Today in History - November 6
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1217 Nov 6, The Charter of the Forest was sealed in England by the young King Henry III, acting under the regency of William Marshall, 1st Earl of Pembroke, as a complementary charter to the Magna Carta (1215) from which it had evolved.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_the_Forest)
1429 Nov 6, Coronation of Henry VI, King of England.
(HN, 11/6/98)
1479 Nov 6, Johanna, the Insane, Queen of Castilia (1504-20), was born.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1494 Nov 6, Suleiman I (d.1566), the Great, Ottoman sultan (1520-66), was born. Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire, was reported to have a harem of 2,000 women.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R8)(MC, 11/6/01)
1528 Nov 6, A Spanish barge under Don Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca landed in East Texas. The survivors of 2 barges spent the winter on an island they named Isla de Malhado, "The Island of Misfortune." By the spring of 1529 there were 15 castaways left and half the native population was dead from disease.
(ON, 10/03, p.3)
1558 Nov 6, Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (Spanish Tragedy), was born.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1632 Nov 6, Gustavus II Adolphus (37), king of Sweden, died in battle.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1644 Nov 6, Sir Thomas Roe (b.~1581), English scholar and a patron of learning, died. He was an English diplomat of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods and He sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1644. “It is no good state of a body to have a fat head, thin guts and lean members."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Roe)(Econ, 6/30/12, SR p.15)
1730 Nov 6, Hans Hermann von Katte, Prussian lieutenant, was beheaded.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1771 Nov 6, Alois Senefelder, inventor (lithography), was born.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1792 Nov 6, Battle at Jemappes: French army beat the Austrians.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1813 Nov 6, Chilpancingo congress declared Mexico independent of Spain.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1814 Nov 6, Adolphe Sax (d.1894), instrument maker and inventor of the saxophone, was born in Belgium.
(WUD, 1994, p.1272)(HN, 11/6/98)
1836 Nov 6, Charles X (79), King of France (1824-30), died.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1844 Nov 6, The first constitution of the new Dominican Republic was signed in San Cristobal. Pedro Santana, fearing political instability, controlled revisions to the newly written constitution that allowed him to stay in power, and declared himself president of the nation, a post he would hold from 1844-1848, 1853-1856, and 1858-1861. Spain granted independence to the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic won independence from next door Haiti after 2 occupations. [see Feb 27]
(http://dr1.com/articles/history_1.shtml)(SFC, 5/16/96, p.A-9)(Econ, 2/20/10, p.35)
1850 Nov 6, The San Francisco Bay Yerba Buena and Angel islands were reserved for military use.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1851 Nov 6, Charles Henry Dow, American financial journalist, was born. He (with Edward D. Jones) inaugurated the 'Dow-Jones' averages.
(HN, 11/6/99)
1854 Nov 6, John Philip Sousa, "The March Master," American bandmaster, composer and the king of American march music, was born in Washington, D.C. He later wrote 5 novels. Among his 140 marches are "Stars and Stripes Forever" and "Semper Fidelis."
(AP, 11/6/97)(SFEC, 2/8/98, Z1 p.8)(HN, 11/6/00)
1860 Nov 6, Former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th US president. He defeated three other candidates, John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas. He won the US presidential elections with a majority of the electoral votes in a 4-way race. Lincoln became the first president elected from the new Republican Party. Following his election South Carolina seceded from the Union followed by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. Hannibal Hamlin was his vice-president. Lincoln was fatally shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. In 1996 a new biography of Abraham Lincoln by David Donald was published.
(WSJ, 2/10/95, p.A-8)(SFC, 9/1/96, Par. p.12)(WSJ, 9/19/97, p.A13) (AP, 2/12/98)(SFC, 12/21/98, p.A3)(AP, 11/6/08)(SFC, 4/30/99, p.E9)
1861 Nov 6, Dr. James Naismith (d. Nov 28, 1939), Canadian physical education instructor, was born. He invented the game of basketball in 1891.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)(HN, 11/6/99)
1861 Nov 6, Jefferson Davis was elected to a six-year term as president of the Confederacy.
(AP, 11/6/97)(HN, 11/6/98)
1863 Nov 6, A Union force surrounded and scattered defending Confederates at the Battle of Droop Mountain, in West Virginia.
(HN, 11/6/99)
1863 Nov 6, The Battle of Rogersville took place at Big Creek in Hawkins County, Tennessee. Union troops, under the command of Col. Israel Garrard, faced Confederates under the overall command of Brig. Gen. William E. Jones. Confederates won and sent prisoners sent to Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia.
(http://johnsettles.com/roger.htm)
1865 Nov 6, The Confederate ship Shenandoah under Capt. James Waddell surrendered in Liverpool, England, after attacking Yankee commercial shipping off the coast of Alaska. It had sunk of captured 38 vessels, mostly New Bedford whaleships. The surrender of the Shenandoah was the last act of the US Civil War.
(SFC, 1/3/15, p.C2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Shenandoah)
1887 Nov 6, Walter Johnson, baseball pitcher, "The Big Train," was born.
(HN, 11/6/00)
1888 Nov 6, Benjamin Harrison of Indiana won the presidential election, beating incumbent Grover Cleveland on electoral votes, 233-168, although Cleveland led in the popular vote. Tammany Hall helped carry new York for the GOP. In 2008 Charles W. Calhoun authored “Minority Victory: Gilded Age Politics and the Front Porch Campaign of 1888.
(AP, 11/6/97)(WSJ, 11/9/00, p.A26)(WSJ, 12/3/08, p.A15)
1891 Nov 6, Comanche, the only 7th Cavalry horse to survive George Armstrong Custer’s "Last Stand" at the Little Bighorn, died at Fort Riley, Kan.
(HN, 11/6/98)
1892 Nov 6, John Sigvard "Ole" Olsen, comedian (Olsen & Johnson), was born in Wabash, Ind.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1892 Nov 6, Harold Ross, New Yorker editor, was born.
(HN, 11/6/00)
1893 Nov 6, Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia, at age 53.
(HFA, '96, p.18)(AP, 11/6/97)
1896 Nov 6, Jim Jordan, radio comedian (Fibber McGee), was born in Peoria, Il.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1900 Nov 6, President McKinley was re-elected, beating Democrat William Jennings Bryan.
(AP, 11/6/97)(HN, 11/6/98)
1901 Nov 6, Kate Greenaway (b.1846), English children’s book illustrator, died of breast cancer.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Greenaway)
1903 Nov 6, In Hong Kong the South China Morning Post, founded by Tse Tsan-tai and Alfred Cunningham, published its first issue.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Morning_Post)
1903 Nov 6, Panama declared its independence from Colombia.
(ON, 1/00, p.3)
1906 Nov 6, Republican Charles Evans Hughes was elected governor of New York, defeating newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst. In 1910 he was appointed to the US Supreme Court and served until 1916. In 1930 he was appointed as Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court and served until 1941.
(AP, 11/6/99)(SFC, 10/6/05, p.A15)
1911 Nov 6, Maine became a dry state.
(HN, 11/6/98)
1912 Nov 6, Mykola Vytalyevich Lysenko (70), composer, died.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1913 Nov 6, Mohandas K. Gandhi led a march of Indian miners into Transvaal, South Africa. He was arrested 3 times during the 1st 4 days of the march. The miners had struck because the Cape Colony Supreme Court Justice had ruled that only Christian marriages registered by the Registrar of Marriages would be considered legal.
(AP, 11/6/97)(ON, 9/03, p.5)
1915 Nov 6, An order from Constantinople reached the local authorities, at any rate in the Cilician plain, directing them to refrain from further [Armenian] deportations.
(http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/docs/bryce2.htm)
1917 Nov 6, NY allowed women to vote.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1917 Nov 6, Bolshevik "October Revolution" (October 25 on the old Russian calendar), led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky, seized power in Petrograd. [see Nov 7]
(HN, 11/6/98)
1921 Nov 6, James Jones, American novelist, was born. His work included “From Here to Eternity."
(HN, 11/6/00)
1923 Nov 6, Col. Jacob Schick patented the 1st electric shaver.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1923 Nov 6, European inflation soared and one loaf of bread in Berlin was reported to be worth about 140 Billion German Marks. Germany suffered a terrible economic inflation. Hyperinflation eventually made 4.2 trillion marks worth $1.
(MT, Fall ‘96, p.7)(HN, 11/6/98)(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R42)
1928 Nov 6, In a first, presidential election results were flashed on an electronic sign outside the New York Times building; Herbert Hoover beat Alfred E. Smith. Norman Thomas was the presidential candidate for the Socialist Party. Hoover won just over 83% of the electoral vote.
(AP, 11/6/97)(SFC, 2/12/00, p.A21)(HNQ, 11/7/00)
1931 Nov 6, Mike Nichols [Peschowsky], film and stage director, was born. His work included “The Graduate."
(HN, 11/6/00)
1932 Nov 6, Don King, fight promoter, was born.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1933 Nov 6, Polly Bemis (b.1853), Chinese American pioneer woman born as Lalu Nathoy, died in Grangeville, Idaho. As a child a group of bandits raided her village and she was forcefully sold by her father for two much needed bags of seed. Lalu was later smuggled into the US and sold as a slave in San Francisco for $2,500 in 1872. Her buyer, Hong King, ran a saloon in a mining camp in Warrens (now Warren, Idaho), Idaho. In 1894 she married Charlie Bemis, whom she had befriended when she first arrived in Warrens. Together, they were among the first pioneers to help settle the Idaho Territory, especially along the Salmon River. Her life was fictionalized in the 1991 film “A Thousand Pieces of Gold," starring Rosalind Chao (as Polly) and Chris Cooper (as Charlie).
(www.answers.com/topic/polly-bemis)
1934 Nov 6, The first Rotary club in Lithuania, the Rotary club of Kaunas, was legally incorporated. It received its charter on 5 May 1935 from the then District Governor of Finland in the Kaunas Town Hall.
(http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~henkypnk/rotlithuania.html)
1936 Nov 6, RCA displayed TV for press.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1938 Nov 6, The Red Ryder and Little Beaver cartoon strip by Fred Harman (b.1902) began appearing in the Chicago Sun. It went out of syndication in 1964.
(WSJ, 12/23/03, p.D8)
1940 Nov 6, The Immigration and Naturalization Service abandoned its Angel Island Station after a fire destroyed the administration building.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W39)(SSFC, 11/1/15, DB p.50)
1941 Nov 6, USA lent Soviet Union $1 million.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1941 Nov 6, Einsatz death groups killed some 18 thousand Jews of Rovno, Ukraine. “Einsatzgruppen" were special soldiers who followed the fighting forces and “cleaned up" the area.
(www.members.tripod.com/~ebionite/zikkar.htm#nov)
1942 Nov 6, Nazis executed 12,000 Minsk ghetto Jews.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1943 Nov 6, Michael Schwerner, civil rights worker, was born. He was murdered in 1964.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1943 Nov 6, Soviet forces reconquered Kiev.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1944 Nov 6, A US bomber came under fire over Slovenia. Co-pilot 2nd Lt. Ernest N. Vienneau was mortally wounded. The pilot was forced to ditch the bomber off Vis Island, Croatia. The wreck of the bomber was found in a dive in 2017. In 2021 Vienneau's remains were buried in his home state of Maine.
(AP, 8/26/21)
1944 Nov 6, British official Lord Moyne was assassinated in Cairo, Egypt, by members of the Zionist Stern gang (Lehi).
(AP, 11/6/06)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehi_%28group%29)
1945 Nov 6, HUAC began an investigation of 7 radio commentators.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1945 Nov 6, The first landing of a jet on a carrier took place on the USS Wake Island when an FR-1 Fireball touched down.
(HN, 11//99)
1946 Nov 6, Britain's National Health Service Act, backed by PM Clement Attlee, received royal assent. It came into effect on 5 July 1948.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Service_Act_1946)(Econ., 2/6/21, p.47)
1946 Nov 6, Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel (b.1909 as Berta Hummel), German nun and artist, died. She became famous for her artwork which was used to create the Hummel figurines beginning in 1935.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Innocentia_Hummel)
1950 Nov 6, A Chinese offensive was halted at Chongchon River, North Korea.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1952 Nov 6, Dmitri Shostakovitch's cantata "About our Fatherland," premiered.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1956 Nov 6, The Eisenhower-Nixon Republican ticket won the presidential elections beating Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson. The Democrats won a majority in both houses of Congress.
(EWH, 1968, p.1210)(AP, 11/6/97)
1956 Nov 6, Pressure from the US and USSR effected a cease-fire in the Middle-East. The UN created an emergency force (UNEF) to supervise a cease fire. Britain’s PM Anthony Eden called French PM Guy Mollet to tell him that Britain was aborting operations in Egypt. German chancellor Konrad Adenauer, meeting with Mollet, remarked that Europe must unite to counter the influence of the United States.
(TOH, 1982, p.1956)(EWH, 1968, p. 1242)(Econ, 7/29/06, p.24)
1956 Nov 6, Holland and Spain withdrew from Olympics, to protest Soviets in Hungary.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1962 Nov 6, Edward M. Kennedy (1932-2009) of Massachusetts was 1st elected as US Senator (D) to fill the vacancy caused by the 1960 resignation of his brother, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, for the term ending January 3, 1965. Pres. Kennedy had persuaded the governor of Massachusetts to appoint his college roommate, Benjamin A. Smith II, until Edward turned 30.
(http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000105)(Econ, 8/29/09, p.30)
1962 Nov 6, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown was re-elected as democratic governor over Richard Nixon by some 300,000 votes.
(SFC, 10/17/96, C2)(SFEM, 11/17/96, p.18)(SFEC, 12/6/98, p.A1)
1962 Nov 6, Saudi Arabia abolished slavery.
(www.hrw.org/reports/1992/saudi/INTROTHR.htm)
1962 Nov 6, The UN General Assembly adopted resolution 1761 (XVII), which established a Special Committee on Apartheid in South Africa. The non-binding resolution called upon members "separately or collectively, in conformity with the charter" to break diplomatic relations with South Africa, to close ports to South African vessels, to forbid vessels flying their flags to enter South African ports, to boycott South African trade, and to suspend landing rights for South African aircraft. The committee held its first meeting on April 2, 1963.
(Econ, 9/15/07, p.74)(www.anc.org.za/un/reddy/aamun.htm)
1965 Nov 6, Edgar Varese (b.1883), French-born pioneer of musical modernism, died. He moved to the US in 1915. Varese was the inventor of the term "organized sound", a phrase meaning that certain timbres and rhythms can be grouped together, sublimating into a whole new definition of music.
(SFC, 4/16/10, p.F6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgard_Var%C3%A8se)
1968 Nov 6, The play “The Ruling Class" by Peter Barnes (1931-2004) opened in Nottingham, England. It was a satirical attack on the church and British aristocracy. It was made into a 1972 film for which Peter O'Toole received an Oscar nomination.
(SFC, 7/3/04, p.B6)(www.answers.com/topic/the-ruling-class-play-6)
1968 Nov 6, At SF State on the one year anniversary of the Gator incident, the Black Students' Union and the Third World Liberation Front issued a list of 10 "nonnegotiable" demands and called for a one day strike. The strike lasted 167 days.
(http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~runamuck/PACEPAPER.htm)(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W3)(SFEC, 3/21/99, Z1 p.4)
1968 Nov 6, Charles Munch (b.1891), French-US conductor, died. He directed the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1949-1962.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_M%C3%BCnch)
1971 Nov 6, The musical "Purlie" closed at ANTA Playhouse in NYC after a total of 688 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=3514)
1971 Nov 6, The US Atomic Energy Commission exploded a 5-megaton bomb beneath Amchitka Island, Alaska, just 87 miles from the Petropavlovsk Russian naval base. It registered as a magnitude-7 earthquake.
(SFC, 12/17/01, p.A4)
1973 Nov 6, Coleman Young (1918-1997) was elected the first African American mayor of Detroit, Mich. He served 5 consecutive terms and chose not to seek re-election in 1993. During WW II he served with the Tuskegee Airmen and after the war founded the National Negro Labor Council. One of his major accomplishments was the integration of the Detroit police force.
