Page 7: 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 December - 06 south Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence   

1980  On December - 06 jim Bakker rapes Jessica Hahn   

1980  On this day in history nASA launches Intelsat V   

1982  On December - 06 11 soldiers and 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland   

1982  On December - 06 sen Ted and Joan Kennedy divorce   

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

1984  Hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage on this day in history.   

1984  On this day in history ruth Cummings, actress (Daybreak, Dream of Love), dies at 90   

1985  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 on this day in history.   

1985  UK joins US Star Wars project on December - 06.   

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  On December - 06 3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun"   

1987  On this day in history james Dobson, actor (Impulse, Jet Attack, Okinawa), dies   

1988  Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden on this day in history.   

1988  On December - 06 nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown   

1988  STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission on this day in history.   

1988  On December - 06 bill Harris, US guitarist (Clovers-Love Potion No 9), dies at 63   

1989  On this day in history worst Canadian mass murder - man kills 14 women at University of Montreal   

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

1990  On this day in history saddam anounces release of all foreign hostages   

1990  On this day in history tunku Abdul Rahman, PM of Malaysia (1957-70), dies   

1991  On this day in history "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 December - 06.   

1992  Riots follow Hindu attack on Ayodha Mosque in India on December - 06.   

1992  Hank Worden, actor (Red River), dies of natural causes at 91 on December - 06.   

1993  Don Ameche, actor (Cocoon), dies of prostate cancer at 85 on December - 06.   

1994  On this day in history 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 December - 06.   

1995  On December - 06 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.   

1995  On December - 06 dmitri Antonovitch Volkogonov, soldier/historian, dies at 67   

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0846  On December - 06 birth of hasan al-Askari, Shia Imam (d. 874)   

1285  On this day in history birth of king Ferdinand IV of Castile (d. 1312)   

1421  On December - 06 birth of henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 1470-71)   

1478  On this day in history birth of baldassare Castiglione, Italian diplomat and author (d. 1529)   

1550  Orazio Tiberio Vecchi, composer was born on December - 06.   

1586  Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1670) was born on December - 06.   

1608  On this day in history birth of george Monck/Monk, English general/gov of Scotland   

1637  Sir Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (d. 1714) was born on this day in history.   

0343  On this day in history death of saint Nicholas   

1185  On December - 06 afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85), dies at 76   

1352  On this day in history clement VI, [Pierre Roger], Pope (1342-52), dies   

1531  Death of John Volkertsz Trimaker, Dutch anabaptist leader, beheaded on December - 06.   

1550  Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter, dies at 48 on this day in history.   

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 December - 06 death of jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556)