Friday December 6, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

December 6: Day of the Week

December 6, 2024 is the 341st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 25 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is vendredi.

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Here’s the December calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

December 6 Historical Event(s)

1240
Mongol invasion of Rus': Kiev under Danylo of Halych and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
1704
Battle of Chamkaur.
1969
Meredith Hunter is killed by the Hells Angels during a The Rolling Stones’s concert at the Altamont Speedway in California.
1971
Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India following New Delhi’s recognition of Bangladesh.
1975
Balcombe Street Siege: An IRA Active Service Unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street, London.
1978
Spain approves its latest constitution in a referendum.
1989
The École Polytechnique Massacre (or Montreal Massacre): Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal.
1992
The Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, India is demolished, leading to widespread riots causing the death of over 1500 people.
2005
An Iranian Air Force C-130 military transport aircraft crashes into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of Tehran, killing all 84 on board and 44 more civilians.
2006
NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

Who were born on December 6?

1778
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850)
1833
John S. Mosby, American Civil War figure (d. 1916)
1917
Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese leader of the Lebanese Druze (d. 1977)
1952
Craig Newmark, American internet entrepreneur
1953
Gary Ward, American baseball player
1970
Isabelle Arnould, Belgian swimmer
1972
Heather Mizeur, American politician
1980
Steve Lovell, British footballer
1982
Susie Stoddart, Scottish racing driver
2000
Pablo Nicolás Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish royal

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