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This Day In History: November 6th

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Communication
 
 
Crime and Corruption
1985
Leftist guerrillas belonging to Columbia's April 19 Movement seized control of the Palace of Justice in Bogota.
1986
Former Navy radioman John A. Walker Jr., was sentenced in Baltimore to life imprisonment. Walker had admitted to being the head of a family spy ring.
1998
  The Islamic militant group Hamas exploded a car bomb killing the two attackers and injuring 21 civilians.
2001
  In Madrid, Spain, a car bomb injured about 60 people. The bomb was blamed on Basque separatists.
Defence
1952
The first hydrogen bomb was exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
1986
U.S. intelligence sources confirmed a story run by the Lebanese magazine Ash Shiraa that reported the U.S. had been secretly selling arms to Iran in an effort to secure the release of seven American hostages.
Disasters
1977
39 people were killed when an earthen dam burst, sending a wall of water through the campus of Toccoa Falls Bible College in Georgia.
 
Discovery
 
 
Education
 
 
Film, Television and Radio
1967
Phil Donahue began a TV talk show in Dayton, OH. The show was on the air for 29 years.
1990
About 20% of the Universal Studios backlot in southern California was destroyed in an arson fire.
2001
  Disney's "Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed In at the House Of Mouse" was released on video and DVD.
Heads of State
1860
Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the sixteenth president of the United States.
1861
Jefferson Davis was elected as the president of the Confederacy in the U.S.
1975
  King Hassan II of Morocco launches the Green March, a mass migration of 300,000 unarmed Moroccans, that march into the nation of Western Sahara.
Health and Social Welfare
 
 
Industry
 
 
Law
2001
Ten people were executed in Beijing, China. The state newspaper of China said that all of the people executed were robbers and killers aged 20-23.
 
Motor Sport
 
 
People
1851
  Charles Henry Dow was born. He was the founder of Dow Jones & Company.
1861
The inventor of basketball, James Naismith, was born.
1913
  Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested as he led a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1965
  The Freedom Flights program began which would allow 250,000 Cubans to come to the United States by 1971.
1999
  Australian voters rejected a referendum to drop Britain's queen as their head of state.
Politics
1962
The U.N. General Assembly adopts a resolution that condemned South Africa's racist apartheid policies. The resolution also called for all member states to terminate military and economic relations with South Africa.
1986
U.S. intelligence sources confirmed a story run by the Lebanese magazine Ash Shiraa that reported the U.S. had been secretly selling arms to Iran in an effort to secure the release of seven American hostages.
1989
  In the hopes of freeing U.S. hostages held in Iran, the U.S. announced that it would unfreeze $567 million in Iranian assets that had been held since 1979.
Publishing
 
 
Religion
1789
Father John Carroll was appointed as the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States of America.
1832
Joseph Smith, III, was born. He was the first president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He was also the son of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism.
Science
   
 
Sport
1869
The first official intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick, NJ.
1995
Art Modell, the owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced plans to move his team to Baltimore. (NFL)
1995
  Mark Messier scored his 500th NHL goal.
1996
  Michael Jordan scored 50 points for the 29th time in his NBA career.
Technology
1861
The inventor of basketball, James Naismith, was born.
1923
Jacob Schick was granted a patent for the electric shaver.
1935
  Edwin H. Armstrong announced his development of FM broadcasting.
The Arts
2001
In London, the "Lest We Forget" exhibit opened at the National Memorial Arboretum. Fred Seiker was the creator of the 24 watercolors. Seiker was a prisoner of war that had been forced to build the Burma Railroad, the "railway of death," for the Japanese during World War 2.
 
The Environment
 
 
The Law
 
 
The Workforce
 
 
Trade and Economy
1984
For the first time in 193 years, the New York Stock Exchange remained open during a presidential election day.
 
Transport
 
 
War
1917
During World War 1, Candian forces take the village of Passchendaele, Belgium, in the Third Battle of Ypres.
1983
U.S. Army choppers dropped hundreds of leaflets over northern and central Grenada. The leaflets urged residents to cooperate in locating any Grenadian army or Cuban resisters to the U.S-led invasion.
1991
  Kuwait celebrated the dousing of the last of the oil fires ignited by Iraq during the Persian Gulf War.
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