On This Day:
Friday December 6, 2013 This is the 340th day of the year, with 25 days remaining in 2013. Fact of the Day: Altamont Concert On December 6, 1969, about 300,000 people showed up for a rock-and-roll concert at the Altamont Speedway in Livermore, California. The free concert was set up by the Rolling Stones as a Woodstock-type show and included Santana, Tina Turner, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. However, violence at the concert caused by very poor planning, overcrowding, and security problems (the Hells Angels motorcycle gang was in charge of crowd and stage security) resulted in 850 people being hurt and one man beaten and stabbed to death. The Altamont Concert, considered "the day the 60s died," represents the end of the culture of the 60s.
Holidays Finland: National Day (independence from Russia, 1917).
Feast day of St. Gertrude the Elder, St. Abraham of Kratia, St. Nicholas of Bari, St. Asella, and Saints Dionysia, Majoricus and their Companions.
Spain: Constitution Day.
Europe: St. Nicholas Day.
Events 1492 - Christopher Columbus landed on the island of Santo Domingo.
1774 - Austria became the first nation to introduce a state education system.
1790 - The U.S. Congress moved from New York to the new capital in Philadelphia.
1877 - Thomas Edison made the first sound recording, of "Mary Had a Little Lamb," on the phonograph he invented.
1884 - Army engineers completed construction of the Washington Monument, placing the 3300-pound marble capstone atop it.
1907 - In Monongah, West Virginia 361 people were killed in America's worst mine disaster.
1917 - The Bolsheviks imprisoned Czar Nicholas II and his family in Tobolsk.
1921 - The Irish Free State, composing four-fifths of Ireland, was declared part of an historic peace agreement with Great Britain.
1923 - The first presidential address to be broadcast on radio was given by President Calvin Coolidge to a joint session of Congress.
1947 - Everglades National Park in Florida was dedicated by President Harry Truman.
1948 - The "Pumpkin Papers" were found on the Maryland farm of Whittaker Chambers and became evidence that State Department employee Alger Hiss was spying for the Soviet Union.
1957 - America's first attempt at putting a satellite into orbit blew up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1957 - AFL-CIO members voted to expel the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. (The Teamsters were readmitted in 1987.)
1973 - House minority leader Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as Vice President, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew.
1998 - Endeavour's astronauts connected the first two building blocks of the International Space Station in the shuttle cargo bay.
2001 - The name of the Canadian province of Newfoundland was officially changed to Newfoundland and Labrador.
Births 1421 - Henry VI, the youngest King of England to accede to the throne.
1896 - Ira Gershwin, American musician, lyricist.
1920 - Dave Brubeck, American jazz musician.
Deaths 1988 - Roy Orbison, American singer and songwriter.
1993 - Don Ameche, American television and film actor.
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