Editing December 6 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
*[[1060]] &ndash; [[Béla I of Hungary|Béla I]] is crowned king of [[Kingdom of Hungary in the Middle Ages|Hungary]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Steinhübel|first=Ján|title=The Nitrian Principality: The Beginnings of Medieval Slovakia|location=Leiden, Netherlands|publisher=Brill|date=2021|isbn=9789004437821|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vqUPEAAAQBAJ|page=447}}</ref>
*[[1240]] &ndash; [[Mongol invasion of Rus']]: [[Kyiv]], defended by [[Voivode Dmytro]], [[Siege of Kiev (1240)|falls]] to the [[Mongols]] under [[Batu Khan]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Langer|first=Lawrence|title=Historical Dictionary of Medieval Russia|location=Lanham. Md.|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|date=2021|isbn=9781538119419|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y8I6EAAAQBAJ|page=130}}</ref>
*[[1492]] &ndash; After exploring the island of [[Cuba]] (which he had mistaken for [[Japan]]) for gold, [[Christopher Columbus]] lands on an island he names [[Hispaniola]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Fisher|first=Robert John|title=The Economic Aspects of Spanish Imperialism in America: 1492—1810|location=Liverpool, U.K.|publisher=Liverpool University Press|date=1997|isbn=9780853235521|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KHRvEAAAQBAJ|page=16}}</ref>
*[[1534]] &ndash; The city of [[Quito]] in [[Ecuador]] is founded by Spanish settlers led by [[Sebastián de Belalcázar]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Newson|first=Linda A.|title=Life and Death in Early Colonial Ecuador|location=Norman, Okla.|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|date=1995|isbn=9780806126975|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P6oBA7UsdawC|page=174}}</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1648]] &ndash; [[Pride's Purge]] removes royalist sympathizers from Parliament so that the [[High Court of Justice (1649)|High Court of Justice]] could put the King on trial.
*[[1745]] &ndash; [[Charles Edward Stuart]]'s army begins retreat during the [[Jacobite rising of 1745|second Jacobite Rising]].
*[[1790]] &ndash; The [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] moves from [[New York City]] to [[Philadelphia]].
*[[1803]] &ndash; Five [[French Navy|French warships]] attempting to escape the [[Blockade of Saint-Domingue|Royal Naval blockade of Saint-Domingue]] are all seized by British warships, signifying the end of the [[Haitian Revolution]].<ref name="EPB294">{{cite book | last = Brenton | first = Edward Pelham | author-link = Edward Pelham Brenton | year = 1837| title = The Naval History of Great Britain, Vol. III | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-2cUAAAAQAAJ&q=edward+pelham+brenton | publisher = C Rice|page= 294 |location = London}}</ref>
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] ratifies the [[13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CONAN-2013/pdf/GPO-CONAN-2013.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225114303/http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CONAN-2013/pdf/GPO-CONAN-2013.pdf |archive-date=2014-02-25 |url-status=live|title=THE CONSTITUTION of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION Centennial Edition INTERIM EDITION: ANALYSIS OF CASES DECIDED BY THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES TO JUNE 26, 2013s|access-date=February 17, 2014|last=U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE|first=112th Congress, 2nd Session, SENATE DOCUMENT No. 112–9|page=30|date=2013}}</ref>
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[1882 transit of Venus|Transit of Venus]], second and last of the [[19th century]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-03-03|title=The American Transit of Venus Expeditions of 1882, Including San Antonio|url=http://aas.org/archives/BAAS/v27n4/aas187/S035002.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303212432/http://aas.org/archives/BAAS/v27n4/aas187/S035002.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-03-03|access-date=2020-07-01}}</ref>
*[[1884]] &ndash; The [[Washington Monument]] in Washington, D.C., is completed.
*[[1897]] &ndash; London becomes the world's first city to host licensed [[taxicab]]s.

===1901–present===
*[[1904]] &ndash; [[Theodore Roosevelt]] articulated his [[Roosevelt Corollary|"Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine]], stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
*[[1907]] &ndash; A [[Monongah mining disaster|coal mine explosion]] at [[Monongah, West Virginia]], kills 362 workers.
*[[1912]] &ndash; The [[Nefertiti Bust]] is discovered.
*[[1916]] &ndash; [[World War I]]: The Central Powers [[Battle of Bucharest|capture Bucharest]].
*[[1917]] &ndash; [[Finnish Declaration of Independence|Finland declares independence]] from [[Russian Empire|the Russian Empire]].
*  1917   &ndash; [[Halifax Explosion]]: A munitions explosion near [[Halifax, Nova Scotia]] kills more than 1,900 people in the [[Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions#Largest accidental artificial non-nuclear explosions by magnitude|largest artificial explosion up to that time]].
*  1917   &ndash; World War I: {{USS|Jacob Jones|DD-61|6}} is the first American [[destroyer]] to be sunk by enemy action when it is [[torpedo]]ed by German submarine {{ship|SM|U-53}}.<ref>{{cite news |title=US World War One wreck found off Cornish coast |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cornwall-62597453 |access-date=20 August 2022}}</ref>
*[[1921]] &ndash; The [[Anglo-Irish Treaty]] is signed in [[London]] by British and Irish representatives.
*[[1922]] &ndash; One year to the day after the signing of the [[Anglo-Irish Treaty]] Ireland is [[Partition of Ireland|partitioned]]. [[Northern Ireland]] and the [[Irish Free State]] come into existence.
*[[1928]] &ndash; The government of Colombia [[Banana massacre|sends military forces]] to suppress a month-long [[strike action|strike]] by [[United Fruit Company]] workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
*[[1933]] &ndash; In ''[[United States v. One Book Called Ulysses]]'' Judge [[John M. Woolsey]] rules that [[James Joyce]]'s novel ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' is not obscene despite coarse language and sexual content, a leading decision affirming free expression.
