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History Events on November 06
The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.
#United_Nations_General_Assembly
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 unarmed merchant vessels.
#CSS_Shenandoah
Concerned that her cover was about to be blown, Elizabeth Bentley turns herself in to the FBI and confesses she had been spying for the Soviet Union.
#Elizabeth_Bentley
Herbert Hoover is elected the 31st President of the United States.
#Herbert_Hoover
World War II: During the Battle of Moscow, Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet people for only the second time.
#Battle_of_Moscow
The Electric Tilt Train enters service in Queensland, Australia and becomes one of the fastest trains in the country and the fastest narrow gauge train in service.
#Electric_Tilt_Train
World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
#Heinkel_He_219
World War II: The Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings.
#Red_Army
An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing seven and injuring 150.
#Ufton_Nervet_rail_crash
Several small bombs explode outside a provincial office of the Communist Party of China.
#2013_Taiyuan_attack
Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, is submitted for publication.
#Scenes_of_Clerical_Life
Roman emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with the government of the Prefecture of the Gauls.
#Roman_emperor
Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
#Head_of_the_Commonwealth
The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
#United_States_Atomic_Energy_Commission
American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
#American_Civil_War
Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore, which had been without an NFL team since 1983, when the Baltimore Colts moved to Indianapolis.
#Cleveland_Browns_relocation_controversy
A powerful earthquake destroys large portions of the Walls of Constantinople, including 57 towers.
#Walls_of_Constantinople
World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau takes place.
#World_War_II
Following the November 1 coup and execution of President Ngo Dinh Diem, coup leader General D??ng V?n Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam.
#1963_South_Vietnamese_coup
In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.
#Colombia
The Charter of the Forest is sealed at St Paul's Cathedral, London by King Henry III, acting under the regency of William Marshall, 1st Earl of Pembroke which re-establishes for free men rights of access to the royal forest that had been eroded by William the Conqueror and his heirs.
#Charter_of_the_Forest
World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign begins.
#Carlson's_patrol
October Revolution: Troops loyal to the Russian Directorate clash with Bolshevik Red Guards over the control of several bridges in Petrograd.
#October_Revolution
Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in the area that would become Texas.
#Álvar_Núñez_Cabeza_de_Vaca
The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
#Kelly_Barnes_Dam
Barack Obama is reelected President of the United States; Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.
#Barack_Obama
Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
#Mahatma_Gandhi
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 had made use of this program.
#Cuba
Ronald Reagan is reelected President of the United States.
#Ronald_Reagan
Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority.
#Memphis,_Tennessee
The first Constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted.
#Constitution_of_the_Dominican_Republic
Deputy commander-in-chief of the Eastern China Field Army General Su Yu launches a massive offensive toward Xuzhou, defended by seven different armies under the General Suppression Headquarters of Xuzhou Garrison, the Huaihai Campaign. The largest operational campaign of the Chinese Civil War begins.
#Su_Yu
Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
#Plutonium
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.
#New_Brunswick,_New_Jersey
Dwight D. Eisenhower is reelected President of the United States.
#Dwight_D._Eisenhower
Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
#Pope_Pius_VI
Battle of Jemappes in the French Revolutionary Wars.
#Battle_of_Jemappes
Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut.
#Meet_the_Press
Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th President of United States.
#Abraham_Lincoln
World War I: Battle of Passchendaele ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.
#World_War_I
