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Constitution Day in Spain | refimprove section, expansion up the wazoo |
1534 – Over 200 Spanish settlers led by conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar founded what is now Quito, Ecuador. | unreferenced sections |
1768 – The first weekly instalment of the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was released in Edinburgh, Scotland. | refimprove/unreferenced sections |
1922 – Per the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty signed exactly one year previous, establishing the Irish Free State, the first independent Irish state to be recognised by the British government. | refimprove |
1928 – At the behest of the United States, the Colombian Army violently suppressed a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers. | inappropriate tone |
1953 – Vladimir Nabokov completed his controversial novel Lolita, five years after starting it. | original research |
1969 – The Altamont Free Concert was held in California, an event marred by considerable violence, including one homicide and three accidental deaths. | refimprove |
1995 – Khabarovsk United Air Group Flight 3949 crashed into Bo-Dzhausa Mountain in Russia, killing all ninety-eight people aboard. | short |
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. | needs update |
December 6: Saint Nicholas Day in various European countries; Independence Day in Finland (1917)
Nicholas Rowe (d. 1718) · Hara Prasad Shastri (b. 1853) · Satoru Iwata (b. 1959)