December 6 holidays, events, history
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 Santa Claus’s birthday
🌏 Microwave oven birthday
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇭🇷 Croatia – Defenders of Dubrovnik Day.
🇪🇨 Ecuador – Foundation Day of the capital city of Quito.
🇨🇦 Canada – National Day of Action and Remembrance against Violence against Women.
🇺🇸 USA – National Miners’ Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Day of the General Department of Drug Control.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan – Day of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan – Prosecutor’s Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Armed Forces Day.
🇲🇭 Marshall Islands – Gospel Day.
🇬🇭 Ghana – National Farmers’ Day.
🇫🇮 Finland – Independence Day.
🇪🇸 Spain – Constitution Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1240 – The ruler of the Golden Horde, Batu Khan, conquered the city of Kiev.
– 1492 – Columbus’s first expedition discovered the island of Haiti.
– 1534 – Belalcazar founded the city of Quito.
– 1590 – By royal decree, the transfer of peasants from one master to another is prohibited.
– 1648 – Pride’s purges take place in England.
– 1741 – as a result of a coup, Elizabeth Petrovna becomes the empress of Russia.
– 1768 – The first volume of the first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is published in Edinburgh.
– 1790 – The US Congress moves from New York to Philadelphia.
– 1865 – Slavery is abolished in the USA.
– 1873 – The statue of Empress Catherine II is unveiled in St. Petersburg.
– 1884 – The Washington Monument is completed.
– 1912 – A bust of Nefertiti is discovered during excavations in Amarna, Egypt.
– 1916 – World War I: The Great Powers occupy Bucharest.
– 1917 – Finland is liberated from the Russian Empire.
– 1921 – The Act of Independence of Ireland is signed.
– 1928 – The Banana War in Colombia.
– 1945 – Spencer patents the microwave oven.
– 1977 – The South African government grants independence to the Bophutswana bantustan.
– 1982 – The Irish National Liberation Army militants bomb a nightclub in Ballykelly.
– 1989 – Shooting at the Montreal Polytechnic Institute. 15 people, including the shooter, were killed. Another 14 were injured.
– 1991 – Bulgaria’s new constitution came into force.
– 1992 – Hindus destroyed the Babri Masjid, about 2,000 people died in clashes.
– 2000 – Livermoreium, the chemical element with atomic number 116, was discovered.
– 2015 – Parliamentary elections in Venezuela, the first victory of the opposition in the 21st century.
– 2016 – A large meteorite fell in Khakassia.
– 2017 – The administration of US President Donald Trump announced that the United States recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
