Today is 6 December and this happened on this date in the past:
1️⃣ On this day in 1534, Sebastián de Belalcázar, under the authority of Francisco Pizarro, occupied the Indian city of Quito in what is now Ecuador.
2️⃣ Georgia became the 27th U.S. state to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery. This happened on 6 December 1865.
3️⃣An explosion in a coal mine in Monongah, West Virginia, killed 361 people on 6 December 1907. Many of them were children workers.
4️⃣ A bust of Nefertiti was discovered during excavations at Tell el-Amarna, Egypt on 6 December 1912; the sculpture later went on display in a Berlin museum, and it became a source of controversy as an alleged plundered artifact.
5️⃣ On 6 December 1917, Finland declared itself independent of Russia, following the Bolshevik Revolution.
6️⃣ The Babri Masjid (“Mosque of Bābur”) in Ayodhya was destroyed by Hindu fundamentalists, leading to Hindu-Muslim riots throughout India. This happened on 6 December 1992.
7️⃣ The British government and Irish leaders Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, and others signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty, establishing the Irish Free State as an independent member of the British Commonwealth this day in 1921.
8️⃣ These people were born on this day:
Premier of Soviet Union Joseph Stalin (1878)
American actress Agnes Moorehead (1900)
American musician Dave Brubeck (1920)
American producer Judd Apatow (1967)
































































