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Nov 6, 1962: U.N. condemns apartheid
On this day in 1962, the United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and calling on all its members to end economic and military relations with the country.
In effect from 1948 to 1993, apartheid, which comes from the Afrikaans word for "apartness," was government-sanctioned racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against South Africa's non-white majority. Among many injustices, blacks were forced to live in segregated areas and couldn’t enter whites-only neighborhoods unless they had a special pass. Although whites represented only a small fraction of the population, they held the vast majority of the country's land and wealth.
Following the 1960 massacre of unarmed demonstrators at Sharpeville near Johannesburg, South Africa, in which 69 blacks were killed and over 180 were injured, the international movement to end apartheid gained wide support. However, few Western powers or South Africa's other main trading partners favored a full economic or military embargo against the country. Nonetheless, opposition to apartheid within the U.N. grew, and in 1973 a U.N. resolution labeled apartheid a "crime against humanity." In 1974, South Africa was suspended from the General Assembly.
After decades of strikes, sanctions and increasingly violent demonstrations, many apartheid laws were repealed by 1990. Finally, in 1991, under President F.W. de Klerk, the South African government repealed all remaining apartheid laws and committed to writing a new constitution. In 1993, a multi-racial, multi-party transitional government was approved and, the next year, South Africa held its first fully free elections. Political activist Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison along with other anti-apartheid leaders after being convicted of treason, became South Africa's new president.
In 1996, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), established by the new government, began an investigation into the violence and human rights violations that took place under the apartheid system between 1960 and May 10, 1994 (the day Mandela was sworn in as president). The commission's objective was not to punish people but to heal South Africa by dealing with its past in an open manner. People who committed crimes were allowed to confess and apply for amnesty. Headed by 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the TRC listened to testimony from over 20,000 witnesses from all sides of the issue—victims and their families as well as perpetrators of violence. It released its report in 1998 and condemned all major political organizations—the apartheid government in addition to anti-apartheid forces such as the African National Congress—for contributing to the violence. Based on the TRC's recommendations, the government began making reparation payments of approximately $4,000 (U.S.) to individual victims of violence in 2003.
Nov 6, 1917: Bolsheviks revolt in Russia
Led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin, leftist revolutionaries launch a nearly bloodless coup d'État against Russia's ineffectual Provisional Government. The Bolsheviks and their allies occupied government buildings and other strategic locations in the Russian capital of Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) and within two days had formed a new government with Lenin as its head. Bolshevik Russia, later renamed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was the world's first Marxist state.
Born Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov in 1870, Lenin was drawn to the revolutionary cause after his brother was executed in 1887 for plotting to assassinate Czar Alexander III. He studied law and took up practice in Petrograd, where he associated with revolutionary Marxist circles. In 1895, he helped organize Marxist groups in the capital into the "Union for the Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class," which attempted to enlist workers to the Marxist cause. In December 1895, Lenin and the other leaders of the Union were arrested. Lenin was jailed for a year and then exiled to Siberia for a term of three years.
After the end of his exile, in 1900, Lenin went to Western Europe, where he continued his revolutionary activity. It was during this time that he adopted the pseudonym Lenin. In 1902, he published a pamphlet titled What Is to Be Done? which argued that only a disciplined party of professional revolutionaries could bring socialism to Russia. In 1903, he met with other Russian Marxists in London and established the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party (RSDWP). However, from the start there was a split between Lenin's Bolsheviks (Majoritarians), who advocated militarism, and the Mensheviks (Minoritarians), who advocated a democratic movement toward socialism. These two groups increasingly opposed each other within the framework of the RSDWP, and Lenin made the split official at a 1912 conference of the Bolshevik Party.
After the outbreak of the Russian Revolution of 1905, Lenin returned to Russia. The revolution, which consisted mainly of strikes throughout the Russian empire, came to an end when Nicholas II promised reforms, including the adoption of a Russian constitution and the establishment of an elected legislature. However, once order was restored, the czar nullified most of these reforms, and in 1907 Lenin was again forced into exile.
