It happened on a… December 6

2017

US President Donald Trump officially recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, announcing plans to move US embassy there.

2006

NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

2001

The Canadian province of » is renamed Newfoundland and Labrador

1990

Bruce Firestone heads group awarded new National Hockey League franchise, Ottawa Senators, for 1992-93 season; an original NHL team, the Senators started operating in 1917; but moved to St. Louis as the Eagles in 1934.

1989

The worst mass shooting in Canadian history occurred when Marc Lépine gunned down 14 women at the University of Montreal’s school of engineering. The man then killed himself.

1954

Simone de Beauvoir receives the Prix Goncourt prize in French literature.

1921

Agnes McPhail 1890-1954 is elected to the House of Commons for the United Farmers of Ontario in the first election in which all Canadian women exercise their right to vote.

1917

More than 1,600 people died when two munitions ships collided in the harbor at Halifax, Nova Scotia.

1900

Alphonse Desjardins opens the first credit union in North America, les Caisses populaires Desjardins.

1897

London becomes the world’s first city to host licenced taxicabs.

1865

13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing slavery

1735

First recorded appendectomy performed by Claudius Amyand at St George’s Hospital in London.