Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 6
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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Ad for Encyclopædia Britannica from National Geographic, 1913 -
Encyclopædia Britannica -
The failed Vanguard TV3 now in a museum -
Vanguard rocket exploded on the launch pad -
Sebastian de Belalcazar
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Bust of Béla I of Hungary
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1534 – Over 200 Spanish settlers led by conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar founded what is now Quito, Ecuador. | refimprove |
| 1768 – The first weekly instalment of the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was released in Edinburgh, Scotland. | unreferenced section |
| 1865 – Slavery in the United States was officially abolished when the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. | refimprove section, unreferenced section |
| 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 world's largest man-made accidental explosion. | refimprove section |
| 1957 – An attempt to launch the first American satellite failed with an explosion on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1928 – On the behest of the United States, the Colombian Army violently suppressed a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers.
- 1956 – Aged 14, swimmer Sandra Morgan became the youngest Australian to win an Olympic gold medal.
- 1956 – In a contest that 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.
- 1969 – The infamous Altamont Free Concert was held in California, an event marred by considerable violence, including one homicide and three accidental deaths.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2005 – An Iranian Air Force C-130 military transport aircraft crashed into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of Tehran, killing all 84 on board and 44 bystanders.
December 6: Independence Day in Finland (1917); Constitution Day in Spain
- 1060 – Béla I the Champion was crowned king of Hungary.
- 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.
- 1921 – The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed and then came into force exactly one year later, establishing the Irish Free State, the first independent Irish state to be recognised by the British government.
- 1989 – Claiming that he was "fighting feminism", 25-year-old Marc Lépine killed fourteen women before committing suicide at École Polytechnique in Montreal.
- 1992 – The Babri Mosque (pictured) in Ayodhya, India, was destroyed by members of the Vishva Hindu Parishad and associated groups, who believed that it was built on the birthplace of Rama.