1741
Dec 6, Russian princess Elisabeth Petrovna (1709-1762) seized power with the help of the Preobrazhensky Regiment. Petrovna (31), the daughter of Peter the Great, and her husband led a coup d’etat, deposed the infant Czar Ivan VI, had him imprisoned and reigned until her death in 1762.

1741
Dec 6, In Russia Elizabeth Petrovna (31), the daughter of Peter the Great, and her husband led a coup d’etat. She deposed the infant Czar Ivan VI, had him imprisoned and reigned until her death in 1762.

1929
Dec 6, Turkey introduced female suffrage.

1989
Dec 6, In Canada 14 women were shot to death at the University of Montreal's school of engineering by Marc Lepine, who then took his own life.

2002
Dec 6, Actress Winona Ryder was sentenced to community service as part of a probationary term for stealing more than $5,500 worth of merchandise from a Saks Fifth Avenue store in Beverly Hills, Calif.

2003
Dec 6, In the beach resort of Sanya, China, Miss Ireland, 19-year-old Rosanna Davison, won the Miss World competition. Second place went to Miss Canada, Nazanin Afshin-Jam, while the host country's Miss China, Guan Qi, took third.

2007
Dec 6, India overturned a 1914 law that banned women from tending bar in New Delhi. A ruling in New Delhi in January said women could do bar work in hotels and restaurants, ended a 92-year-old law barring their employment. In August the Delhi government sought a ban on such jobs for women. Each of India’s 29 states has its own laws governing the sale of alcohol, and many restrict women working behind the bar.

2010
Dec 6, In Virginia the body of Tina Smith (41) was found slain in her home near Salem. Her daughter Brittany Mae Smith (12) was missing as well was the suspected killed Jeffrey Scott Easley (32). He had been living with the Smiths since meeting tina online last October. On Dec 9 police in California arrested Easley in San Francisco and rescued the girl.
2013
Dec 6, In China a woman died of the H10N8 strain of bird flu, the first ever reported human case of the virus.

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