On this day in History - Dec. 6

• 0343 - Saint Nicholas
• 0846 - Hasan al-Askari was born (d. 0874). Shia Imam
• 0963 - Leo VIII is elected pope.
• 1185 - King Afonso I of Portugal dies (b. 1109)
• 1240 - Mongol invasion of Rus: Kiev under Danylo of Halych and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
• 1285 - King Ferdinand IV of Castile was born (d. 1312).
• 1352 - Pope Clement VI dies (b. 1291)
• 1383 - D. João, mestre de Avis, matou o conde Andeiro, nos aposentos da Rainha, no Paço de Lisboa, dando início ao período revolucionário que acabará em 1385, e o levou ao trono enquanto D. João I.
• 1421 - King Henry VI of England was born (d. 1471)
• 1478 - Baldassare Castiglione was born (d. 1529). Italian diplomat and author.
• 1534 - The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.
• 1537 - D.Duarte de Meneses was born. 15th vice-King of Índia.
• 1550 - Orazio Vecchi was born (baptism) (d. 1605). Italian composer.
• 1562 - Jan van Scorel dies. Dutch painter and architect
• 1586 - Niccolo Zucchi was born (d. 1670). Italian astronomer
• 1608 - George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle was born (d. 1670). English general.
• 1618 - Jacques-Davy Duperron dies (b. 1556). French cardinal.
• 1637 - Sir Edmund Andros was born (d. 1714). English governor in North America.
• 1640 - Claude Fleury was born (d. 1723). French historian.
• 1640 - Matthijs Elsevier dies. Flemish-Dutch book publisher and merchant.
• 1642 - Johann Christoph Bach was born (d. 1703). German composer.
• 1658 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales dies (b. 1601). Spanish writer.
• 1672 - King John II Casimir of Poland dies (b. 1609)
• 1675 - John Lightfoot dies (b. 1602). English churchman.
• 1718 - Nicholas Rowe dies (b. 1674). English poet and dramatist.
• 1721 - James Elphinston was born (d. 1809). British philologist.
• 1721 - Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes was born (d. 1794). French statesman.
• 1743 - Franz Nikolaus Novotny was born. Composer.
• 1746 - Lady Grizel Baillie dies (b. 1665). Scottish songwriter.
• 1768 - The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
• 1771 - Giovanni Battista Morgagni dies (b. 1682). Italian anatomist.
• 1778 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac was born (d. 1850). French physicist and chemist.
• 1779 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin dies (b. 1699). French painter.
• 1788 - Jonathan Shipley dies (b. 1714). British bishop and politician.
• 1790 - The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 1792 - King William II of the Netherlands was born (d. 1849)
• 1805 - Adolf Reubke was born (d. 1875). German organ builder
• 1805 - Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin was born (d. 1861). French magician.
• 1812 - Robert Spear Hudson was born (d. 1884). English businessman.
• 1820 - James Monroe, the 5th US president, was elected for a 2nd term.
• 1823 - Friedrich Max Müller was born (d. 1900). German orientalist.
• 1829 - Augusto César de Lacerda was born (d. 1903). Portuguese theatre author.
• 1833 - John Singleton Mosby was born (d. 1916). American Confederate guerrilla leader.
• 1841 - Frédéric Bazille was born (d. 1870). French painter.
• 1845 - Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity is founded at Yale College.
• 1848 - Manuel Isidoro Belzu Humerez devient le dizième Président de la République de Bolivie.
• 1849 - August von Mackensen was born (d. 1945). German Field Marshal.
• 1849 - American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.
• 1862 - President Lincoln ordered the hanging of 39 of the 303 convicted Indians who participated in the Sioux Uprising in Minnesota.
• 1863 - Charles Martin Hall was born (d. 1914). American chemist.
• 1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery.
• 1867 - Jean Pierre Flourens dies (b. 1794). French physician.
• 1868 - August Schleicher dies (b. 1821). German linguist.
• 1872 - William S. Hart was born (d. 1946). American actor
• 1875 - Evelyn Underhill was born (d. 1941). British poet.
• 1876 - Fred Duesenberg was born (d. 1932). German-born automobile pioneer.
• 1877 - The Washington Post newspaper is first published.
• 1878 - Iosef Vissarionóvich Djugashvili (Josef Stalin) nasceu em 6 de dezembro de 1878 segundo algumas fontes e não em em 21 de dezembro de 1879, a data oficial - numa cabana em Gori, na Geórgia, uma província no Cáucaso.