(http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_23_98/ai_67185237)(SFEC, 11/30/97, p.C10)
1973 Nov 6, Abraham D. Beame (1906-2001) was elected as the New York city’s 104th and 1st Jewish mayor. He served until 1978.
(SFC, 2/12/01, p.A26)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Beame)
1973 Nov 6, The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) assassinated Oakland school superintendent Marcus Foster and wounded Robert Blackburn, his assistant. The SLA warned against a proposed student ID program. Russell Little and Joseph Remiro were arrested following a shootout in Jan, 1974. Little’s eventual conviction was reversed Feb 28, 1979, due to errant jury instructions. Remiro was sentenced to life in prison.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W22)(SFC, 1/23/01, p.A13)(SFC, 9/17/02, p.A20)(SFC, 11/14/02, p.A17)
1975 Nov 6, Morocco occupied Western Sahara. King Hassan dispatched 350,000 unarmed Moroccans on a "Green March" to the former Spanish Sahara. This began a long war with the Polisario Front guerrilla group, tribal Bedouin who sought independence.
(SFC, 5/7/97, p.C2)(SFC, 7/24/99, p.A9)(WSJ, 6/7/00, p.A1)(SFC, 11/27/00, p.A8)
1976 Nov 6, Benjamin L. Hooks was chosen executive director of the NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, succeeding Roy Wilkins.
(AP, 11/6/97)
1977 Nov 6, San Francisco marijuana smokers held “A Day on the Grass" smoke-in at the Civic Center as the 59th Veterans Day Parade took place.
(SFC, 11/1/02, p.E7)
1977 Nov 6, In Georgia, USA, 39 people were killed when an earthen dam burst, sending a wall of water through Toccoa Falls Bible College.
(AP, 11/6/97)
1978 Nov 6, Pres. Carter signed the Presidential Records Act of 1978, which put the papers of future presidents in the public domain. It envisioned the release of most sensitive records 12 years after a president left office. It governs the official records of Presidents and Vice Presidents created or received after January 20, 1981 and mandates the preservation of all presidential records. In 2001 Pres. Bush signed an executive order allowing either the White House or former presidents to veto the release of presidential papers.
{CarterJ, USA, BushGW}
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D3)(www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=30124)
1978 Nov 6, The US Bankruptcy Reform Act revised bankruptcy regulations to allow companies to reorganize under Chapter 11 of the law, rather than liquidate under Chapter 7. It replaced the Bankruptcy Act of 1898, sometimes called the Nelson act, and became effective as of Oct 1, 1979.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_Reform_Act_of_1978)
1978 Nov 6, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, appointed a military government. In a nationwide television address, he admitted to the past mistakes and told the nation he had heard the sound of their revolution.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)(http://bss.sfsu.edu/behrooz/Hist-Revolution.htm)
1979 Nov 6, In Iran PM Bazargan resigned as Ayatollah Khomeini (1902-1989) supported the student seizure of the US embassy.
(www.britannica.com/eb/topic-272687/Iran-hostage-crisis)
1984 Nov 6, President Ronald Reagan was re-elected. Reagan beat Mondale in the landslide of 1984 with 97.6% of the Electoral College and over 58% of the popular vote. It almost matched the 1936 landslide of Roosevelt over Landon.
(HN, 11/6/98)(HNQ, 11/7/00)
1985 Nov 6, An exploratory oil well at Ranger, Tx., exploded and spilled 150,000 barrels of oil.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980-1989_world_oil_market_chronology)
1985 Nov 6, In Colombia some 35 leftist M-19 rebels took over the Palace of Justice. A military raid to liberate hostages held by M-19 guerrillas at the Supreme Court followed and cost more than 100 lives, including 11 Supreme Court justices and all 30 guerrillas. Intelligence unit soldiers under the command of Ivan Ramirez escorted 11 people out of the building as the military stormed the palace. Witnesses, including soldiers from Ramirez's unit, later said the captives were tortured and killed. In 2008 Ramirez was arrested and faced "forced disappearance" charges. In Oct prosecutors ordered the arrest of Gen. Jesus Armando Arias, who led Bogota's army brigade during the assault. In 2010 a Colombian judge sentenced retired army Col. Luis Alfonso Plazas to 30 years in prison for the disappearance of the 11 people who went missing after soldiers stormed the palace to retake it from leftist guerrillas.
(WSJ, 1/3/97, p.A6)(WSJ, 1/8/97, p.A12)(SFC, 4/20/98, p.A8)(AP, 5/28/08)(AP, 10/11/08)(AP, 6/10/10)
1986 Nov 6, Pres. Reagan signed a landmark immigration reform bill. The Simpson-Rodino Immigration Reform and Control Act led to amnesty and legal residency for 2.7 million illegal immigrants. Harold Ezell served as the western chief of the immigration service under Ronald Reagan and implemented the act.
(www.cis.org/articles/1987/paper4.html)(SFC, 8/27/98, p.C4)(WSJ, 9/18/06, p.A1)
1986 Nov 6, The Iran arms-for-hostages deal was revealed and damaged the Reagan administration.
(HN, 11/6/99)
1986 Nov 6, FRELIMO designated Joaquim Chissano as president of Mozambique.
(www.cidob.org/bios/castellano/lideres/c-016.htm)
1987 Nov 6, Education Secretary William Bennett, acting with President Reagan's approval, asked Douglas H. Ginsburg to withdraw as a Supreme Court nominee because of revelations that Ginsburg had used marijuana.
(AP, 11/6/97)
1988 Nov 6, Andrei D. Sakharov, the father of the Soviet dissident movement, arrived in the United States for a two-week trip, less than two years after he was freed from internal exile in the Soviet Union.
(AP, 11/6/98)
1989 Nov 6, Kitty Dukakis, wife of Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, was hospitalized after ingesting rubbing alcohol.
(AP, 11/6/99)
1989 Nov 6, Word Perfect 5.1 was released.
(www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/chronology.html)
1989 Nov 6, The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, initiated by Australia, began as an informal Ministerial-level dialogue group with 12 members: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, United States.
(SFEC, 11/23/97, p.A21)(www.apec.org/apec/member_economies.html)
1990 Nov 6, US Democrats increased their congressional voting strength in midterm elections.
(AP, 11/6/00)
1990 Nov 6, William Jefferson became the 1st African American to be elected to Congress from Louisiana since Reconstruction. In 2005 he was under FBI investigation for corruption.
(SFC, 8/4/05, p.A3)
1990 Nov 6, About one-fifth of the Universal Studios back lot in southern California was destroyed in an arson fire.
(AP, 11/6/00)
1990 Nov 6, In Saudi Arabia a group of women got into cars and drove the streets of Riyadh in defiance of a government ban. The protest, which made headlines around the world, cost the 47 female drivers and passengers dearly. They were arrested, lost their jobs for 2 1/2 years, were banned from travel for a year and were condemned by the powerful clergy as harlots. This led interior minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz to ban women from driving.
(AP, 11/14/08)(AFP, 6/16/12)
1991 Nov 6, Actress Gene Tierney died in Houston at age 70.
(AP, 11/6/01)
1991 Nov 6, Kuwait celebrated the dousing of the last oil fires ignited by Iraq during the Persian Gulf War. Iraqi forces had blown up an estimated 732 Kuwaiti oil wells.
(AP, 11/6/01)(WSJ, 1/21/02, p.B1)
1991 Nov 6, Pres. Yeltsin fired Ivan Silayev as prime minister. Yeltsin served as acting prime minister until Yegor Gaidar (1956-2009) was appointed in Jun 1992.
(SFC, 5/13/99, p.A19)(Econ, 12/19/09, p.149)
1991 Nov 6, Russian president Yeltsin outlawed Communist Party.
(http://s99.middlebury.edu/EC230A/Supplements/Chrons/Blasi.html)
1992 Nov 6, President-elect Bill Clinton asked Vernon Jordan and Warren Christopher to lead the White House transition team.
(AP, 11/6/97)
1993 Nov 6, Heavyweight boxer Evander Holyfield defeated Riddick Bowe in a 12-round fight in Las Vegas; the match was interrupted in the seventh round when an intruder, using a paraglider, tried to fly into the ring.
(AP, 11/6/98)
1994 Nov 6, About 300 people crowded a small church in Union, S.C., for the funeral of 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex Smith, who'd been drowned by their mother, Susan Smith.
(AP, 11/6/99)
1995 Nov 6, Michael Guillen published his “Five Equations That Changed the World." The book narrates the stories behind Newton's law of gravity, Daniel Bernoulli's law of hydrodynamic pressure, Michael Farraday's law of electromagnetic induction, Rudolf Clausius's law of entropy, and Albert Einstein's law of mass-energy equivalence.
(WSJ, 11/6/95, p. A-20)
1995 Nov 6, Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell announced plans to move his team to Baltimore.
(AP, 11/6/00)
1995 Nov 6, The US Air Force launched the most powerful unmanned rocket, Titan 4, with a $1 bil. Milstar communications satellite for the defense dept.
(WSJ, 11/7/95, p.A-1)
1995 Nov 6, Funeral services were held in Jerusalem for assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. President Clinton led the US delegation; Arab dignitaries also attended, including Jordan’s King Hussein and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
(AP, 11/6/00)
1996 Nov 6, Andrea Barrett won the National Book Award for fiction for her book: “Ship Fever and Other Stories," a blend of science and history. Victor Martinez won in the category of Young People’s Literature for his novel “Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida."
(SFC, 11/7/96, p.E4)(SFEC, 11/10/96, p.A1)
1996 Nov 6, A day after being re-elected, President Clinton threw a party on the White House lawn; that same day, he received resignations from secretaries of state, defense, energy and commerce.
(AP, 11/6/97)
1996 Nov 6, Chevron Corp. agreed to pay more than $8 million to 777 women in a suit that alleged discrimination in pay, promotions and assignments.
(SFC, 11/7/96, p.a1)
1996 Nov 6, NASA’s $215 million Mars Global Surveyor was delayed for launch. It was supposed to arrive at Mars in Sep, 1997.
(SFC, 8/8/96, p.A6)(SFC, 11/5/96, p.A4)(SFC, 11/7/96, p.B1)
1996 Nov 6, Jim Boggio (56), co-founder with Clifton Buck-Kaufman of the Cotati Accordion Festival, died. Boggio and his band, The Sonoma Swampdogs, were becoming the hottest Zydeco and swamp boogie band in the North San Francisco Bay Area.
(SFC, 8/27/07, p.D2)(www.accordions.com/index/squ/squ_96_11_15.shtml#jim)
1996 Nov 6, Mario Savio (b.1942), founder of the 1964 Berkeley Free Speech Movement, died. In 2009 Robert Cohen authored “Freedom’s Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s."
(SSFC, 10/10/04, p.18)(SFC, 9/23/09, p.E2)
1996 Nov 6, In China Chen Ziming, political dissident, was released on a medical parole from a 13-year sentence that began in 1989.
(SFC, 11/7/96, p.a12)
1996 Nov 6-1996 Nov 7, In India cyclone 07B killed some 2000 in Andhra Pradesh state. Damage was estimated at $1.5 billion.
(WSJ, 11/8/96, p.A1)(SFC, 11/12/96, p.A11)(www.emergency-management.net/cyclone.htm)
1996 Nov 6, In Japan the Parliament re-elected Ryutaro Hashimoto as prime minister.
(SFC, 11/7/96, p.a13)
1997 Nov 6, The Clinton administration warned Iraq it could face military action or economic sanctions if it continued to bar U.N. weapons inspections.
(AP, 11/6/98)
1997 Nov 6, In Texas the $83 million George Bush Presidential Library and Museum was dedicated on the campus of Texas A&M Univ. at College Station. Among the guests of honor was President Clinton, the man who'd sent him into retirement.
(SFC, 11/6/97, p.A3)(AP, 11/6/98)
1997 Nov 6, In Cuba a train-bus crash killed at least 56 people at Urbano Rey in the eastern sugar province of Holguin.
(WSJ, 11/7/97, p.A1)
1996 Nov 6, In India cyclone 07B struck Andhra Pradesh state. [see Nov 7]
(www.emergency-management.net/cyclone.htm)
1997 Nov 6, It was reported that the Russian Mafia and other East European gangs controlled some 500,000 foreign women as illegal prostitutes in the 15 EU member countries. Some 15,000 gangs operated in Berlin alone.
(SFC, 11/6/97, p.C2,18)
1997 Nov 6, In Belgrade former Serb soldier and convict, Slobodan Misic, was arrested after he told reporters that he had killed up to 80 Croats and Muslims near Vukovar in eastern Croatia and in the Bratunac-Shrebrenica area of eastern Bosnia in 1991.
(SFC, 11/6/97, p.D3)
1997 Nov 6, In Mexico prosecutors announced that 2 of the 3 doctors found dead in oil drums were being charged with the murder of druglord Amado Carillo Fuentes. The 3rd doctor was charged last month.
(SFC, 11/8/97, p.A11)
1997 Nov 6, In Spain flooding of the Guadiana River killed 18 people in Badajoz. A total of 31 died along the Spanish-Portuguese border from the storm induced flood.
(SFC, 11/7/97, p.D3)
1998 Nov 6, Pres. Clinton decided to lift most of the sanctions against India and Pakistan for their nuclear tests in May, as a reward for steps taken toward nuclear control agreements.
(SFC, 11/7/98, p.A14)
1998 Nov 6, Newt Gingrich told fellow lawmakers he intended to give up his bid for a third term as House Speaker, following unforeseen Republican losses in mid-term elections.
(SFC, 11/7/98, p.A1, 4)(AP, 11/6/99)
1998 Nov 6, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., announced he would not run for re-election in 2000.
(AP, 11/6/08)
1998 Nov 6, Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards (71) was charged in a 34-count federal indictment for trying to steer gambling licenses to associates in exchange for payoffs after he left office in 1996.
(SFC, 11/7/98, p.A3)
1998 Nov 6, Scientists reported the successful culture of human stem cells in research financed by Geron Corp. James Thomson of the Univ. of Wisconsin first isolated stem cells from human embryos. Science published this research in an article titled "Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Blastocysts."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Thomson_%28cell_biologist%29)(SFC, 11/6/98, p.A1,A18)(Econ, 1/28/12, p.77)
1998 Nov 6, In Iraq at the Radwaniya prison west of Baghdad 63 prisoners were executed.
(USAT, 3/24/99, p.18A)
1998 Nov 6, In Jerusalem a car bomb exploded at an outdoor market and 2 suicide bombers people were killed and 23 others injured. The peace accord was immediately put on hold by the Israeli cabinet. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
(SFC, 11/6/98, p.D4)(SFC, 11/7/98, p.A12)
1998 Nov 6, In Kosovo 5 ethnic Albanians were killed in a shootout with Serbian police after they left a meeting with US diplomat Chris Hill at Dragobil. Two others were killed the day before.
(SFC, 11/7/98, p.A13)(SFC, 12/10/98, p.C9)
1998 Nov 6, In Russia the government signed a $625 million aid package with the US. Half the food would be free and the other half paid back under a 20-year loan. A deal with foreign creditors on debt was reached and an $800 million loan from Japan was accepted.
(SFC, 11/7/98, p.A12)
1998 Nov 6, Rwanda’s Vice Pres. Paul Kagame admitted to helping rebel forces in Congo.
(SFC, 11/7/98, p.A12)
1999 Nov 6, In Australia elections to decide on severance of ties with the royal family were scheduled. 54.5% voted against a republic in which the head of state would be elected by Parliament.
(SFC, 11/2/99, p.A12)(SFEC, 11/7/99, p.A21)
1999 Nov 6, During his visit to India, Pope John Paul the Second praised Christian missionaries and exhorted his bishops to spread the Christian message across Asia.
(AP, 11/6/00)
1999 Nov 6, In Pakistan a 10-member civilian cabinet, named by Gen. Musharraf, formally took office.
(SFEC, 11/7/99, p.A24)
1999 Nov 6, Rwanda suspended cooperation with a UN tribunal following a decision (Nov 3) by the Int'l. Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda to release Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza, a former Foreign Ministry official, who was held in Tanzania.
