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NOVEMBER 6, 1939
As part of their plan to eradicate the Polish intellectual elite, the Gestapo arrested 184 professors, students and employees of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
The Intelligenzaktion, or the Intelligentsia mass shootings, was a series of mass murders committed against the Polish intelligentsia during the early years Read More
NOVEMBER 6, 1963
Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ was appointed by the junta of General Dương Văn Minh to head the South Vietnamese government, five days after Minh deposed and assassinated President Ngô Đình Diệm.
Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ was a South Vietnamese politician who was the first vice president of South Vietnam, serving under President Ngô Đình Read More
NOVEMBER 6, 2016
Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces launched a successful military campaign to isolate and eventually capture Raqqa, the Islamic State's capital.
The Syrian civil war is an ongoing conflict in Syria that began with the Syrian Revolution in March 2011 when popular discontent Read More
NOVEMBER 6, 1217
King Henry III of England issued the Charter of the Forest, re-establishing the rights of access of free men to royal forests.
Henry III, also known as Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until Read More
NOVEMBER 6, 1944
The B Reactor at the Hanford Site in the U.S. state of Washington began producing plutonium, with the facility later going on to create more for nearly the entire American nuclear arsenal.
The B Reactor at the Hanford Site, near Richland, Washington, was the first large-scale nuclear reactor ever built, at 250 MW. It Read More
NOVEMBER 6, 1988
Two earthquakes occurring 12 minutes apart struck Yunnan near the China–Myanmar border, killing more than 730 people.
On 6 November 1988, two earthquakes struck Lancang and Gengma counties, Yunnan, near the China–Myanmar border. These earthquakes measured moment magnitude (Mw ) Read More
NOVEMBER 6, 1917
First World War: Canadian forces captured Passendale, Belgium, after three months of fighting against the Germans at the Battle of Passchendaele.
World War I or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Read More
NOVEMBER 6, 2012
Tammy Baldwin (pictured) became the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.
Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin is an American politician and lawyer serving since 2013 as the junior United States senator from Wisconsin. A Read More
NOVEMBER 6, 2004
A man committing suicide parked his car on the railway tracks in Ufton Nervet, Berkshire, England, causing a derailment that killed seven people.
Ufton Nervet is a village and civil parish in West Berkshire, England centred 6 miles (10 km) west southwest of the large town Read More
NOVEMBER 6, 1868
Red Cloud (pictured), a Native American leader of the Oglala Lakota tribe, signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie, ending Red Cloud's War and establishing the Great Sioux Reservation.
Red Cloud was a leader of the Oglala Lakota from 1865 to 1909. He was one of the most capable Native American Read More
NOVEMBER 6, 1794
French Revolutionary Wars: Two British ships were intercepted by a French squadron, leading to the French seizure of HMS Alexander.
The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802. Read More
NOVEMBER 6, 1977
The Kelly Barnes Dam in Stephens County, Georgia, collapsed; the resulting flood killed 39 people and caused US$2.8 million in damages.
Kelly Barnes Dam was an earthen embankment dam on Toccoa Creek in Stephens County, Georgia, United States, just outside the city of Read More
NOVEMBER 6, 1863
American Civil War: A Union brigade defeated a Confederate force at the Battle of Droop Mountain in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in Read More
NOVEMBER 6, 1856
The first story from the collection Scenes of Clerical Life by the English author George Eliot (pictured) was submitted for publication.
Scenes of Clerical Life is George Eliot's first published work of fiction, is an 1858 collection of three short stories, published in Read More

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