6 December

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6 December

1675     John Lightfoot (died), English churchman, academic, and scholar (born 1602)

1768     The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.

1790     The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1823     Friedrich Max Müller (born), German philologist and orientalist (died 1900)

1865     The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery.

1876     Fred Duesenberg (born), German-American businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Automobile and Motors Company (died 1932)

1877     The first edition of the Washington Post is published.

1882     Anthony Trollope (died), English author (born 1815)

1884     The Washington Monument in Washington D.C. is completed.

1886     Joyce Kilmer (born), American poet (died 1918)

1889     Jefferson Davis (died), American politician, President of the Confederate States of America (born 1808)

1892     Werner von Siemens (died), German businessman, founded the Siemens Company (born 1816)

1896     Ira Gershwin (born), American songwriter (died 1983)

1897     London becomes the world’s first city to license taxicabs.

1898     Alfred Eisenstaedt (born), German-American photographer and journalist (died 1995)

1898     Gunnar Myrdal (born), Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1987)

1908     Baby Face Nelson (born), American gangster (died 1934)

1933     U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce’s novel Ulysses is not obscene.

1947     The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.

1948     Keke Rosberg (born), Finnish race car driver

1949     Lead Belly (died), American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1888)

1951     Harold Ross (died), American journalist, founded The New Yorker (born 1892)

1953     Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.

1967     Adrian Kantrowitz performed the first human heart transplant in the United States.

1969     Meredith Hunter is killed by the Hells Angels during The Rolling Stones’s concert at the Altamont Speedway in California.

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