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 341^st 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, 1,733,443,200 seconds 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.

December 6 Historical Events

• 1648 –
  Colonel 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”.
• 1877 –
  The first edition of the Washington Post is published.
• 1916 –
  World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
• 1917 –
  Finland declares independence from Russia.
• 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.
• 1921 –
  The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.
• 1973 –
  The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387 to 35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92 to 3).
• 1982 –
  Droppin Well bombing: The Irish National Liberation Army detonate a bomb in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, killing eleven British soldiers and six civilians.
• 1991 –
  In Croatia, forces of the Yugoslav People’s Army bombard Dubrovnik after laying siege to the city since May.
• 2006 –
  NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

Who were born on December 6?

• 1872 –
  William S. Hart, American actor (d. 1946)
• 1890 –
  Rudolf Schlichter, German artist and writer (d. 1955)
• 1898 –
  Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics (d. 1987)
• 1913 –
  Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (d. 2004)
• 1919 –
  Paul de Man, Belgian literary critic (d. 1983)
• 1971 –
  Naozumi Takahashi, Japanese voice actor
• 1980 –
  Steve Lovell, British footballer
• 1985 –
  Rudra Pratap Singh, Indian cricketer
• 1988 –
  Sandra Nurmsalu, Estonian musician
• 1995 –
  Joy Gruttmann, German singer

Who died on December 6?

• 1352 –
  Pope Clement VI (b. 1291)
• 1746 –
  Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (b. 1665)
• 1779 –
  Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (b. 1699)
• 1855 –
  William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (b. 1789)
• 1868 –
  August Schleicher, German linguist (b. 1821)
• 1879 –
  Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American industrialist (b. 1814)
• 1882 –
  Anthony Trollope, British author (b. 1815)
• 1961 –
  Frantz Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and writer (b. 1925)
• 1996 –
  Pete Rozelle, commissioner of the National Football League (b. 1926)
• 2003 –
  Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (b. 1909)