*[[1939]] &ndash; [[Winter War]]: The [[Red Army]]'s advance on the [[Karelian Isthmus]] is stopped by Finns at the [[Mannerheim Line]] during the [[Battle of Taipale]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bootcampmilitaryfitnessinstitute.com/2020/11/11/what-was-the-winter-war-1939-1940/|title=What was the Winter War (1939-1940)?|first=Andrew|last=Marshall|publisher=Boot Camp & Military Fitness|date=11 November 2020|access-date=6 December 2024}}</ref>
*[[1941]] &ndash; [[World War II]]:  [[Camp X]] opens in Canada to begin training Allied secret agents for the war.
*[[1956]] &ndash; A violent [[Blood in the Water match|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]].
*[[1957]] &ndash; [[Project Vanguard]]: A [[Launch pad|launchpad]] explosion of [[Vanguard TV3]] thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a [[satellite]] into Earth orbit.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burgess |first1=Colin |last2=Hall |first2=Rex |title=The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives, Legacy, and Historical Impact |date=2009 |publisher=Springer |location=Berlin |isbn=9780387848235 |pages=8–9 |lccn=2008935694}}</ref>
*[[1967]] &ndash; [[Adrian Kantrowitz]] performs the first human heart transplant in the United States.
*[[1969]] &ndash; [[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.
*[[1971]] &ndash; Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India, initiating the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]].
*[[1973]] &ndash; [[Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution|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 [[United States Senate|Senate]] confirmed him 92–3.)
*[[1975]] &ndash; [[The Troubles]]: Fleeing from the police, a [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|Provisional IRA]] unit takes a British couple hostage in their flat on Balcombe Street, London, beginning a [[Balcombe Street siege|six-day siege]].
*[[1977]] &ndash; South Africa grants independence to [[Bophuthatswana]], although it is not recognized by any other country.
*[[1978]] &ndash; Spain ratifies the [[Spanish Constitution of 1978]] in a referendum.<ref>{{cite web |title=Spain starts a new post-Franco era - archive, 1978 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2018/jun/01/spain-constitution-new-era-1978 |website=The Guardian |access-date=8 March 2022 |language=en |date=1 June 2018}}</ref>
*[[1982]] &ndash; The Troubles: The [[Irish National Liberation Army]] [[Droppin Well bombing|bombs a pub]] frequented by British soldiers in [[Ballykelly, County Londonderry|Ballykelly, Northern Ireland]], killing  eleven soldiers and six civilians.
*[[1989]] &ndash; The [[École Polytechnique massacre]] (or Montreal Massacre): [[Marc Lépine]], an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the [[École Polytechnique de Montréal|École Polytechnique]] in [[Montreal]].
*[[1990]] &ndash; A military jet of the [[Italian Air Force]], abandoned by its pilot after an on-board fire, [[1990 Italian Air Force MB-326 crash|crashed into a high school]] near [[Bologna]], Italy, killing 12 students and injuring 88 other people.<ref name="NYT-01">{{cite news| title=Jet Hits a School in Italy, Killing 12 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/07/world/jet-hits-a-school-in-italy-killing-12.html | access-date=13 September 2020 | work=[[The New York Times]] | agency=[[Associated Press]] | date=7 December 1990 }}</ref>
*[[1991]] &ndash; [[Yugoslav Wars]]: In [[Croatia]], forces of the Serb-dominated [[Yugoslav People's Army]] (JNA) heaviest bombardment of [[Dubrovnik]] during a siege of seven months.
*[[1992]] &ndash; The [[Babri Masjid]] in [[Ayodhya]], India, is [[Demolition of the Babri Masjid|demolished]], leading to widespread riots causing the death of over 1,500 people.
*[[1995]] &ndash;  The United States [[Food and Drug Administration]] approves [[Saquinavir]], the first [[Protease inhibitor (pharmacology)|protease inhibitor]] to treat [[HIV/AIDS]]. Within 2 years of its approval, annual deaths from AIDS in the United States fall from over 50,000 to approximately 18,000.<ref>{{Cite web |title=HIV Surveillance --- United States, 1981--2008 |url=https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6021a2.htm |access-date=2024-09-03 |website=www.cdc.gov}}</ref>
*[[1998]] &ndash; in [[Venezuela]], [[Hugo Chávez]] is victorious in presidential elections.
*[[1999]] &ndash; ''[[A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc. (2000)|A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.]]'': The [[Recording Industry Association of America]] sues the [[peer-to-peer]] [[file sharing|file-sharing]] service [[Napster]], alleging [[copyright infringement]].<ref>{{cite web| url = https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/114/896/2343353/| title = A & M RECORDS, INC. v. Napster, Inc., 114 F. Supp. 2d 896 (N.D. Cal. 2000)}}</ref>
*[[2005]] &ndash; An [[Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force|Iranian Air Force]] [[Lockheed C-130 Hercules|C-130]] military transport aircraft [[2005 Iranian Air Force C-130 crash|crashes into a ten-floor apartment building]] in a residential area of [[Tehran]], killing all 94 on board and 12 more on the ground.
*[[2006]] &ndash; [[NASA]] reveals photographs taken by [[Mars Global Surveyor]] suggesting the presence of liquid [[water on Mars]].
*[[2015]] &ndash; [[2015 Venezuelan parliamentary election|Venezuelan parliamentary election]]: For the first time in 17 years, the [[United Socialist Party of Venezuela]] loses its majority in parliament.
*[[2017]] &ndash; [[Donald Trump]]'s administration officially announces [[United States recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital|the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel]].