What day of the week was December 6, 1956?

The day of the week December 6th, 1956 fell on was a Thursday.

There were 19 days until Christmas. Last day of Hanukkah for Jewish people.

Peter Buck the American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (R.E.M., Hindu Love Gods, The Minus 5, Tuatara, Tired Pony, and The Baseball Project) was born on 06 December in 1956. As was Hans Kammerlander the Italian mountaineer , Randy Rhoads the American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Quiet Riot) (d. 1982) .

B. R. Ambedkar the Indian economist and politician, 1st Indian Minister of Justice (b. 1891) died on this day in 1956. As did John Geiger the American rower (b. 1873) .

A violent water polo match between Hungary and the USSR takes place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne the against the backdrop of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.