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Events on the 6th of December in history

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06 Dec 0963 Leo VIII elected Pope
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06 Dec 1060 Béla I is crowned king of Hungary.
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06 Dec 1160 Jean Bodels "Jeu de St. Nicholas, " premieres in Arras
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06 Dec 1196 Northern Dutch coast flooded, "Saint-Nicolaas Flood"
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06 Dec 1240 Mongols under Batu Khan occupy and destroy Kiev
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06 Dec 1240 Mongol invasion of Rus': Kiev under Daniel of Galicia and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
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06 Dec 1424 Don Alfonso V of Aragon grants Barcelona the right to exclude Jews
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06 Dec 1491 King Charles VIII of France marries Anna of Bretagne
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06 Dec 1527 Pope Clemens VII fleas to Orvieto
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06 Dec 1534 Quito, Ecuador founded by Spanish
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06 Dec 1534 The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.
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06 Dec 1631 1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed
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06 Dec 1641 Don Francisco de Mello appointed land guardian of South Netherlands
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06 Dec 1648 Colonel Thomas Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead; came to be known as "Pride's Purge".
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06 Dec 1704 Battle of Chamkaur: During the Mughal-Sikh Wars, an outnumbered Sikh Khalsa defeats a Mughal army.
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06 Dec 1732 1st play in American colonies acted by professional players, New York City
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06 Dec 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army retreats to Scotland
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06 Dec 1745 Charles Edward Stuart's army begins retreat during the second Jacobite Rising.
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06 Dec 1756 British troops under Robert Clive occupy Fulta India
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06 Dec 1768 1st edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published (Scotland)
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06 Dec 1768 The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
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06 Dec 1787 Laurens Pieter van de Speigel appointed Dutch pension advisor
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06 Dec 1790 Congress meets in Philadelphia, new temporary US capital
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06 Dec 1790 The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia.
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06 Dec 1820 US President James Monroe re-elected
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06 Dec 1822 Veterinary school in Utrecht opens
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06 Dec 1825 President John Adams suggests establishment of a US observatory
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06 Dec 1833 HMS Beagle / Charles Darwin departs Rio de la Plata
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06 Dec 1843 Amsterdam-Utrecht railway opens
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06 Dec 1846 Opera "La Damnation de Faust" is produced (Paris)
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06 Dec 1849 Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland
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06 Dec 1862 President Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians
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06 Dec 1865 13th Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery
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06 Dec 1865 The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery.
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06 Dec 1866 Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed
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06 Dec 1870 Joseph H Rainey, 1st black in House of Reps (SC)
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06 Dec 1873 1st international football game in US: Yale 2, Eton (England) 1
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06 Dec 1875 44th Congress (1875-77) convenes
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06 Dec 1876 1st crematorium in US begins operation, Washington, Penn
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06 Dec 1876 City of Anaheim incorporated for 2nd time
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06 Dec 1876 US Electorial College picks Rep Hayes as President (although Tilden won)
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06 Dec 1877 1st sound recording made (Thomas Edison)
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06 Dec 1877 Washington Post publishes 1st edition
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06 Dec 1877 The first edition of The Washington Post is published.
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06 Dec 1882 Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit
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06 Dec 1884 Aluminum capstone set atop Washington Monument, Washington, DC
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06 Dec 1884 The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.
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06 Dec 1896 D T Suzuki found the awakening at Engakuji temple, in Kamakura
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06 Dec 1897 London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
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06 Dec 1903 Sumatra Atjehs guerilla leader Panglima Polim surrenders
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06 Dec 1904 Theodore Roosevelt confirms Monroe-doctrine (Roosevelt Corollary)
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06 Dec 1904 Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
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06 Dec 1907 Coal mine explosions in Monongah, WV, kills 361
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06 Dec 1907 A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.
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06 Dec 1912 China votes for universal human rights
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06 Dec 1913 White Sox beat Giants 9-4 in exhibition game in Tokyo
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06 Dec 1916 German army under General Mackensen occupies Bucharest
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06 Dec 1916 World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
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06 Dec 1917 French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, kills 1,700
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06 Dec 1917 Finland declares independence from Russia.
