This Day in History
06 Nov 1153
Treaty of Wallingford (Oxfordshire) signed between King Stephen and the Empress Maude (aka Matilda)
06 Nov 1528
Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador lvar Nez Cabeza de Vaca becomes first known European to set foot in Texas
06 Nov 1572
Supernova is observed in constellation known as Cassiopeia
06 Nov 1632
Battle at Lutzen SwedishSaxon army beats imperial armies
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U N condemns apartheid in South Africa
On November 6 1962 the United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution condemning South Africas racist apartheid policies and calling on all its m...
General Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam
In the aftermath of the November 1 coup that resulted in the murder of President Ngo Dinh Diem Gen. Duong Van Minh leading the Revolutionary Military Committe...
Teddy Roosevelt travels to Panama
On November 6 1906 President Theodore Teddy Roosevelt embarks on a 17-day trip to Panama and Puerto Rico becoming the first president to make a...
Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca lands in Texas
The Spanish conquistador Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca is shipwrecked on a low sandy island off the coast of Texas. Starving dehydrated and desperate he is the ...
Dam gives way in Georgia
On November 6 1977 the Toccoa Falls Dam in Georgia gives way and 39 people die in the resulting flood.Ninety miles north of Atlanta the Toccoa (Cherokee for ...
A woman ices her husband with anti freeze
Shirley Allen is arrested for poisoning her husband Lloyd Allen with ethylene glycol commonly known as anti-freeze. After witnessing her mother spike Lloyd...
Jefferson Davis elected Confederate president
On November 6 1861 Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America. He ran without opposition and the election simply confirmed the...
British victory at Passchendaele
After more than three months of bloody combat the Third Battle of Ypres effectively comes to an end on November 6 1917 with a hard-won victory by British and...
1860 Honest Abe is elected
Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States....
Catherine the Great Builds a New Russia
November 6 1796 One of historys most formidable women Catherine the Great died on this day. She had been Empress of Russia for 34 year...
1906 Charles Evans Hughes (R) elected NY Governor beating William Randolph Hearst
He is best known for publishing the largest chain of American newspapers....
1975 First performance by punk band The Sex Pistols at St Martins College, London
Guitarist and songwriter for the punk-rock band the Sex Pistols. After the band split up in 1978 Jones went on to perform in two other short-lived bands The Pr...
1996 "The English Patient" based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje, directed by Anthony Minghella and starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche and Kristen Scott Thomas premieres in Los Angeles (Best Picture 1997)
Fiennes first found success onstage as a performer of Shakespeare at the Royal National Theatre....
2018 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York) is the youngest person ever elected to the US House of representatives at 29 years
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also commonly known by her initials AOC was the youngest woman at 29 ever be elected to the US House of Representatives....
1956: Allied forces take control of Suez
British and French troops have seized control of two major ports in Egypts Canal Zone and declared a ceasefire.This evening an official statement said Por...
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