December 6

See also: Category: Holidays December 6

National

•   Azerbaijan , Workers Day of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies ^[2] .
•   Bulgaria - .
•   Spain , Constitution Day.
•   Kazakhstan , Day of the prosecutor .
•   Ukraine , Armed Forces Day .
•   Finland , Independence Day .
•   Ecuador , Founding of the capital of Quito ^[3] .

  Religious

  Catholicism

- Day of St. Nicholas ;

- memory of St.

  Orthodoxy ^{[4] [5]}

- the memory of the martyrs of Sisinius, Bishop of Kizic ( III century ), and Theodore of Antioch ( IV century );

- memory of St. Amphilochius, Bishop of Iconium (after 394 years );

- memory of St. Gregory, Bishop of Araganti ( VI - VII centuries );

- memory of the Right Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky, in the schema of Alexy ( 1263 );

- memory of St. Mitrofan, in the schema of Macarius, bishop of Voronezh ( 1703 );

- memory of the Monk Martyr Seraphim (Tievar) ( 1931 );

- memory of St. John Vasilyev, the confessor ( 1932 );

- memory of the holy martyrs Eleazar Spiridonov, presbyter and martyr Alexander Uksusov ( 1937 );

- memory of St. Columban, Father Superior of Luxeusa ( 615 ) ^[6] .

Name Day

• Alexander , Alexey , Boris , Gregory , Mitrofan , Fedor , Maxim , Nikita

See also: Category: December 6 events

Until the 20th century.

• 1492 - Columbus' first expedition discovered the island of Haiti .
• 1648 - Pride cleaning in England .
• 1741 - coup d'etat in Russia , as a result of which Elizaveta Petrovna became empress.
• 1868 - traffic on the Oryol-Vitebsk railway was discovered.

XX century

• 1905 - the Krasnoyarsk Republic was proclaimed.
• 1909 - Saratov University was opened.
• 1912 - a bust of Nefertiti was discovered during excavations in the Egyptian Amarna .
• 1917
  • The Finnish parliament decided to secede from Russia and obtain the status of an independent state.
  • in the port of Halifax , a ship loaded with ammunition exploded . Killed about 2000 people.
• 1920 - Republic of North Ingria abolished
• 1921 - The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed, according to which exactly one year later (December 6, 1922 ) Ireland gained independence.
• 1978 - explosion of two wagons with explosives at the Kurovskaya station.
• 1989 - shot at the Polytechnic Institute of Montreal . Killed 15 people, including the shooter. Another 14 people were injured.
• 1991
  • The new Constitution of the Bulgarian Republic came into force.
  • Armed forces of Ukraine are formed .
• 1995 - Tu-154 crash near Khabarovsk , 98 people were killed.
• 1997 - An-124 military transport aircraft of the Russian Air Force crashed on a residential building in Irkutsk . Killed 72 people.
• 2000 - Livermorium was discovered - a chemical element with atomic number 116.

See also: Category: Born on December 6

Until the 19th century

• 1285 - Fernando IV (d. 1312 ), king of Castile and Leon (1295-1312).
• 1421 - Henry VI (d. 1471 ), king of England (1422-1461, 1470-1471), from the dynasty of Lancaster .
• 1520 - Barbara Radziwill (d. 1551 ), Grand Duchess of Lithuania and Queen of Poland.
• 1742 - Nicola Leblanc (d. 1806 ), French chemist-technologist.
• 1778 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (d. 1850 ), French chemist and physicist.
• 1786 - Georg Bodmer (d. 1864 ), Swiss mechanic and inventor.
• 1797 - Naum Vekilhardzhi (d. 1846 ), Albanian writer, author of a variant of the Albanian alphabet.

XIX century

• 1812 - Nikolai Pimenov (d. 1864 ), Russian sculptor.
• 1813 - Nikolai Ogaryov (d. 1877 ), poet, publicist, Russian revolutionary.
• 1833 - John Mosby (d. 1916 ), Colonel of the Confederate Army, partisans.
• 1839 - Anton Purseladze (d. 1913 ), Georgian writer, publicist, critic, historian.
• 1841 - Frederic Bazille (d. 1870 ), French artist, one of the founders of impressionism .
• 1849 - August von Mackensen (d. 1945 ), German military leader, Field Marshal .
• 1860 - Nikolai Kurnakov (d. 1941 ), Russian Soviet physicochemist, academician, creator of physico-chemical analysis .
• 1870 - Nikolai Lossky (d. 1965 ), Russian philosopher, intuitive .
• 1899 - Nikolai Batalov (d. 1937 ), theater and film actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR.

