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Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah
- Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah (pictured) wins the Namibian general election.
- South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol declares martial law and lifts it hours later after a vote by the National Assembly.
- At least 56 people are killed in a crowd crush during a football match at the Stade du 3 Avril in Nzérékoré, southern Guinea.
- Syrian opposition forces enter Aleppo in the first offensive since the 2020 ceasefire.
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December 6: Saint Nicholas's Day (Western Christianity); Independence Day in Finland (1917)
Blast cloud from the Halifax Explosion
- 1240 – After days of bombardment, Mongol invaders under Batu Khan breached the walls of Kiev and sacked the city.
- 1917 – A ship carrying TNT and picric acid in Halifax Harbour, Canada, caught fire after a collision and caused one of the largest accidental explosions in history (pictured).
- 1956 – In what became known as the Blood in the Water match at the Melbourne Olympics, the Hungarian water polo team defeated the Soviet Union 4–0 against the background of the Hungarian Revolution.
- 1988 – Self-government was granted to the Australian Capital Territory.
- 2017 – Under President Donald Trump, the United States government officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
- George H. D. Gossip (b. 1841)
- Mary Margaret O'Reilly (d. 1949)
- Satoru Iwata (b. 1959)
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Great Yarmouth Town Hall is a municipal building on Hall Plain in Great Yarmouth, in Norfolk, England. It is the meeting place of Great Yarmouth Borough Council and is a Grade II* listed building. The town hall was designed by John Bond Pearce in the Queen Anne Revival style, with terracotta facings and a 110-foot-tall (34-metre) clock tower with a lantern above. It was opened by Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), on 31 May 1882. The building served as the headquarters of Great Yarmouth County Borough Council for much of the 20th century and has continued to operate as the local seat of government following the formation of the enlarged borough council in 1974. This hand-colored photochrom shows Great Yarmouth Town Hall in the 1890s, seen from opposite the River Yare.Photograph credit: Detroit Publishing Company; restored by Adam Cuerden