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December 6

3 sourced moments from December 6 in history: The 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States (1865); The Halifax Explosion devastated a Canadian harbor (1917); and The Irish Free State Came Into Existence (1922).

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3 things happened on December 6

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1922 Geography · Countries

The Irish Free State Came Into Existence

On a single December midnight, twenty-six Irish counties slipped free of direct British rule and a new self-governing dominion was born.

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1917 Earth & Climate · Natural Disasters

The Halifax Explosion devastated a Canadian harbor

A wartime harbor collision detonated a shipload of munitions, leveling a city district in the loudest blast before the atomic age.

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1865 Society & Economy · Politics & Law

The 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States

Georgia's vote pushed the amendment past the three-fourths mark, ending slavery as a legal institution nationwide.

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