Lenin opposed World War I, which began in 1914, as an imperialistic conflict and called on proletariat soldiers to turn their guns on the capitalist leaders who sent them down into the murderous trenches. For Russia, World War I was an unprecedented disaster: Russian casualties were greater than those sustained by any nation in any previous war. Meanwhile, the Russian economy was hopelessly disrupted by the costly war effort, and in March 1917 riots and strikes broke out in Petrograd over the scarcity of food. Demoralized army troops joined the strikers, and on March 15, Nicholas II was forced to abdicate, ending centuries of czarist rule. In the aftermath of the February Revolution (known as such because of Russia's use of the Julian calendar), power was shared between the weak Provisional Government and the soviets, or "councils," of soldiers' and workers' committees.
After the outbreak of the February Revolution, German authorities allowed Lenin and his lieutenants to cross Germany en route from Switzerland to Sweden in a sealed railway car. Berlin hoped (correctly) that the return of the anti-war Socialists to Russia would undermine the Russian war effort, which was continuing under the Provisional Government. Lenin called for the overthrow of the Provisional Government by the Soviets, and he was condemned as a "German agent" by the government's leaders. In July, he was forced to flee to Finland, but his call for "peace, land, and bread" met with increasing popular support, and the Bolsheviks won a majority in the Petrograd Soviet. In October, Lenin secretly returned to Petrograd, and on November 6-8 the Bolshevik-led Red Guards deposed the Provisional Government and proclaimed Soviet rule.
Lenin became the virtual dictator of the first Marxist state in the world. His government made peace with Germany, nationalized industry, and distributed land, but beginning in 1918 had to fight a devastating civil war against czarist forces. In 1920, the czarists were defeated, and in 1922 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was established. Upon Lenin's death, in early 1924, his body was embalmed and placed in a mausoleum near the Moscow Kremlin. Petrograd was renamed Leningrad in his honor. After a struggle for succession, fellow revolutionary Joseph Stalin succeeded Lenin as leader of the Soviet Union.
Nov 6, 1941: Stalin celebrates the Revolution's anniversary
On this day in 1941, the 24th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Joseph Stalin, premier and dictator of the USSR, delivers a speech to a rally of Moscow Party workers.
The rally was held underground, in the marbled halls of the Mayakovsky train station. There, Stalin encouraged the assembled Communist Party workers with the promise that if the Germans "want a war of extermination, they shall have one." The very next day, standing atop Lenin's Mausoleum in Red Square, Stalin took the salute of his troops and encouraged them to defend "holy Russia"—even as German tanks, previously mired in mud, began to roll over now—frozen ground in their advance toward the Soviet capital.
But Stalin would have more than just his military to rely on. As the Red Army marched down Gorky Street, President Franklin Roosevelt officially extended the scope of the Lend-Lease Act to include the Soviet Union. The USSR would now be eligible for an influx of American arms-including British weaponry manufactured in the United States. What had begun as a military aid program for Great Britain was growing to include other allies in their fight against fascism-even fascism's left-wing mirror image, Bolshevik Russia.
Nov 6, 1860: Abraham Lincoln elected president
Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote but handily defeated the three other candidates: Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Constitutional Union candidate John Bell, and Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas, a U.S. senator for Illinois.
Lincoln, a Kentucky-born lawyer and former Whig representative to Congress, first gained national stature during his campaign against Stephen Douglas of Illinois for a U.S. Senate seat in 1858. The senatorial campaign featured a remarkable series of public encounters on the slavery issue, known as the Lincoln-Douglas debates, in which Lincoln argued against the spread of slavery, while Douglas maintained that each territory should have the right to decide whether it would become free or slave. Lincoln lost the Senate race, but his campaign brought national attention to the young Republican Party. In 1860, Lincoln won the party's presidential nomination.
In the November 1860 election, Lincoln again faced Douglas, who represented the Northern faction of a heavily divided Democratic Party, as well as Breckinridge and Bell. The announcement of Lincoln's victory signaled the secession of the Southern states, which since the beginning of the year had been publicly threatening secession if the Republicans gained the White House.
By the time of Lincoln's inauguration on March 4, 1861, seven states had seceded, and the Confederate States of America had been formally established, with Jefferson Davis as its elected president. One month later, the American Civil War began when Confederate forces under General P.G.T. Beauregard opened fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina. In 1863, as the tide turned against the Confederacy, Lincoln emancipated the slaves and in 1864 won reelection. In April 1865, he was assassinated by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after the American Civil War effectively ended with the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox.
