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• ... that Ada Jafri (pictured) is the first Urdu poetess?
• ... that the
  Yacht Club
  in 1957?
• ... that the
  veneration of Judas Thaddaeus
  in Mexico has been linked to crime?
• ... that by January 1946 Das Volk, the second working class newspaper to be published in Berlin after World War II, had a circulation of a quarter million?
• ... that chess champion Alexandra Nicolau had to promise the Romanian secret police that she would return to Romania after playing international tournaments?
• ... that almost all of the original American free school movement schools were based on the English Summerhill School?
• ... that the roof of the
  Church of St. Nicholas in Kuršumlija, Serbia
  , was melted down for bullets?

• Former
  anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela
  (pictured) dies at the age of 95.
• The
  civil conflict in the Central African Republic
  .
• China's first lunar rover mission, Chang'e 3, launches successfully.
• Clashes between
  anti-government protesters and government supporters leave four people dead and fifty-seven injured in Bangkok
  .
• Demonstrations and civil unrest continue in Ukraine following the suspension of a tentative European Union Association Agreement.
• The
  the final
  .

December 6: Independence Day in Finland (1917)

• king of Hungary
  .
• 1921 – The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed and then came into force exactly one year later, establishing the Irish Free State, the first independent Irish state to be recognised by the British government.
• 1953 – Vladimir Nabokov completed his controversial novel Lolita, five years after starting it.
• 1988 – The Australian Capital Territory (flag pictured) was granted self-government.
• 2005 – Members of the People's Armed Police shot and killed several people in Dongzhou, Guangdong, China, who were protesting government plans to build a new power plant.

More anniversaries: December 5 – December 6 – December 7