IT HAPPENED ON DECEMBER 6TH

 

  963 Leo VIII elected Pope

1196 Northern Dutch coast flooded in the "Saint-Nicolaas Flood"

1240 The Mongols under Batu Khan occupied and 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 the island of Haiti is discovered by Christopher Columbus

1648 Thomas Pride prevents 96 Presbyterians from sitting in the English parliament
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie’s army retreats to Scotland

1756 British troops under Robert Clive occupy Fulta India
1768 1st edition of "Encyclopedia Britannica" is published in Scotland
1820 US president James Monroe re-elected
1833 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin aboard departs Rio de la Plata
1849 Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland
1862 President Lincoln orders the hanging of 39 Santee Sioux Indians

1865 13th Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery
1873 1st international football game in the USA Yale 2, Eton 1

1876 1st crematorium in the USA begins operation, Washington, Penn
1877 1st sound recording made by Thomas Edison
1877 Washington Post publishes its 1st edition
1907 Coal mine explosions in Monongah, WV, kills 361
1912 China votes for universal human rights

1914 German troops over run Lodz

1917 Finland declares independence from Russia
1917 French munitions ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax killing 1,700

1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty signed giving Ireland dominion status and partition creates Northern Ireland

1940 Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter the poster artist Helen Ernst

1941 Dutch and British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore

1956 Nelson Mandela and 156 others are arrested for political activities in South Africa
1963 Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fans
1966 Polio vaccination becomes obligatory in Belgium
1973 Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected VP, succeeding Spiro T Agnew
1989 Worst Canadian mass murder when Marc Lepine kills 14 women at Montreal university
1990 Shoeless Joe Jackson's signature is sold for $23,100

1992 300,000 Hindus attack and destroy the mosque of Babri India, 4 die
1994 Maltese Falcon auctioned for $398,590