(SFEC, 11/7/99, p.A30)
1999 Nov 6, In Tajikistan secular Pres. Emomali Rakhmonov a faced Muslim challenger.
(SFEC, 11/7/99, p.A29)
2000 Nov 6, On Election Eve, George W. Bush and Al Gore campaigned through the final hours of their run for the White House, seeking last-minute momentum in a costly and exhausting race to become the nation's 43rd president.
(AP, 11/6/01)
2000 Nov 6, Surgeons in Manchester, England, separated conjoined twin girls, a procedure that involved allowing one of the girls to die, while giving the survivor a chance at life.
(AP, 11/6/01)
2000 Nov 6, Storms in Western Europe killed at least 19 people.
(WSJ, 11/7/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 6 In India a mob of Sunnis attacked Shiites in the market area of Mubarakpur in Uttar Pradesh state and 13 people were killed.
(SFC, 11/7/00, p.B2)
2000 Nov 6, Israel rejected a plan for international observers in its conflict with the Palestinians.
(SFC, 11/7/00, p.B2)
2000 Nov 6, In Serbia prisoners rioted in Sremska Mitrovica for shorter sentences and a new prison management. They were also angry over a proposed amnesty law that would free Albanian political prisoners.
(SFC, 11/7/00, p.B2)
2000 Nov 6, In Zanzibar the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi won 34 of the 50 seats in the House of Representatives. The opposition Civic United Front took the remaining 16 seats.
(SFC, 11/7/00, p.B2)
2001 Nov 6, Season One of the television series “24" was first broadcast. It featured Jack Bauer as the protagonist, in which he has trained and worked in various capacities as a government agent, including U.S. Army Delta Force, Los Angeles Police Department SWAT, CIA, and finally the Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Bauer#24_Season_1)
2001 Nov 6, Baseball owners voted 28-2 to eliminate two major league teams by the 2002 season.
(AP, 11/6/02)
2001 Nov 6, Pres. Bush met with France’s Pres. Chirac and addressed an anti-terrorism meeting in Poland via satellite.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 6, The Federal Reserve lowered interest rates for the 10th time this year. The half point drop put the benchmark fed funds rate to 2% and the discount rate to 1.5%, its lowest level in 40 years. The DJIA rose 150 to 9591. The Nasdaq rose 41 to 1835.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.B1)(WSJ, 11/7/01, p.A2)(AP, 11/6/02)
2001 Nov 6, Attorney Gen. Ashcroft directed US DEA agents to go after Oregon doctors in assisted suicide cases. On Nov 8 a federal judge issued a temp block of Ashcroft’s order good until Nov 20.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A1)(SFC, 11/9/01, p.A15)
2001 Nov 6, Michael Bloomberg, self-made billionaire, was elected as the NYC’s 108th mayor. He spent $69 million on his self-financed campaign. He soon introduced “311," a form of centralized customer service for the city.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A15)(WSJ, 12/4/01, p.A1)(Econ, 2/19/05, Survey p.11)
2001 Nov 6, In New Jersey Democrat Jim McGreevey defeated Republican Bret Schundler in the race for governor.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 6, In Virginia Democrat Mark Warner defeated Republican Mark Earley in the race for governor.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 6, Playwright Anthony Shaffer, who'd written the thriller "Sleuth," died in London at age 75.
(AP, 11/6/02)
2001 Nov 6, US bombs killed a number of civilians in Kabul. The UN later reported that erroneous bombing killed 30 civilians in Kabul over the 1st 37 days of bombing.
(SFC, 11/24/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 6, In Munini, Burundi, 24 civilians were reported dead from fighting between Hutu rebels and the Tutsi dominated army.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A16)
2001 Nov 6, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said he would activate 3,900 troops for action in Afghanistan.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 6, In Northern Ireland David Trimble overcame blocking tactics and was re-elected 1st minister of the N. Ireland Assembly.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A13)
2001 Nov 6, Israeli troops pulled out of Ramallah. 5 Palestinians were killed along with 1 Israeli soldier in an attack on an Israeli army post and a car bomb blast.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A13)(WSJ, 11/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 6, Authorities in Ciudad Juarez found the bodies of 3 young women. 5 more bodies were found the next day. Mexican authorities later built a somber memorial of concrete benches, a circular water fountain also made of concrete and a cement plaque with the names of the eight victims. The families of three of the women appealed in 2003 for the court, which is a body of the Organization of American States, to take up the case. On Nov 7, 2011, Mexico's government publicly apologized for failing to prevent the killings of the three women and for the negligence of officials in investigating the crimes.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A19)(AP, 11/7/11)
2001 Nov 6, Russia clinched a deal to build a $2.6 billion nuclear-power plant in Kudunkulam, Tamil Nadu, India. India reiterated its intention of buying a Russian aircraft carrier, the Admiral Gorshkov, for the cost of retrofit estimated at $500 million, along with 2 squadrons of MiG-29C jet fighters.
(WSJ, 11/7/01, p.A16)
2001 Nov 6, In Madrid, Spain, a rush hour car bomb blast injured 95 people. The ETA was suspected and a man and woman were arrested.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A13)
2001 Nov 6, In Istanbul, Turkey, 4 leftist militants, participants in a hunger strike, died during a police raid. The militants had threatened self-immolation.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A16)
2002 Nov 6, The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates .5% from 1.75 to 1.25. The Dow rose 92 to 8771 and Nasdaq rose 17 to 1418.99.
(SFC, 11/7/02, p.A22)
2002 Nov 6, A new U.S. draft resolution on Iraq set off a final diplomatic push for tough new weapons inspections, backed by threats of force if Saddam Hussein continues to skirt his disarmament obligations.
(AP, 11/7/02)
2002 Nov 6, Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman called for a state recount following his loss to GOP Rep. Bob Riley by 3,195 votes. Siegelman conceded Nov 18.
(SFC, 11/9/02, p.A4)(WSJ, 11/19/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 6, A jury in Beverly Hills, Calif., convicted Winona Ryder of stealing $5,500 worth of high-fashion merchandise from Saks Fifth Avenue, but a prosecutor said she would not seek to put the actress behind bars.
(AP, 11/6/03)
2002 Nov 6, Muslims across the world started fasting for the holy month of Ramadan.
(Reuters, 11/6/02)
2002 Nov 6, A bus carrying workers home for an Islamic holiday collided with a truck and overturned east of Cairo, killing 24 people and wounding 25 others.
(AP, 11/6/02)
2002 Nov 6, In Fiji a military panel convicted 15 elite army soldiers of mutiny for their roles in a deadly shootout at the country's main barracks two years ago.
(AP, 11/6/02)
2002 Nov 6, In France a fire broke out on an overnight express train, filling a sleeper car with smoke and killing 12 passengers. Five Americans were among the dead, including two children.
(AP, 11/6/02)
2002 Nov 6, In Iran University professor Hashem Aghajari, was sentenced to death on charges of insulting Islam's prophet and questioning the hard-line clergy's interpretation of Islam. He was also was sentenced to 74 lashes, banned from teaching for 10 years and exiled to three remote Iranian cities for 8 years. The death sentence was overturned in 2003 and reimposed May 3, 2004. The 2nd death sentence was again overturned. Aghajari was released on bail July 31, 2004.
(AP, 11/7/02)(WSJ, 5/5/04, p.A1)(AP, 7/3/04)(SSFC, 8/1/04, p.A16)
2002 Nov 6, Benjamin Netanyahu was approved as Israel's foreign minister, bringing him into the Cabinet of the man he seeks to succeed, Ariel Sharon.
(AP, 11/6/02)
2002 Nov 6, In Luxembourg a twin-engine Fokker-50 plane crashed in fog as it approached Findel Airport, killing 17 people and seriously injuring five others.
(AP, 11/6/02)(WSJ, 11/7/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 6, In Morocco King Mohammed VI said the call for a referendum in Western Sahara to determine whether the people want independence is "null" and "inapplicable," his first public dismissal of the plan first put forward in 1991.
(AP, 11/6/02)
2002 Nov 6, A Palestinian laborer opened fire in a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip where he worked, killing his employer and another Israeli before being shot dead.
(AP, 11/6/02)
2002 Nov 6, Muslim guerrillas strafed a southern Philippine village with automatic rifle fire, killing seven people in retaliation for an offensive by troops.
(Reuters, 11/7/02)
2003 Nov 6, Pres. Bush signed the $87.5 billion spending bill for Afghanistan and Iraq.
(WSJ, 11/7/03, p.A1)(AP, 11/6/04)
2003 Nov 6, Federal judges in New York and California blocked a new ban on certain late-term abortions, a day after President Bush signed it into law.
(AP, 11/6/04)
2003 Nov 6, The US Mint unveiled the new nickel
(AP, 11/6/04)
2003 Nov 6, Gene scientists published a map in Nature that shows how DNA controls protein interactions in the fruit fly.
(WSJ, 11/7/03, p.A1)
2003 Nov 6, Two American soldiers were killed near Baghdad and along the Syrian border. Polish forces suffered their first combat death when a Polish major was fatally wounded in an ambush south of the capital.
(AP, 11/6/03)
2003 Nov 6, In the Congo Republic 9 people have died in a suspected outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in a remote forest region where 120 were killed by the disease earlier this year.
(Reuters, 11/7/03)
2003 Nov 6, In India workers burned down a house and killed 21 people from a rival trade union in a battle over jobs at an Indian tea farm.
(AP, 11/6/03)
2003 Nov 6, Indonesia extended martial law and its military offensive in Aceh for 6 months.
(SFC, 11/7/03, p.A9)
2003 Nov 6, In Saudi Arabia 2 suspected militants blew themselves up in Mecca when security forces tried to arrest them. A 3rd was shot to death by police during a raid in Riyadh.
(AP, 11/6/03)
2004 Nov 6, The designers of SpaceShipOne, the first privately manned rocket to burst into space [see Oct 4], were handed a $10 million check and the Ansari X Prize trophy.
(AP, 11/6/05)
2004 Nov 6, The Cassini spacecraft was scheduled to launch its Huygens probe onto Titan. [see Dec 24]
(SFEC, 10/5/97, Z1 p.4)
2004 Nov 6, The African Union mandated South African President Thabo Mbeki to launch an urgent mission to resolve the crisis in Ivory Coast.
(AFP, 11/7/04)
2004 Nov 6, In Baku, Azerbaijan, a gas explosion tore through a two-story apartment building, trapping residents under the debris. At least 4 people were killed.
(AP, 11/6/04)
2004 Nov 6, China's central bank said it would take a "gradual and safe" approach to loosening the yuan-dollar peg.
(AP, 11/6/04)
2004 Nov 6, In England 7 people were killed and 150 injured when a Eurostar high-speed train crashed into a vehicle that was stopped on a level crossing near Ufton Nervet in Berkshire. A motorist's suicide was suspected.
(AP, 11/8/04)
2004 Nov 6, In northwestern Haiti an armed group fired on a police station, prompting officers to flee while prisoners escaped and more than 100 people started a flurry of looting.
(AP, 11/6/04)
2004 Nov 6, Insurgents set off at least two car bombs and attacked a police station in the central Iraqi town of Samarra, killing at least 29 people and wounding 40. Over 50 people were killed across central Iraq including nearly 2 dozen Americans.
(AP, 11/6/04)(SSFC, 11/7/04, p.A1)
2004 Nov 6, Israeli troops killed 5 Palestinians, including a 14-year-old boy, in West Bank and Gaza Strip.
(AP, 11/6/04)
2004 Nov 6, Ivory Coast warplanes bombed French peacekeepers, killing 8 French soldiers and wounding 23. French forces responded by destroying the entire Ivory Coast air force, 2 Russian-made jets and 5 helicopter gunships.
(AP, 11/6/04)(SSFC, 11/7/04, p.A3)
2004 Nov 6, In western Nepal 9 Maoist rebels, five of them women, and a policeman were killed in a series of clashes and an accidental explosion.
(AP, 11/7/04)
2004 Nov 6, In an open letter to the Iraqi people and posted on the Internet, 26 Saudi scholars and religious preachers stressed that armed attacks launched by militant Iraqi groups on U.S. troops and their allies in Iraq were "legitimate" resistance.
(AP, 11/6/04)
2004 Nov 6, In Ukraine tens of thousands of supporters of presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko filled Kiev's main square, joining nationwide protests over alleged election fraud.
(AP, 11/6/04)
2004 Nov 6, Atonazar Arifov, head of the Uzbek unregistered opposition Erk party, announced that Erk would boycott next month's parliamentary vote, saying the government has failed to embrace democracy and calling on the international community to ignore the election.
(AP, 11/6/04)
2005 Nov 6, In a clear jab at Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, President Bush, in Brazil, called on Latin Americans to boldly defend strong democratic institutions.
(AP, 11/6/06)
2005 Nov 6, Paul Tergat of Kenya won the NYC marathon by a third of a second in the closest finish ever. Jelena Prokopcuka of Latvia took the women’s race.
(WSJ, 11/7/05, p.A1)
2005 Nov 6, In SF the annual Veteran’s Day Parade was held on Market St.
(SFC, 11/7/05, p.B1)
2005 Nov 6, The Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress opened in SF for a 5-day meeting and demonstration of new products.
(SFC, 11/7/05, p.A1)
2005 Nov 6, A tornado ripped across southwestern Indiana and northern Kentucky, killing at least 22 people, wrecking homes and knocking out power to thousands.
(AP, 11/6/05)(WSJ, 11/7/05, p.A1)
2005 Nov 6, The head of Azerbaijan's ruling party declared victory in a parliamentary election, with 63 seats. Azerbaijan's president pledged parliamentary elections would be followed by further democratic reform, but his political opponents alleged there were voting violations that could taint the results.
(AP, 11/6/05)(Reuters, 11/6/05)(Econ, 11/12/05, p.55)
2005 Nov 6 Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was arrested, hours after he defied an international arrest warrant and flew from Japan to Chile. Shortly after Fujimori's presence in Chile was confirmed, the Peruvian government asked Santiago to arrest him while a request for his extradition was filed.
(AP, 11/7/05)
2005 Nov 6, China said it had asked the World Health Organization to help it determine whether the death of a 12-year-old girl last month was caused by bird flu.
(AP, 11/6/05)
2005 Nov 6, In northern China an explosion at a coal mine killed 13 miners and left three missing at the Taiping Colliery in Shanxi province's Qingxu County.
(AP, 11/6/05)
2005 Nov 6, In northern China a cave-in at a gypsum mine killed 27 workers and trapped 20 others. The mine collapse occurred in Xingtai, a city in Hebei province, and affected two other nearby mines.
(AP, 11/7/05)
2005 Nov 6, The EU and US urged Ethiopia to end its crackdown on independent journalists and release opposition leaders detained during a week of bloody clashes between demonstrators and police.
(AP, 11/7/05)
2005 Nov 6, French President Jacques Chirac called a security meeting of his top ministers after urban rioting spread, with arsonists striking from the Mediterranean to the German border and into central Paris for the first time. On the 10th night of mayhem, some 1,300 vehicles were torched across France overnight and 349 people were arrested.
(AP, 11/6/05)(AFP, 11/6/05)
2005 Nov 6, Adan Castillo, Guatemala's top anti-narcotics investigator, said he plans to step down in December, after just six months on the job. Castillo said his country's anti-drug agents are no match for some 4,000 smugglers operating in Guatemala.
(AP, 11/6/05)
2005 Nov 6, India’s Sikh PM Singh and Hindu nationalist opposition leader joined to open Swaminarayan Akshardham Temple in New Delhi, one of the biggest Hindu temples of modern times, a $45 million pink sandstone shrine to religious tolerance.
(AP, 11/6/05)
2005 Nov 6, Iran said it supported a stable Iraq and called for expediting the construction of an oil pipeline and railway between the two neighbors.
(AP, 11/6/05)
2005 Nov 6, Dozens of people fled Husaybah, an Iraqi town on the Syrian border, during a lull in fighting between 3,500 US and Iraqi troops and suspected al-Qaida insurgents armed with Kalashnikov rifles and rocket-propelled grenades.
(AP, 11/6/05)
2005 Nov 6, Myanmar’s military junta began moving key ministries to Pyinmana, a secret location in the mountains and dense forest. The ruling junta had shifted headquarters to a series of underground bunkers in Pyinmana, in central Myanmar.
