December 6<\/p>\n
1240 \u2013 The city of Kyiv falls to invading Mongols under Batu Khan.<\/p>\n
1492 \u2013 Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Hispaniola during his first voyage of exploration.<\/p>\n
1534 \u2013 The city of Quito, Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebasti\u00e1n de Belalc\u00e1zar.<\/p>\n
1790 \u2013 The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
1865 \u2013 Georgia ratifies the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n
1884 \u2013 The Washington Monument in Washington is completed.<\/p>\n
1904 \u2013 In his State of the Union message, President Roosevelt gives his “Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable, forming the basis for the ‘Banana Wars’ in Central America.<\/p>\n
1907 \u2013 Explosions at the Fairmont Coal Company No. 6 and No. 8 mines in Monongah, West Virginia, kill 362 workers.<\/p>\n
1912 \u2013 The limestone bust of Nefertiti, the royal wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten is discovered by archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt in the Amarna excavations of the workshop of court sculptor Thutmose.<\/p>\n
1917 \u2013 During World War I, the USS Jacob Jones<\/em> is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action, when it is torpedoed by German submarine SM U-53.<\/p>\n 1923\u2013 President Coolidge’s address to Congress when it reconvened is the first presidential speech broadcast on radio.<\/p>\n 1928 \u2013 The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month long strike by workers of the United Fruit Company, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.<\/p>\n 1933 \u2013 In the case of United States v. One Book Called Ulysses,<\/em> Southern District of New York federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce’s novel Ulysses<\/em> is not obscene.<\/p>\n 1941 \u2013 During World War II, Special Training School No. 103, nicknamed “Camp X”, located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario between Whitby and Oshawa in Ontario, opens to train Allied personnel of the Special Operations Executive, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and American Office of Strategic Services, how to perform clandestine operations behind enemy lines<\/p>\n 1957 \u2013 A launchpad explosion of rocket Vanguard TV3 at Cape Canaveral,\u00a0 thwarts the first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.<\/p>\n 1967 \u2013 Adrian Kantrowitz performs the first human heart transplant in the U.S. but the patient only lives for 6 hours afterwards.<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 By terms of the 25th amendment, the U.S. House votes 387\u201335 to confirm Michigan Representative Gerald Ford’s nomination as Vice President of the United States and he is sworn into office.<\/p>\n 1998 \u2013 Hugo Ch\u00e1vez is elected as president of Venezuela<\/p>\n 2006 \u2013 NASA displays photographs taken by the Mars Global Surveyor<\/em>\u00a0 suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.<\/p>\n 2017 \u2013 Donald Trump announces the U.S. official recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.<\/p>\n 2022 \u2013The last of 1,574 Boeing 747 jets\u00a0rolls off the production line in Everett, Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 6 1240 \u2013 The city of Kyiv falls to invading Mongols under Batu Khan. 1492 \u2013 Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Hispaniola during his first voyage of exploration. 1534 \u2013 The city of Quito, Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebasti\u00e1n de Belalc\u00e1zar. 1790 \u2013 The U.S. Congress moves from … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62494"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98296,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62494\/revisions\/98296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}