November 06

Saturday 06, 2004:

Official Guided by Voices Day in Dallas, Texas.

Wednesday 06, 2002:

Winona Ryder is found guilty of shoplifting after stealing items worth $5,500 from a New York boutique.

Tuesday 06, 2001:

David Trimble is re-elected prime minister of Northern Ireland

Saturday 06, 1999:

Australians vote to keep the British queen as their head of state.

Friday 06, 1998:

Hugo Chávez is elected president of Venezuela

Wednesday 06, 1996:

The family of Eduardo Quihua Maquixtle from Vicente Guerrero, Mexico, including his four children, are stabbed by three men accusing them of witchcraft.

Monday 06, 1989:

Kitty Dukakis, wife of presidential candidate and Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis, is hospitalised for drinking rubbing alcohol.

Sunday 06, 1988:

Beatle Ringo Starr checks into an alcohol rehabilitation centre.

Wednesday 06, 1985:

The Playboy Club in New York admits topless male "bunnies" for the first time.

Tuesday 06, 1984:

Ronald Reagan defeats Walter Mondale to be re-elected in one of the largest electoral landslide in United States election history.

Sunday 06, 1977:

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

Thursday 06, 1975:

The Sex Pistols play their first concert at St. Martin's School of Art in London.

Saturday 06, 1971:

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

Saturday 06, 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.

Wednesday 06, 1963:

Vietnam War: Following the November 1 coup and murder of President Ngo Dinh Diem, coup leader General Duong Van Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam.

Tuesday 06, 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.

Wednesday 06, 1957:

Félix Gaillard becomes Prime Minister of France

Tuesday 06, 1956:

U.S. presidential election, 1956: Republican incumbent Dwight D. Eisenhower is reelected by defeating Democrat challenger Adlai E. Stevenson in a rematch of their contest four years earlier.

Thursday 06, 1947:

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

Thursday 06, 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.

Monday 06, 1939:

The Hedda Hopper Show debuts with Hollywood gossip Hedda Hopper as host. The show would until 1951, making Hopper a powerful figure in the Hollywood elite.

Wednesday 06, 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" (see: FM radio).

Tuesday 06, 1928:

U.S. presidential election, 1928: Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin over Democrat Alfred E. Smith.

Wednesday 06, 1918:

The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed in Poland.

Tuesday 06, 1917:

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

Thursday 06, 1913:

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

Tuesday 06, 1900:

U.S. presidential election, 1900: Republican incumbent William McKinley is reelected by defeating Democrat challenger William Jennings Bryan.

Tuesday 06, 1888:

U.S. presidential election, 1888: Democrat incumbent Grover Cleveland wins the overall popular vote, but is voted out of office because he loses in the Electoral College to Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison.

Thursday 06, 1873:

The Halifax Rugby Club is formed.

Saturday 06, 1869:

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

Wednesday 06, 1861:

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

Tuesday 06, 1860:

U.S. presidential election, 1860: Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th President of the United States, the first Republican to hold that office.

Wednesday 06, 1844:

The Dominican Republic gains its independence from Haiti.

Friday 06, 1789:

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

Tuesday 06, 1528:

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

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