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 340^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 25 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 23, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 490,272 hours 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 ‘trihectatetracontagon’ 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 73 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 4,733 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

December 6 Historical Events

• 1060 –
  Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary.
• 1240 –
  Mongol invasion of Rus': Kiev under Danylo of Halych and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
• 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”.
• 1745 –
  Charles Edward Stuart’s army begins retreat during the second Jacobite Rising.
• 1916 –
  World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
• 1928 –
  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.
• 1941 –
  World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War.
• 1957 –
  Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.
• 1965 –
  Pakistan’s Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduate level.
• 1989 –
  The École Polytechnique Massacre (or Montreal Massacre): Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal.

Who were born on December 6?

• 1421 –
  King Henry VI of England (d. 1471)
• 1550 –
  Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (baptism) (d. 1605)
• 1888 –
  Will Hay, English comedian and actor (d. 1949)
• 1890 –
  Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (d. 1951)
• 1916 –
  Kristján Eldjárn, Icelandic museum curator and politician (d. 1982)
• 1917 –
  Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese leader of the Lebanese Druze (d. 1977)
• 1920 –
  George Porter, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
• 1929 –
  Nikolaus Harnoncourt, German conductor
• 1950 –
  Karlheinz Subklewe, German footballer
• 1980 –
  Ehren Wassermann, American baseball player

Who died on December 6?

• 1562 –
  Jan van Scorel Dutch painter and architect (b. 1495)
• 1934 –
  Duke Charles Michael of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1863)
• 1976 –
  João Goulart, President of Brazil (b. 1918)
• 1989 –
  Sammy Fain, American popular music composer (b. 1902)
• 1990 –
  Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia’s first prime minister (b.1903)
• 1991 –
  Sir Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1997 –
  Willy den Ouden, Dutch freestyle swimmer. (b. 1918)
• 2000 –
  Aziz Mian, Pakistani singer (b. 1942)
• 2001 –
  Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist (b. 1948)
• 2003 –
  Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (b. 1918)