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Notable anniversaries in history for today: December 6
- 600th: 1424 - Don Alfonso V of Aragon grants Barcelona the right to exclude Jews.
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Susan Foster in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actress (Sierra).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Wally Cox in Detroit, Michigan, USA; actor (Mr. Peepers TV show, The Adventures of Hiram Holiday), panelist (Hollywood Squares).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Nick Bockwinkel; wrestler (WCW/AWA).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Jonathan King in London, England; singer ("Everyone's Gone to the Moon").
- 80th: 1944 - US 95th Infantry division reaches German Westwall.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Miles Chapin in New York City, New York, USA; actor (French Postcards, Get Crazy, Funhouse).
- 70th: 1954 - Simone de Beauvoir receives Prix Goncourt.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Will Johnson; Canadian Football League defensive end (Saskatchewan Roughriders).
- 60th: 1964 - President Segni of Italy resigns.
- 60th: 1964 - NBC airs the Rankin-Bass holiday TV special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer for the first time.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Arjan Ebbinge; soccer player (FC Groningen).
- 40th: 1984 - Hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill second hostage.
- 40th: 1984 - Ruth Cummings, actress (Daybreak, Dream of Love), dies at age 90.
- 30th: 1994 - AJ Bronkhorst, vicar/theologist (Reform The Netherlands), dies at age 80.
- 30th: 1994 - Alan Owen, English screenplay/actor (A Hard Day's Night), dies at age 69.
- 30th: 1994 - Gian Maria Volonte, actresss (Fistful of Dollars), dies at age 61.
- 30th: 1994 - Maltese Falcon auctioned for US$398,590.
- 30th: 1994 - Orange County, California, files for bankruptcy, due to risky investments.
- 20th: 2004 - Terrorists attack the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing several people.
- 15th: 2009 - Peru and China ratify their Free Trade Agreement, to come into effect March 1, 2010.
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