(Econ, 7/23/05, p.24)(WSJ, 11/7/05, p.A18)
2005 Nov 6, Gunmen in Mogadishu threw grenades and a land mine exploded near the convoy carrying Somalia's PM Ali Mohamed Gedi, but the leader escaped unharmed. At least two people were killed and 12 wounded in the attack.
(AP, 11/6/05)
2006 Nov 6, Kenny Chesney won entertainer of the year and Brooks & Dunn's inspirational song "Believe" won three trophies, including single and song of the year, at the 40th Annual Country Music Association Awards.
(AP, 11/6/07)
2006 Nov 6, On the eve of midterm elections, Democrats criticized Republicans as stewards of a stale status quo while President Bush campaigned from Florida to Arkansas to Texas in a drive to preserve GOP control of Congress.
(AP, 11/6/07)
2006 Nov 6, US military trade papers published an editorial calling for the ouster of Defense Sec. Donald Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld signed a letter of resignation on this day, but Pres. Bush waited until Nov 8, one day after elections to make the announcement.
(SSFC, 11/5/06, p.A18)(SFC, 8/14/07, p.A7)
2006 Nov 6, AIDS researchers reported encouraging results for a vaccine based on genetically altered HIV.
(WSJ, 11/7/06, p.A1)
2006 Nov 6, In Danville, Ca., Dimitra Mantas (43) was bludgeoned to death by her son (16), a user of methamphetamine. In 2008 a judge ruled that Andrew Mantas was incompetent to stand trial. In 2011 Andrew was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
(SFC, 11/7/06, p.B1)(SFC, 5/31/08, p.B3)(SFC, 9/14/11, p.C4)
2006 Nov 6, Transparency International, a watchdog group, reported that nearly three-quarters of 163 countries ranked in a new survey suffer from a perception of serious corruption, while in nearly half it is seen as rampant. Finland, Iceland and New Zealand ranked as the least corrupt, while Haiti, Guinea and Myanmar ranked as most corrupt.
(AP, 11/6/06)(Econ, 11/11/06, p.69)
2006 Nov 6, Afghan and US-led troops detained six suspected extremists, including one described as a "known al-Qaida terrorist." Taliban fighters ambushed a police patrol, killing one policeman and wounding two in Zabul province. One Taliban fighter was killed in an ensuing fight. In Helmand province Afghan and NATO forces carried out an operation against Taliban fighters, killing two. An Afghan army soldier was killed when another IED struck a military patrol in the Gereshk area of Helmand province.
(AP, 11/6/06)(AP, 11/7/06)
2006 Nov 6, Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet opened an international gathering of socialist leaders in Santiago by urging them to take advantage of the "reality" of globalization instead of fighting it. Police in Chile arrested 4 suspected computer hackers for allegedly belonging to a group accused of breaking into thousands of government Web sites around the globe, including NASA's.
(AP, 11/7/06)
2006 Nov 6, China's relations with Zimbabwe are "unshakeable", President Hu Jintao said as he met Pres. Mugabe amid accusations that Beijing's ties help shore up a pariah regime.
(AFP, 11/6/06)
2006 Nov 6, Iraq’s Shiite-dominated government offered a major concession to Sunnis that could give jobs back to members of the Baath Party. A US helicopter crashed in Salahuddin province, killing two American soldiers on board. 2 Marines and a soldier were killed in fighting in Anbar province. In northern Iraq flash floods caused by heavy rain killed 18 people and injured 20.
(AP, 11/6/06)(SFC, 11/7/06, p.A13)
2006 Nov 6, A female suicide bomber approached Israeli troops in the northern Gaza Strip and blew herself up. One soldier was lightly wounded in the blast.
(AP, 11/6/06)
2006 Nov 6, Hundreds of Israelis of Ethiopian descent clashed with police and briefly blocked a main road leading into Jerusalem in a protest of the Health Ministry's wholesale discarding of donated Ethiopian blood.
(AP, 11/6/06)
2006 Nov 6, In Italy a Milan court sentenced Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, the accused mastermind of the March 2004 train bombings in Madrid, to 10 years in jail for membership of a terrorist organization. A second Egyptian, Yahya Mawad Mohamed Rajeh, was sentenced to five years in jail in the case.
(AFP, 11/6/06)(WSJ, 11/7/06, p.A1)
2006 Nov 6, In Kenya thousands of delegates from around the world opened a UN conference on next steps to ward off the worst effects of climate change.
(AP, 11/6/06)
2006 Nov 6, Kyrgyzstan President Kurmanbek Bakiyev agreed to several opposition demands after five days of rallies demanding his resignation. Police officers guarding the presidential headquarters switched over to the protesters' side.
(AP, 11/6/06)
2006 Nov 6, In Mexico City simultaneous explosions hit the Federal Electoral Tribunal, a bank branch and the headquarters of the former ruling party early in the day. Authorities deactivated a homemade explosive device at a second bank branch.
(AP, 11/6/06)
2006 Nov 6, In the Netherlands 6 people were arrested on suspicion of recruiting volunteers for jihad, or Islamic holy war, prosecutors said after a year-long investigation.
(AFP, 11/7/06)
2006 Nov 6, In Nicaragua Daniel Ortega appeared headed back to the presidency 16 years after a U.S.-backed rebellion helped oust the former Marxist revolutionary. Partial results and the country's top electoral watchdog indicated he had easily defeated four opponents.
(AP, 11/6/06)
2006 Nov 6, Nigeria signed a deal with British firm Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) to build an earth observation satellite.
(AFP, 11/6/06)
2006 Nov 6, In northern Somalia Islamic fighters clashed with government militia backed by Ethiopian forces.
(SFC, 11/7/06, p.A18)
2006 Nov 6, South Africa's top appeals court dented ex-Deputy President Jacob Zuma's chances of becoming the next president when it confirmed corruption convictions against a former financial adviser.
(Reuters, 11/6/06)
2006 Nov 6, Syria's foreign minister said his country was ready to resume peace talks with Israel and he urged the Jewish state's government to heed calls from within the country for renewed negotiations.
(AP, 11/7/06)
2006 Nov 6, Tajikistan's President Emomali Rakhmonov won re-election to a new, seven-year term according to preliminary results that gave him nearly 80% of the vote. Foreign observers said the vote was flawed.
(AP, 11/7/06)
2006 Nov 6, Canada’s Heritage Oil reported an oil find on the Ugandan side of Lake Albert.
(Econ, 8/25/07, p.45)(http://tinyurl.com/36dnbm)
2007 Nov 6, SF Mayor Gavin Newsom declared victory. The vote tally was expected to take as long as 2 weeks due to a state-mandated hand count.
(SFC, 11/7/07, p.A1)
2007 Nov 6, In Vallejo, Ca., mayoral candidates Osby Davis (62) and Gary Cloutier (45) finished in a dead heat. Cloutier was later sworn in as mayor after elections officials said he won by 4 votes. On Dec 11 Osby was sworn in as mayor following a recount that put him on top by 2 votes.
(SFC, 12/12/07, p.B3)
2007 Nov 6, Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher, dogged by a hiring scandal, lost badly to Democratic challenger Steve Beshear.
(SFC, 11/7/07, p.A16)
2007 Nov 6, Central bankers past and present warned of more credit pain to come as Germany's Commerzbank and a big American lender became the latest to reveal losses from US subprime mortgage lending.
(AP, 11/6/07)
2007 Nov 6, Crude oil prices hit a record highs at $97.10 and closed at a record $96.70 per barrel on the NY Mercantile Exchange.
(SFC, 11/7/07, p.C2)
2007 Nov 6, Astronomers said a new planet has been discovered orbiting a sun-like star 41 light years away in the galaxy called 55 Cancri, making it the first known planetary quintet outside our solar system.
(AP, 11/7/07)(SFC, 11/7/07, p.A5)
2007 Nov 6, George Osmond (90), father of Donny and Marie Osmond and patriarch to the family's singing group The Osmond Brothers, died in Provo, Utah.
(AP, 11/6/08)
2007 Nov 6, Hank Thompson (82), country singer, died in Texas of lung cancer. Between 1948 and 1975 he had 29 songs in the top ten including “A Six Pack to Go" and “The Wild Side of Life" (1952). Kitty Wells (b.1919) sang her 1952 Honky Tonk Angels song, which was written by J.D. Miller in response to Thompson’s Wild Side of Life.
(SFC, 11/9/07, p.B7)
2007 Nov 6, In Afghanistan a bomb targeted a group of lawmakers in the northern province of Baghlan, killing at least 75 people, including 6 lawmakers. 61 schoolchildren were among the dead and 96 other students were wounded. A UN report later said up to two-thirds of the 77 people killed and 100 wounded were hit by bullets from visiting lawmakers' panicked bodyguards.
(Reuters, 11/6/07)(AP, 11/9/07)(AP, 11/17/07)(AP, 11/6/08)
2007 Nov 6, Chinese e-commerce portal Alibaba.com soared in its debut on the Hong Kong stock market. It opened at $3.86 and closed at $5.09.
(AP, 11/6/07)(SFC, 11/7/07, p.C1)
2007 Nov 6, In Bangalore, India, doctors began operating on Lakshmi, a 2-year-old girl born with four arms and four legs, in an extensive surgery that they hope will leave the girl with a normal body. Surgeons completed the surgery the next day and said will it give the girl a chance at a normal life.
(AP, 11/6/07)(AP, 11/7/07)
2007 Nov 6, 2007 became the deadliest year for US troops in Iraq, with at least 853 military deaths.
(AP, 11/6/08)
2007 Nov 6, In Kashmir a 4-day gunbattle began that left five Islamic militants and four Indian soldiers killed.
(AFP, 11/9/07)
2007 Nov 6, Kurdish rebels released another Iranian soldier captured two months ago in northern Iraq.
(AP, 11/6/07)
2007 Nov 6, Italian police said a Europe-wide sweep disrupted an Islamic cell that was recruiting potential suicide bombers for attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan. They announced the arrests of 20 terror suspects, mostly Tunisians. Authorities in Britain, France and Portugal confirmed arrests.
(AP, 11/6/07)
2007 Nov 6, A Mauritanian patrol boat found a drifting boat from Senegal with some 100 people aboard as well as 2 dead bodies. The migrants had spent nearly 3 weeks at sea and thrown 43 dead bodies overboard.
(SFC, 11/7/07, p.A3)
2007 Nov 6, A US diplomat said the disablement of North Korea's nuclear weapons-making facilities has started smoothly and the communist nation should be able to complete the process by the end of the year.
(AP, 11/6/07)
2007 Nov 6, Pakistan's deposed chief justice called on lawyers nationwide to defy police and protest President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's imposition of emergency rule, while the government debated whether to delay parliamentary elections by as much as three months.
(AP, 11/6/07)
2007 Nov 6, Singapore presented its case regarding sovereignty of three disputed islands in the Pacific Ocean at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague, a claim disputed by Malaysia.
(AFP, 11/6/07)
2007 Nov 6, In northern South Africa a blaze swept through a nursing home, killing 12 people and injuring five.
(AP, 11/7/07)
2007 Nov 6, Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir met with South African President Thabo Mbeki in Cape Town for talks on the situation in war-torn Darfur and political upheaval in Khartoum.
(AP, 11/6/07)
2007 Nov 6, In the Vatican Benedict XVI raised concerns about restrictions on Christian worship in Saudi Arabia in the first meeting ever between a pope and a reigning Saudi king.
(AP, 11/6/07)
2007 Nov 6, Zimbabwe’s Attorney General Sobusa Gula-Ndebele was briefly detained over allegations he promised to help a fugitive banker who had fled the southern African nation avoid arrest. Police said he faces corruption charges.
(Reuters, 11/8/07)
2008 Nov 6, President elect Barack Obama chose Rahm Emanuel (48), a fiery partisan unafraid of breaking glass and hurting feelings, as his White House chief of staff. It was reported that Obama's campaign chief strategist David Axelrod, one of the main architects of his election victory, had agreed to become a senior advisor in the White House.
(AP, 11/7/08)
2008 Nov 6, The leaders of GM, Ford and Chrysler came to Capital Hill along with the president of the UAW to discuss billions of dollars in financial help for the struggling car industry.
(SFC, 11/7/08, p.C3)
2008 Nov 6, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed $4.4 billion in new taxes and a similar amount in spending cuts to deal with California's worsening fiscal crisis, saying, "We must stop the bleeding."
(AP, 11/6/08)
2008 Nov 6, Philadelphia’s Mayor Nutter said a budget deficit crises will force the city to close libraries and swimming pools, suspend planned tax reductions, cut more than 800 jobs and trim salaries to deal with a $1 billion shortfall.
(SFC, 11/7/08, p.A7)
2008 Nov 6, David Booth (61), chief executive of Dimensional Fund Advisors mutual fund, said he will donate $300 million to the Univ. of Chicago’s business school.
(WSJ, 11/6/08, p.A4)
2008 Nov 6, In northwest Afghanistan an airstrike killed 13 Taliban militants and seven civilians in Ghormach district of Badghis province, a day after President Hamid Karzai demanded a halt to civilian casualties in US-led coalition operations.
(AP, 11/6/08)
2008 Nov 6, The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan crowned a new king, placing a charismatic Oxford-educated bachelor as head of state of the world's newest democracy. Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (28) became the world's youngest reigning monarch.
(AFP, 11/6/08)
2008 Nov 6, The European Central Bank cut its key interest rate by half a percentage point to 3.25% and the Bank of England made an even more aggressive reduction of 1.5%, from 4.5% to 3%, in an effort to ease the financial crisis and boost their flagging economies. The rate in England was lowest since 1955.
(AP, 11/6/08)(Econ, 11/8/08, p.71)
2008 Nov 6, Authorities said Hungary is preparing a financial aid package worth up to 600 billion forints ($3 billion, 2.3 billion euros) to boost domestic banks' capital and help them refinance debts.
(AP, 11/6/08)
2008 Nov 6, A series of bomb blasts across Baghdad killed six people and injured more than 20 others, in the fourth consecutive day of heightened violence in the Iraqi capital. The al-Qaida leader, known as Abu Ghazwan, was killed during a raid on a weapons cache. An American soldier has died of noncombat related causes.
(AP, 11/6/08)(AP, 11/7/08)(AP, 11/8/08)
2008 Nov 6, In Italy Domenico Magnoli (27), an alleged mobster, woke up in a private Italian clinic following liposuction surgery, and was arrested for trafficking in cocaine. Police alleged that Magnoli, born in Cannes, France, has links to the Piromalli crime clan in the 'ndrangheta syndicate.
(AP, 11/7/08)
2008 Nov 6, Japanese researchers said they had created functioning human brain tissues from stem cells, a world first that has raised new hopes for the treatment of disease.
(AFP, 11/6/08)
2008 Nov 6, Mexican authorities detained Rodolfo de la Guardia Garcia, the No. 2 official in the Federal Agency of Investigation from 2003-2005, suspected of aiding drug traffickers, and Jaime Gonzalez Duran, alleged founder of a vicious gang of drug-cartel hit men. A cache of 540 rifles, 165 grenades, 500,000 rounds of ammunition and 14 sticks of TNT were seized at a house in the city of Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas. This was the largest seizure of drug-cartel weapons in Mexico's history. In the northeast, police mistakenly opened fire on a family of six, seriously wounding a teenage girl. In the west, inmates rioted, killing six. And police in Tijuana found three more bodies accompanied by messages that appeared to be from drug traffickers.
(AP, 11/8/08)
2008 Nov 6, In Nigeria at least six navy personnel were killed in a gun battle between two rival gangs in southern oil-rich Bayelsa state.
(AFP, 11/7/08)
2008 Nov 6, In Pakistan a suicide bomber attacked a gathering of anti-militant Salarzai tribesmen, killing at least 17 and wounding 45 in the Batmalai area of the Bajur tribal region, where the military has clashed with insurgents for months. Another suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into a checkpoint in the Swat Valley killing at least 2 paramilitary troopers.
(AP, 11/6/08)(SFC, 11/7/08, p.A13)
2008 Nov 6, In the central Philippines a small ferry capsized during a storm at Bagongon islet. 11 passengers drowned in waters just 200 yards offshore. 30 survived a 3 remained missing.
(AP, 11/6/08)(AP, 11/7/08)
2008 Nov 6, Romania's defense minister says the country's 501 peacekeepers in Iraq will all leave by the end of the year.
