Talk:December 6

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December 6: Saint Nicholas Day (Western Christianity); Independence Day in Finland (1917); Blast cloud from the Halifax Explosion 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 the second-largest accidental explosion 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 4–0 against the background of the Hungarian Revolution. 1988 – Self-government was granted to the Australian Capital Territory. 2017 – The United States officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. George H. D. Gossip (b. 1841) Mary Margaret O'Reilly (d. 1949) Satoru Iwata (b. 1959) More anniversaries: December 5 December 6 December 7

Beethoven

!!!!it's very strange: BEETHOVEN (composer)was born on the 6th and on the 17th december 1770!!!!!

I got some information if you want to work with it.

The Washington Monument

Theodor Horydczak on top of Washington Monument, between 1920 and 1950. Washington as It Was, 1923-1959

On December 6, 1884, workers placed the 3,300 pound marble capstone on the Washington Monument, and topped it with a nine-inch pyramid of cast aluminum, completing construction of the 555-foot Egyptian obelisk. Nearly fifty years earlier, the Washington National Monument Society choose Robert Mills's design to honor first American president and founding father George Washington. The privately-funded organization laid the monument's cornerstone on Independence Day, 1848, in Washington, D.C.

For 20 years, lack of funds and loss of support for the Washington National Monument Society left the obelisk incomplete at a height of about 156 feet. Finally, in 1876, President Ulysses Grant authorized the federal government to finish construction. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took over the project two years later.

Washington Monument at Sunset, between 1920 and 1950. Theodor Horydczak, photographer Washington as It Was, 1923-1959

Day and night, spring through winter, the Washington Monument is a focal point of the National Mall and a center of celebrations including concerts and the annual Independence Day fireworks display. The observation deck affords spectacular panoramic views of the nation's capital.

When fully constructed, the Washington Monument was the world's tallest structure. Today, the approximately 36,000 stacked blocks of granite and marble compose the world's tallest freestanding masonry structure. In a city of monuments, locals refer to the obelisk as "The Monument." By mandate, it will remain the tallest structure in Washington, D.C., dominating the skyline and accenting Pierre-Charles L'Enfant's plan for the city.

There are many images of Washington, D.C. in American Memory. Search across the pictorial collections on Washington Monument to locate photographs taken from every vantage point. 192 commemorative stones line the interior walls of the Washington Monument. Read President Calvin Coolidge's speech at the Dedication of the New Mexico Stone in the Washington Monument on December 2, 1927—one of many Coolidge addresses available in Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929. Take a spin to the strains of the "Washington Monument Waltz," published in Washington D.C. in 1885. Search the collection Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 on Washington Monument. Salmon P. Chase

Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, between 1860 and 1865. Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865

On December 6, 1864, Abraham Lincoln appointed Salmon P. Chase chief justice of the United States. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Chase studied law under Attorney General William Wirt. Championing Sunday Schools and temperance in the 1830s, by the 1840s he was an active member of the abolitionist movement. Chase defended fugitive slaves in Ohio and played a key role in creating the Free Soil Party, which opposed the expansion of slavery into the territories.

With Free Soil support, Chase was elected to the Senate in 1848. He founded the Ohio Republican party and served as the state's first Republican governor from 1855 to 1859. In office, he vigorously opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act and defended the rights of African Americans. At the 1860 Republican convention, Chase permitted delegates pledged to support him to cast decisive votes for Abraham Lincoln. As a reward, in 1861, just two days after beginning his second term as senator, Chase left the Senate to serve as Lincoln's secretary of the treasury.

In 1864, Lincoln named Chase the sixth chief justice. During his time on the bench, Chase presided over the Senate's impeachment trial and acquittal of President Andrew Johnson. Chase continued to support African Americans. He drafted the first two clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. Signed into law in 1868, the amendment extended citizenship rights to all people born or naturalized in the United States.

In a letter to the Colored People's Educational Monument Association, Chase asserted:

Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad basis of universal suffrage. It has proved, also, that universal suffrage is the surest broad basis of universal guarantee and most powerful stimulus of individual, social, and political progress. May it not prove, moreover, in that work of re-organization which now engages the thoughts of all patriotic men, that universal suffrage is the best reconciler of the most comprehensive lenity with the most perfect public security and the most speedy and certain revival of general prosperity? Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the United States to Wm. Syphax and John F. Cook, Committee Celebration by the Colored People's Educational Monument Association in Memory of Abraham Lincoln…, 1865. African American Perspectives, 1818-1907

Chase suffered a stroke and died on May 7, 1873. He was honored with a formal state funeral and is buried in Washington, D.C.

Learn more:

Read "Address and Reply on the Presentation of A Testimonial to S. P. Chase." This 1845 document from African American Perspectives records a ceremony honoring Chase for his defense of escaped slave Samuel Watson. For a less-than-flattering review of Chase's performance on the campaign trail read page 92 of H. P. Hall's Observations. A prominent Minnesota journalist, Harlan Page Hall's memoir is available through the collection Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910. Today in History features on Plessy V. Ferguson, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, The Selma March, and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. place the Civil Rights Movement in context.

Stubbornness day

Amusing, but widespread enough to be included here? (Finnish independence day, English translation classic Finnish style.) 62.197.170.103 00:22, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Vanguard I

re: Vanguard I failure

My memory is the guidance computer shut down the engine approximately 18 inches into the flight. Reason was a possible failure of some minor sensor. Engine shutdown was followed by collision with ground which was followed by explosion, all on live TV. 67.169.124.161 04:57, 16 June 2007 (UTC)OrvBarr@Juno.com

Islamic Studies in Pakistan

I reluctantly removed the following event, as I can't find any sources for it. It doesn't seem to be mentioned in any other articles or anywhere I can find through Google.

• 1965 – Pakistan's Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduate level.

Alexbook (talk) 07:42, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Harriet Tubman Escape, 1849

@Prairiefire2: My edit summary got truncated: I reverted an addition of an event for Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery in 1849. Tubman made two escapes, one on 9/19/49, and another soon after, but I cannot find a date for the second attempt. The Sept-9 date is commonly cited as the "only" date. If Dec-6 can be supported, it should be added to Harriet Tubman and then here. Rwessel (talk) 08:14, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

Giannis Antetokounmpo, born 1994

What is Wikipedia's policy regarding the ethnicity and/or nationality of a person? This article identifies him as simply Greek. The intro of the article about Giannis identifies him as Greek-Nigerian. As a Greek-American, I think of him as Nigerian-Greek or even Nigerian-Greek-American. —71.105.243.101 (talk) 05:30, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, I've updated his entry to "Greek-Nigerian" as per his main article. Kiwipete (talk) 06:57, 6 December 2023 (UTC)