November 6 Events |
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| November 6th, 2005 (November 06 2005) | Event | The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana. | Evans Quotes |
| November 6th, 2005 (November 06 2005) | Event | The military junta of Myanmar begins moving its government ministries from Yangon to Pyinmana. | |
| November 6th, 2004 (November 06 2004) | Event | An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing 6 and injuring 150. | |
| November 6th, 2002 (November 06 2002) | Event | 12 people are killed in a fire on board a train headed for Vienna from Paris. | |
| November 6th, 1999 (November 06 1999) | Event | Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum. | |
| November 6th, 1985 (November 06 1985) | Event | In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the April 19 Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogota, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices. | |
| November 6th, 1985 (November 06 1985) | Event | "Irangate" scandal: The American press reveals that US President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran. | Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| November 6th, 1977 (November 06 1977) | Event | The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39. | |
| November 6th, 1975 (November 06 1975) | Event | Green March begins: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara. | |
| November 6th, 1971 (November 06 1971) | Event | The AEC tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. | |
| November 6th, 1965 (November 06 1965) | Event | Cuba and the United States formally agree to start an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans will use this program. | |
| November 6th, 1963 (November 06 1963) | Event | Vietnam War: Following the November 1 coup and execution of President Ngo Dinh Diem, coup leader General Duong Van Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam. | |
| November 6th, 1962 (November 06 1962) | Event | Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa s racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation. | |
| November 6th, 1957 (November 06 1957) | Event | Felix Gaillard becomes Prime Minister of France. | |
| November 6th, 1947 (November 06 1947) | Event | Meet The Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948). | |
| November 6th, 1944 (November 06 1944) | Event | Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility, subsequently used in the Fat Man Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. | Saki Quotes |
| November 6th, 1943 (November 06 1943) | Event | World War II: Russia recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city s ancient buildings. | |
| November 6th, 1942 (November 06 1942) | Event | Carlson s patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign begins. | |
| November 6th, 1941 (November 06 1941) | Event | World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule. He states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, the Germans had lost 4.5 million soldiers and that Soviet victory was near. | Joseph Stalin Quotes |
| November 6th, 1939 (November 06 1939) | Event | World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau | |
| November 6th, 1935 (November 06 1935) | Event | Before the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation." | |
| November 6th, 1935 (November 06 1935) | Event | First flight of the Hawker Hurricane. | |
| November 6th, 1928 (November 06 1928) | Event | Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the king. | |
| November 6th, 1925 (November 06 1925) | Event | Secret agent Sidney Reilly is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union. | |
| November 6th, 1918 (November 06 1918) | Event | The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed in Poland. | |
| November 6th, 1917 (November 06 1917) | Event | World War I: Third Battle of Ypres ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium. | |
| November 6th, 1913 (November 06 1913) | Event | Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa. | |
| November 6th, 1869 (November 06 1869) | Event | In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University defeats Princeton University, 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game. | |
| November 6th, 1865 (November 06 1865) | Event | American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels. | |
| November 6th, 1861 (November 06 1861) | Event | American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America. | |
| November 6th, 1844 (November 06 1844) | Event | The first constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted. | |
| November 6th, 1789 (November 06 1789) | Event | Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States. | |
| November 6th, 1632 (November 06 1632) | Event | Death of King Gustavus Adolphus the Great of Sweden in the Battle of Lutzen during the Thirty Years War. | |
| November 6th, 1528 (November 06 1528) | Event | Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas. | |
| November 6th, 0355 (November 06 0355) | Event | Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with the government of the Prefecture of the Gauls. | Julian Quotes |
