On this day in history - Today, December, 6

Today in History

• 1977 South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana

  The Republic of Bophuthatswana was never internationally recognized. In 1994, after a series of coup

• 1967 World's first pediatric heart transplant

  3 days after the first heart transplant in the world occurred in South Africa, Adrian Kantrowitz and

• 1922 Establishment of the Irish Free State

  The Anglo-Irish Treaty signed between the British and Irish representatives in 1921 paved the way f

• 1917 Finnish Declaration of Independence

  The declaration ended 109 years of Finland being a Grand Duchy in the Russian Empire. The Northern

• 1865 Adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

  The amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime.