Also on December 6
🏛️ Public Holidays
Also observed in: Constitution Day (ES) · Independence Day (FI) · Itsenäisyyspäivä (FI)
✡️ Religious Observances
- Jewish: Chanukah: 3 Candles חנוכה: ג׳ נרות holiday
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 2015 — Venezuelan elections are held. For the first time in 17 years the United Socialist Party of Venezuela loses its majority in parliament. ↗
- 2006 — NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars. ↗
- 2005 — An Iranian Air Force C-130 military transport aircraft crashes into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of Tehran,... ↗
- 1998 — in Venezuela, Hugo Chavez is victorious in presidential elections. ↗
- 1997 — A Russian Antonov An-124 Ruslan cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67. ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 1998 — Angelīna Kučvaļska, Latvian figure skater
- 1996 — Davide Calabria, Italian football player
- 1994 — Giannis Antetokounmpo, Greek basketball player
- 1993 — Pedro Rafael Amado Mendes, Portuguese footballer
- 1993 — Tautau Moga, Australian-Samoan rugby league player