(AP, 11/6/08)
2008 Nov 6, A Romanian computer programmer who hacked into computers used by the U.S. Navy, the Department of Energy and NASA was convicted on Romanian charges and ordered to pay thousands in damages. Victor Faur (28) was also given a 16-month suspended prison sentence. In 2006 Faur was indicted in the United States on nine federal counts of computer intrusion and one of conspiracy.
(AP, 11/10/08)
2008 Nov 6, A group of Saudi activists began a rare public hunger strike to demand judiciary reform and draw attention to the detention without trial of 11 political reformists.
(AP, 11/6/08)
2008 Nov 6, A suspected suicide explosion hit a minibus unloading passengers in Vladikavkaz, the capital of Russia's North Ossetia province, killing 12 people.
(AP, 11/6/08)(Reuters, 11/7/08)
2008 Nov 6, Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou made history when he met with a senior Chinese official as tens of thousands of anti-Beijing protesters brought the island's capital to a standstill.
(AFP, 11/6/08)
2008 Nov 6, State media reported that Zimbabwe's government will release millions of dollars in unspent foreign aid given to the country last year to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. An official said Zimbabwe's largest gold mining firm has stopped operations at its five mines across the strife-torn country, resulting in 5,000 people losing jobs. The closures resulted from long delays in receiving payments for gold delivered to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, which has a monopoly on the country's gold trade.
(AFP, 11/6/08)
2009 Nov 6, The US Labor Dept. said the unemployment rate has surpassed 10% for the first time since 1983, and that it was expected to go higher. Unemployment in October hit 10.2% with some 16 million jobless Americans. President Barack Obama was set to sign a $24 billion economic stimulus bill providing tax incentives to prospective homebuyers and extending unemployment benefits to the longtime jobless.
(AP, 11/6/09)(SFC, 11/7/09, p.A1)
2009 Nov 6, US banking regulators shut down United Commercial Bank of San Francisco. The government had invested $300 million from the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in the parent UCBH Holdings. The assets, loans and 63 branches of UCBH were sold to East West Bank of Pasadena. China Minsheng Bank soon wrote off its 10% stake in UCBH. In 2011 federal authorities filed criminal fraud charges against former executives at the bank.
(SSFC, 11/29/09, p.D1)(Econ, 5/15/10, SR p.18)(SFC, 10/12/11, p.D1)
2009 Nov 6, In Orlando, Florida, Jason Rodriguez (40), a former engineer, fatally shot Otis Beckford (26) and wounded five others at the firm where he once worked. The next day his attorney later said Rodriguez is "very mentally ill" and crumbled under the stress of his divorce, bankruptcy and unemployment. Rodriguez was an entry-level engineer at Reynolds, Smith and Hills for 11 months before he was fired in June 2007. On Jan 4, 2010, Rodriguez was declared incompetent to stand trial.
(AP, 11/7/09)(SFC, 1/5/10, p.A5)
2009 Nov 6, In Afghanistan fighting between members of a joint search operation and insurgents in western Afghanistan left 4 Afghan soldiers, three policemen and a civilian interpreter dead. It appeared that an airstrike during the search for two US paratroopers mistakenly killed 8 Afghans and wounded more than 20 Afghan and American forces. The deputy governor of the southern province of Zabul, Ali Khail, said NATO forces raided an Afghan Red Crescent office in the city of Qalat, killing a security guard and arresting three local Red Crescent employees. NATO issued a statement saying coalition forces killed a militant and arrested a few suspected militants, including someone who was helping insurgents transport weapons and bomb-making materials to the area.
(AP, 11/7/09)
2009 Nov 6, Two British ticketholders shared a jackpot of 90 million pounds ($150 million) in the EuroMillions competition, the largest lottery prizes ever paid out in the UK.
(AP, 11/7/09)
2009 Nov 6, British Airways revealed a quadrupling of net losses in its first half, and axed an extra 1,200 jobs in an "essential" cost-reduction program.
(AP, 11/6/09)
2009 Nov 6, Toronto, Canada, was awarded the 2015 Pan American Games by beating Bogota, Colombia and Lima, Peru on the first ballot in a vote in Guadalajara, Mexico.
(Reuters, 11/7/09)
2009 Nov 6, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao headed to Egypt for a summit with African leaders as Beijing bids to expand its diplomatic and economic influence on the resource-rich continent.
(AP, 11/6/09)
2009 Nov 6, In Cuba Yoani Sanchez, acclaimed dissident blogger, was forced into an unmarked car, beaten, threatened and dumped onto a street.
(Econ, 11/21/09, p.40)
2009 Nov 6, Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo alleged that recent arson attacks and shootings in his nation are the work of a mastermind living in the US. 3 attackers dressed as police officers firebombed a wooden, colonial-era courthouse and a nearby school on Nov 4, and later shot at two police stations, wounding one officer in the jaw and another in the ankle.
(AP, 11/7/09)
2009 Nov 6, Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said that a US-brokered pact failed to end a four-month political crisis after a deadline for forming a unity government passed.
(AP, 11/6/09)
2009 Nov 6, In northern India a crowded bus plunged down a steep mountain gorge, killing 32 people near Baner Khud, Himachal Pradesh state.
(AP, 11/6/09)
2009 Nov 6, Japan pledged $5.5 billion in aid over 3 years for Southeast Asia's 5 Mekong River nations (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam), seeking to deepen ties with the region amid growing influence from China.
(AFP, 11/6/09)
2009 Nov 6, Madagascar's political rivals agreed on posts within a transitional government that will hold power until next year's elections following a power struggle that brought months of volatility to the country.
(AP, 11/7/09)
2009 Nov 6, Mexican police caught Marco Antonio Ibarra in the northern city of Culiacan. The former prison official had spent a year on the run from charges of killing a 19-year-old inmate, whose beating death in Sep, 2008, sparked riots that left nearly two dozen dead, including two American prisoners. Noel Martinez, a district supervisor for the police in Ciudad Juarez, was shot and killed inside his car.
(AP, 11/7/09)(SFC, 11/7/09, p.A2)
2009 Nov 6, The Pakistani army entered Makeen, the last of three militant strongholds targeted by a major offensive in the northwest, as gunmen wounded a senior army officer and a solder in Islamabad. Police shot and killed two would-be suicide bombers in Balakot. The two men opened fire on police when their car was intercepted at a checkpoint in the North West Frontier Province.
(AP, 11/6/09)
2009 Nov 6, Saudi Arabia said it carried out airstrikes against "infiltrators" from Yemen that were limited to areas inside Saudi territory, and vowed to press on with the military action until the border with its restive neighbor was secure. In Yemen, however, a military official said Saudi forces continued to shell rebel position in Saada.
(AP, 11/6/09)
2009 Nov 6, In Scotland finance ministers from the world's leading rich and developing countries to begin the difficult negotiations over how to even out the imbalances weighing on the world economy.
(AP, 11/6/09)
2009 Nov 6, The aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) warned that Southern Sudan is facing a "serious outbreak" of the deadly kala azar tropical disease. Kala azar, or visceral leishmaniasis, is a neglected tropical disease contracted by the bite of a sand fly, endemic in some parts of southern Sudan. Without treatment, almost all victims die within one to four months. If treatment is received on time, some 95% can recover.
(AFP, 11/6/09)
2009 Nov 6, Turkey rebuffed an EU call to reconsider its decision to allow Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir, who is accused of war crimes in Darfur, to attend a summit in Istanbul. Turkey has not signed the Rome Statute which set up the ICC and has said previously the ICC arrest warrant for Beshir could hurt moves to end the conflict in Darfur.
(AFP, 11/6/09)
2009 Nov 6, A UN report said 2 Iranian businessmen working at a Dubai-based firm were linked to video surveillance devices sold to Sudan and used in unmanned drones in Darfur in violation of a UN arms embargo.
(Reuters, 11/6/09)
2009 Nov 6, Zimbabwe averted a political meltdown after PM Morgan Tsvangirai ended a boycott of the unity government, but faced a new deadline to resolve a slate of thorny disputes. He said assurances South Africa will be watching persuaded him to end his boycott.
(AP, 11/6/09)
2010 Nov 6, President Barack Obama announced a host of new trade deals with India supporting tens of thousands of US jobs as he began a 10-day trip through Asia on a determinedly domestic note.
(AP, 11/6/10)
2010 Nov 6, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd said their countries would enhance their military and defense cooperation by expanding joint exercises and the use of each other's training facilities. They also pledged to work together to influence the behavior of an increasingly assertive China.
(AP, 11/6/10)
2010 Nov 6, The Afghan attorney general's office said that it plans to indict an ex-minister for allegedly overcharging the government nearly $20 million for fuel, one of 20 cases involving government officials accused of corruption or misuse of power. An insurgent attack killed a NATO service member in the south. In the southeast a joint Afghan and coalition force killed Mullah Mohammadullah, a Taliban leader in Shahidi Hassas district of Uruzgan province, along with an associate as they were trying to escape on a motorcycle.
(AP, 11/6/10)(AP, 11/7/10)
2010 Nov 6, In Argentina thousands marched in a Gay Pride parade, celebrating the country's status as the first in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage and vowing to campaign for new rights for transgender people. More than 500 same-sex couples have been married since President Cristina Fernandez signed the law on July 21. The theme of the parade was "let's go for more," specifically, a "gender identity" law to enable individuals to change their gender on birth certificates and identity cards.
(AP, 11/7/10)
2010 Nov 6, BBC reporters planned further strikes after a two-day walkout over pension changes successfully disrupted the broadcaster's TV and radio programs.
(AP, 11/6/10)
2010 Nov 6, Tens of thousands of French protesters took to the streets once more for what might prove to be the last in their recent series of marches against President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reform.
(AP, 11/6/10)
2010 Nov 6, A train carrying what activists claim is "the most radioactive ever" cargo of nuclear waste ran the gauntlet of hundreds of protesters as it crossed the Rhine from France to Germany. The shipment was returning German waste for storage after it was treated in France by the Areva group.
(AFP, 11/6/10)
2010 Nov 6, Airlines cancelled at least 36 flights to and from Jakarta, affecting international carriers from Europe to Asia, because of ash from the Mount Merapi volcano.
(AFP, 11/6/10)
2010 Nov 6, Iraq's political rivals reached a breakthrough power-sharing deal in which Nuri al-Maliki, a Shiite, retains the premiership. The deal came 8 months after inconclusive elections. The deal was between the National Alliance, which represents the main Shiite parties, and the Kurdish coalition, while the Sunni-backed Iraqiya's support hinged on its agreement over the posts of speaker and president. A roadside bomb killed two Sunni anti-Qaeda militiamen and two Iraqi soldiers died in separate attacks on checkpoints north of Baghdad. Twin mortar attacks in Baghdad wounded two people. 25 people were wounded when three car bombs exploded outside the homes of officials of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
(AFP, 11/6/10)(AFP, 11/7/10)(AFP, 11/7/10)
2010 Nov 6, In Italy Michael Seifert (86), a former Nazi SS prison guard known as "the beast of Bolzano" for his cruelty, died in an Italian hospital. The Ukrainian-born Seifert was serving a life sentence at the Santa Maria Capua Vetere prison in southern Italy.
(AP, 11/7/10)
2010 Nov 6, In Kenya a police officer in Siakago town went on a shooting rampage, killing 10 people in three different bars. The man was said to be accusing a girl of having infected him with HIV and when he went to look for her he did not find her.
(AP, 11/7/10)
2010 Nov 6, Libyan authorities arrested 10 reporters for criticizing Libya's leadership. They worked for Libya Press, a news agency controlled by the son of leader Moammar Gadhafi. A further 10 journalists working for Al-Ghad titles were rounded up in a second wave of arrests. All the reporters were released on Nov 8, and Moamer Kadhafi asked that an inquiry be opened into the matter.
(AP, 11/7/10)(AFP, 11/8/10)
2010 Nov 6, In Mexico the decapitated body of a 30-year-old man was found in an Acapulco neighborhood. Another man was found shot to death and a 27-year-old woman who had been kidnapped last month was found strangled and dumped in a trash bin, a black hood covering her face. Seven men at a family party in ciudad Juarez were gunned down. 11 other people were killed in the city, including two whose bodies were found dismembered. Police in Oaxaca city found a human head in a gift-wrapped box left on the side of a cliff popular for its view of the picturesque colonial center.
(AP, 11/7/10)
2010 Nov 6, Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket into southern Israel on Saturday but caused no casualties or damage.
(AP, 11/6/10)
2010 Nov 6, In Poland a gigantic statue of Jesus that Poles claim is the world's largest rose majestically above the small town of Swiebodzin, as the grandiose dream of a local priest finally came to pass. Residents believed it will put their town of 22,000 on the map for tourists.
(AP, 11/6/10)
2010 Nov 6, In Russia Oleg Kashin (30), a reporter for the Kommersant newspaper, was left in a coma after two men smashed his head, legs and fingers in an attack that prosecutors believe was linked to his work. Among his more contentious reporting topics has been efforts by environmentalists and opposition activists to protect trees in the Khimki forest near Moscow from being cut down for a new highway.
(AP, 11/6/10)
2010 Nov 6, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said Riyadh has halted mediation efforts between the Afghan government and the Taliban because the fundamentalist movement has refused to break ties with al-Qaida.
(AP, 11/6/10)
2010 Nov 6, Pirates near Somalia fired on French naval forces from a private yacht they had captured. The yacht ran aground the next day and the South African skipper escaped captivity, but the pirates took two crew members hostage onto land.
(AP, 11/8/10)
2010 Nov 6, In Spain Pope Benedict XVI blasted the "aggressive" anti-church sentiment he said was flourishing in Spain as he sought to rekindle the faith in a once-staunchly Roman Catholic nation that is now among Europe's most liberal.
(AP, 11/6/10)
2010 Nov 6, Swedish police arrested Peter Mangs (38) on suspicion of shooting at people with immigrant backgrounds in a yearlong rampage in Malmo, Sweden's third largest city. The first shooting was Oct. 10, 2009, when a 21-year-old convicted drug smuggler on furlough from prison was shot in the head in a parked car. Swedish media said he was hospitalized for a month with a bullet in his brain but survived. A 20-year-old woman sitting next to him was also hit in the head and died. On May 7, 2012, Mangs was charged with three counts of murder and 12 counts of attempted murder. On Nov 23, 20112, Mangs was sentenced to life in prison and ordered 40-year-old Peter Mangs to pay 1.2 million kronor ($180,000) in damages to survivors and their families.
(AP, 11/7/10)(AP, 11/9/10)(AP, 5/7/12)(AP, 11/23/12)
2010 Nov 6, United Nations officials said they were investigating reports that some 700 Congolese women were sexually attacked along the country's border with Angola. Many women had said Angolan soldiers were responsible for their attacks.
(AP, 11/6/10)
2010 Nov 6, A Yemeni judge ordered police to find Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical US-born cleric, "dead or alive" after the al-Qaida-linked preacher failed to appear at his trial for his role in the killing of foreigners.
(AP, 11/6/10)
2011 Nov 6, In the northeast US tens of thousands remained without power 8 days after the Oct 29 snowstorm, including some 88,000 in Connecticut.
(SFC, 11/7/11, p.A5)
2011 Nov 6, In Washington state Julia Biryukova told investigators that her 2-year-old son, Sky Metalwala, vanished in Bellevue after she left him sleeping in her unlocked car after she ran out of gas. Police found that there was enough gas to run a considerable distance.
(SFC, 11/9/11, p.A6)(SFC, 11/10/11, p.A10)
2011 Nov 6, Afghan Pres. Karzai met with Australian PM Julia Gillard, who made an unannounced trip to the country. In the north 2 suicide bombers targeted worshippers on a key Muslim festival, killing seven, including two local police commanders of Old Baghlan City. A roadside bomb ripped through a police vehicle in the south, killing a district police chief and two of his bodyguards.
(AP, 11/6/11)(AFP, 11/7/11)
2011 Nov 6, In Brazil cameraman Gelson Domingos (46) was hit in the chest by a rifle shot while covering the police confrontation with gang members at the Antares slum in Rio's west side. Domingos died despite wearing a bulletproof vest.