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06 Dec 1917 Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.
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06 Dec 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 SM U-53.
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06 Dec 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland
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06 Dec 1921 The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.
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06 Dec 1922 1st constitution of Irish Free State comes into operation
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06 Dec 1922 1st electric power line commercial carrier in US, Utica, New York
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06 Dec 1922 One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence.
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06 Dec 1923 1st presidential address broadcast on radio (President Calvin Coolidge)
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06 Dec 1925 Italy, Britain and Egypt sign Jaghbub accord (Italy)
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06 Dec 1925 Record 73,000 pay to watch Chicago Bears beat the New York Giants 19-7
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06 Dec 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.
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06 Dec 1929 Turkey introduces female suffrage
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06 Dec 1930 18th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeat Regina Roughriders, 11-6
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06 Dec 1930 Pablo Neruda marries Marie A Hagenaar Vogelzang in Batavia
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06 Dec 1933 U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.
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06 Dec 1938 117 Spanish knights under Captain Piet Laros return to the Netherlands
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06 Dec 1938 French / German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact)
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06 Dec 1939 5th Heisman Trophy Award: Nile Kinnick, Iowa (HB)
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06 Dec 1940 Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter / poster artist Helen Ernst
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06 Dec 1940 Pietro Badoglio resigns as Viceroy of Ethiopia
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06 Dec 1941 Dutch and British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore
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06 Dec 1941 King Leopold of Belgium marries Lilian Baels
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06 Dec 1941 New York City Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens
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06 Dec 1941 World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada declare war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War.
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06 Dec 1942 Queen Wilhelmina announces Dutch Commonwealth
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06 Dec 1942 RAF bombs Philips factory (150 die)
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06 Dec 1944 US 95th Infantry division reaches Westwall
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06 Dec 1947 The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
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06 Dec 1950 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Mirabile illud
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06 Dec 1953 Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.
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06 Dec 1954 Simone de Beauvoir receives Prix Goncourt
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06 Dec 1955 New York psychologist Joyce Brothers won "$64,000 Question" on boxing
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06 Dec 1956 "Happy Hunting" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 413 performances
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06 Dec 1956 Nelson Mandela and 156 others arrested for political activities in South Africa
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06 Dec 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.
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06 Dec 1957 1st US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up
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06 Dec 1957 AFL-CIO votes to expel Teamsters (readmitted in October 1987)
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06 Dec 1957 Indonesia begins nationalizing Dutch possessions
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06 Dec 1957 Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.
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06 Dec 1958 US lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back
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06 Dec 1960 AL grants Gene Autry a franchise, LA Angels
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06 Dec 1961 27th Heisman Trophy Award: Ernie Davis, Syracuse (HB)
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06 Dec 1962 US abandons Skybolt balastic missile program
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06 Dec 1963 Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fans
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06 Dec 1964 KTVR TV channel 13 in La Grande, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
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06 Dec 1964 President Segni of Italy resigns
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06 Dec 1965 2 trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers (Sotouboua Togo) kills 125
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06 Dec 1966 Polio vaccination becomes obligatory in Belgium
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06 Dec 1967 Adrian Kantrowitz performs the first human heart transplant in the United States.
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06 Dec 1968 Baseball dismisses Commissioner William Eckert after 3 years
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06 Dec 1968 PBA National Championship won by Wayne Zahn
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06 Dec 1968 WKID (WSCV) TV channel 51 in Ft Lauderdale, Florida (IND) 1st broadcast
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06 Dec 1969 "Buck White" closes at George Abbott Theater NYC after 7 performances
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06 Dec 1969 300,000 attend Altamont California, rock concert feature Rolling Stones
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06 Dec 1969 Meredith Hunter is killed by Hells Angels during a Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway in California.
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06 Dec 1970 Cleveland Cavaliers 1st NBA home victory, beating Buffalo Braves 108-106
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06 Dec 1971 Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court Justice
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06 Dec 1971 Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India following New Delhi's recognition of Bangladesh.
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06 Dec 1973 Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected VP, succeeds Spiro T Agnew
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06 Dec 1973 The Twenty-fifth Amendment: 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.)
