Ambedkar has been suffering with diabetes since 1948. Due to medicine side effects and bad eyesight, he remained bedridden from June to October 1954. During 1955, his health deteriorated. Ambedkar died in his sleep three days after finishing his final manuscript, The Buddha and His Dhamma, on December 6, 1956, at his residence in Delhi. Every year on this day, known as Mahaparinirvana Diwas, people pay their respects to him. On December 7, a Buddhist cremation was held at Dadar Chowpatty beach, which was attended by 500,000 mourners.

On December 7, 2017, Ronaldo won the fifth and last Ballon d'Or award. Simply put, Cristiano Ronaldo is the football king. The Madridista forward won the Ballon d'Or in 2017, making it two years in a row and five overall in his illustrious career.

Last month, the Scottish actor's tremendous career was honoured after he died at the age of 90 after a lengthy struggle with dementia. Sir Sean Connery, who played James Bond in seven films, brought Ian Fleming's iconic British spy to life and began the Bond brand with Dr No in 1962. Sir Sean and Diane Cilento, an Australian actress, were married for 11 years and had one son, Jason, who is now 57. According to newly discovered reports, Ms Cilento married the singer after multiple rejected offers, and their wedding day was far from the greatest day of their life.

Kumar Shahani is a well-known Indian film director and screenwriter best known for his parallel cinema features Maya Darpan, Khayal Gatha, and Kasba. Due to his commitment to formalism, and the reputation of his first feature, Maya Darpan, as one of Indian cinema's first formalist films, he is frequently grouped alongside similar stylistic filmmakers such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Jacques Rivette by critics and film enthusiasts.

Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan and his crewmates — Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans — oohed and ahhed over their home planet, poised in the blackness outside their window, hours after their launch on December 7, 1972. The journey of Apollo 17: The whole disc of the planet was illuminated by the sun, a scene never before recorded on film by astronauts. The trajectory gave Schmitt the greatest view of Antarctica yet, and he marvelled at the superb vista of Africa.

Shastri, Haraprasad was a well-known orientalist and Sanskrit scholar. Haraprasad Bhattacharya (Shastri) was born on December 6, 1853, in the hamlet of Kumira in the Khulna district. As a Sanskrit student at the Sanskrit College, he was required to study English Literature, Philosophy, History, Political Economy, Algebra, and Trigonometry according to the Calcutta University syllabus. As a result, he was able to maintain contact with his roots, Sanskrit, while also gaining proficiency in many areas of contemporary education.

Mandela died on 5 December 2013 at the age of 95, at about 20:50 local time, at his home in Houghton, accompanied by his family, after suffering from a lengthy respiratory ailment. Zuma's death was revealed on television, and he declared ten days of national mourning, a memorial ceremony at Johannesburg's FNB Stadium on December 10, 2013, and December 8 as a national day of prayer and meditation. Mandela's remains lay in state at the Union Buildings in Pretoria from December 11 to 13, and a state funeral was performed on December 15 at Qunu.

People had previously made false claims that they had discovered gold, thus the Gold Rush did not begin until December 1848, when President James Polk backed up the discovery. The prospect of getting wealthy by collecting gold nuggets from the ground was akin to trying to win the lottery! Prospectors arrived from all over the world to try their luck in 1849. A few people made a tiny fortune. Others returned home destitute. Many instead made a livelihood by operating stores, saloons, laundries, and boarding houses, resulting in the formation of towns and communities that still exist in California.

Shekhar Kapur is a film director and producer from India. He is a highly regarded director who rose to prominence with the film Bandit Queen. He received Academy Award nominations for both Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Kapur was born in Lahore, British India, to Kulbhushan Kapur, a doctor with a booming practise, and Sheel Kanta, a journalist and aspiring stage actress. Kapur began his career with a multinational oil firm. He came to the United Kingdom in 1970 and worked as an accountant and management consultant for several years. He began his acting career in the Bollywood film 'Jaan Hazir hai,' and afterwards in 'Toote Khilone.'

A team of astronomers led by Carnegie's Eduardo Baados discovered the farthest distant supermassive black hole yet detected using Carnegie's Magellan telescopes. It is housed in a brilliant quasar, and its light reaches us from a time when the universe was just 5% of its present age – just 690 million years after the Big Bang. The scientists saw the supermassive black hole using two Magellan telescope instruments: FIRE, which made the discovery, and Fourstar, which was utilised for supplementary photos.

Former Trinidadian international cricketer Brian Charles Lara is regarded as one of the game's finest batsmen. Brian Lara of the West Indies made his Test debut on December 6, 1990, when he was just 21 years old. In that game, he came within six runs of reaching his first Test fifty, but he went on to amass nearly 12,000 runs in Test cricket.

The mosque stood on the location where millions of Hindus believe Lord Ram, the hero of the epic Ramayan, was born, or "janmabhoomi." Over 1.5 lakh persons were engaged in the ressurection of Ram Mandir. The kar sevaks had gathered as part of an effort to remove the relics of invaders in order to build a Ram temple at the disputed location. The events of December 6, 1992 will not be forgotten in India anytime soon, if ever.

Aurobindo Ghose, also known as Sri Aurobindo, is revered around the world as a brilliant scholar, national leader, and spiritual teacher. He received both his primary and secondary schooling in the United Kingdom. His literary brilliance had been remarkable, earning him several accolades. His early political involvement focused on the importance of seeking complete independence from the British government. Sri Aurobindo died on December 5, 1950. His work was continued by the Mother till November 17, 1973. Their efforts are ongoing.

Jasprit Jasbirsingh Bumrah, an Indian cricketer who was born on 6 December 1993, competes in all formats of the game for the Indian national side. He participates in first-class cricket and the Indian Premier League for the Gujarat cricket team and Mumbai Indians, respectively, in domestic cricket in India. He bowls fast with his right arm.

The 69-year marriage of Stan and Joan Lee was a love tale that should never have occurred. The explanation for this is simple: she was already married to another man when Stan declared his everlasting love for her. On December 5, 1947, he married Joan Clayton Boocock, originally from Newcastle, England, and in 1949, the pair purchased a home in Woodmere, New York, on Long Island, where they lived until 1952. Joan Celia "J. C." Lee, their daughter, was born in 1950. Jan Lee, another daughter, died a few days after her birth in 1953.