Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 6

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  Nefertiti Bust
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  Encyclopædia Britannica
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  The failed Vanguard TV-3 now in a museum
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  Vanguard rocket explosion
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  Theodore Roosevelt
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  Aerial view of Camp X
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  Béla I of Hungary

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Constitution Day in Spain	refimprove section, expansion up the wazoo
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada	uncited statements
1534 – Over 200 Spanish settlers led by conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar founded what is now Quito, Ecuador.	unreferenced/refimprove sections, lots of CN tags (12)
1922 – Per the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty signed exactly one year previous, establishing the Irish Free State, the first independent Irish state to be recognised by the British government.	refimprove
1928 – At the behest of the United States, the Colombian Army violently suppressed a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers.	Too many block quotes
1953 – Vladimir Nabokov completed his controversial novel Lolita five years after starting it.	original research
1969 – The Altamont Free Concert was held in California, an event marred by considerable violence, including one homicide and three accidental deaths.	refimprove
1995 – Khabarovsk United Air Group Flight 3949 crashed into Bo-Dzhausa Mountain in Russia, killing all ninety-eight people aboard.	short
2005 – Members of the People's Armed Police shot and killed several people in Dongzhou, Guangdong, China, who were protesting government plans to build a new power plant.	needs update
2005 – An Iranian [[Lockheed C-130 Hercules|Lockheed Template:Nowrap]] transport aircraft crashed into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of Tehran, killing over 100 people.	needs better citations

Eligible

• 963 – Leo VIII was ordained a bishop, claiming the Holy See as an antipope supported by Otto the Great.
• 1060 – Béla I (pictured) was crowned King of Hungary in Székesfehérvár.
• 1803 – Haitian Revolution: Nearly all the final French ships in Haiti were captured by the Royal Navy when they attempted to evade the blockade of Saint-Domingue.
• 1846 – Mexican–American War: American and Mexican forces clashed at the Battle of San Pasqual, a series of skirmishes near San Diego, California.
• 1865 – Slavery in the United States was officially abolished when the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.
• 1904 – President Theodore Roosevelt announced the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, justifying the exercise of "international police power" by the U.S. in the Western Hemisphere.
• 1907 – A mine explosion in Monongah, West Virginia, killed 362 people and led to the establishment of the United States Bureau of Mines.
• 1912 – The Nefertiti Bust, listed among the "Top 10 Plundered Artifacts" by Time, was found in Amarna, Egypt, before being taken to Germany.
• 1917 – World War I: Template:USS became the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it was torpedoed by German submarine Template:Ship.
• 1933 — In United States v. One Book Called Ulysses Judge John M. Woolsey ruled that James Joyce's novel Ulysses was not obscene, allowing it to be imported into the United States.
• 1941 – The British Secret Intelligence Service established a facility known as Camp X (pictured) in Ontario, Canada, to train covert agents in clandestine operations.
• 1942 – The Holocaust: Members of German Ordnungspolizei massacred 31 people in occupied Poland for helping Jews.
• 1956 – At the Melbourne Olympics, 14-year-old swimmer Sandra Morgan became the youngest Australian to win an Olympic gold medal.
• 1957 – The first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite failed with an explosion on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.
• 1967 – American physician Adrian Kantrowitz and his team performed the world's first pediatric heart transplant at Maimonides Medical Center in New York City.
• 1975 – Four members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army took two people hostage in a house on Balcombe Street in London, surrendering six days later.
• 1982 – The Irish National Liberation Army exploded a time bomb in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, killing eleven British Army soldiers and six civilians.
• 1989 – 25-year-old Marc Lépine, claiming to be "fighting feminism", killed fourteen women before committing suicide at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada.
• 1990 – An Italian Air Force military jet, abandoned by its pilot after an on-board fire, crashed into a high school near Bologna, killing 12 students and injuring 88 other people.
• 1992 – The Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, India, was demolished by Hindu Kar Sevaks, who believed that it was built on the birthplace of Rama.
• 1999 – The Recording Industry Association of America filed a lawsuit against the peer-to-peer file sharing network Napster, alleging that the service facilitated widespread copyright infringement.
• 2015 – In the Venezuelan parliamentary election, the ruling United Socialist Party lost control of the National Assembly for the first time in 16 years.
• Born/died: | Jan van Scorel |d|1562| Maria de Dominici |b|1645| Marie Adélaïde of Savoy |b|1685| Nicholas Rowe |d|1718| Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes |b|1721| Robert Spear Hudson |b|1812| William Arnott |b|1827| John Cecil Russell |b|1839| Johann Palisa |b|1848| Hara Prasad Shastri |b|1853| Nick Park |b|1958| Giannis Antetokounmpo |b|1994| Pete Rozelle |d|1996| Devan Nair |d|2005|

Notes

• Monroe Doctrine appears on December 2, so Roosevelt Corollary should not appear in the same year
• Christiaan Barnard appears on December 3, so Adrian Kantrowitz should not appear in the same year
• McGurk's Bar bombing (1971) appears on December 4, so Droppin Well bombing and Balcombe Street siege should not appear in the same year
• Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution appears on December 5, so 13th Amendment should not appear in the same year

December 6: Saint Nicholas's Day (Western Christianity); Independence Day in Finland (1917)

• 1240 – After days of bombardment, Mongol invaders under Batu Khan breached the walls of Kiev and sacked the city.
• 1917 – A ship carrying TNT and picric acid in Halifax Harbour, Canada, caught fire after a collision and caused one of the largest accidental explosions in history (pictured).
• 1956 – In what became known as the Blood in the Water match at the Melbourne Olympics, the Hungarian water polo team defeated the Soviet Union Template:Nowrap against the background of the Hungarian Revolution.
• 1988 – Self-government was granted to the Australian Capital Territory.
• 2017 – Under President Donald Trump, the United States government officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.