December 6: Hanukkah begins at sunset (Judaism, 2015); Independence Day in Finland (1917)
Blast cloud from the Halifax Explosion
- 1060 – Béla I the Champion was crowned king of Hungary.
- 1865 – Slavery in the United States was officially abolished when the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified.
- 1917 – A ship in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada, carrying TNT and picric acid caught fire after a collision with another ship and caused the second-largest man-made accidental explosion in history (pictured).
- 1975 – Four members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army took two people hostage in a house on Balcombe Street in Marylebone, London, surrendering six days later.
- 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.
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