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Events on December 6

• 1774 The education system in Austria is reorganized by Empress Maria Theresa. She issues the General School Ordinance, conceived by Johann Ignaz von Felbiger, which establishes six years of compulsory schooling in elementary school, uniform textbooks, and regulated teacher training and continuing education.
• 1877 The American daily newspaper The Washington Post is made available for the first time.
• 1898 Josef and Emil Berliner found the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft in Hanover.
• 1912 The German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt discovers, among other things, the approximately 3,000-year-old bust of Nefertiti, wife of Akhenaten, during his excavations at Tell el-Amarna in Egypt.
• 1917 The Parliament in Helsinki declares Finland's independence from Russia.
• 1947 The First German People's Congress for Unity and a Just Peace, initiated, organized, and controlled by the SED, convenes in Berlin. The participants reject the establishment of a separate state in West Germany, criticize the Western Allies, and support Soviet policy toward Germany.
• 1956 During the Olympic Games, the "Melbourne Bloodbath" takes place between the water polo teams from Hungary and the Soviet Union. The match, which is highly charged with emotion following the suppression of the Hungarian Uprising by Soviet troops, is stopped when the score stands at 4:0 in Hungary's favor.
• 1983 The Gospels of Henry the Lion is auctioned in London for 32.5 million Deutsche marks as the world's most expensive book to date and returns to Germany.
• 1986 The first episode of the TV series Miami Vice is broadcast in Germany (on ARD).
• 1992 In response to the far-right riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen and the murder attacks in Mölln, more than 400,000 people take part in the Munich candlelight march against xenophobia.
• 2017 The United States becomes the first foreign country to recognize Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel and wants to relocate its embassy from Tel Aviv there.
• 2023 Google's AI language model Gemini is released.

Born on December 6

• 1890 Rudolf Schlichter, German painter and writer
• 1892 Lina Carstens, German actress
• 1919 Joachim Brennecke, German actor
• 1920 Dave Brubeck, American jazz pianist
• 1930 Rolf Hoppe, German actor
• 1942 Peter Handke, Austrian writer and translator
• 1970 Michaela Schaffrath, German actress and porn actress
• 1980 Sabrina Mockenhaupt, German track and field athlete
• 1982 Alberto Contador, Spanish road cyclist
• 1994 Giannis Antetokounmpo, Greek basketball player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „6. Dezember“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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