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Events from History on December 06

1160 : Jean Bodels "Jeu de St Nicholas," premieres in Arras
1196 : Northern Dutch coast flooded, "Saint-Nicolaas Flood"
1240 : Mongols under Batu Khan occupy & destroy Kiev
1424 : Don Alfonso V of Aragon grants Barcelona the right to exclude Jews
1491 : King Charles VIII of France marries Anna of Bretagne
1492 : Haiti discovered by Columbus, at M“le Saint Nicolas
1527 : Pope Clemens VII fleas to Orvieto
1534 : Quito, Ecuador founded by Spanish
1631 : 1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed
1641 : Don Francisco de Mello appointed land guardian of South Netherlands
1648 : Pride's Purge: Thomas Pride prevents 96 presbyterians from sitting
1648 : in English parliament
1723 : Emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctie declares Constitution
1732 : 1st play in American colonies acted by professional players, NYC
1745 : Bonnie Prince Charlies army retreats to Scotland
1756 : British troops under Robert Clive occupy Fulta India
1768 : 1st edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published (Scotland)
1787 : Laurens Pieter van de Speigel appointed Dutch pension advisor
1790 : Congress meets in Philadelphia, new temporary US capital
1820 : US president James Monroe re-elected
1822 : Veterinary school in Utrecht opens
1825 : Pres John Adams suggests establishment of a US observatory
1833 : HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs Rio de la Plata
1841 : Robert Schumann's 4th Symphony in D, premieres
1843 : Amsterdam-Utrecht railway opens
1846 : Opera "La Damnation de Faust" is produced (Paris)
1849 : Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland
1862 : Pres Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians
1864 : Battle of Deveaux's Neck, SC
1865 : 13th Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery
1866 : Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed
1870 : Joseph H Rainey, 1st black in House of Reps (SC)
1873 : 1st international football game in US: Yale 2, Eton (England) 1
1875 : 44th Congress (1875-77) convenes
1876 : 1st crematorium in US begins operation, Washington, Penn
1876 : City of Anaheim incorporated for 2nd time
1876 : US Electorial College picks Rep Hayes as pres (although Tilden won)
1877 : 1st sound recording made (Thomas Edison)
1877 : Washington Post publishes 1st edition
1882 : Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit
1884 : Aluminum capstone set atop Washington Monument, Wash, DC
1896 : D T Suzuki found the awakening at Engakuji temple, in Kamakura
1903 : Sumatra Atjehs guerilla leader Panglima Polim surrenders
1904 : Theodore Roosevelt confirms Monroe-doctrine (Roosevelt Corollary)
1907 : Coal mine explosions in Monongah, WV, kills 361
1912 : China votes for universal human rights
1913 : White Sox beat Giants 9-4 in exhibition game in Tokyo
1914 : German troops over run L¢dz
1916 : German army under Gen Mackensen occupies Bucharest
1917 : Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day)
1917 : French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, kills 1,700
1921 : Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status;
1921 : partition creates Northern Ireland
1922 : 1st constitution of Irish Free State comes into operation
1922 : 1st electric power line commercial carrier in US, Utica, NY
1923 : 1st presidential address broadcast on radio (Pres Calvin Coolidge)
1925 : Italy, Britain & Egypt sign Jaghbub accord (Italy)
1925 : Record 73,000 pay to watch Chic Bears beat NY Giants 19-7
1929 : Turkey introduces female suffrage
1930 : Pablo Neruda marries Marie A Hagenaar Vogelzang in Batavia
1933 : Ban on James Joyce' "Ulysses" in US, lifted
1938 : 117 Spanish knights under capt Piet Laros return to Netherlands
1938 : French/German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact)
1939 : 5th Heisman Trophy Award: Nile Kinnick, Iowa (HB)
1939 : Cole Porter's musical "Du Barry was a Lady," premieres in NYC
1940 : Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter/poster artist Helen Ernst
1940 : Pietro Badoglio resigns as viceroy of Ethiopia
1941 : Dutch & British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore
1941 : King Leopold of Belgium marries Lilian Baels
1941 : NYC Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens
1942 : Queen Wilhelmina announces Dutch Commonwealth
1942 : RAF bombs Philips factory (150 die)
1944 : US 95th Infantry division reaches Westwall
1950 : Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Mirabile illud
1952 : Czech govt tells Israeli ambassador, he's persona non grata
1953 : Brown's Lou "Toe" Groza kicks 8 PATs, beating Giants 62-14
1954 : Simone de Beauvoir receives Prix Goncourt
1955 : NY psychologist Joyce Brothers won "$64,000 Question" on boxing
1956 : "Happy Hunting" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 413 performances
1956 : Nelson Mandela & 156 others arrested for political activities in S Afr
1957 : 1st US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up
1957 : AFL-CIO votes to expel Teamsters (readmitted in October 1987)
1957 : Indonesia begins nationalizing Dutch possessions
1958 : US lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back
1960 : AL grants Gene Autry a franchise, LA Angels
1961 : 27th Heisman Trophy Award: Ernie Davis, Syracuse (HB)
1962 : US abandons Skybolt balastic missile program
1963 : Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fans
1964 : KTVR TV channel 13 in La Grande, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 : President Segni of Italy resigns
1965 : 2 trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers (Sotouboua Togo) kills 125
1966 : Polio vaccination becomes obligatory in Belgium
1967 : USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1968 : Baseball dismisses Commissioner William Eckert after 3 years
1968 : PBA National Championship won by Wayne Zahn
1968 : WKID (WSCV) TV channel 51 in Ft Lauderdale, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
1969 : "Buck White" closes at George Abbott Theater NYC after 7 performances
1969 : 300,000 attend Altamont Calif, rock concert feature Rolling Stones
1969 : USSR performs nuclear test
1971 : Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice
1973 : Bahrain's constitution goes into effect
1973 : Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected VP, succeeds Spiro T Agnew
1973 : NL votes to move San Diego Padres to Washington DC (doesn't happen)
1974 : George Harrison releases "Ding Dong, Ding Dong"
1975 : 41st Heisman Trophy Award: Archie Griffin, Ohio State (RB)
1975 : Sen Robert Dole & Elizabeth Hanford marry
1976 : War criminal Pieter Menten arrested in Zurich
1977 : South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence
1978 : Spain adopts constitution
1980 : Jim Bakker rapes Jessica Hahn
1980 : NASA launches Intelsat V
1981 : Rob de Castella of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:18
1982 : 11 soldiers & 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National
1982 : Bomb attack on Londonderry, North Ireland disco, 17 killed
1982 : Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland
1982 : Sen Ted & Joan Kennedy divorce
1983 : A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, kills 6 Israelis
1984 : France performs nuclear test
1984 : Hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage
1986 : 52nd Heisman Trophy Award: Vinny Testaverde, Miami Fla (QB)
1986 : France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1987 : 3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun"
1987 : Christa Rothenburger skates female world record 500m (39.39 sec)
1988 : Agnes Neil Williams purchases Baltimore Orioles for $70 million
1988 : Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden
1988 : Carlos Andr‚s P‚rez re-elected president of Venezuela
1988 : Eli Jacobs becomes CEO of Balt Orioles
1988 : Merv Hughes takes 13 wickets v WI at the WACA but Australia lose
1988 : Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown
1988 : STS-27 Atlantis lands in Calif after secret mission
1989 : Mafia drug kingpin bombs security force at Bogot , kills 52
1989 : Worst Canadian mass murder: Marc Lepine kills 14 women at U Montr‚al
1990 : Saddam anounces release of all foriegn hostages
1990 : Shoeless Joe Jackson's signature is sold for $23,100
1991 : "Les Miserables" opens at Circustheater, Scheveningen
1991 : "Star Trek VI-Undiscovered Country" premieres
1992 : 300,000 hindus destroy mosque of Babri India, 4 die
1992 : SF Giants renig on $43 million pact with Barry Bonds
1993 : Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 5 km 7:13.29
1994 : Maltese Falcon auctioned for $398,590
1994 : Orange County Calif files for bankruptcy
1994 : Warner Brothers announces a 5th TV network to begin on Jan 11, 1995
1995 : 6th Billboard Music Awards
1995 : Michael Jackson collapses will rehearsing for an HBO special
1996 : Mashonaland defeat England in first-class tour match

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