Historical Events and Current Affairs on November 6

1153 : Treaty of Wallingford signed
1534 : New Zealand gets hit by heavy storm
1572 : Supernova is observed in constellation known as Cassiopeia
1632 : Battle at Lützen: Swedish/Saxon army beats imperial armies
1657 : Brandenburg & Poland sign unity of Bromberg
1676 : King Carlos II of Spain becomes of age (at 15)
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 pres
1861 : Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate pres
1862 : NY-SF direct telegraphic link forms
1863 : Battle of Rogersville TN
1864 : Battle of Cane Hill, AK
1864 : Battle of Droop Mountain, WV (Averell's Raid)
1865 : Maastricht-Venlo railway in Neth opens
1871 : Cameroon reaches coast of Angola after trip through Africa
1871 : Pres Grant re-elected
1878 : Henrik Ibsens "Samfundets Stotter," premieres in Oslo
1879 : Canada celebrates 1st Thanksgiving Day
1884 : British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea
1885 : US mint at Carson City, Nevada directed to close
1888 : Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) beats Pres Grover Cleveland (D), 233
1888 : 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) re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan
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 govt
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: Soir?e Musicale with "Turf in you(r) ransel"
1922 : King George V proclaims Irish Free state
1923 : Col Jacob Schick patents 1st electric shaver
1923 : USSR adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day "weeks"
1924 : Stanley Baldwin becomes PM of England
1928 : Clevelanders vote to build a stadium with city bonds
1932 : German election - KPD defeats NSDAP
1935 : 1st test flight of British Hurricane aircraft
1935 : Engl prince Henry (under George V) weds Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott
1935 : Maiden flight by Canada's Hawker Hurricane military plane
1936 : RCA displays TV for press
1936 : Terence Rattigans "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
1940 : Franklin D Roosevelt re-elected 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 : L Oterma discovers asteroid #2268 Szmytowna
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 Pitts 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
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 : 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 : Belgium govt of Eyskens & Lilar forms
1961 : US govt 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 : Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more
1962 : Saudi Arabia proclaims abolishing 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 : Lunar Orbiter 2 launched
1967 : Bridge at Annabaai crashes on Willemstad, Cura?ao, 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 : 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
1975 : "Hello, Dolly" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 51 performances
1975 : 1st appearance of Sex Pistols
1976 : a new team, joining the Red Sox for $1 million over 4 years
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
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 govt
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
1982 : Joe Altobelli succeeds Earl Weaver as Oriole manager
1983 : Discovery transported to Vandenberg AFB, Calif
1983 : Tor Bay Buccaneers James Wilder rushes for 219 yards vs Minn Vikings
1983 : Turkey Turgut ?zals Moederland party wins elections
1984 : Pres Reagan (R) landslide (won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D)
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 Bogot Colombia
1985 : Space shuttle Challenger lands at Edwards Calif
1986 : Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill
1986 : Rev Donald Wildmon begins a campaign against Howard Stern
1987 : Roger Clemens wins consecutive Cy Young Awards
1989 : US marshals & FCC sieze pirate radio station WJPL in Brooklyn
1990 : Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
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
1993 : Actress Allison Angrim (32) weds Robert Schoonover (44)
1993 : Hollywood Wildcat, Kotashaan, Lure, Phone Chatter
1994 : Emomali Rachmonov recognized as president of Tadzjikistan
1995 : Art Modell officially announces Cleveland Browns are moving to Balt
1995 : Israel buries Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by a fellow Jew who
1995 : opposed peace with Palestinians
1997 : "Proposals," opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 76 performances
1997 : SF Giants manager Dusty Baker named NL Manager of the Year
2008 : Army officer arrested over Malegaon bomb blast
2008 : India, Hong Kong agreement on special administrative region
2008 : Pak security forces raid militant hideouts in Bajaur Agency

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