Historical Events In December - 06

1974  On December - 06 george Harrison releases "Ding Dong, Ding Dong"   

1975  On December - 06 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  On this day in history south Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence   

1980  Jim Bakker rapes Jessica Hahn on this day in history.   

1980  On December - 06 nASA launches Intelsat V   

1982  11 soldiers and 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland on this day in history.   

1982  Sen Ted and Joan Kennedy divorce on December - 06.   

1983  A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, kills 6 Israelis on December - 06.   

1984  On December - 06 hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage   

1984  On December - 06 ruth Cummings, actress (Daybreak, Dream of Love), dies at 90   

1985  On December - 06 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.   

1985  On December - 06 uK joins US Star Wars project   

1985  On this day in history burleigh Grimes, US baseball pitcher, dies at 92   

1986  On December - 06 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  On this day in history james Dobson, actor (Impulse, Jet Attack, Okinawa), dies   

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

1988  Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown on December - 06.   

1988  On this day in history sTS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission   

1988  Bill Harris, US guitarist (Clovers-Love Potion No 9), dies at 63 on December - 06.   

1989  Worst Canadian mass murder - man kills 14 women at University of Montreal on this day in history.   

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

1990  Saddam anounces release of all foreign hostages on this day in history.   

1990  Tunku Abdul Rahman, PM of Malaysia (1957-70), dies on December - 06.   

1991  On December - 06 "Star Trek VI-The Undiscovered Country" premieres   

1991  On this day in history brooke Ashley Meadowcroft is born Salt Lake City, Utah   

1991  Ann Sorg Coston, actress (Anna-Aldrich Family), dies at 62 on this day in history.   

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 December - 06 don Ameche, actor (Cocoon), dies of prostate cancer at 85   

1994  On December - 06 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.   

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

1995  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 on December - 06.   

1995  Dmitri Antonovitch Volkogonov, soldier/historian, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

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0846  Hasan al-Askari, Shia Imam (d. 874) was born on December - 06.   

1285  King Ferdinand IV of Castile (d. 1312) was born on this day in history.   

1421  On this day in history birth of henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 1470-71)   

1478  Baldassare Castiglione, Italian diplomat and author (d. 1529) was born on December - 06.   

1550  On December - 06 birth of orazio Tiberio Vecchi, composer   

1586  On December - 06 birth of niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1670)   

1608  George Monck/Monk, English general/gov of Scotland was born on this day in history.   

1637  On December - 06 birth of sir Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (d. 1714)   

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  Clement VI, [Pierre Roger], Pope (1342-52), dies on this day in history.   

1531  On December - 06 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 this day in history.   

1598  On this day in history elbertus Leoninus, Dutch lawyer/politician, dies at about 78   

1618  On this day in history death of jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556)