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, 481,512 hours 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.
- 1745 –Charles Edward Stuart’s army begins retreat during the second Jacobite Rising.
- 1917 –Finland declares independence from Russia.
- 1917 –Halifax Explosion: In Canada, a munitions explosion kills more than 1,900 people and destroys part of the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- 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 ship SM.
- 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.
- 1967 –Adrian Kantrowitz performed the first human heart transplant in the United States.
- 1997 –A Russian Antonov An-124 cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.
- 2006 –NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
- 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?
- 1849 –August von Mackensen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
- 1853 –Haraprasad Shastri, Indian scholar and historian (d. 1931)
- 1890 –Dion Fortune, British occultist (d. 1946)
- 1945 –Shekhar Kapur, Indian filmmaker
- 1952 –Craig Newmark, American internet entrepreneur
- 1966 –Natascha Badmann, Swiss triathlete
- 1967 –Hacken Lee, Hong Kong singer
- 1970 –Adrian Fenty, American politician
- 1977 –Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer
- 1982 –Alberto Contador, Spanish cyclist
Who died on December 6?
- 1185 –King Afonso I of Portugal (b. 1109)
- 1716 –Benedictus Buns, Dutch Carmelite and composer (b. 1642)
- 1924 –Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. 1863)
- 1934 –Duke Charles Michael of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1863)
- 1964 –Consuelo Vanderbilt, American socialite (b. 1877)
- 1985 –Burr Tillstrom, American puppeteer (b. 1917)
- 1993 –Don Ameche, American actor (b. 1908)
- 2005 –Charly Gaul, Luxembourger cyclist (b. 1932)
- 2005 –Danny Williams, South African singer (b. 1942)
- 2005 –Devan Nair, 3rd President of Singapore (b. 1923)
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