November 6 in history
Events on November 6
Notable events that happened on November 6 in past years.
- 2025
Canadian ostrich cull: The Government of Canada kills 314 ostriches after H5N8 is detected in an ostrich farm in Edgewood, BC.
Wikipedia article: 2025 Canadian ostrich culling controversy - 2012
Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.
Wikipedia article: Tammy Baldwin - 2004
An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing seven and injuring 120.
Wikipedia article: Ufton Nervet rail crash - 2002
A Fokker 50 crashes near Luxembourg Airport, killing 20 and injuring three.
Wikipedia article: Fokker 50 - 1988
Lancang–Gengma earthquakes: At least 730 are killed after two powerful earthquakes rock the China–Myanmar border in Yunnan Province.
Wikipedia article: 1988 Lancang–Gengma earthquakes - 1986
Sumburgh disaster: A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.
Wikipedia article: 1986 British International Helicopters Chinook crash - 1977
The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
Wikipedia article: Kelly Barnes Dam - 1971
The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
Wikipedia article: United States Atomic Energy Commission - 1963
Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ is appointed to head the South Vietnamese government by General Dương Văn Minh's junta, five days after the latter deposed and assassinated President Ngô Đình Diệm.
Wikipedia article: Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ - 1943
World War II: The 1st Ukrainian Front liberates Kyiv from German occupation.
Wikipedia article: World War II - 1936
Spanish Civil War: The republican government flees from Madrid to Valencia, leading to the formation of the Madrid Defense Council in its stead.
Wikipedia article: Spanish Civil War - 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.
Wikipedia article: New Brunswick, New Jersey - 1792
Battle of Jemappes in the French Revolutionary Wars.
Wikipedia article: Battle of Jemappes - 1217
The Charter of the Forest is sealed at St Paul's Cathedral, London by King Henry III, acting under the regency of William Marshall, 1st Earl of Pembroke which re-establishes for free men rights of access to the royal forest that had been eroded by William the Conqueror and his heirs.
- 447
A powerful earthquake destroys large portions of the Walls of Constantinople, including 57 towers.
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