December 6th

The December 6th is the 340e Jour of the Année (341e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier. There remain 25 days before the end of the year.
It is the day of the Saint Nicolas, the owner of the children.

Events

  • 1058 : Beginning of the Pontificate of Nicolas II (fine in 1061). Gerard of Burgundy, archbishop of Florence, is elected by the clergy at the instigation of Pierre Damien and Hildebrand and becomes the 155 {{E}} pope of the Catholic church.

  • 1305 : The king Venceslas III abdicates in Hungary.
  • 1370 : Bertrand of Guesclin enters Saumur to put its troops at rest; it made there celebrate a ceremony in the honor of the old man Marshal of France Arnoul d' Audrehem, which took again active service.
  • 1491 : Marriage, with Langeais (Indre-et-Loire), of the King de France Charles VIII with the duchess Anne of Brittany.
  • 1586 : Charles de Bourgneuf is named bishop of Saint-Malo. It will remain it until its resignation in 1596.
  • 1792 : The commission known as “commission of the vingt-un”, whose Girondin Valazé is the rapporteur, is charged by the Convention with presenting the énonciatif act of the crimes whose Louis XVI would be shown and the series of questions to be posed to the king at the time of sound lawsuit.
  • 1815 : The marshal Ney, shown treason to be itself rejoined with Napoleon, is condemned to died and carried out under the Second Restoration.
  • 1846 : In Paris, the Damnation of Faust of Berlioz is a failure.
  • 1848 : Manuel Isidoro Belzu Humerez becomes the tenth President of the Republic of Bolivia.
  • 1865 : Treaty of union, signed with Paris, between the France and the principality of Monaco.
  • 1890 : First injection of Serum to therapeutic goal.
  • 1900 : With Lévis, Gabriel-Alphonse Desjardins, his wife Dorimène Roy and fellow-citizens found the first popular case.
  • 1905 : The third Prix Goncourt is allotted to Claude Farrère.
  • 1906 : Autonomy is granted to the South-African provinces of the Transvaal and Orange.
  • 1907 :
    • with Baddeck, in Nova Scotia, Flight of Cygnet I, with Thomas Selfridge on his board. The apparatus is crushed
    • with Mononagh, in Virginia-Western, an accident kills 361 coal minors.
  • 1914 : Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata enters together to Mexico City at the end four years of revolutionary fights.
  • 1916 : The town of Bucharest falls to the hands from the armies Austro-Hungarians.
  • 1917 :
    • Independence of the Finland.
    • Explosion of Halifax; the greatest explosion before Hiroshima.
  • 1921 : The signature of the Anglo-Irish Traité with London puts an end to the Guerre of Irish independence.
  • 1925 : The Italy and the Egypt sign a treaty on the borders Libya.
  • 1929 : The women obtain the Right to vote in Turkey.
  • 1938 : The France and the Germany sign an agreement devoting the inviolability of their existing borders.
  • 1941 : The day before the Japanese attack against Pearl Harbor, the president Roosevelt lance a call to the emperor Hiro Hito in favor of peace.
  • 1950 : The general Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is named Haut-commissaire of France in Indo-China.
  • 1961 : With the Katanga, province of the Congo-Léopoldville, violent one engagements between Blue helmets of UNO and rebels katangais.
  • 1966 : The Great Britain claims with the the United Nations sanctions against the Rhodesia which proclaimed its independence unilaterally.
  • 1969: Security service, ensured by Hell' S Angels, keep silent a fan at the time of a concert of the Rolling Stones on the circuit of Altamont in California.
  • 1971 : In South Korea, the president Park Chung-hee imposes the state of emergency by calling upon a danger of invasion by the North Korea.
  • 1978 : Jacques Chirac lance the Call of Cochin. In Spain, the new Constitution is promulgated; beginning of the Transición Española which transformed the authoritative State of 1975 into parliamentary Monarchy.
  • 1983 : End in Turkey of more than three years of military regime, with the meeting of a Parliament lately elected.
  • 1986 : A French of Maghrebian origin, Malik Oussekine, dies following the intervention with Paris acrobats motorcylcists of the police force at the time of a demonstration against the project Devaquet of university reform.
  • 1989 :
    • Slaughter of the Polytechnic school: Exaggerated keep silent 14 young women from the Polytechnic school of Montreal. This date will remain engraved forever in the Canadian history.
    • In Colombia, the explosion of a trapped truck makes sixty-seven dead.
  • 1990 :
    • Saddam Hussein announces the release of all the hostages.
    • the Supreme court of the Canada declares validates the obligatory age of the retirement which, certainly discriminatory, is justified by the community property.
  • 1992 :
    • the Suisse refuses to adhere to the European Economic space (EEE). 50,3% of not against 49,7% of yes.
    • In India, of the Hindu extremists destroys the mosque of Ayodhya; violences with Moslems will make more than six hundred dead in the country.
  • 1993 : In France, launching of the Preventive to a franc (0,15 euros).
  • 1996 : With Blida, in the south of Algiers, nineteen people are cut the throat of or decapitated, a massacre allotted to the group Abou Djamil.
  • 1997 : Taking off of Irkoutsk, in Siberia, a Antonov 124 is crushed on a building, killing sixty-five people on board and the ground.
  • 1998 :
    • the first two elements of future the International space station (ISS) are assembled in orbit by two astronauts of Endeavor.
    • Six years after its Putsch missed, Hugo Chavez, forty-four years, is elected president of the Venezuela.
    • In France, after thirty hours of twelfth emission on line, it Telethon obtains 450.900.000 F of promises of donations.
  • 1999 :
    • the chief militiaman Georges Rutaganda (MRND) is condemned to the life imprisonment, following the Génocide of the Rwanda.
    • the Russian army gives until the December 11th the civilians to leave the capital tchetchene Grozny before subjecting this one to massive bombardments.
  • 2001 : Rendering of Kandahar, last bastion Taliban in the south of the Afghanistan.
  • 2003 :
    • Opening of Lille 2004, capital European of the culture.
    • Rosanna Davison, Ireland Miss and girl of the singer Chris De Burgh becomes Miss Monde.
  • 2005 :
    • the paramilitary police force opens fire on several thousands of villagers who expressed, with Dongzhou, in the South of the China, against the construction of a powerplant, making at least three dead. Certain villagers evoke about thirty killed. They are the most serious violences since the massacre of Tian' anmen, in 1989.
    • Dominique de Villepin and Nicolas Sarkozy agrees on a designation procedure of the candidate UMP at presidential at the time of the political office of the party, by ratifying the principle of a vote of the members in January 2007.
    • Two women Kamikaze S explode themselves in a police academy of Baghdad, making 43 dead.
    • a military transport aircraft Iranian C-130 is crushed against a building of the suburbs of Teheran, making at least 115 dead.
  • 2006 :
    • France24 is diffused on the satellite and the cable in France, in Europe, in the Close relation and the Middle East, in Africa and in the United States in the State of New York and the District of Columbia.
    • Joseph Kabila is invested like chair third republic (Congo-Kinshasa)
    • the United States: publication of the final report of the Group of study on Iraq recommending the withdrawal of the American troops.

Births

Death

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Nicolas de Myre (4th century), owner of the children, the sailors, the students, the Lorraine .

See too

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