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06 November, 2005

The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana. The military junta of Myanmar begins moving its government ministries from Yangon to Pyinmana.

06 November, 2004

An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing 6 and injuring 150.

06 November, 2002

12 people are killed in a fire on board a train headed for Vienna from Paris

06 November, 1999

Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.

06 November, 1985

In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the April 19 Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.

06 November, 1985

"Irangate" scandal: The American press reveals that US President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran.

06 November, 1977

The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.

06 November, 1975

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.

06 November, 1971

The AEC tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.

06 November, 1965

Freedom Flights begin: 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 take advantage of this program.

06 November, 1962

Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africas racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation. 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.

06 November, 1957

Félix Gaillard becomes Prime Minister of France

06 November, 1947

Meet The Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).

06 November, 1944

Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility, subsequently used in the Fat Man Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

06 November, 1943

World War II: Russia recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, Germans destroy most of the citys ancient buildings.

06 November, 1942

World War II: SS City of Cairo sunk by German U-Boat U-68 in the South Atlantic en route to Brazil from Cape Town.

06 November, 1941

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, that the Germans have lost 4.5 million soldiers (a wild exaggeration) and that Soviet victory was near.

06 November, 1939

World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau

06 November, 1935

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," i.e. FM radio. First flight of the Hawker Hurricane.

06 November, 1931

Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba arrives in The United States for the first time aboard the SS Roma.

06 November, 1928

Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the king.

06 November, 1925

Secret agent Sidney Reilly is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.

06 November, 1918

The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed in Poland.

06 November, 1917

World War I: Third Battle of Ypres ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.

06 November, 1913

Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.

06 November, 1873

The Halifax Rugby League Football Club is formed.

06 November, 1869

In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University defeats Princeton University, 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.

06 November, 1865

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.

06 November, 1861

American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.

06 November, 1844

The first constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted.

06 November, 1789

Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.

06 November, 1632

Death of King Gustavus Adolphus the Great of Sweden in the Battle of Lützen during the Thirty Years War.

06 November, 1528

Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas.

06 November, 355

Roman Emperor Constantius II raises his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him of the government of the Prefecture of the Gauls.

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