What are the important events that happened on December 6? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
December 6: Facts & Myths About This Day
December 6 is the 341st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 25 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 23, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,890,720 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatetracontahenagon’ day.
Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 54 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,368 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 6 Historical Events
- 1060 –Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary.
- 1240 –Mongol invasion of Rus': Kiev under Danylo of Halych and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
- 1877 –Thomas Edison, using his new phonograph, makes one of the earliest recordings of a human voice, reciting “Mary Had a Little Lamb”.
- 1917 –Finland declares independence from Russia.
- 1933 –U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James Joyce’s novel Ulysses is not obscene.
- 1941 –World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War.
- 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.
- 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 civilians.
- 2005 –Several villagers are shot dead during protests in Dongzhou, China.
- 2006 –NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
Who were born on December 6?
- 1608 –George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier (d. 1670)
- 1721 –Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (d. 1794)
- 1823 –Friedrich Max Müller, German orientalist (d. 1900)
- 1953 –Kin Shriner, American actor
- 1967 –Hacken Lee, Hong Kong singer
- 1970 –Isabelle Arnould, Belgian swimmer
- 1975 –Noel Clarke, English actor and writer
- 1985 –Aristeidis Grigoriadis, Greek swimmer
- 1985 –Dulce María, Mexican actress and singer
- 1990 –Tamira Paszek, Austrian tennis player
Who died on December 6?
- 1352 –Pope Clement VI (b. 1291)
- 1618 –Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556)
- 1672 –King John II Casimir of Poland (b. 1609)
- 1868 –August Schleicher, German linguist (b. 1821)
- 1990 –Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia’s first prime minister (b.1903)
- 1991 –Mimi Smith, maternal aunt and guardian of John Lennon (b. 1906)
- 1996 –Pete Rozelle, commissioner of the National Football League (b. 1926)
- 2001 –Charles McClendon, Hall of Fame college football coach (b. 1923)
- 2004 –Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (b. 1921)
- 2006 –Betty Moschona, Greek actress (b. 1927)
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