(AP, 11/6/11)
2011 Nov 6, CongoDRC opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi (79), while visiting in South Africa, proclaimed himself president and ordered his followers to stage jailbreaks to free detained colleagues. Since the electoral campaign opened Oct. 28, Tshisekedi's supporters have had clashes, some deadly, with police and Kabila supporters in several towns.
(AP, 11/12/11)
2011 Nov 6, In Egypt 11 Hungarian tourists were killed and 27 injured when their bus overturned in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada.
(AFP, 11/6/11)
2011 Nov 6, Greece's embattled PM George Papandreou and main opposition leader agreed to form an interim government to ensure the country's new European debt deal, capping a week of political turmoil.
(AP, 11/7/11)
2011 Nov 6, Guatemala held presidential elections. Retired general and former intelligence director Otto Perez Molina (61) of the conservative Patriotic Party won an easy victory, 54% to 46%, in a runoff race against tycoon-turned-political populist Manuel Baldizon of the Democratic Freedom Revival party.
(AP, 11/7/11)
2011 Nov 6, In Iraq 3 bombs ripped through the sprawling Shorja market in Baghdad, killing eight people at the beginning of a Muslim religious holiday and just hours after the prime minister warned of Iraq's continued danger. A roadside bomb hit a security patrol in the northern city of Mosul, killing an Iraqi soldier.
(AP, 11/6/11)
2011 Nov 6, Israeli President Shimon Peres warned that an attack on Iran is becoming increasingly likely, days before a report by the UN's nuclear watchdog on Iran's nuclear program is due.
(AFP, 11/6/11)
2011 Nov 6, The websites of Israel's army and intelligence services were down today, two days after a hacker group appeared to threaten the Jewish state over its interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla.
(AFP, 11/6/11)
2011 Nov 6, Japan's coastguard arrested the captain of a Chinese fishing boat that allegedly intruded into Japanese territorial waters.
(AFP, 11/6/11)
2011 Nov 6, Nicaragua held presidential elections. On Nov 8 Daniel Ortega was declared the winner as he led with 63% of the votes, compared with 31% for his nearest challenger, Fabio Gadea. International election observers reported problems with access to voting stations.
(AP, 11/7/11)(AP, 11/8/11)
2011 Nov 6, Niger's army intercepted a convoy of cars traveling south from Libya toward Mali, and a cache of arms was seized in the ensuing clash. Libyan nationals and ethnic Tuaregs were in the convoy. One Nigerien soldier was killed and four wounded during the clash.
(AP, 11/9/11)
2011 Nov 6, In Nigeria gunmen suspected of being members of Boko Haram shot dead a police officer at his home as he returned from Eid morning prayers in Maiduguri.
(AFP, 11/6/11)
2011 Nov 6, Oman state media reported that 4 crewmen died and five are still missing after an Indian ship sank in bad weather off its coast.
(AFP, 11/6/11)
2011 Nov 6, In Saudi Arabia millions of Muslims stoned pillars representing the devil in a symbolic rejection of temptation on the second day of their annual hajj pilgrimage, a day that also marks the start of the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha. More than 2.9 million Muslims were performing the hajj this year.
(AP, 11/6/11)
2011 Nov 6, In Sudan unidentified gunmen killed a UN peacekeeper and injured two others in an attack on a patrol in the war-ravaged Darfur region.
(AFP, 11/7/11)
2011 Nov 6, Syrians in the restive region of Homs performed special prayers for a major Muslim holiday to the sound of explosions and gunfire as government troops pushed forward their assault on the area, killing at least 16 people. The Arab League called an emergency meeting on Syria's failure to implement its peace plan. Altogether 23 people were killed in today’s crackdown.
(AP, 11/6/11)(AFP, 11/6/11)(AP, 11/7/11)
2011 Nov 6, Fishermen on a Taiwanese boat fought back against Somali pirates and freed themselves after a hijacking in the Indian Ocean. Some of the 28 crew on the Chin Yi Wen overcame the hijackers then the boat met up with British anti-piracy vessels nearby.
(AP, 11/6/11)
2011 Nov 6, The death toll from Thailand's worst floods in half a century climbed past 500, as advancing pools of polluted black water threatened Bangkok's subway system and new evacuations were ordered in the sprawling capital.
(AP, 11/6/11)
2011 Nov 6, Miss Venezuela, Ivian Sarcos, was crowned the 2011 winner of the Miss World beauty pageant at a glittering final ceremony in London.
(AP, 11/7/11)
2011 Nov 6, Two Yemeni soldiers were reported killed in overnight clashes with suspected Al-Qaeda fighters near the militant stronghold of Zinjibar.
(AFP, 11/6/11)
2011 Nov 6, Young supporters of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe stoned and beat up backers of PM Morgan Tsvangirai, blocking a planned rally of his Movement for Democratic Change party.
(AFP, 11/6/11)
2012 Nov 6, President Barack Obama rolled to re-election, vanquishing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney despite a weak economy that plagued his first term and put a crimp in the middle class dreams of millions. Obama claimed 303 electoral votes vs. 206 for Romney and 49.8% of the popular vote vs. 48.7%.
(AP, 11/7/12)(SFC, 11/7/12, p.A1)
2012 Nov 6, In California Proposition 30, Gov. Brown’s tax plan for education, passed. Prop 35, an initiative to increase sex-trafficking fines, passed by a landslide. Voters also approved Proposition 36, an initiative to change the three strike law. Prop 31 for budget process changes failed; Prop 32 to stop payroll political contributions failed; Prop 33 for insurance rates by driver history failed; Prop 34 to repeal the death penalty failed; prop 37 to label genetically modified food failed; Prop 38 on tax increases for education failed; prop 39 on taxes for multi-state businesses failed.
(SFC, 11/7/12, p.A14)(SFC, 11/8/12, p.A20)
2012 Nov 6, San Francisco voters approved Prop B, a $195 million park bond and Prop C to provide money for affordable housing. Prop D to consolidate the elections for city attorney and city treasurer also won. Prop E, a plan to revise the city’s business tax, passed as did Prop G, a policy statement opposing increased corporate financing in politics. Voters rejected Prop F, a plan to take the first steps to drain the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir.
(SFC, 11/7/12, p.A17)
2012 Nov 6, The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and owners of the Pacific Rod and Gun Club reached an agreement allowing the club to remain open for up to 2 more years at its 14-acre space on the shores of Lake Merced.
(SFC, 11/7/12, p.C2)
2012 Nov 6, Colorado voters approved Amendment 64 allowing adults over 21 to possess up to an ounce of marijuana, thought using the drug publicly would still be banned. Amendment 64 took effect in December.
(SFC, 11/7/12, p.A10)(SFC, 3/14/14, p.A6)
2012 Nov 6, In Indiana Mike Pence, a Republican congressman, was elected state governor.
(Econ, 11/10/12, p.34)
2012 Nov 6, Maine and Maryland became the first states to approve same sex marriage by popular vote.
(SFC, 11/7/12, p.A10)
2012 Nov 6, Massachusetts voters approved a measure to allow marijuana for medical reasons, joining 17 other states.
(SFC, 11/7/12, p.A10)
2012 Nov 6, Michigan voters supported Pres. Obama and defeated efforts by Ambassador Bridge owner Manuel Moroun to require a public vote before any competing int’l. crossing can be built with state money. This helped clear the way for a new Canadian-financed bridge.
(SFC, 11/8/12, p.A5)
2012 Nov 6, Montana elected Steve Bullock (b.1966) as state governor.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bullock_%28American_politician%29)
2012 Nov 6, In North Carolina Pat McCrory, a Republican former mayor of Charlotte, defeated Walter Dalton to become the state’s first Republican governor in 20 years.
(Econ, 11/10/12, p.32)
2012 Nov 6, Oklahoma voters approved a measure that wipes out all affirmative action programs in state government hiring, education and contracting practices.
(SFC, 11/7/12, p.A10)
2012 Nov 6, Oklahoma executed Garry Thomas Allen (56) for the 1986 killing of his fiancee, despite claims that he was insane.
(SFC, 11/7/12, p.A5)
2012 Nov 6, Washington state approved I-501, a measure establishing a system of state-licensed marijuana growers, processors and retail stores where adults could buy up to an ounce of marijuana.
(SFC, 11/7/12, p.A10)(Econ, 7/12/14, p.25)
2012 Nov 6, The number of people linked to a meningitis outbreak has climbed to 419 cases and included 30 deaths. It has been traced to contaminated steroid shots mixed by a pharmacy in Framingham, Mass.
(SFC, 11/6/12, p.A5)
2012 Nov 6, British actor Clive Dunn (b.1920), best known as a bumbling old butcher in the popular World War Two sitcom "Dad' s Army" (1968-1970), died in Portugal.
(AP, 11/7/12)
2012 Nov 6, In Bulgaria Patriarch Maxim (b.1914), as Marin Naidenov Minkov, died in Sofia. He weathered a revolt over his communist-era ties to lead the Balkan country's Orthodox Christians for more than 40 years.
(AP, 11/6/12)
2012 Nov 6, In Egypt gunmen shot and critically injured Selim Said el-Gamal, a senior security official, in the country's turbulent northern Sinai region.
(AP, 11/6/12)
2012 Nov 6, Greek trade unions started a general strike and nationwide protests against a new package of austerity measures to be voted on this week.
(SFC, 11/7/12, p.A2)
2012 Nov 6, In Iraq a suicide bomber driving a car packed with explosives detonated the vehicle near an Iraqi military base in Taji as soldiers changed shifts, killing at least 32 people and wounding more than 46.
(AP, 11/6/12)
2012 Nov 6, Ivory Coast officials said up to 10 new mass graves have been discovered near the site of a July 20 attack on a camp for displaced people. Rights groups have claimed summary executions were carried out by the Republican Forces of Ivory Coast, known by its French acronym of FRCI.
(AP, 11/6/12)
2012 Nov 6, A 54% majority of Puerto Ricans sought to change their ties with the United States and become the 51st US state in a non-binding referendum that would require final approval from Congress. Puerto Ricans also ousted Luis Fortuno, the pro-statehood governor in a close election. Challenger Alejandro Garcia Padilla won by less than 1 percent.
(AP, 11/7/12)
2012 Nov 6, Russia’s Pres. Putin fired Anatoly Serdyukov, his powerful defense minister, after police raided the property of a real estate company involved the privatization of valuable ministry land near Moscow.
(SFC, 11/7/12, p.A4)
2012 Nov 6, Russia wheeled out one of its treasured Cold War trophies, publishing a rare interview with George Blake, a 90-year-old British double agent. Blake worked for the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, from the 1940s. He became a committed communist while a North Korean prisoner during the Korean war, and worked for Moscow after being posted by MI6 to Berlin in 1955.
(AP, 11/6/12)
2012 Nov 6, In Syria gunmen killed Mohammed Osama Laham, the brother of Syria's parliament speaker, as he drove to work in Damascus. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said air raids on Houla, a group of villages in central province of Homs, killed seven people.
(AP, 11/6/12)
2012 Nov 6, A spokesman for Hamas said the Syrian government has sealed its offices in Damascus, finalizing the break between the Islamic militant group and its former patron.
(AP, 11/6/12)
2012 Nov 6, In South Africa Gold Fields said that thousands of employees returned to work at the company's KDC East mine ending a 23-day strike. The National Union of Mineworkers that the 12,000 miners fired from platinum mining company Anglo American Platinum in Rustenburg for staging illegal strikes since September had still not returned to work, and negotiations were underway.
(AP, 11/6/12)
2012 Nov 6, New South African banknotes, featuring the image of former president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, went into circulation.
(AP, 11/6/12)
2012 Nov 6, Sri Lanka made public charges against Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake involving misuse of her position and failing to adequately declare assets. Critics said it was an effort by Pres. Mahinda Rajapaksa to curb the independence of the judiciary. Parliament tabled her impeachment leaving the speaker, the president’s eldest brother, to appoint a committee to investigate allegations against her.
(SFC, 11/9/12, p.A5)(Econ, 11/10/12, p.42)
2012 Nov 6, Turkey's state-run news agency reported that seven Syrian generals have defected to Turkey.
(AP, 11/6/12)
2012 Nov 6, A Turkish court opened a trial in absentia of four former Israeli military commanders in the killing of nine people aboard a Turkish aid ship that tried to break a Gaza blockade in 2010.
(AP, 11/6/12)
2013 Nov 6, US federal authorities in Florida arrested a 3rd senior Navy official, Cmdr. Jose Luis Sanchez, in connection with an extensive bribvery scheme in Asia involving prostitutes and luxury travel.
(SFC, 11/7/13, p.A1)
2013 Nov 6, William Potts (56), a former US militant who hijacked a plane to Cuba in 1984, flew home to the United States where he faced federal charges for air piracy. On July 16, 2014, Potts was sentenced to 20 years in prison. The sentence effectively gave him credit for serving 13 years in Cuba making him eligile for parole in 7 years.
(AP, 11/6/13)(SFC, 7/18/14, p.A6)
2013 Nov 6, In Michigan 3 men were killed in a back gambling room at Al’s Barbershop on Detroit’s east side. 6 others were wounded.
(SFC, 11/8/13, p.A7)
2013 Nov 6, Scientists in Utah unveiled the bones of a dinosaur discovered in 2009. It was named Lythronax argestes, or "king of gore," for its large teeth and apparent dominance as a predator. They dated it to about 80 million BC.
(Reuters, 11/7/13)
2013 Nov 6, Twitter priced its IPO at $26 per share. TWTR closed at $44.90 per share, up 73%.
(SFC, 11/7/13, p.A1)(SFC, 11/8/13, p.A13)
2013 Nov 6, Afghan police found the bodies of 7 soldiers, believed to have been killed by their Taliban captors in Zabul province.
(AP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, British energy firm Centrica said it has signed a deal to supply British homes with Qatari liquefied natural gas in a tie-up worth £4.4 billion and lasting until 2018.
(AFP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, Britain’s BAE Systems said it will axe 1,775 shipbuilding jobs and close a historic yard as a government austerity drive hits demand.
(AFP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, Cameroonian author Leonora Miano scooped France's Femina literary prize and used her acceptance speech to denounce racist insults directed at the French justice minister.
(AFP, 11/7/13)
2013 Nov 6, In China supporters of jailed politician Bo Xilai established a new political party, the Zhi Xian Party, to support the former high-ranking official who was handed a life sentence for corruption in September.
(AFP, 11/10/13)
2013 Nov 6, In China a series of bombs packed with ball bearings exploded outside a provincial headquarters of the ruling Communist Party, killing at least one person in Taiyuan, Shanxi province.
(AFP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, A court in Egypt upheld an earlier ruling that banned the Muslim Brotherhood and ordered its assets confiscated.
(AP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, It was reported that a total of 20 dead whales have been discovered along Ghana's coastline in the last four years, including at least eight since September. Environmental groups said they are concerned, given the proximity of the discoveries to the country's new offshore petroleum industry.
(AFP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, Greek schools shut and flights were disrupted as workers held a general strike to protest austerity imposed by foreign lenders.
(AP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, In Iran gunman ambushed and killed Musa Nouri, a state prosecutor, in a restive southeastern region near the Pakistani border. Sunni Islamist Baluch militants claimed responsibility for killing the prosecutor in revenge for a decision to hang 16 prisoners following a cross-border attack by the group two weeks ago.
(AP, 11/6/13)(Reuters, 11/7/13)
2013 Nov 6, In Iraq a suicide bomber detonated an oil tanker rigged with explosives at a police station north of Baghdad, killing 7 policemen. Attacks elsewhere left 8 dead.
(AP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, An Israeli court found former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman innocent of all charges in a graft trial, clearing the way for one of Israel's most powerful and polarizing figures to return to his post as the nation's top diplomat.
(AP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, An Ivory Coast court sentenced 15 former top cocoa sector officials to up to 20 years in prison for corruption under ex-president Laurent Gbagbo, in a bid to clean up the industry in the world's top cocoa grower.
(Reuters, 11/7/13)
2013 Nov 6, Japan's hotels, restaurants and food shops were being warned over dishonest labelling amid a growing scandal that is threatening to undermine the country's reputation for safe, high-quality produce.