XX century

• 1903 - Gaito Gazdanov (d. 1971 ), Russian writer and literary critic, emigrant.
• 1904
  • Eva Denise Curie (d. 2007 ), French and American pianist, writer, journalist, music critic and public figure.
  • Alexander Vvedensky (d. 1941 ), Russian poet and playwright, children's writer.
• 1905 - Boris Volchek (d. 1974 ), Soviet film director, screenwriter and cameraman.
• 1913 - Sergey Zalygin (d. 2000 ), Soviet and Russian writer, public figure, in 1986-1998 the chief editor of the magazine " New World ".
• 1920 - Dave Brubeck (d. 2012 ), American jazz composer, arranger, pianist.
• 1921 - George Burling (d. 1948 ), Canadian pilot ace, participant in World War II.
• 1924 - Nikolai Starshinov (d. 1998 ), Russian Soviet poet, war veteran.
• 1925 - Grigory Lampe (d. 1995 ), theater and film actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1927 - Vladimir Naumov , Russian film director, screenwriter, actor, producer.
• 1929 - Nikolaus Arnonkur (d. 2016 ), Austrian conductor and choirmaster, cellist, gambist , music writer.
• 1942 - Peter Handke , Austrian writer and playwright.
• 1943 - Oleg Grigoriev (d. 1992 ), Russian poet and artist, representative of the Leningrad underground.
• 1949 - Mikhail Yampolsky , Russian and American historian and art theorist, culturologist, philosopher, film critic and philologist.
• 1950 - Joe Hisaishi , Japanese composer.
• 1954 - Andrey Minenkov , Soviet figure skater, two-time world champion in ice dancing.
• 1956 - Randy Rhodes (died 1982 ), American virtuoso guitarist, songwriter.
• 1957 - Mikhail Evdokimov (died in 2005 ), entertainer, comedian, film actor, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.
• 1958
  • Alexander Baluev , Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.
  • Nick Park , British animator.
• 1965 - Zhanna Agalakova , Russian journalist and television presenter.
• 1967 - Judd Apatow , American film director, screenwriter, producer.
• 1970 - Ulf Ekberg , a Swedish musician, one of the founders and a member of Ace of Base .
• 1982 - Alberto Contador Velasco , Spanish cyclist.

See also: Category: Deceased on December 6

Until the 19th century

• 345 - Nikolai the Miracle Worker (in the Orthodox Church, his memory is celebrated according to the Julian calendar ).
• 1185 - Alphonse I Enriques (b. 1109 ), the first king of Portugal (from 1139).
• 1352 - Clement VI ( Pierre Roger de Beaufort-Turenne in the world; b. 1291 ), 198th pope (1342-1352)
• 1771 - Giovanni Battista Morgagni (b. 1682 ), Italian physician, founder of pathological anatomy .
• 1779
  • Joseph Black (b. 1728 ), Scottish chemist and physicist.
  • Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin (b. 1699 ), French painter.

XIX century

• 1805 - Nicola Jacques Conte (b. 1755 ), French artist and scientist.
• 1855
  • Amschel Rothschild (b. 1773 ), German banker, one of the founders of the Rothschild dynasty.
  • William Swanson (b. 1789 ), English ornithologist and artist.
• 1864 - Simonas Daukantas (b. 1793 ), Lithuanian historian and writer-educator.
• 1868 - August Schleicher (b. 1821 ), German linguist.
• 1882 - Anthony Trollop (b. 1815 ), English writer.
• 1886 - Ivan Bogomolov (b. 1841 ), Russian architect.
• 1889 - Jefferson Davis (b. 1808 ), the first and only president of the Confederate States of America .
• 1892 - Werner von Siemens (b. 1816 ), engineer, inventor, founder of Siemens AG .

XX century

• 1937 - Sergey Malyutin (b. 1859 ), Russian Soviet artist and architect, Wanderer .
• 1938
  • George Baklanov ( real name Alfons-Georg Bakis ; b. 1881 ), Russian opera singer of Latvian origin.
  • David William Harvey (b. 1887 ), Canadian engineer, organizer of the transportation system.
• 1942 - Alexey Svirsky (b. 1865 ), Russian and Soviet fiction writer .
• 1949 - Ledbelli (real name Haddy William Ledbetter ; b. 1888 ), American blues singer, composer, guitarist.
• 1956
  • Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (b. 1891 ), Indian lawyer and politician, the main author of the draft Indian Constitution .
  • Derenik Demirchyan (b. 1877 ), Armenian Soviet writer, poet, translator.
• 1971 - Matilda Kshesinskaya (b. 1872 ), Russian ballerina of Polish origin.
• 1974
  • Robert Bartini (b. 1897 ), a Soviet aircraft designer of Italian origin.
  • Nikolai Kuznetsov (b. 1904 ), Fleet Admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• 1988 - Roy Orbison (b. 1936 ), American singer.
• 1990 - Abdul Rahman (b. 1903 ), the first Prime Minister of Malaysia (1957-1970).
• 1991 - Richard Stone (b. 1913 ), English economist, Nobel laureate (1984).
• 1992 - George Mayboroda (b. 1913 ), Ukrainian Soviet composer, conductor, teacher, people's artist of the USSR.
• 1993 - Don Amici (b. 1908 ), American actor, Academy Award winner.
• 1994 - Gian Maria Volonte (b. 1933 ), Italian film and theater actor.
• 1995 - Dmitry Volkogonov (b. 1928 ), Soviet and Russian historian, political scientist, colonel general.

21st Century

• 2003 - Hans Hotter (b. 1909 ), German singer (bass-baritone).
• 2006 - Sergey Voronin (b. 1956 ), Soviet and Russian rock musician, keyboardist of the Picnic group.
• 2007 - Alexander Tkachenko (b. 1945 ), Russian poet and human rights activist.
• 2014 - Ralph Baer (b. 1922 ), American inventor, "father of video games."
• 2017 - Johnny Halliday (b. 1943 ), French rock singer, composer and actor.
• 2018 - Galina Anisimova (b. 1929 ), theater and film actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR.

Mitrofan .

• Mitrofan predicts the weather on June 6th .
• North wind and snow promise northerly wind and rain in summer.
• On this day, in ancient times, peasants celebrated the formation of a toboggan path in the snow and ice ^[7] .