For preserving the Union and bringing an end to slavery, and for his unique character and powerful oratory, Lincoln is hailed as one of the greatest American presidents.
Nov 6, 1861: Jefferson Davis elected president of the Confederacy
On this day in 1861, Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America. He ran without opposition, and the election simply confirmed the decision that had been made by the Confederate Congress earlier in the year.
Like his Union counterpart, President Abraham Lincoln, Davis was a native of Kentucky, born in 1808. He attended West Point and graduated in 1828. After serving in the Black Hawk War of 1832, Davis married Sarah Knox Taylor, the daughter of General (and future U.S. president) Zachary Taylor, in 1835. However, Sarah contracted malaria and died within several months of their marriage. Davis married Varina Howells in 1845. He served in the Mexican War (1846-48), during which he was wounded. After the war, he was appointed to fill a vacant U.S. senate seat from Mississippi, and later served as secretary of war under President Franklin Pierce.
When the Southern states began seceding after the election of Abraham Lincoln in the winter of 1860 and 1861, Davis suspected that he might be the choice of his fellow Southerners for their interim president. When the newly seceded states met in Montgomery, Alabama, in February 1861, they decided just that. Davis expressed great fear about what lay ahead. "Upon my weary heart was showered smiles, plaudits, and flowers, but beyond them I saw troubles and thorns innumerable." On November 6, Davis was elected to a six-year term as established by the Confederate constitution. He remained president until May 5, 1865, when the Confederate government was officially dissolved.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
355 - Emperor Constantine II crowns cousin Julianus keizer
of Britain
1153 - Treaty of Wallingford (Oxfordshire) signed between
King Stephen and the Empress Maude
1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza
de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas.
1534 - Zealand hit by heavy storm
1572 - Supernova is observed in constellation known as
Cassiopeia
1632 - Battle at Lutzen: Swedish/Saxon army beats imperial
armies
1657 - Brandenburg & Poland sign unity of Bromberg
1676 - King Carlos II of Spain comes of age (at 15)
1789 - Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the
first Catholic bishop in the United States.
1792 - Battle at Jemappes: French army beats Ausrtrians
1813 - Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of
Spain
1844 - Spain grants Dominican Rep independence
1850 - 1st Hawaiian fire engine
1850 - Yerba Buena & Angel Islands (SF Bay) reserved for
military use
1860 - Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th American
President
1861 - Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate
president
1862 - NY-SF direct telegraphic link forms
1863 - Battle of Rogersville TN
1864 - Battle of Cane Hill, AK
US President Abraham Lincoln 1864 - Battle of Droop
Mountain, WV (Averell's Raid)
1865 - Maastricht-Venlo railway opens in Netherlands
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.
1869 - 1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers
6, Princeton 4)
1871 - Cameroon reaches coast of Angola after trip through
Africa
1878 - Henrik Ibsens "Samfundets Stotter,"
premieres in Oslo
1879 - Canada celebrates 1st Thanksgiving Day
1883 - NYAC organizes 1st American cross-country
championship race
1884 - British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New
Guinea
1884 - Montreal Foot Ball Club (QFRU) defeats Toronto
Argonauts (ORFU) 30-0 in 1st CRFU Championship game
1885 - US mint at Carson City, Nevada directed to close
1888 - Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) beats Pres Grover
Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more
votes
1897 - Peter Pan opens in NY at Empire Theater
1900 - Battle at Bothaville: gen-mjr Charles Knox beats
Boers
1900 - Pres William McKinley (R) 25th American President
re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan. Assassinated 1901
25th US President William McKinley 1903 - USA recognizea
independence of Panama
1906 - Charles Evans Hughes (R) elected NY Gov beats William
Randolph Hearst
1908 - Leonid Andreyevs "Dui Nashey Zhizni,"
premieres in St Petersburg
1910 - SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female
suffrage
1911 - Francisco Madeiro inaugurated president of Mexico
1913 - Mohandas K Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners
march in S Afr
1915 - 1st military flight in Neth East Indies (Tandjong
Priok)
1915 - Sophokles Skouloudis forms Greek government
1917 - Bolshevik revolution begins with capture of Winter
Palace
1917 - NY allows women to vote
1918 - Republic of Poland proclaimed
1918 - Supreme commander of the army Gen Cutters resigns
1919 - 1st Dutch radio program: Soirée Musicale with
"Turf in you(r) ransel"
1923 - USSR adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day
"weeks"
1924 - Stanley Baldwin becomes PM of UK
Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Mahatma Gandhi 1925 - Secret
agent Sidney Reilly is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet
Union.
