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11-07-2010, 04:51 AM
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This Date in History - November 6th
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* 355 Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with the government of the Prefecture of the Gauls.
* 1528 Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Αlvar Nϊρez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas.
* 1632 Thirty years war: Battle of Lόtzen is fought, the Swedes are victorius but the King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus dies in the battle.
* 1789 Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
* 1844 The first constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted.
* 1856 Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, is submitted for publication.
* 1860 American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln is elected 16th president of the United States
* 1861 American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
* 1865 American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 vessels.
* 1869 In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
* 1913 Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
* 1917 World War I: Third Battle of Ypres ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.
* 1918 The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed in Poland.
* 1925 Secret agent Sidney Reilly is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
* 1928 Sweden begins a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the king.
* 1934 Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority.
* 1935 Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers.
* 1935 First flight of the Hawker Hurricane.
* 1935 Parker Brothers acquires the forerunner patents for MONOPOLY from Elizabeth Magie.
* 1939 World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau takes place.
* 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, the Germans had lost 4.5 million soldiers and that Soviet victory was near.
* 1942 World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign begins.
* 1943 World War II: the Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings.
* 1944 Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
* 1947 Meet the Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
* 1962 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.
* 1963 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.
* 1965 Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans made use of this program.
* 1971 The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
* 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.
* 1977 The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
* 1985 In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the April 19 Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotα, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.
* 1985 The Iran-Contra Affair: The American press reveals that U.S. President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran.
* 1986 Sumburgh disaster A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2.5 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.
* 1999 Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
* 2004 An express train collides with a stationary carriage near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing 7 and injuring 150.
* 2005 The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.
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This Date in History - November 6th
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* 355 Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with the government of the Prefecture of the Gauls.
* 1528 Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Αlvar Nϊρez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas.
* 1632 Thirty years war: Battle of Lόtzen is fought, the Swedes are victorius but the King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus dies in the battle.
* 1789 Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
* 1844 The first constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted.
* 1856 Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, is submitted for publication.
* 1860 American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln is elected 16th president of the United States
* 1861 American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
* 1865 American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 vessels.
* 1869 In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
* 1913 Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
* 1917 World War I: Third Battle of Ypres ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.
* 1918 The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed in Poland.
* 1925 Secret agent Sidney Reilly is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
* 1928 Sweden begins a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the king.
* 1934 Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority.
* 1935 Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers.
* 1935 First flight of the Hawker Hurricane.
* 1935 Parker Brothers acquires the forerunner patents for MONOPOLY from Elizabeth Magie.
* 1939 World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau takes place.
* 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, the Germans had lost 4.5 million soldiers and that Soviet victory was near.
* 1942 World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign begins.
* 1943 World War II: the Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings.
* 1944 Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
* 1947 Meet the Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
* 1962 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.
* 1963 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.
* 1965 Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans made use of this program.
* 1971 The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
* 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.
* 1977 The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
* 1985 In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the April 19 Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotα, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.
* 1985 The Iran-Contra Affair: The American press reveals that U.S. President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran.
* 1986 Sumburgh disaster A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2.5 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.
* 1999 Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
* 2004 An express train collides with a stationary carriage near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing 7 and injuring 150.
* 2005 The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.
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