UN
Day
International
Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the
Environment in War and Armed Conflict
Events
of the day
355 – Roman Emperor Constantius
II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank
of Caesar, entrusting him with the government
of the Prefecture of the Gauls.
1528 – Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first
known European to set foot in Texas.
1632 – Thirty years war: Battle of Lützen
is fought, the Swedes are victorious but
the King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus dies
in the battle.
1789 – Pope Pius VI appoints Father John
Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in
the United States.
1844 – The first constitution of the Dominican
Republic is adopted.
1856 – Scenes of Clerical Life, the first
work of fiction by the author later known
as George Eliot, is submitted for publication.
1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis
is elected president of the Confederate
States of America.
1865 – 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 vessels.
1869 – 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.
1913 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while
leading a march of Indian miners in South
Africa.
1917 – World War I: Third Battle of Ypres
ends: After three months of fierce fighting,
Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.
1918 – The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed
in Poland.
1934 – Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first
major city to join the Tennessee Valley
Authority.
1935 – Edwin Armstrong presents his paper
"A Method of Reducing Disturbances
in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency
Modulation" to the New York section
of the Institute of Radio Engineers.
1935 – First flight of the Hawker Hurricane.
1935 – Parker Brothers acquires the forerunner
patents for MONOPOLY from Elizabeth Magie.
1939 – World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau
takes place.
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, the Germans had lost 4.5 million soldiers
and that Soviet victory was near.
1942 – World War II: Carlson's patrol during
the Guadalcanal Campaign begins.
1943 – World War II: the Soviet Red Army
recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the
Germans destroy most of the city's ancient
buildings.
1944 – Plutonium is first produced at the
Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently
used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped
on Nagasaki, Japan.
1947 – Meet the Press makes its television
debut (the show went to a weekly schedule
on September 12, 1948).
1948 – Deputy commander-in-chief of the
Eastern China Field Army General Su Yu launched
a massive offensive toward Xuzhou, defended
by seven different armies under the Suppression
General Headquarter of Xuzhou Garrison,
the Huaihai Campaign, the largest operational
campaign of the Chinese Civil War begins.
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.
1963 – Vietnam War: Following the November
1 coup and execution of President Ngo Dinh
Diem, coup leader General Duong Van Minh
takes over leadership of South Vietnam.
1965 – 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 made use of this program.
1971 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission
tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen
bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island
in the Aleutians.
1975 – Green March begins: 300,000 unarmed
Moroccans converge on the southern city
of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King
Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western
Sahara.
1977 – The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above
Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa,
Georgia, fails, killing 39.
1985 – 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.
1986 – Sumburgh disaster – A British International
Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes
2.5 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing
45 people. It is the deadliest civilian
helicopter crash on record.
1995 – The Rova of Antananarivo, home of
the sovereigns of Madagascar from the 16th
to 19th centuries, is destroyed by fire.
1999 – Australians vote to keep the Head
of the Commonwealth as their head of state
in the Australian republic referendum.
2004 – An express train collides with a
stationary car near the village of Ufton
Nervet, England, killing 7 and injuring
150.
2005 – The Evansville Tornado of November
2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and
Southwestern Indiana.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Illtud
Leonard of Noblac
Winnoc
November 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Eid ul Adha (2011), Islamic holiday, observed
by Muslims worldwide
Constitution Day (Dominican Republic, 1884)
Constitution Day (Tajikistan, 1994)
Constitution Day (Tatarstan, 1992)
Finnish Swedish Heritage Day, a flag day
(Finland)
Green March (Morocco)
Gustavus Adolphus Day, death of King Gustavus
Adolphus of Sweden and official flag day
(Sweden)
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