12-06-2004, 06:33 AM
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December 6th
1768 ~ First edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica waspublished.
1884 ~ The Halifax explosion killed more than 1900 people, and destroyed part of the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1896 ~ Birthday of Ira Gershwin, Lyricist.
1920 ~ Birthday of Dave Brubeck, jazz musician.
1929 ~ Birthday of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor.
1933 ~ Federal judge John M. Woolsey ruled that the James Joyce novel Ulysses was not obscene.
1972 ~ Launch of the last manned Saturn V, carrying the Apollo 17 astronauts on the last manned lunar landing mission.
1989 ~ The École Polytechnique Massacre: a man killed 14 young women in Montreal, Quebec.
1992 ~ In Ayodhya, India, right-wing Hindus belonging to the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party and allied organizations demolished the Babri Masjid, a 16th century mosque, which they claim was built upon the birth place of Lord Rama.
2002 ~ Death of Philip Berrigan, civil rights activist.
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