• 1879 - Erastus Brigham Bigelow dies (b. 1814). American industrialist.
• 1882 - Anthony Trollope dies (b. 1815). British author.
• 1882 - Alfred Escher dies (b. 1819). Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur.
• 1884 - The Washington Monument in Washington D.C. is completed.
• 1884 - Construction of the Washington Monument was completed.
• 1886 - Joyce Kilmer was born (d. 1886). American poet.
• 1887 - Lynn Fontanne was born in London. Anglo-American actress (Lunt and Fontanne)
• 1887 - Joseph Lamb was born (d. 1960). American ragtime composer.
• 1889 - Jefferson Davis dies (b. 1808). President of the Confederate States of America
• 1890 - Rudolf Schlichter was born (d. 1955). German artist and writer.
• 1890 - Yoshio Nishina was born (d. 1951). Japanese physicist.
• 1890 - Dion Fortune was born (d. 1946). British occultist.
• 1892 - Sir Osbert Sitwell was born (d. 1969). British author.
• 1892 - Ernst Werner von Siemens dies (b. 1816). German inventor and industrialist.
• 1895 - Renato Almeida was born. Brazilian musicologist.
• 1896 - Ira Gershwin was born (d. 1983). American lyricist.
• 1897 - London becomes the world's first city to host motorised taxi cabs.
• 1898 - Alfred Eisenstaedt was born (d. 1995). German-born American photojournalist.
• 1898 - Gunnar Myrdal was born (d. 1987). Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1974.
• 1900 - Agnes Moorehead was born (d. 1974). American actress.
• 1903 - Tony Lazzeri was born (d. 1946). American baseball player.
• 1904 - Ève Curie was born (d. 2007). French writer.
• 1905 - James J. Braddock was born (d. 1974). American boxer and World Heavyweight Champion.
• 1907 - A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia kills 362 workers.
• 1908 - François Antoine Simon becomes President of Haiti.
• 1908 - Pierre Graber was born (d. 2003). Swiss Federal Councilor
• 1908 - Baby Face Nelson was born (d. 1934). American bank robber.
• 1911 - Oneyda Alvarenga was born in Varginga, Minas Gerais (d. 23 Feb 1984). Brazilian writer and ethnomusicologist.
• 1913 - Eleanor Holm was born (d. 2004). American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist.
• 1913 - In Lisbon (Portugal) The Politeama Theater is inaugurated.
• 1916 - Bucharest was captured by the Central Powers
• 1916 - David Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister of United Kingdom.
• 1916 - Kristján Eldjárn was born (d. 1982). Curator at the National Museum of Iceland and 3rd president of Iceland.
• 1916 - Hugo Peretti was born (d. 1986). American songwriter and record producer.
• 1917 - Kamal Jumblatt was born (d. 1977). Leader of the Lebanese Druze.
• 1917 - Finland declares its independence from Russia.
• 1917 - Halifax Explosion: In Canada, A munitions explosion kills more than 1900 people and destroys part of the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
• 1919 - Paul de Man was born (d. 1983). Belgian-born literary critic.
• 1920 - Dave Brubeck was born. American pianist and composer.
• 1920 - George Porter was born (d. 2002). British chemist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1921 - Otto Graham was born (d. 2003). American football player.
• 1921 - Piero Piccioni was born (d. 2004). Italian musician and composer.
• 1921 - The Anglo-Irish Treaty is 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.
• 1922 - General Electric's Utica Gas and Electric Company plant becomes the first commercial carrier of electricity.
• 1920 - George Porter was born (d. 2002). British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1921 - Otto Graham was born (d. 2003). American football player.
• 1921 - Piero Piccioni was born (d. 2004). Italian musician and composer.
• 1922 - John Henry Cound Brunt was born (d. 1944). Victoria Cross holder.
• 1923 - A presidential address was broadcast on the radio for the first time when Calvin Coolidge spoke before Congress.
• 1923 - Urbano Tavares Rodrigues was born. Portuguese writer.
• 1924 - Wally Cox was born (d. 1973). American actor.
• 1924 - Gene Stratton-Porter dies (b. 1863). American author, screenwriter and naturalist.
• 1925 - Alves dos Reis foi preso, acusado de falsificar notas de 500 escudos, o que dará origem ao processo judicial conhecido como a «Grande Burla».
• 1928 - Bobby Van was born (d. 1980). American singer.
• 1929 - Alain Tanner was born. Swiss filmmaker.
• 1929 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt was born. German conductor.
• 1929 - Frank Springer was born. American comics artist.