1928 - Clevelanders vote to build a stadium with city bonds
1928 - Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E Smith (D) for pres
1928 - Colonel Jacob Schick patents 1st electric razor
1928 - Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus
pastries to commemorate the king.
1932 - German election - KPD defeats NSDAP
1934 - NFL Philadelphia Eagles beat Cincinnati Reds 64-0
1935 - 1st test flight of British Hurricane aircraft
1935 - Maiden flight by Canada's Hawker Hurricane military
plane
1936 - RCA displays TV for press
1936 - Terence Rattigan's "French Without Tears"
premieres in London
1938 - 3 DiMaggio brothers play together for 1st time,
charity all star game
1939 - WGY-TV (Schenectady, NY), 1st coml TV station, begins
service
1939 - WRGB TV channel 6 in Schenectady-Alby-Troy, NY (CBS)
1st broadcast
1939 - World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1940 - Franklin
Roosevelt re-elected US President
1941 - Einsatz group kills 15,000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine
1941 - Japanese fleet readies assault on Pearl Harbor
1941 - USA lends Soviet Union $1 million
1942 - Nazis execute 12,000 Minsk ghetto Jews
1942 - Sukarno & Mohammed Hatta finds Ampat Serangkai
1943 - Russian troops land on Kertsj peninsula
1943 - Soviet forces reconquer Kiev
1943 - Stalin says: "The issue of German fascism is
lost"
1945 - HUAC begins investigation of 7 radio commentators
1949 - Greeks civil war ends
1950 - Branch Rickey signs 5-yr contract as VP/GM of
Pittsburgh Pirates
1950 - Chinese offensive halts at Chongchon River, North
Korea
1950 - King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India
1952 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch's cantata "About our
Fatherland," premieres
Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin 1953 - French National
Meeting grants Saarland more autonomy
1953 - Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as manager of Balt
Orioles
1953 - Masao Oki's symphony "Atomic Bomb,"
premieres
1955 - 11th Ryder Cup: US, 8-4 at Thunderbird Ranch & CC
Calif
1955 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern
Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1956 - Holland & Spain withdraw from Olympics, protest
Soviets in Hungary
1956 - Pres Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating Adlai E
Stevenson (D)
1957 - "Rumple" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 45
performances
1957 - Felix Gaillard becomes premier of France
1958 - AL announces that KC will play AL record 52 night
games in 1959
1958 - Belgium government of Eyskens & Lilar forms
1958 - Wilber Snyder beats V Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA
wrestling champ
1961 - US government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday
of James Naismith
1962 - BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable
vote
1962 - Edward M Kennedy 1st elected (Sen-D-Mass)
1962 - Edward W Brooke (R) elected attorney general of
Massachusetts
1962 - Saudi Arabia proclaims abolition of slavery
1962 - UN General Assembly adopts resolution condemning
South Africa
1964 - WEIQ TV channel 42 in Mobile, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - 1st entire lineup televised in color (NBC)
1966 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies' Golf Open
1966 - Lunar Orbiter 2 launched
1967 - Bridge at Annabaai crashes on Willemstad, Curacao,
kills 15
1967 - US launches Surveyor 6; makes soft landing on Moon
Nov 9
1968 - Nixon elected 37th pres of US, defeating Hubert
Humphrey
1968 - Students of SF State Counsel go on strike
1969 - 1st Cy Young Award tie (Mike Cuellar, Balt &
Denny McLain, Det)
1970 - Boog Powell wins AL MVP
1970 - Twins Jim Perry wins AL Cy Young Award
1971 - "Great Harp" closes at Martin Beck Theater
NYC after 7 performances
1971 - US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka
Island Aleutians
1973 - "Man With the Golden Girl" begins shooting
1973 - Abe Beame eleceted 1st Jewish mayor on NYC
1973 - Coleman Young elected mayor of Detroit
1974 - Dodger Mike Marshall is 1st relief pitcher to win Cy
Young Award
1975 - "Hello, Dolly" opens at Minskoff Theater
NYC for 51 performances
1975 - 1st appearance of Sex Pistols
1976 - Benjamin Hooks, succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive
director of NAACP
1976 - Former Twins relief ace Bill Campbell is 1st
free-agent to sign with a new team, joining the Red Sox for $1 million over 4
years
1977 - "Hair" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after
43 performances
1977 - 1st Emmy Sports Award presentation
1977 - 39 killed in an earthen dam burst at Toccoa Falls
Bible College, Ga
1978 - Iranian general Gholan Reza Azhari forms government
1978 - Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule
1979 - Ayatolla Khomeini takes over in Iran
1981 - Fernando Valenzuela is 1st rookie to win a Cy Young
Award
1981 - Larry Holmes TKOs Renaldo Snipes in 11 for
heavyweight boxing title
1982 - Joe Altobelli succeeds Earl Weaver as Oriole manager
1983 - Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Sports Nippon Team Match Golf
Tournament
1983 - Discovery transported to Vandenberg AFB, Calif
1983 - Tor Bay Buccaneers James Wilder rushes for 219 yards
vs Minnesota Vikings
1983 - Turkey Turgut Özals Moederland party wins elections
US President & Actor Ronald Reagan 1984 - President
Reagan (R) landslide (won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D)
1984 - Willie Hernandez wins AL MVP Award
1985 - 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61A) -Challenger 9- lands
at Edwards AFB
1985 - Exploratory well at Ranger Tx, explodes spilling 6.3
m gallons of oil
1985 - M-19 guerrilla's occupies Palace of Justice Bogota
Colombia
1985 - Space shuttle Challenger lands at Edwards Calif
1986 - Houston's Mike Scott (18-10) wins NL Cy Young
1986 - President Reagan signs landmark immigration reform
bill
1986 - Rev Donald Wildmon begins a campaign against Howard
Stern
1987 - Roger Clemens wins consecutive Cy Young Awards
1988 - 18th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in
2:28:07
1988 - 19th NYC Marathon won by Steve Jones in 2:08:20
1988 - Japan & MLB all stars played to a 6-6 draw (Game
2 of 7)
1988 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1988 - Steve Jones wins NY men's marathon; Grete Waitz 9th
women's title
1989 - US marshals & FCC sieze pirate radio station WJPL
in Brooklyn
1990 - Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1990 - Braves Dave Justice wins NL Rookie of Year
1990 - Fire destroys some of Universal Studio's stages
1990 - Guam Republican governor Joseph Ada re-elected
1991 - "Moscow Circus Cirk Valentin" opens at
Gershwin NYC for 32 perfs
1991 - Grand duke Vladimir Kirillovitsj returns to St
Petersburg
1991 - Keck II, biggest telescope in use at Mauna Kea Hawaii
1991 - Maximus 2.0 BBS released
1991 - Robert M Gates, becomes 15th director of CIA
1991 - Russian president Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party
1993 - Actor Howard Rollins arrested for drunk driving
Champion Boxer Evander Holyfield 1993 - Evander Holyfield
beats Riddick Bowe in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1993 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arcangues, Brocco,
Cardmania, Hollywood Wildcat, Kotashaan, Lure, Phone Chatter at Belmont
1994 - 24th NYC Women's Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in
2:27:37
1994 - 25th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:11:21
1994 - Emomali Rachmonov recognized as president of
Tadzjikistan
1994 - Woo-Soon Ko wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Golf Cup
1995 - Art Modell officially announces Cleveland Browns are
moving to Balt
1995 - Israel buries Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by a fellow
Jew who opposed peace with Palestinians
1996 - LA Dodger Todd Hollandsworth wins NL Rookie of Year
1997 - "Proposals," opens at Broadhurst Theater
NYC for 76 performances
1997 - SF Giants manager Dusty Baker named NL Manager of the
Year
1999 - Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their
head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
2002 - 12 people are killed in a fire on board a train
headed for Vienna from Paris.
2004 - An express train collides with a stationary car near
the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing 6 and injuring 150.
2005 - The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in
Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.
2005 - The military junta of Myanmar (Burma) begins moving
its government ministries from Yangon to Pyinmana.
