. 1529) *1586 - Niccoli Zucchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1670) *1731 - Sophie von La Roche, German author (d. 1807) *1778 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, physicist and chemist (d. 1850) *1805 - Adolf Reubke, organ builder (d. 1875) *1805 - Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, French magician (d. 1861) *1823 - Max_Müller, German Orientalist (d. 1900) *1833 - John Singleton Mosby, American Confederate guerrilla leader (d. 1916) *1849 - August von Mackensen, German Field Marshal (d. 1945) *1863 - Charles Martin Hall, chemist (d. 1914) *1872 - William S. Hart, actor (d. 1946) *1875 - Evelyn Underhill, English poet (d. 1941) *1886 - Joyce Kilmer, poet (d. 1918) *1887 - Lynne Fontanne, actress (d. 1983) *1890 - Rudolf Schlichter, painter, graphic artist, and writer (d. 1955) *1892 - Lina Carstens, actress (d. 1978) *1892 - Sir Osbert Sitwell, English author (d. 1969) *1896 - Ira Gershwin, lyricist (d. 1983) *1898 - Alfred Eisenstaedt, photojournalist (d. 1995) *1900 - Agnes Moorehead, actress (d. 1974) *1903 - Tony Lazzeri, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1946) *1905 - James J. Braddock, boxer (d. 1974) *1908 - Pierre Graber, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 2003) *1913 - Eleanor Holm - American swimmer (d. 2004) *1914 - Walter W. Kelley, President of ACR *1917 - Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze (d. 1977) *1920 - Dave Brubeck, jazz musician *1921 - Otto Graham, American football player (d. 2003) *1928 - Bobby Van, singer (d. 1980) *1929 - Alain Tanner, Swiss film-maker *1929 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt, German conductor *1933 - Henryk Górecki, composer *1936 - David Ossman, comedian *1942 - Peter Handke, author, playwright *1948 - JoBeth Williams, actress *1953 - Tom Hulce, actor * 1953 - Gary Ward, baseball player *1955 - Steven Wright, comedian *1956 - Randy Rhodes, musician *1956 - Peter Buck, musician *1958 - Nick Park, film-maker and animator *1958 - Xander Berkeley, actor *1962 - Janine Turner, actress *1971 - Ryan White, AIDS activist (d. 1990) *1993 - Elián González, Cuban refugee ==Deaths== *1185 - Afonso I of Portugal *1352 - Pope Clement VI *1562 - Jan van Scorel Dutch painter/architect *1718 - Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (b. 1674) *1779 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (b. 1699) *1868 - August Schleicher, linguist *1882 - Anthony Trollope, English author *1889 - Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808) *1892 - Werner von Siemens, German inventor and industrialist *1949 - Leadbelly, blues musician *1951 - Harold Ross, American magazine editor (b. 1892) *1955 - Honus Wagner, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1874) *1956 - Ambedkar, Indian lawyer and Minister of Law *1961 - Frantz Fanon, psychiatrist and writer *1976 - João Goulart, President of Brazil (b. 1918) *1985 - Burr Tillstrom, puppeteer *1988 - Roy Orbison, American musician (b. 1936) *1989 - Frances Bavier, actress *1993 - Don Ameche, American actor *1997 - Billy Bremner, footballer *2000 - Werner Klemperer, actor (b. 1920) *2001 - Gerhard Löwenthal, journalist * 2001 - Sir Peter Blake (yachtsman), yachtsman *2002 - Philip Berrigan, civil rights activist *2002 - Charles Rosen, pioneer in artificial intelligence *2003 - Jose-Maria Jimenez, cyclist *2003 - Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala *2003 - Jerry Tuite, professional wrestler (b. 1966) *2004 - Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach ===Undated deaths=== *Saint Nicholas of Myra ==Holidays and observances== *Independence day in Finland *Spain Spanish Constitution of 1978 *Canada: National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women *Saint Nicholas (Santa Claus) Day in some European, mostly Roman Catholic, countries, and as ''Sinterklaas'' in southern parts of The Netherlands (see December 5) == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/6 BBC: On This Day] ---- December 5 - December 7 - November 6 - January 6 -- historical anniversaries la:6 Decembris December 6--User:Maveric149 00:55, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC) MediaWiki:December 6 selected anniversaries - MediaWiki talk:December 6 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=MediaWiki:December_6_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- !!!!it's very strange: BEETHOVEN (composer)was born on the 6th and on the 17th december 1770!!!!! == I got some information if you want to work with it. == The Washington Monument Theodor Horydczak on top of Washington Monument, between 1920 and 1950. Washington as It Was, 1923-1959 On December 6, 1884, workers placed the 3,300 pound marble capstone on the Washington Monument, and topped it with a nine-inch pyramid of cast aluminum, completing construction of the 555-foot Egyptian obelisk. Nearly fifty years earlier, the Washington National Monument Society choose Robert Mills's design to honor first American president and founding father George Washington. The privately-funded organization laid the monument's cornerstone on Independence Day, 1848, in Washington, D.C. For 20 years, lack of funds and loss of support for the Washington National Monument Society left the obelisk incomplete at a height of about 156 feet. Finally, in 1876, President Ulysses Grant authorized the federal government to finish construction. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took over the project two years later. Washington Monument at Sunset, between 1920 and 1950. Theodor Horydczak, photographer Washington as It Was, 1923-1959 Day and night, spring through winter, the Washington Monument is a focal point of the National Mall and a center of celebrations including concerts and the annual Independence Day fireworks display. The observation deck affords spectacular panoramic views of the nation's capital. When fully constructed, the Washington Monument was the world's tallest structure. Today, the approximately 36,000 stacked blocks of granite and marble compose the world's tallest freestanding masonry structure. In a city of monuments, locals refer to the obelisk as "The Monument." By mandate, it will remain the tallest structure in Washington, D.C., dominating the skyline and accenting Pierre-Charles L'Enfant's plan for the city. There are many images of Washington, D.C. in American Memory. Search across the pictorial collections on Washington Monument to locate photographs taken from every vantage point. 192 commemorative stones line the interior walls of the Washington Monument. Read President Calvin Coolidge's speech at the Dedication of the New Mexico Stone in the Washington Monument on December 2, 1927—one of many Coolidge addresses available in Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929. Take a spin to the strains of the "Washington Monument Waltz," published in Washington D.C. in 1885. Search the collection Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 on Washington Monument. Salmon P. Chase Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, between 1860 and 1865. Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865 On December 6, 1864, Abraham Lincoln appointed Salmon P. Chase chief justice of the United States. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Chase studied law under Attorney General William Wirt. Championing Sunday Schools and temperance in the 1830s, by the 1840s he was an active member of the abolitionist movement. Chase defended fugitive slaves in Ohio and played a key role in creating the Free Soil Party, which opposed the expansion of slavery into the territories. With Free Soil support, Chase was elected to the Senate in 1848. He founded the Ohio Republican party and served as the state's first Republican governor from 1855 to 1859. In office, he vigorously opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act and defended the rights of African Americans. At the 1860 Republican convention, Chase permitted delegates pledged to support him to cast decisive votes for Abraham Lincoln. As a reward, in 1861, just two days after beginning his second term as senator, Chase left the Senate to serve as Lincoln's secretary of the treasury. In 1864, Lincoln named Chase the sixth chief justice. During his time on the bench, Chase presided over the Senate's impeachment trial and acquittal of President Andrew Johnson. Chase continued to support African Americans. He drafted the first two clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. Signed into law in 1868, the amendment extended citizenship rights to all people born or naturalized in the United States. In a letter to the Colored People's Educational Monument Association, Chase asserted: Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad basis of universal suffrage. It has proved, also, that universal suffrage is the surest broad basis of universal guarantee and most powerful stimulus of individual, social, and political progress. May it not prove, moreover, in that work of re-organization which now engages the thoughts of all patriotic men, that universal suffrage is the best reconciler of the most comprehensive lenity with the most perfect public security and the most speedy and certain revival of general prosperity? Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the United States to Wm. Syphax and John F. Cook, Committee Celebration by the Colored People's Educational Monument Association in Memory of Abraham Lincoln…, 1865. African American Perspectives, 1818-1907 Chase suffered a stroke and died on May 7, 1873. He was honored with a formal state funeral and is buried in Washington, D.C. Learn more: Read "Address and Reply on the Presentation of A Testimonial to S. P. Chase." This 1845 document from African American Perspectives records a ceremony honoring Chase for his defense of escaped slave Samuel Watson. For a less-than-flattering review of Chase's performance on the campaign trail read page 92 of H. P. Hall's Observations. A prominent Minnesota journalist, Harlan Page Hall's memoir is available through the collection Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910. Today in History features on Plessy V. Ferguson, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, The Selma March, and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. place the Civil Rights Movement in context. See other meanings of words starting from letter: DDA | DB | DC | DE | DF | DG | DH | DI | DJ | DK | DL | DM | DN | DO | DP | DR | DS | DT | DU | DW | DX | DY | DZ |Words begining with December_6: December_6 December_6 December_6th December_6_selected_anniversaries December_6_selected_anniversaries
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