• 1929 - Osvaldo Ferreira de Melo was born in Florianapolis. Brazilian poet and musicologist.
• 1929 - Women win rights to vote in Turkey.
• 1930 - Daniel Lisulo was born. Prime Minister of Zambia
• 1931 - Don King was born. American Boxing Promoter.
• 1931 - Zeki Müren was born (d. 1996). Turkish actor, singer, and composer.
• 1932 - Foi admitida na Maternidade Dr. Alfredo da Costa a primeira grávida, chamava-se Glória Virgínia, tinha 18 anos, era natural de Tomar, coube-lhe o boletim nº1, viria a parir um rapaz com 3,500 Kg no dia 23 de Janeiro de 1933.Vidé História da Maternidade Dr. Alfredo da Costa.
• 1933 - Henryk Górecki was born. Polish composer
• 1933 - António Augusto Chaby Pinheiro was born. Portuguese actor.
• 1933 - U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James Joyce novel Ulysses is not obscene.
• 1935 - Jean Lapointe was born. Quebec comedian, singer and senator
• 1935 - Dessye palace, Ethiopia, is destroyed by Italian air raid.
• 1935 - Félix Pacheco dies (b. 1879). Brazilian journalist, writer and poet.
• 1936 - David Ossman was born. American comedian
• 1937 - Alberto Spencer was born (d. 2006). Ecuadorian footballer.
• 1939 - Liv Ullman was born. Swedish actress.
• 1940 - Lawrence Bergman was born. Quebec politician
• 1941 - The Manhattan Project is formed in Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California. Its aim is to develop an atomic bomb.
• 1941 - John Nelson was born in San José, Costa Rica. Conductor (Les Troyens of Berlioz).
• 1941 - Richard Speck was born (d. 1991). American mass murderer.
• 1942 - Peter Handke was born. Austrian writer.
• 1945 - Dan Harrington was born. American poker player.
• 1945 - Larry Bowa was born. American baseball player.
• 1945 - Shekhar Kapur was born. Indian filmmaker.
• 1946 - Emílio Santiago was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1947 - The Everglades National Park in Florida, USA is dedicated.
• 1947 - Lawrence Cannon was born. Canadian politician
• 1948 - JoBeth Williams was born. American actress
• 1948 - Keke Rosberg was born. Finnish race car driver and Formula 1 World Champion.
• 1948 - Marius Müller-Westernhagen was born. German actor and musician.
• 1949 - Leadbelly (Huddie William Ledbetter) dies (b. 1885). American blues musician.
• 1949 - Linda Creed was born. American songwriter.
• 1949 - Doug Marlette was born. American editorial cartoonist.
• 1949 - Joaquim Soeiro Pereira Gomes dies (b. 14 Apr 1909). Portuguese (neo-realist) writer (Esteiros)
• 1950 - Paul Eugène Magloire becomes President of Haiti.
• 1950 - Joe Hisaishi was born. Japanese composer
• 1951 - Harold Ross dies (b. 1892). American magazine editor.
• 1952 - Rick Charlesworth was born. Australian cricketer, politician, hockey player, and coach
• 1952 - Craig Newmark was born. Founder of craigslist
• 1953 - Tom Hulce was born. American actor
• 1953 - Gary Ward was born. American baseball player
• 1954 - António Feio was born in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), Mozambique. Portuguese actor.
• 1955 - Rick Buckler was born. British drummer (The Jam)
• 1955 - Steven Wright was born. American comedian
• 1955 - Honus Wagner dies (b. 1874). American baseball player.
• 1956 - The water polo Blood In The Water match between Hungary and the former USSR took place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, representative of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
• 1956 - Peter Buck was born. American guitarist (R.E.M.)
• 1956 - Randy Rhoads was born (d. 1982). American guitarist.
• 1956 - Dr. Bhimji Ramji Ambedkar dies (b. 1891). Indian Minister of Law and architect of The Constitution of India.
• 1957 - Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite.
• 1957 - Adrian Borland was born (d. 1999). English musician (The Sound).
• 1958 - Xander Berkeley was born. American actor
• 1958 - Nick Park was born. British filmmaker and animator.
• 1959 - Satoru Iwata was born. President and CEO of Nintendo
• 1961 - David Lovering was born. American drummer (the Pixies)
• 1961 - Frantz Fanon dies (b. 1925). West Indian psychiatrist and writer
• 1962 - Janine Turner was born. American actress.
• 1963 - Ulrich Thomsen was born. Danish actor
• 1964 - Consuelo Vanderbilt dies (b. 1877). Duchess of Marlborough, English aristocrat.
