Historical Events In December - 06

1974  George Harrison releases "Ding Dong, Ding Dong" on December - 06.  

1975  On this day in history h-46 Sea Knight helicopters from NAS Whidbey Island began search and rescue operations in the northwestern Washington state areas flooded by heavy rains  

1977  South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence on this day in history.  

1980  On December - 06 jim Bakker rapes Jessica Hahn  

1980  NASA launches Intelsat V on this day in history.  

1982  On December - 06 11 soldiers and 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland  

1982  On this day in history sen Ted and Joan Kennedy divorce  

1983  On this day in history a bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, kills 6 Israelis  

1984  Hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage on this day in history.  

1984  Ruth Cummings, actress (Daybreak, Dream of Love), dies at 90 on this day in history.  

1985  John Cougar Mellencamp promised 24,000 people at a New York City concert that he would refund their $17.50 tickets. A power outage had caused a 20-minute interruption during this, his debut concert on this day in history.  

1985  On this day in history uK joins US Star Wars project  

1985  On December - 06 burleigh Grimes, US baseball pitcher, dies at 92  

1986  On this day in history malik Oussekine, Algerian/French student, killed by police at 22  

1987  3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun" on December - 06.  

1987  James Dobson, actor (Impulse, Jet Attack, Okinawa), dies on December - 06.  

1988  Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden on December - 06.  

1988  Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown on this day in history.  

1988  STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission on this day in history.  

1988  Bill Harris, US guitarist (Clovers-Love Potion No 9), dies at 63 on this day in history.  

1989  On this day in history worst Canadian mass murder - man kills 14 women at University of Montreal  

1989  On this day in history frances Beauvier, actress (Aunt Bee, Mayberry), dies at 86  

1990  On December - 06 saddam anounces release of all foreign hostages  

1990  On this day in history tunku Abdul Rahman, PM of Malaysia (1957-70), dies  

1991  "Star Trek VI-The Undiscovered Country" premieres on this day in history.  

1991  On December - 06 brooke Ashley Meadowcroft is born Salt Lake City, Utah  

1991  On December - 06 ann Sorg Coston, actress (Anna-Aldrich Family), dies at 62  

1992  Riots follow Hindu attack on Ayodha Mosque in India on this day in history.  

1992  On December - 06 hank Worden, actor (Red River), dies of natural causes at 91  

1993  On this day in history don Ameche, actor (Cocoon), dies of prostate cancer at 85  

1994  Apple filed a lawsuit against a San Francisco software firm called Canyon Co., alleging the company had stolen thousands of lines of code from Apple's QuickTime for Windows on December - 06.  

1994  AJ Bronkhorst, vicar/theologist (Reform The Netherlands), dies at 80 on this day in history.  

1995  On December - 06 after a long and heated debate, House and Senate committee members agreed on the final wording of the Communications Decency Act, which made it a crime to provide pornography to minors over the Internet.  

1995  On December - 06 dmitri Antonovitch Volkogonov, soldier/historian, dies at 67  

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0846  On December - 06 birth of hasan al-Askari, Shia Imam (d. 874)  

1285  On December - 06 birth of king Ferdinand IV of Castile (d. 1312)  

1421  Henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 1470-71) was born on this day in history.  

1478  On this day in history birth of baldassare Castiglione, Italian diplomat and author (d. 1529)  

1550  Orazio Tiberio Vecchi, composer was born on this day in history.  

1586  On this day in history birth of niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1670)  

1608  On December - 06 birth of george Monck/Monk, English general/gov of Scotland  

1637  Sir Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (d. 1714) was born on this day in history.  

0343  Death of Saint Nicholas on December - 06.  

1185  Afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85), dies at 76 on this day in history.  

1352  On December - 06 clement VI, [Pierre Roger], Pope (1342-52), dies  

1531  On this day in history death of john Volkertsz Trimaker, Dutch anabaptist leader, beheaded  

1550  Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter, dies at 48 on December - 06.  

1562  Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter/architect, dies on December - 06.  

1598  On December - 06 elbertus Leoninus, Dutch lawyer/politician, dies at about 78  

1618  Death of Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556) on December - 06.