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 340th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 25 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 23, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,416,320 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 ‘trihectatetracontagon’ day.
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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 73 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 4,733 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 6 Historical Events
- 1704 –Battle of Chamkaur.
- 1790 –The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1877 –Thomas Edison, using his new phonograph, makes one of the earliest recordings of a human voice, reciting “Mary Had a Little Lamb”.
- 1884 –The Washington Monument in Washington D.C. is completed.
- 1917 –Halifax Explosion: In Canada, a munitions explosion kills more than 1,900 people and destroys part of the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- 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.
- 1965 –Pakistan’s Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduate level.
- 1997 –A Russian Antonov An-124 cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.
- 2008 –The 2008 Greek riots break out upon the killing of a 15-year-old boy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, by a police officer.
Who were born on December 6?
- 1721 –Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (d. 1794)
- 1853 –Haraprasad Shastri, Indian scholar and historian (d. 1931)
- 1887 –Joseph Lamb, American ragtime composer (d. 1960)
- 1938 –Patrick Bauchau, Belgian actor
- 1945 –Dan Harrington, American poker player
- 1953 –Gary Goodman, Australian cricket player
- 1953 –Tom Hulce, American actor
- 1956 –Peter Buck, American guitarist (R.E.M.)
- 1986 –Georgia Horsley, Miss England 2007
- 1995 –Joy Gruttmann, German singer
Who died on December 6?
- 343 –Saint Nicholas (b. 270)
- 1675 –John Lightfoot, English churchman (b. 1602)
- 1882 –Alfred Escher, Swiss politician and railroad entrepreneur (b. 1819)
- 1889 –Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)
- 1964 –Consuelo Vanderbilt, American socialite (b. 1877)
- 1964 –Evert van Linge, Dutch footballer (b. 1895)
- 2003 –Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (b. 1918)
- 2005 –Devan Nair, 3rd President of Singapore (b. 1923)
- 2006 –Betty Moschona, Greek actress (b. 1927)
- 2006 –John Feeney, New Zealand documentary film-director (b. 1922)
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