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06 Dec 1974 George Harrison releases "Ding Dong, Ding Dong"
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06 Dec 1975 41st Heisman Trophy Award: Archie Griffin, Ohio State (RB)
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06 Dec 1975 Sen Robert Dole and Elizabeth Hanford marry
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06 Dec 1975 The Troubles: Fleeing from the police, a Provisional IRA unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street, London, beginning a six-day siege.
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06 Dec 1976 War criminal Pieter Menten arrested in Zurich
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06 Dec 1977 South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence
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06 Dec 1977 South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country.
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06 Dec 1978 Spain adopts constitution
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06 Dec 1978 Spain approves its latest constitution in a referendum.
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06 Dec 1980 Jim Bakker rapes Jessica Hahn
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06 Dec 1981 Rob de Castella of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:18
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06 Dec 1982 11 soldiers and 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland
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06 Dec 1982 Bomb attack on Londonderry, North Ireland disco, 17 killed
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06 Dec 1982 Sen Ted and Joan Kennedy divorce
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06 Dec 1982 The Troubles: The Irish National Liberation Army bombed a pub frequented by British soldiers in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland. It killed eleven soldiers and six civilians.
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06 Dec 1983 A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, kills 6 Israelis
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06 Dec 1984 Hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage
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06 Dec 1986 52nd Heisman Trophy Award: Vinny Testaverde, Miami Florida (QB)
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06 Dec 1987 3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun"
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06 Dec 1987 Christa Rothenburger skates female world record 500m (39.39 seconds)
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06 Dec 1987 Jane Crafter / Steve Jones wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
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06 Dec 1988 Agnes Neil Williams purchases Baltimore Orioles for $70 million Eli Jacobs becomes CEO of Baltimore Orioles
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06 Dec 1988 Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden
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06 Dec 1988 Merv Hughes takes 13 wickets vs. WI at the WACA but Australia lose
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06 Dec 1988 Milwaukee Bucks win their 1,000th NBA game (2nd fastest)
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06 Dec 1988 Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Cape Town
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06 Dec 1988 STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission
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06 Dec 1988 The Australian Capital Territory is granted self-government.
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06 Dec 1989 The École Polytechnique massacre (or Montreal Massacre): Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal.
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06 Dec 1990 NHL grants conditional membership to Tampa Bay Lightning
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06 Dec 1990 Saddam anounces release of all foriegn hostages
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06 Dec 1991 "Les Miserables" opens at Circustheater, Scheveningen
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06 Dec 1991 "Star Trek VI-Undiscovered Country" premieres
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06 Dec 1991 In Croatia, forces of the Yugoslav People's Army bombard Dubrovnik after laying siege to the city since May.
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06 Dec 1992 300,000 hindus destroy mosque of Babri India, 4 die
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06 Dec 1992 81st Davis Cup: USA beats Switzerland in Fort Worth (3-1)
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06 Dec 1992 Dottie Mochrie / Dan Forsmann wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
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06 Dec 1992 San Francisco 49er Jerry Rice catches NFL record 101st touchdown
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06 Dec 1992 San Francisco Giants renege on $43 million pact with Barry Bonds
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06 Dec 1992 The Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, India, is demolished, leading to widespread riots causing the death of over 1,500 people.
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06 Dec 1993 Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 5 km 7:13.29
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06 Dec 1994 Maltese Falcon auctioned for $398,590
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06 Dec 1994 Orange County California files for bankruptcy
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06 Dec 1994 Warner Brothers announces a 5th TV network to begin on Jan 11, 1995
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06 Dec 1995 6th Billboard Music Awards
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06 Dec 1995 Michael Jackson collapses will rehearsing for an HBO special
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06 Dec 1996 Mashonaland defeat England in first-class tour match
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06 Dec 1997 A Russian Antonov An-124 cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.
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06 Dec 1998 JC Penney Golf Classic
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06 Dec 2005 Several villagers are shot dead during protests in Dongzhou, China.
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06 Dec 2005 An Iranian Air Force C-130 military transport aircraft crashes into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of Tehran, killing all 84 on board and 44 more on the ground.
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06 Dec 2006 NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
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06 Dec 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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