On December 6
On December 6, 2 pivotal events are recorded in the Human Saga, including The Thirteenth Amendment abolishes slavery in the United States (1865).
On this day
Ratified on 6 December 1865 and proclaimed on 18 December, the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime, throughout the country and its territories.
On 6 December 1998 Hugo Chávez, a former army officer who had led a failed 1992 coup, was elected president of Venezuela with about 56 percent of the vote, promising to write a new constitution, fight corruption and redistribute the…
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On the morning of 7 December 1941, Japanese carrier-based aircraft launched a surprise attack on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, sinking or damaging numerous battleships and other vessels and killing about 2,400…
On 9 December 1824, on the high plateau near Ayacucho in Peru, a patriot army of about 6,000 commanded by Antonio José de Sucre, Bolívar's most capable lieutenant, decisively defeated a larger Spanish royalist force under Viceroy José de…
On 3 December 1967 surgeon Christiaan Barnard and a large team at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, performed the first human-to-human heart transplant, placing the heart of accident victim Denise Darvall into Louis…
South Korea was plunged into its gravest constitutional crisis in decades when President Yoon Suk Yeol abruptly declared martial law on the night of 3 December 2024, sending troops toward the National Assembly.
A lightning offensive led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and allied factions captured Damascus, toppling President Bashar al-Assad, who fled to Russia.