(AFP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan asked lawmakers to extend a state of emergency declared in the northeast in May for an additional six months, saying the Islamist insurgency had not yet been contained.
(AFP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, A Qatari court released Matthew and Grace Huang, a US couple, on trial for allegedly causing the death of their eight-year-old adopted daughter to sell her body parts.
(AFP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, A Saudi-owned newspaper reported that authorities have detained more than 16,000 migrant workers in the first 48 hours of a security sweep targeting foreigners working illegally in the kingdom.
(AP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, Saudi authorities beheaded a Pakistani man in the eastern Qatif province after he was convicted of drug trafficking in the kingdom.
(AFP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, In Syria a car bomb killed at least 8 security personnel in a rare attack on a military intelligence headquarters in the southern city of Suweida. A bomb exploded in a central square of Damascus, killing 8 people and wounding several others.
(Reuters, 11/6/13)(AFP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, Tajik President Imomali Rakhmon, his only serious rival disqualified, headed for re-election in a Central Asian country beset by poverty and facing security threats from neighboring Afghanistan.
(Reuters, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, The UN weather agency said world carbon dioxide pollution levels in the atmosphere are accelerating and reached a record high in 2012.
(AP, 11/6/13)
2014 Nov 6, Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged Trendon Shavers (32), founder of Bitcoin Savings and Trust, with fraud and accused him of masterminding a $4.5 million Ponzi scheme.
(SFC, 11/7/14, p.C2)
2014 Nov 6, The Sixth US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld antigay marriage laws in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee.
(SFC, 11/7/14, p.A7)
2014 Nov 6, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art said Jerry Perenchino, the former chairman and CEO of Univision, has donated some 47 pieces of art from the 1870s to the 1930s. The museum must first complete construction of a new building designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, planned for 2023.
(SFC, 11/7/14, p.D2)
2014 Nov 6, In Idaho 2 chief warrant officers were killed whenn their helicopter crashed during a training mission near the Boise airport.
(SFC, 11/8/14, p.A5)
2014 Nov 6, The Archdiocese of Chicago released files on three dozen more abusive clergy members to fulfill Cardinal Francis George’s pledge to do so before he retires.
(SFC, 11/7/14, p.A6)
2014 Nov 6, An independent investigation by the Harvard Law School reported that troops commanded by Myanmar's powerful interior minister and two other senior officials tortured and killed civilians while fighting an ethnic rebellion in Karen state from 2005-2008.
(Reuters, 11/6/14)
2014 Nov 6, In Michigan Mike Duggan was elected mayor of Detroit after an unlikely write-in campaign. This made him the city’s first white mayor in 40 years.
(http://tinyurl.com/ycwae2b6)(Econ, 9/16/17, p.21)
2014 Nov 6, In Belgium some 100,000 workers demonstrated in Brussels to protest government free-market reforms and austerity measures. Police fired tear gas and the water cannon to break up incidents.
(AP, 11/6/14)
2014 Nov 6, Bulgaria's central bank stripped Corporate Commercial Bank, the country's fourth-biggest lender, of its license and announced that it will launch bankruptcy proceedings against the bank, which had negative capital of leva 3.75 billion ($2.4 billion). Main shareholder Tsvetan Vasilev, who is out of the country, has been charged with embezzlement.
(AP, 11/6/14)
2014 Nov 6, The European Court of Justice upheld a decision against Italy over toxic waste treatment, ruling it had failed to act against illegal dumps dotting the countryside around the southern city of Naples.
(Reuters, 11/6/14)
2014 Nov 6, A Guam jury convicted three people of mailing drugs from Las Vegas to Guam. Nine other defendants signed plea deals in the case.
(AP, 11/6/14)
2014 Nov 6, In Hong Kong pro-democaracy protesters clashed with police for the first time in over two weeks. Thousands remained camped on the streets demanding open nominations in elections for the city’s leader.
(SFC, 11/7/14, p.A2)
2014 Nov 6, Israel allowed Palestinian farmers to ship produce from the blockaded Gaza Strip to the occupied West Bank, via Israeli territory, for the first time since 2007.
(Reuters, 11/6/14)
2014 Nov 6, A Kenyan Roman Catholic priest, Father Guyo Waqo, and four others were sentenced to death by a court in Nairobi for murdering Italian Bishop Luigi Locati in 2005.
(AP, 11/6/14)
2014 Nov 6, Libya's supreme court invalidated the internationally recognized parliament, setting the stage for deepening political chaos. The Tripoli court also nullified a constitutional amendment that led to elections on June 25, thereby invalidating the polls and all decisions that resulted from them. The ruling followed intense clashes between pro-government militias and Islamist fighters in Benghazi that have killed more than 30 people in the past three days.
(AFP, 11/6/14)
2014 Nov 6, In New Zealand drummer Phil Rudd (60) of Australian rock band AC/DC, whose hits include "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap," was accused of trying to arrange two killings as well as possession of drugs.
(AP, 11/6/14)
2014 Nov 6, In Pakistan a policeman in Gujrat hacked Tufail Haider (55) to death for allegedly making derogatory remarks about the companions of the Prophet Muhammad.
(AP, 11/6/14)
2014 Nov 6, In northwest Syria a US-led coalition, set up to fight Islamic State, bombed the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front and the Ahrar al-Sham radical faction. One strike on a base near the northern city of Aleppo killed at least six Nusra fighters. Residents of Harem said at least 4 children were killed and dozens injured in an attack they believed was launched by the coalition. Fighting in a majority Druze region near Lebanon killed 31 combatants loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and 14 rebels, including Al-Qaeda militants.
(Reuters, 11/6/14)(AFP, 11/7/14)(AFP, 11/8/14)
2014 Nov 6, Uganda's military said it has suspended 15 soldiers who were peacekeepers in Somalia over various allegations of misconduct.
(AP, 11/6/14)
2014 Nov 6, Ukraine announced passport controls around areas held by pro-Russian separatists in the latest step toward what resembles the breakup of the ex-Soviet republic, as heavy artillery fire erupted in Donetsk. Several more bodies of victims from the July 17 crash of Malaysia Flight 17 were found near the crash site.
(AFP, 11/6/14)(SFC, 11/8/14, p.A2)
2014 Nov 6, In Wales Cerys Marie Yemm (22) died from injuries at Sirhowy Arms Hotel, a homeless hostel in Argoed, near Blackwood. Her suspected attacker died after he was Tasered by police when they arrived following a report a man was attacking a woman at the hotel. The BBC reported that Yemm was "murdered in an act of cannibalism", and had been in a relationship with the suspect Matthew Williams (34).
(AFP, 11/7/14)
2014 Nov 6, Yemeni tribesmen blew up the country's main oil export pipeline, forcing crude flows to stop.
(Reuters, 11/6/14)
2015 Nov 6, President Barack Obama killed the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, declaring it would have undercut US efforts to clinch a global climate change deal at the center of his environmental legacy.
(AP, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, US and coalition warplanes carried out 20 air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.
(Reuters, 11/7/15)
2015 Nov 6, The US military deployed six F-15C fighter jets to Turkey's southern Incirlik air base to help defend Turkish airspace against potential intruders.
(AP, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, In Kentucky police Officer Daniel Ellis (33) died two days after he was ambushed and shot while searching an apartment for a robbery suspect. The attempted murder charge against Raleigh Sizemore Jr. (34) was upgraded to murder.
(SFC, 11/7/15, p.A5)
2015 Nov 6, British drugmaker AstraZeneca said it had agreed to buy US group ZS Pharma, a specialist in treating high potassium levels linked to kidney disease.
(AFP, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, In Bulgaria a man (28) stabbed a 15-year-old girl to death on the steps of a secondary school in Sliven, then wounded a teacher and another man before shooting and critically wounding himself.
(Reuters, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, Cambodia's defense minister said China has provided Cambodia with shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, as the two countries agreed on new military aid to boost close ties.
(Reuters, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, Chinese state television reported that China and Vietnam have agreed to maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea and not take any acts that "complicate" the issue.
(Reuters, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, President Juan Manuel Santos apologized for Colombia's actions during a 1985 army raid on the Supreme Court in which nearly 100 people were killed after the building was taken hostage by guerrillas.
(AP, 11/7/15)
2015 Nov 6, Cuban leader Raul Castro received a warm welcome in Mexico as President Enrique Pena Nieto sought to end a diplomatic chill and boost business opportunities on the island.
(AFP, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, Germany's parliament voted to criminalize commercial euthanasia after rejecting draft laws that would have made assisted suicide fully legal in the country. German lawmakers passed a bill allowing assisted suicide for "altruistic motives" but banning the practice in cases where it is being conducted on a "business" basis.
(Reuters, 11/6/15)(AP, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, Germany's flagship airline, Lufthansa, canceled 290 flights as cabin crew workers went on strike at Frankfurt and Duesseldorf airports.
(AP, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, Greenpeace said its registration to operate in India has been canceled. Tamil Nadu state, where it was registered, canceled the permit without giving the group a hearing. India began cracking down on foreign-funded charities last year after a government intelligence bureau report said economic growth was hurt when the groups rallied communities against polluting industries. On Nov 20 Greenpeace said a hold has been put on the ban to operate.
(AP, 11/6/15)(AP, 11/20/15)
2015 Nov 6, In Iraq three blasts in different parts of Baghdad killed at least 6 people and wounded 18.
(AP, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a female Palestinian motorist (73) who the military said tried to run them over in the occupied West Bank. A knife-wielding assailant wounded an Israeli civilian. The attacker fled the scene and was being searched for. Israeli forces shot and killed Palestinian Salame Abu Jamaa (23) during a protest east of Khan Yunis. Back to back shootings in Hebron wounded three Israelis.
(Reuters, 11/6/15)(SFC, 11/7/15, p.A4)
2015 Nov 6, Toyota said it is investing $1 billion in a research company it's setting up in Silicon Valley to develop artificial intelligence and robotics, underlining the Japanese automaker's determination to lead in futuristic cars that drive themselves and apply the technology to other areas of daily life.
(AP, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, Mexican officials said authorities are investigating local security officials who put at least 105 unidentified victims of violent crime in a mass grave in central Mexico.
(Reuters, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said all flights to Egypt will be suspended until proper security is in place there.
(AP, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, Senegal charged five people suspected of links to Nigerian militant group Boko Haram. The five were arrested last month in the suburbs of Dakar and the central town of Kaolak.
(Reuters, 11/9/15)
2015 Nov 6, Serbian police said they have arrested several drug and arms traffickers, as well as a fugitive suspect in this year's clashes between police and armed groups in Macedonia.
(AP, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, A Saudi woman and a child were killed in the border region of Najran by a shell fired from Yemen.
(AP, 11/7/15)
2015 Nov 6, In Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Hassan, a Minnesota man and lawful permanent resident of the US but not an American citizen, surrendered to Somalia's federal government. He had joined al-Shabab in Somalia more than seven years ago.
(AP, 12/8/15)
2015 Nov 6, In Togo violence broke out in Mango, some 600 km (370 miles) north of Lome, when law enforcement officers tried to disperse an unauthorized march by a group that opposed plans to rehabilitate several protected areas.
(AFP, 11/8/15)
2015 Nov 6, Turkish Airlines canceled flights to Sharm al-Sheikh in Egypt on Friday and Saturday nights over security concerns.
(Reuters, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, The Green Climate Fund (GCF), a multi-billion dollar fund set up by the United Nations to help poor countries tackle climate change, approved its first eight projects, a key step before a global climate summit starts on Nov 30.
(Reuters, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, The UN warned that over 90,000 people in war-torn southern Somalia have been hit by weeks of severe flooding, almost half of them forced from their homes.
(AFP, 11/7/15)
2015 Nov 6, In southern Yemen at least 19 people were killed in Saudi-led coalition air strikes and clashes between pro-government forces and rebels.
(AFP, 11/7/15)
2016 Nov 6, Algeria's army seized a cache of weapons, including 17 anti-aircraft missiles in the southern desert province of Adrar.
(Reuters, 11/6/16)
2016 Nov 6, In central Oklahoma a 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck near Cushing. The state recorded 19 earthquakes in the past week. Scientists have linked the sharp increase to the underground disposal of wastewater from oil and gas production.
(SFC, 11/7/16, p.A5)
2016 Nov 6, Bangladesh police said 53 people have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in attacks and looting from Hindu homes. Hindu homes and temples in the Brahmanbairs district have come under attack during the last week, after a local youth allegedly shared a Facebook post that Islamic hardliners said denigrated the Masjid al-Haram — a holy site for Muslims.
(Reuters, 11/6/16)
2016 Nov 6, British PM Theresa May said she would deliver a full exit from the European Union, hitting back at critics of her Brexit strategy who have threatened to try to block the process in parliament.
(Reuters, 11/6/16)
2016 Nov 6, Tesco Bank, the financial arm of Britain’s biggest retailer, detected suspicious transactions over the last 24 hours on 40,000 current (checking) accounts. Raiders succeeded in stealing from 9,000 accounts. On Nov 8, Tesco Bank said it had reimbursed all losses to the tune of £2.5m ($3.1m).
(Econ, 11/12/16, p.68)
2016 Nov 6, Bulgarians voted in a first round of a presidential election. Left-leaning air force General Rumen Radev (53), seen as sympathetic to Moscow, won the first round, dealing a blow to PM Boyko Borisov (57). Radev took 25.45 percent of the vote, followed by ruling center-right GERB party candidate Tsetska Tsacheva with 21.97 percent. A run-off will take place on Nov. 13.
(AFP, 11/6/16)(Reuters, 11/8/16)
2016 Nov 6, Hong Kong police fired pepper spray and protesters threw bottles and road cones in clashes near China's representative office where activists had gathered to demonstrate against Beijing's attempts to stop a fledgling independence movement.
(Reuters, 11/6/16)
2016 Nov 6, The Indian army said Pakistani shelling killed two of its soldiers at posts along the border of Indian-administered Kashmir. Five others including three civilians were injured.
(Reuters, 11/6/16)
2016 Nov 6, In India the Delhi state government said that schools in the capital will be closed for the next three days, as the city struggles with one of the worst spells of air pollution in recent years.
(AFP, 11/6/16)
2016 Nov 6, In Iraq Islamic State fighters targeted troops with car bombs and ambushes in Mosul, stalling an army advance, but faced attack on a new front as US-backed Kurdish-Arab forces launched a campaign for the Syrian city of Raqqa.
(Reuters, 11/6/16)(AFP, 11/6/16)
2016 Nov 6, In Iraq ten Iranian pilgrims were killed in a suicide attack in Samarra.
(Reuters, 11/6/16)
2016 Nov 6, Montenegro’s chief special prosecutor said Russian nationalists were behind the alleged Oct 16 coup attempt that included plans to assassinate the pro-Western prime minister because of his government's bid to join NATO.
(AP, 11/6/16)
2016 Nov 6, Nicaragua held elections to select their president and lawmakers in their National Assembly. Pres. Ortega ran with his wife, Rosario Murillo, as his vice presidential candidate in a race against five lesser-known candidates. Ortega overwhelmingly won re-election to a third consecutive term. The opposition called the voting a farce.
(AFP, 11/6/16)(AP, 11/7/16)
2016 Nov 6, In Russia a gas explosion hit a two-story apartment building before dawn in Ivanovo, 250 km (150 miles) northeast of Moscow. Six people were killed and four seriously injured.
(AP, 11/6/16)
2016 Nov 6, In Somalia a week-old ceasefire between the forces of the semi-autonomous regions of Galmudug and Puntland broke down as fighting over a disputed border area erupted again, killing at least 19 soldiers.
(Reuters, 11/6/16)
2016 Nov 6, South Korean prosecutors arrested two former aides of Pres. Park Geun-hye. Ahn Jongbeom was arrested for pressuring companies into making large donations to non-profit organizations controlled by Choi Sonsil and Jung Ho-sung for passing classified documents to Choi Soonsil, whose relationship with the president has sparked a political scandal.
(SFC, 11/7/16, p.A3)
2016 Nov 6, In Syria at least six children were killed in government shelling that hit a kindergarten in the rebel-held town of Harasta outside Damascus.
(AFP, 11/6/16)
2016 Nov 6, The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-Arab militia, announced an offensive to eject the Islamic State from Raqqa.
