History Events on December 06

NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

#NASA

World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.

#World_War_I

Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.

#Vladimir_Nabokov

Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.

#Theodore_Roosevelt

The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.

#Anglo-Irish_Treaty

Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.

#Halifax_Explosion

The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387-35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92-3.)

#Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.

#Taxicab

The École Polytechnique massacre (or Montreal Massacre): Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal.

#École_Polytechnique_massacre

South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country.

#Bophuthatswana

Béla I is crowned king of Hungary.

#Béla_I_of_Hungary

in Venezuela, Hugo Chávez is victorious in presidential elections.

#Venezuela

Altamont Free Concert: At a free concert performed by the Rolling Stones, eighteen-year old Meredith Hunter is stabbed to death by Hells Angels security guards.

#Altamont_Free_Concert

Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India, initiating the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

#Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1971

Khabarovsk United Air Group Flight 3949 crashes into the Bo-Dzhausa Mountain, killing 98.

#Khabarovsk_United_Air_Group_Flight_3949

Finland declares independence from Soviet Russia.

#Finnish_Declaration_of_Independence

American and Californio forces clash at the Battle of San Pasqual

#Army_of_the_West_(1846)

World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada declare war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War. Camp X opens in Canada to begin training Allied Secret Agents for the War.

#World_War_II

The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.

#Quito

Georgia ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

#Georgia_(U.S._state)

Venezuelan elections are held. For the first time in 17 years the United Socialist Party of Venezuela loses its majority in parliament.

#Venezuela

The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.

#Nefertiti_Bust

Yugoslav Wars: In Croatia, forces of the Serb-dominated Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) bombard Dubrovnik after laying siege to the city for seven months.

#Yugoslav_Wars

The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.

#Washington_Monument

The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia.

#United_States_Congress

World War I: USS Jacob Jones is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine SM U-53.

#USS_Jacob_Jones_(DD-61)

The Troubles: Fleeing from the police, a Provisional IRA unit takes a British couple hostage in their flat on Balcombe Street, London, beginning a six-day siege.

#The_Troubles

The Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, India, is demolished, leading to widespread riots causing the death of over 1,500 people.

#Babri_Masjid

Charles Edward Stuart's army begins retreat during the second Jacobite Rising.

#Charles_Edward_Stuart

The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.

#Everglades_National_Park

One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence.

#Irish_Free_State

A Russian Antonov An-124 Ruslan cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.

#Antonov_An-124_Ruslan

A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.

#Monongah_mining_disaster

Donald Trump's administration officially announces the recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel.

#Donald_Trump

An Iranian Air Force C-130 military transport aircraft crashes into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of Tehran, killing all 94 on board and 12 more on the ground.

The Troubles: The Irish National Liberation Army bombs a pub frequented by British soldiers in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, killing eleven soldiers and six civilians.

Spain ratifies the Spanish Constitution of 1978 in a referendum.

Adrian Kantrowitz performs the first human heart transplant in the United States.

Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.

A violent water polo match between Hungary and the USSR takes place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, against the backdrop of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.

The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.

The first edition of The Washington Post is published.

Battle of Chamkaur: During the Mughal-Sikh Wars, an outnumbered Sikh Khalsa defeats a Mughal army.

Colonel Thomas Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead; came to be known as "Pride's Purge".

Mongol invasion of Rus': Kiev under Daniel of Galicia and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.

Pope Leo VIII is appointed to the office of Protonotary and begins his papacy as antipope of Rome.