December 6: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1768 - The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
2. 1790 - The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
3. 1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery.
4. 1877 - The first edition of the Washington Post is published.
5. 1884 - The Washington Monument in Washington D.C. is completed.
6. 1897 - London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
7. 1933 - U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.
8. 1947 - The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
9. 1967 - Adrian Kantrowitz performed the first human heart transplant in the United States.
10. 2006 - NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyorsuggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
11. Famous Birthdays: Henry VI of England, Orazio Vecchi (Italian composer), Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (French physicist and chemist), Frédéric Bazille (French painter), George Porter (English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate)

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