2012 - 5 people are shot at a poultry processing plant in
Fresno, California
44th US President Barack Obama 2012 - Voters go to the polls
for the US Presidential election with Barack Obama projected to claim an
Electoral College victory
2012 - US territory Puerto Rico votes to become a US State
2012 - Green Moon wins the Melbourne Cup race at Flemington
1789 - Father John Carroll was appointed as the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States of America. 1832 - Joseph Smith, III, was born. He was the first president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He was also the son of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. 1851 - Charles Henry Dow was born. He was the founder of Dow Jones & Company. 1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the sixteenth president of the United States. 1861 - Jefferson Davis was elected as the president of the Confederacy in the U.S. 1861 - The inventor of basketball, James Naismith, was born. 1869 - The first official intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick, NJ. 1913 - Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested as he led a march of Indian miners in South Africa. 1917 - During World War I, Candian forces take the village of Passchendaele, Belgium, in the Third Battle of Ypres. 1923 - Jacob Schick was granted a patent for the electric shaver. 1935 - Edwin H. Armstrong announced his development of FM broadcasting. 1952 - The first hydrogen bomb was exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. 1962 - The U.N. General Assembly adopts a resolution that condemned South Africa's racist apartheid policies. The resolution also called for all member states to terminate military and economic relations with South Africa. 1965 - The Freedom Flights program began which would allow 250,000 Cubans to come to the United States by 1971. 1967 - Phil Donahue began a TV talk show in Dayton, OH. The show was on the air for 29 years. 1975 - King Hassan II of Morocco launches the Green March, a mass migration of 300,000 unarmed Moroccans, that march into the nation of Western Sahara. 1977 - 39 people were killed when an earthen dam burst, sending a wall of water through the campus of Toccoa Falls Bible College in Georgia. 1983 - U.S. Army choppers dropped hundreds of leaflets over northern and central Grenada. The leaflets urged residents to cooperate in locating any Grenadian army or Cuban resisters to the U.S-led invasion. 1984 - For the first time in 193 years, the New York Stock Exchange remained open during a presidential election day. 1985 - Leftist guerrillas belonging to Columbia's April 19 Movement seized control of the Palace of Justice in Bogota. 1986 - Former Navy radioman John A. Walker Jr., was sentenced in Baltimore to life imprisonment. Walker had admitted to being the head of a family spy ring. 1986 - U.S. intelligence sources confirmed a story run by the Lebanese magazine Ash Shiraa that reported the U.S. had been secretly selling arms to Iran in an effort to secure the release of seven American hostages. 1989 - In the hopes of freeing U.S. hostages held in Iran, the U.S. announced that it would unfreeze $567 million in Iranian assets that had been held since 1979. 1990 - About 20% of the Universal Studios backlot in southern California was destroyed in an arson fire. 1991 - Kuwait celebrated the dousing of the last of the oil fires ignited by Iraq during the Persian Gulf War. 1995 - Art Modell, the owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced plans to move his team to Baltimore. (Maryland) 1995 - Mark Messier scored his 500th NHL goal. 1996 - Michael Jordan scored 50 points for the 29th time in his NBA career. 1998 - The Islamic militant group Hamas exploded a car bomb killing the two attackers and injuring 21 civilians. 1999 - Australian voters rejected a referendum to drop Britain's queen as their head of state. 2001 - In London, the "Lest We Forget" exhibit opened at the National Memorial Arboretum. Fred Seiker was the creator of the 24 watercolors. Seiker was a prisoner of war that had been forced to build the Burma Railroad, the "railway of death," for the Japanese during World War II. 2001 - In Madrid, Spain, a car bomb injured about 60 people. The bomb was blamed on Basque separatists. 2001 - Ten people were executed in Beijing, China. The state newspaper of China said that all of the people executed were robbers and killers aged 20-23. 2001 - Disney's "Mickey's Magical Christmas - Snowed In at the House Of Mouse" was released on video and DVD. Disney movies, music and books
1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States. 1861 Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederate States of America. 1869 The first intercollegiate soccer game took place (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4). 1893 Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia, at age 53. 1913 Mohandas Gandhi led a march of miners in South Africa. He was arrested three times in the first four days of the march.
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http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/nov06.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
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