Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 6

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This is a list of selected December 6 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

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Nefertiti Bust
Bust of Béla I of Hungary
Encyclopædia Britannica
The failed Vanguard TV-3 now in a museum
Sebastian de Belalcazar

Sebastian de Belalcazar
Flag of the Australian Capital Territory
Blast cloud from the Halifax Explosion
Vanguard rocket explosion
Theodore Roosevelt

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Constitution Day in Spain	refimprove section, expansion up the wazoo
1534 – Over 200 Spanish settlers led by conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar founded what is now Quito, Ecuador.	unreferenced/refimprove sections, lots of CN tags (12)
1922 – Per the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty signed exactly one year previous, establishing the Irish Free State, the first independent Irish state to be recognised by the British government.	refimprove
1953 – Vladimir Nabokov completed his controversial novel Lolita five years after starting it.	original research
1969 – The Altamont Free Concert was held in California, an event marred by considerable violence, including one homicide and three accidental deaths.	refimprove
1995 – Khabarovsk United Air Group Flight 3949 crashed into Bo-Dzhausa Mountain in Russia, killing all ninety-eight people aboard.	short
2005 – Members of the People's Armed Police shot and killed several people in Dongzhou, Guangdong, China, who were protesting government plans to build a new power plant.	needs update

Eligible

1060 – Béla I was crowned King of Hungary in Székesfehérvár.
1240 – After days of bombardment, Mongol invaders under Batu Khan breached the walls of Kiev and plundered the city, slaughtering its inhabitants.
1847 – Mexican–American War: American and Mexican forces clashed at the Battle of San Pasqual, a series of skirmishes near San Diego, California.
1865 – Slavery in the United States was officially abolished when the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.
1904 – President Theodore Roosevelt announced the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, justifying the exercise of "international police power" by the U.S. in the Western Hemisphere.
1912 – The Nefertiti Bust, listed among the "Top 10 Plundered Artifacts" by Time magazine, was found in Amarna, Egypt, before being taken to Germany.
1917 – A ship in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada, carrying TNT and picric acid caught fire after a collision with another ship and caused the second-largest man-made accidental explosion in history.
1917 – World War I: USS Jacob Jones became the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it was torpedoed by German submarine SM U-53.
1928 – At the behest of the United States, the Colombian Army violently suppressed a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers.
1942 – The Holocaust: Members of German Ordnungspolizei massacred 31 people in occupied Poland for helping Jews.
1956 – At the Melbourne Olympics, 14-year-old swimmer Sandra Morgan became the youngest Australian to win an Olympic gold medal.
1956 – In what became known as the "Blood in the Water" match at the Melbourne Olympics, the Hungarian water polo team defeated the USSR 4–0 against the background of the Hungarian Revolution.
1957 – The first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite failed with an explosion on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.
1967 – American physician Adrian Kantrowitz and his team performed the world's first pediatric heart transplant at Maimonides Medical Center in New York City.
1975 – Four members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army took two people hostage in a house on Balcombe Street in London, surrendering six days later.
1982 – The Irish National Liberation Army exploded a time bomb in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, killing eleven British Army soldiers and six civilians.
1988 – The Australian Capital Territory was granted self-government.
1989 – Claiming to be "fighting feminism", 25-year-old Marc Lépine killed fourteen women before committing suicide at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada.
1990 – An Italian Air Force military jet, abandoned by its pilot after an on-board fire, crashed into a high school near Bologna, killing 12 students and injuring 88 other people.
1992 – The Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, India, was demolished by Hindu Kar Sevaks, who believed that it was built on the birthplace of Rama.
1999 – The Recording Industry Association of America filed a lawsuit against the peer-to-peer file sharing network Napster, alleging that the service facilitated widespread copyright infringement.
2005 – An Iranian Lockheed C-130 transport aircraft crashed into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of Tehran, killing over 100 people.
Born/died: | Jan van Scorel |d|1562| Marie Adélaïde of Savoy |b|1685| Nicholas Rowe |d|1718| Robert Spear Hudson |b|1812| William Arnott |b|1827| Johann Palisa |b|1848| Hara Prasad Shastri |b|1853| Mary Margaret O'Reilly |d|1949| Satoru Iwata |b|1959| Devan Nair |d|2005

Notes

Monroe Doctrine appears on December 2, so Roosevelt Corollary should not appear in the same year
Christiaan Barnard appears on December 3, so Adrian Kantrowitz should not appear in the same year
McGurk's Bar bombing (1971) appears on December 4, so Droppin Well bombing and Balcombe Street siege should not appear in the same year
Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution appears on December 5, so 13th Amendment should not appear in the same year

December 6: Saint Nicholas Day (Western Christianity); Independence Day in Finland (1917)

Camp X

963 – Pope Leo VIII began his papacy as antipope of Rome.
1803 – Haitian Revolution: Nearly all the final French ships in Haiti were captured by the Royal Navy when they attempted to evade the Blockade of Saint-Domingue.
1907 – An explosion destroyed a mine in Monongah, West Virginia, killing 362 miners and leading to the establishment of the United States Bureau of Mines.
1941 – The British Secret Intelligence Service established a facility known as "Camp X" (pictured) in Ontario, Canada, to train covert agents in clandestine operations.
2015 – In Venezuela's parliamentary election, the ruling United Socialist Party lost control of the National Assembly for the first time since 1999.

Maria de Dominici (b. 1645)
Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (b. 1721)
Pete Rozelle (d. 1996)

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