The Phenomenon of November 06: A Day Filled with Surprises and Celebrations Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1941  Einsatz group results in the deaths of 15000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine   

1941  Doug Sahm, San Antonio Texas, country singer (Texas Tornadoes-Dinero).   

1942  Nazis execute 12000 Minsk ghetto Jews   

1943  Russian troops land on Kertsj peninsula   

1943  Michael Schwerner, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964   

1944  Recognition of the future importance of turbojet and turboprop powerplants led the Bureau of Aeronautics to request the Naval Air Material Center to study requirements for a laboratory to develop and test gas-turbine powerplants.   

1944  Bill Henderson, Vancouver BC, rock vocalist/guitarist (Chilliwack).   

1944  Hannah Senesh, Jewish poetess, executed by Nazis in Budapest.   

1945  HUAC begins investigation of 7 radio commentators   

1946  Zygmunt Denis Antoni Stojowski, composer, dies at 76.   

1947  Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Paradisets Have), dies at 66   

1949  Greeks civil war ends   

1950  Branch Rickey signs 5-yr contract as VP/GM of Pitts Pirates   

1951  Soviet aircraft shoot at Neptune Patrol bomber (VP-6) on weather reconnaissance mission near Siberia. U.S. aircraft fails to return.   

1952  inaugural hydrogen bomb exploded (by US at Eniwetok Atoll)   

1952  Dmitri Sjostakovitch's cantata "About our Fatherland," premieres.   

1953  French National Meeting grants Saarland more autonomy.   

1953  John Parsons Beach, composer, dies at 76.   

1955  11th Ryder Cup: US, 8-4 at Thunderbird Ranch and CC Calif.   

1955  Charley Toorop, [Annie CP Fernhout-Toorop], Dutch painter, dies at 64.   

1956  Holland and Spain withdraw from Olympics, protest Soviets in Hungary.   

1956  President Eisenhower (D) re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (R)   

1957  Felix Gaillard is recorded as becoming premier of France.   

1957  "Rumple" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 45 performances.   

1958  AL announces that KC will play AL record 52 night games in 1959.   

1958  Francis George Scott, composer, dies at 78   

1960  The aircraft carrier Antietam left British Honduras for Pensacola after 4 days of relief operations following hurricane Hattie   

1960  The last steam locomotive to operate officially on Canadian Pacific pulls a special train to St. Lin from Montreal. Locomotive is class A-l-e no. 29, 4-4-0 built in 1887   

1961  US government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith   

1961  US govt issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith.   

1962  Edward M Kennedy inaugural elected (Sen-D-MA)   

1962  BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote   

1963  Djuanda Kartawidjaja, premier (Indonesia), dies at 52.   

1965  Clarence Williams, composer, dies at 67   

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