6th December

The events happened on 6th December are :


1921 : Irish Free State established. 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.


1992 : The Babri Masjid (“Mosque of Bābur”) in Ayodhya was destroyed by Hindu fundamentalists, leading to Hindu-Muslim riots throughout India.


1973 : Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as vice president of the United States, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who had resigned.


1917 : Finland declared itself independent of Russia, following the Bolshevik Revolution.


1534 : Sebastián de Belalcázar, under the authority of Francisco Pizarro, occupied the Indian city of Quito in what is now Ecuador.


1421 : King Henry VI of England was born in Windsor, Berkshire.


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