• 1965 - Pakistan's Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduation level.
• 1967 - Hacken Lee was born. Hong Kong singer
• 1969 - Meredith Hunter is killed by Hell's Angels during The Rolling Stones's concert at the Altamont speedway in California.
• 1970 - Éric Lemieux was born. Quebec keyboardist (La Chicane).
• 1970 - Ulf Ekberg was born. Swedish musician (Ace of Base).
• 1971 - India recognized the Democratic Republic of Bangladesh and Pakistan broke off diplomatic relations. Bangladesh became independent from Pakistan following a 9-month war. Bangladesh later accused Pakistan of war atrocities that led to the death of some 3 million people during the 9-month war.
• 1971 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia condemns Indian aggression on Pakistan.
• 1971 - José Contreras was born. Cuban baseball player
• 1971 - Naozumi Takahashi was born. Japanese voice actor (Seiyuu).
• 1971 - Richard Krajicek was born. Dutch tennis player.
• 1971 - Ryan White was born (d. 1990). American AIDS activist.
• 1971 - Nicole Coste was born. Togo-born ex-girlfriend of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
• 1972 - Rick Short was born. Baseball player.
• 1972 - Janet Munro dies (b. 1934). British actress.
• 1973 - The United States House of Representatives votes 387 to 35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92 to 3).
• 1974 - Nick Stajduhar was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 - Balcombe Street Siege: An IRA Active Service Unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street, London.
• 1975 - Noel Clarke was born. English actor and writer
• 1976 - Colleen Haskell was born. American television personality
• 1976 - João Goulart dies (b. 1918). President of Brazil
• 1977 - Zambian president Kenneth David Kaunda refuses to take part in UK-US discussions on majority rule in Rhodesia
• 1977 - South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana - not recognized by any other country.
• 1977 - Kevin Cash was born. American baseball player.
• 1977 - Andrew Flintoff was born. English test cricketer.
• 1977 - Paul McVeigh was born. Irish football player
• 1978 - Spain approves its latest constitution in a referendum.
• 1978 - Chris Basak was born. American baseball player.
• 1978 - Darrell Jackson was born. American Football Player.
• 1979 - Stephenie LaGrossa was born. American game show contestant.
• 1979 - Tim Cahill was born. Australian international football player.
• 1980 - Ehren Wassermann was born. American baseball player.
• 1980 - Steve Lovell was born. British football player.
• 1982 - 11 soldiers and six civilians were killed when an Irish National Liberation Army bomb exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland.
• 1982 - Ricardo Manuel dos Santos Teixeira Matosinhos was born. Portuguese musician (trompist).
• 1982 - Sean Ervine was born.Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1982 - Ryan Carnes was born. American actor
• 1982 - Robbie Gould was born. American football player
• 1982 - Alberto Contador was born. Spanish cyclist and 2007 Tour de France winner
• 1983 - Transplant makes British medical history: Surgeons have successfully completed the first heart and lung transplant operation to be performed in Britain.
• 1983 - Bryan Habana was born. South African rugby player
• 1983 - Maria Lamas dies (b. 1893). Portuguese writer and journalist.
• 1983 - Lucienne Boyer dies (b. 1903). French singer.
• 1985 - Dulce Maria was born. Mexican singer in the Latin Pop group RBD
• 1985 - Max_Kasch was born in Santa Monica, California. American actor (Holes)
• 1985 - Burleigh Grimes dies (b. 1893). Baseball player.
• 1985 - Burr Tillstrom dies (b. 1917). American puppeteer.
• 1986 - Cintia Dicker was born. Brazilian model
• 1988 - Roy Orbison dies (b. 1936). American singer, guitarist and songwriter.
• 1989 - École Polytechnique Massacre: Marc Lépine kills 14 young women in Montreal, Quebec.
• 1989 - Cecília Dassi was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1989 - Frances Bavier dies (b. 1902). American actress
• 1989 - Sammy Fain dies (b. 1902). American popular music composer.
• 1989 - John Payne dies (b. 1912). American movie actor.
• 1990 - Pavlos Sidiropoulos dies (b. 1948). Greek singer and songwriter.
• 1991 - Indépendance du Kazakhstan vis-à-vis de l'Union Soviétique.
• 1991 - Cláudio Torres, Portuguese archeologist is laureate with the Pessoa Prize.
• 1991 - In Croatia, forces of the Yugoslav People's Army bombard Dubrovnik after laying siege there since May.
