In United States v. One Book Called Ulysses Judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene despite coarse language and sexual content, a leading decision affirming free expression. Date: December 6, 1933 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 6 📅 Events on this day in 1933…
Winter War: The Red Army's advance on the Karelian Isthmus is stopped by Finns at the Mannerheim Line during the Battle of Taipale. Date: December 6, 1939 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 6 📅 Events on this day in 1939 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War II: Camp X opens in Canada to begin training Allied secret agents for the war. Date: December 6, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 6 📅 Events on this day in 1941 📅 On This Day (Today)
A violent water polo match between Hungary and the USSR takes place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, against the backdrop of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Date: December 6, 1956 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 6 📅 Events on this day in 1956 📅 On This Day (Today)
Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit. Date: December 6, 1957 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 6 📅 Events on this day in 1957 📅 On This Day (Today)
Adrian Kantrowitz performs the first human heart transplant in the United States. Date: December 6, 1967 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 6 📅 Events on this day in 1967 📅 On This Day (Today)
Altamont Free Concert: At a free concert performed by the Rolling Stones, eighteen-year old Meredith Hunter is stabbed to death by Hells Angels security guards. Date: December 6, 1969 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 6 📅 Events on this day in 1969 📅 On This Day (Today)
Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India, initiating the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. Date: December 6, 1971 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 6 📅 Events on this day in 1971 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387–35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92–3.) Date: December 6, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 6 📅 Events on this day in 1973 📅 On This…
The Troubles: Fleeing from the police, a Provisional IRA unit takes a British couple hostage in their flat on Balcombe Street, London, beginning a six-day siege. Date: December 6, 1975 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 6 📅 Events on this day in 1975 📅 On This Day (Today)