• 1991 - Sir Richard Stone dies (b. 1913). British economist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1992 - In Ayodhya, India, Hindus belonging to the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party demolish the Babri Masjid, a 16th century mosque.
• 1992 - La Suisse refuse d'adhérer à l'Espace économique européen.
• 1992 - Mary Smith or Mimi dies (b. 1914). Maternal Aunt and Guardian of John Lennon.
• 1993 - Elian Gonzalez was born. Cuban subject of international child custody battle.
• 1993 - Don Ameche dies (b. 1908). American actor.
• 1994 - Sintra (Portugal) is aproved by UNESCO as world heritage.
• 1995 - Dmitri Antonovich Volkogonov dies (67). Ex-Soviet soldier and historian who wrote biographies of Stalin, Lenin and Trotsky based on archival material of the Soviet Union. From 1991 until his death he was the head of the Russian Archive Declassifying Commission.
• 1995 - Joy Gruttmann was born. German singer.
• 1996 - Daylight is released, starring Sylvester Stallone.
• 1996 - Pete Rozelle dies (b. 1926). Commissioner of the National Football League.
• 1997 - A Russian Antonov AN-124 transport cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.
• 1997 - Billy Bremner dies (b. 1942). Scottish international football player.
• 1998 - In Gabon Pres. Omar Bongo (63) won the election for a new 7-year term. He received 66% of the vote with clear ballot stuffing.
• 1998 - In Venezuela national presidential elections were scheduled. Hugo Chavez, a former army officer who staged a bloody coup attempt against the government six years earlier, won by a landslide.
• 1998 - Hugo Chavez elected president of Venezuela.
• 1998 - 13 th Asian Games begin in Bangkok, Thailand.
• 2000 - A European Union summit began in Nice to prepare for expansion to 27 or more members.
• 2000 - Pablo Nicolás Urdangarín y de Borbón was born. Spanish royal.
• 2000 - Enrique Anderson dies. Argentinian writer.
• 2000 - Werner Klemperer dies (b. 1920). German-born actor.
• 2001 - Name of the Canadian province of Newfoundland changed to Newfoundland and Labrador.
• 2001 - Charles McClendon dies (b. 1923). Hall of Fame college football coach.
• 2001 - Sir Peter Blake dies (b. 1948). New Zealand sailor and environmentalist.
• 2002 - Actress Winona Ryder was sentenced to community service as part of a probationary term for stealing more than $5,500 worth of merchandise from a Saks Fifth Avenue store in Beverly Hills, Califórnia.
• 2002 - Philip Berrigan dies (b. 1923). American civil rights activist.
• 2003 - Jerry Tuite dies (b. 1966). American professional wrestler.
• 2003 - Ouverture de Lille 2004, capitale européenne de la culture.
• 2003 - Rosanna Davidson, Miss Irlande and daughter of the singer Chris de Burgh become Miss World.
• 2003 - Hans Hotter dies (b. 1909). German bass-baritone.
• 2003 - Jose María "Chava" Jiménez dies. Spanish professional cyclist.
• 2003 - Jerry Tuite dies (b. 1966). American professional wrestler.
• 2003 - Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio dies (b. 1918). President of Guatemala 1970-74.
• 2004 - Raymond Goethals dies (b. 1921). Belgian international football coach.
• 2004 - In Spain bombs injured at least 18 people in 7 cities following warnings from callers claiming to represent the Basque separatist group ETA.
• 2005 - England: David Cameron is new Tory leader beating David Davis to the leadership of the Conservative Party.
• 2005 - Several villagers shot dead during protests in Dongzhou, China.
• 2005 - FC Porto is out of Europe : Porto gets no better than a draw (0-0) against Artmedia for Champions League and is sent off from Uefa competitions
• 2005 - Charly Gaul dies (b. 1932). Luxembourg cyclist.
• 2005 - Devan Nair dies (b. 1923). 3rd President of Singapore.
• 2005 - Danny Williams dies (b. 1942). South African-born singer.
• 2006 - NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
• 2006 - John Feeney dies (b. 1922). Documentary film-director.
• Canada: National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
• International - Saint Nicholas Day, where St. Nicholas/Santa Claus leaves little presents in children's shoes ("Sinterklaas" in Belgium and the Netherlands).
• Roman Catholic saints: Saint Aemilianus
• Eastern Catholicism - St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra - Patron of the Byzantine Catholic Church
• Finland - Independence Day (from Russia, 1917)
• Spain - Constitution Day
• Abraham of Kratia