(Econ, 11/12/16, p.47)
2016 Nov 6, Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party said it was pulling out of parliament after nine of its MPs including the two co-leaders were arrested in an unprecedented crackdown. The state-run Anadolu Agency said police have detained 15 suspects in an operation involving raids across the southeastern province of Adana targeting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group.
(AFP, 11/6/16)(Reuters, 11/6/16)
2016 Nov 6, In Yemen the Mwatana Organization for Human Rights said that violations by the warring parties in Taiz have killed or wounded hundreds of civilians.
(AP, 11/6/16)
2017 Nov 6, The United States embassy in Turkey confirmed that it has resumed processing visas at its missions on a "limited basis".
(Reuters, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross denied wrongdoing over business ties to a shipping firm linked to Vladimir Putin's inner circle, detailed in a vast leak of financial documents that also revealed Britain's Queen Elizabeth II's investments in tax havens. The findings emerged as part of the Paradise Papers released by the US-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which was behind the Panama Papers made public last year.
(AFP, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, In the SF Bay Area Lawrence Janson (17) was gunned down outside Olympic Continuation High School in Concord. Police called it a targeted attack and made five arrests over the next 24 hours. On Nov. 8 four suspects, including Kristhiam Uceda (20), Bryan Sermeno-Chachagua (18) and two juveniles, were charged in the killing. No charges were filed against a fifth juvenile.
(SFC, 11/8/17, p.D5)(SFC, 11/10/17, p.D7)
2017 Nov 6, Broadcom offered $103 billion offer to buy competitor Qualcomm for $70 per share. Qualcomm jumped $1.77, or 2.9 percent, to $63.59 and Broadcom added $2.10 to $275.73.
(AP, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, Afghan officials said seven of Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum's bodyguards, convicted of the sexual assault and illegal imprisonment of a political rival, have been sentenced to five years in jail. The seven bodyguards were convicted over the incident on Nov. 1, but were not yet in custody.
(AFP, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, A British man was convicted of killing his adopted 18-month-old baby after violently shaking her and striking her head. Toddler Elsi Scully-Hicks died in May 2016 after suffering a fractured skull while being violently shaken, two weeks after being formally adopted by defendant Matthew Scully-Hicks and his husband.
(AFP, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, The EU denounced as "shocking" revelations on the way top companies and dignitaries, including Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, avoid taxes using offshore wealth hubs.
(AFP, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, In France Eric Vuillard's "L'Ordre du Jour," or "The Agenda," was awarded the Goncourt Prize in a Paris cafe, part of a long-running tradition. The novel portrays the Nazis as the product of big business interests — including businesses that remain major industrial players today.
(AP, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu pledged 200 million shekels ($57 million) to build safe bypass roads for Jewish West Bank settlers, in a move that looks to satisfy a key constituent but anger Palestinians who consider it a further encroachment upon their hoped for future state.
(AP, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, In Italy G7 health ministers meeting in Milan issued a joint statement that says “climate and environmental-related factors can aggravate existing health risks and create new threats".
(AP, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, In Japan US Pres. Donald Trump urged Japan to protect itself from nuclear-armed North Korea by buying billions of dollars of US military equipment.
(SFC, 11/7/17, p.A2)
2017 Nov 6, A Latvian businessman won a court case against the owners of English soccer team Blackpool over the running of the club following its promotion to the Premier League. A judge ruled that the Oyston family had shown unfair prejudice against shareholders by excluding them from key decisions, information and share of profits.
(AP, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, Liberia's Supreme Court halted the presidential election runoff, which had been scheduled for Nov. 7, until the National Elections Commission investigates allegations of irregularities and fraud in the first round.
(AP, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, Five migrants died as a German nonprofit organization and the Libyan coast guard tried to rescue them from their foundering boat in the Mediterranean. Each side blamed the other for botching the operation.
(AP, 11/7/17)
2017 Nov 6, In northeastern Nigeria at least two civilians were killed when dozens of Boko Haram fighters tried to storm Gulak town, Adamawa state, but were repelled by troops.
(AP, 11/7/17)
2017 Nov 6, Saudi King Salman swore in new officials to take over from a powerful prince and former minister believed to be detained in a large-scale sweep that has shocked the country and upended longstanding traditions within the ruling family.
(AP, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, The Saudi-led military coalition said it would close all air, land and sea ports to Yemen to stem the flow of arms to Houthi rebels from Iran. The move was likely to worsen a humanitarian crisis in Yemen that has pushed some seven million to the brink of famine and left more than half a million infected with cholera.
(Reuters, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, Senegal reported that two buses have collided, killing at least 25 people and injuring at least a dozen, including many who were heading to an annual pilgrimage.
(AP, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, Somalia's Islamist al Shabaab insurgency shot four men accused of spying in a public execution which underscored the insurgents' control of swathes of the country's southern region even as the government girds up for an offensive against them.
(Reuters, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, President Tayyip Erdogan announced plans to demolish the Ataturk Culture Center in Istanbul, named after the founder of modern secular Turkey, in a move critics see as another attempt by the Islamist-rooted ruling party to roll back secularism. The AKM has been closed to the public for the past 10 years over disagreements regarding its renovation and infrastructure.
(Reuters, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, The UN said this year will be among the three hottest on record, as almost 200 countries began talks in Germany to bolster a global climate accord that the United States plans to quit.
(Reuters, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, Vietnam’s government said the death toll from Typhoon Damrey and ensuing floods has reached 61 and that some reservoirs were dangerously near capacity after persistent rain.
(Reuters, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe fired Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, as the battle between Mnangagwa and Mugabe's wife Grace to succeed the veteran leader intensified.
(AFP, 11/6/17)
2018 Nov 6, Democrats wrested control of the US House of Representatives from Trump's Republicans in midterm elections seen as a referendum on his two-year-old presidency and closely watched around the world. Republicans increased their majority in the Senate. Onetime Somali refugee Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, shared the historic distinction of becoming the first two Muslim women elected to Congress.
(Reuters, 11/7/18)(AFP, 11/7/18)
2018 Nov 6, San Francisco voters approved Prop. C, designed to inject the most money ever at city homeless problems by taxing big businesses.
(SFC, 11/7/18, p.A1)
2018 Nov 6, Voters in Mt. View, California, the home town of Google, backed Measure P, which implements a per-employee business license tax that ranges from $5 to $150 per worker, rising with the size of the company.
(SFC, 11/9/18, p.D2)
2018 Nov 6, Colorado voters rejected a measure that could have sharply reduced oil and gas drilling, including the method known as fracking, by requiring new oil and gas wells to be farther from occupied buildings than allowed under current law.
(AP, 11/7/18)
2018 Nov 6, Guillermo Falcon, one of Miami's former drug kingpins, was deported to the Dominican Republic after completing a 20-year money-laundering sentence. His partner Salvador Magluta continued to serve a 195-year drug trafficking sentence.
(SFC, 11/21/18, p.A6)
2018 Nov 6, Illinois voters elected J.B. Pritzker, the billionaire heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune, as state governor.
(SFC, 11/7/18, p.A6)
2018 Nov 6, In Kansas, Sharice Davids and Deb Haaland became the first Native American women elected to Congress.
(AFP, 11/7/18)
2018 Nov 6, Kansas voters elected Laura Kelly (D) over Kris Kobach (R) to serve as state governor.
(SFC, 11/7/18, p.A6)
2018 Nov 6, Michigan voters elected Gretchen Whitmer (D) to serve as state governor.
(SFC, 11/7/18, p.A6)
2018 Nov 6, Voters in Michigan passed a ballot measure to legalize marijuana. Rashida Tlaib became the first Palestinian-American woman to be elected to the US Congress representing southwest Detroit and its suburbs west to the city of Dearborn.
(AP, 11/7/18) (Reuters, 11/7/18)
2018 Nov 6, Missouri became the 31st state to approve marijuana for medical use.
(AP, 11/7/18)
2018 Nov 6, Missouri voters back a ballot initiative known as Clean Missouri. This put a squeeze on campaign contributions and limited the value of gifts and meals lobbyists could dish out. It also stated that an independent demographer would have the final say in the redistricting commission.
(https://tinyurl.com/y5xxwtsa)(Econ., 9/12/20, p.24)
2018 Nov 6, Voters in Utah joined the growing number of US states to legalize medical marijuana.
(SSFC, 11/11/18, p.A8)
2018 Nov 6, Washington state voters raised the minimum age from 18 to 21 for buying semiautomatic rifles.
(SFC, 2/12/19, p.A7)
2018 Nov 6, In Afghanistan the Taliban attacked border troops in western Farah province killing at least 20.
(SFC, 11/7/18, p.A2)
2018 Nov 6, An aircraft flew 20 tons of pine nuts from Afghanistan to China, inaugurating their first air cargo link as the landlocked South Asian nation turns to overseas markets to offset its trade deficit.
(Reuters, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, A United Nations report released today found that 56 civilians were killed and 379 others wounded in attacks during Afghanistan's recent parliamentary election.
(AP, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, Representatives from Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia signed an agreement to identify victims of the 1990s wars. Around 12,000 people were still not accounted for out of the 40,000 missing from the wars that tore apart the former Yugoslavia.
(AFP, 11/7/18)
2018 Nov 6, Cameroon's President Paul Biya (85) was sworn in for a seventh term after disputed elections and amid mounting unrest in an English-speaking region.
(AFP, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, China rejected Western criticism of suspected mass detention and heavy surveillance of Uighurs in the western region of Xinjiang as Western countries including France, Germany and the United States, called on China to close down detention camps that activists say hold 1 million Uighurs and other Muslims.
(Reuters, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, The 6-day biennial Airshow China opened in the coastal city of Zhuhai. It is traditionally an event for Beijing to parade its growing aviation prowess.
(Reuters, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, In China billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates helped kickoff the 3-day "Reinvented Toilet" Expo in Beijing.
(SFC, 11/7/18, p.A3)
2018 Nov 6, China unveiled a replica of its first permanently crewed space station, which would replace the international community's orbiting laboratory and symbolizes the country's major ambitions beyond Earth.
(AFP, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, The EU extended sanctions against Venezuela until November 2019 for what it said were human rights violations and undermining of democracy and the rule of law under President Nicolas Maduro.
(Reuters, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, French police arrested five men and a woman, all from the radical far right, suspected of plotting to attack French President Emmanuel Macron.
(AP, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, Hungary's government set out plans to create new administrative courts overseen by the justice minister - a move the leftist opposition has said will limit the independence of the judiciary.
(Reuters, 11/7/18)
2018 Nov 6, A Hungarian police spokesman said that a probe opened in February on the basis of findings by the European Union's anti-fraud office OLAF had been terminated.
(AFP, 11/7/18)
2018 Nov 6, In India the northern city of Ayodhya broke a Guinness World Record by lighting 300,150 earthen lamps and keeping them lit for at least 45 minutes as part of the annual celebration of Diwali.
(SFC, 11/7/18, p.A2)
2018 Nov 6, UN investigators said more than 200 mass graves containing between 6,000 and 12,000 bodies have been found in Iraq from the time of the Islamic State group's three-year reign.
(AP, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, Italy said it will help Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman, leave her country because her life is in danger following charges of blasphemy against Islam that put her on death row for eight years.
(Reuters, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, In Mexico thousands of Central Americans dreaming of getting to the United States awoke to donations of fruit and hot coffee at a sports stadium in Mexico's chilly capital as the US held midterm elections.
(AP, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, Peru's former police chief Raul Becerra and a dozen others were arrested for allegedly trafficking babies. One five-month-old baby was rescued as police raided 18 properties in the southern city of Arequipa.
(Reuters, 11/7/18)
2018 Nov 6, In the Philippines lawyer Benjamin Ramos (56) was shot and killed as he left his office by men on a motorcycle near the town of Kabankalan. He was the 34th lawyer killed since Pres. Rodrigo Duterte took office.
(SFC, 11/9/18, p.A4)
2018 Nov 6, Romania's President Klaus Iohannis blasted the ruling party's leader as a "criminal at the top of the state apparatus," saying politicians with criminal convictions are trying to take over the country's justice system and undermine efforts to fight corruption.
(AP, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, Russia's PM Dmitry Medvedev signed measures approving regulations that would identify smartphone messenger users by their cellphone numbers. The decree goes into effect after 180 days.
(AP, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, In Syria a bomb went off inside a car in the northern town of Manbij, killing one person.
(AP, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that joint patrols by US forces and a Kurdish-led militia in northern Syria are "unacceptable".
(AP, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey would not abide by the renewed US sanctions on Iran's oil and shipping industries, adding that they were aimed at "unbalancing the world".
(Reuters, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed they halted advances of their adversaries, the US-backed, Saudi-led Arab coalition, at a key battlefield around a strategic Red Sea port city. Fighting continued around Hodeida despite the statement from the Shiite rebels.
(AP, 11/6/18)
2019 Nov 6, The US Justice Department announced that two men arrested last year for spying on Iranian dissidents in the United States have pleaded guilty to charges in a Washington court. Iranian-US dual citizen Ahmadreza Mohammadi Doostdar and Majid Ghorbani, an Iranian resident of California, tried to penetrate the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), a group of Iranian dissidents in exile, in New York and Washington from 2017-2018.
(AP, 11/7/19)
2019 Nov 6, US federal prosecutors said that three Saudi nationals were charged in Southern California with violating federal export laws by buying $100,000 worth of gun parts in the US while on student visas and smuggling them to Saudi Arabia.
(AP, 11/7/19)
2019 Nov 6, Brianna Williams reported Taylor Rose Williams (5) missing from their Jacksonville home. On Nov 12 Williams was charged with child neglect and providing false information to police in the case after investigators found human remains near her hometown in Demopolis, Alabama. Sheriff’s officials say Williams was admitted to the hospital in serious condition because of an apparent overdose.
(AP, 11/14/19)
2019 Nov 6, New York developer Paramount Group confirmed in an earnings report that it is buying the former Chevron headquarters at 555 and 575 market St. in San Francisco for $722 million, in one of the biggest real estate deals in city history.
(SFC, 11/8/19, p.D1)
2019 Nov 6, A federal judge in Manhattan struck down a rule letting health care clinicians object to providing abortions and other services that conflict with their moral and religious beliefs.
(SFC, 11/7/19, p.A5)
2019 Nov 6, The Washington Post reported that US federal prosecutors have charged two former Twitter employees with spying on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government. Beginning in 2015 the former employees snooped on the accounts of people who were critical of Saudi Arabia.
(Business Insider, 11/7/19)
2019 Nov 6, In Texas Justen Hall (38) was scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. CST (0000 GMT) at the state's death chamber in Huntsville for the murder of Melanie Billhartz on Oct. 28, 2002. He had been convicted of strangling Billhartz so she would not tell police about a drug house where he and members of his white supremacist gang gathered.
(Reuters, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, In Benin Albert Tevoedjre (b.1929), a political scientist and one of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's most trusted experts on social and economic development strategies for Africa, died in Porto-Novo. His 1980 book "Poverty, Wealth of Mankind" was honored in France for its work in macroeconomics.
(AP, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, In Bolivia scores were injured and one person killed in protests over a contentious presidential election last month.
(Reuters, 11/7/19)
2019 Nov 6, In Burkina Faso unidentified assailants attacked a convoy transporting workers of Canadian gold producer Semafo Inc., killing at least 38 people.
(Bloomberg, 11/7/19)
2019 Nov 6, Chile's Pres. Sebastian Pinera sent a law to parliament to guarantee a minimum wage of $480 a month, part of an ambitious social spending plan announced last month as the protests grew. The government planned to draw $600 million from a sovereign wealth fund to finance the social plan. Protests continued.
(Reuters, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, Cyprus said that it had started a process to strip 26 individuals of citizenship they received under a secretive passports-for-investment scheme, admitting it had flaws.
(Reuters, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, In Hong Kong a knife-wielding assailant injured Junius Ho, a pro-Beijing lawmaker, and his assistant, as tensions worsen with protests nearing the start of a sixth continuous month. Police arrested the attacker.
(The Telegraph, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, India's cabinet approved 100 billion rupees ($1.41 billion) for a fund to help clear stalled housing projects. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the State Bank of India (SBI) and state-run insurance company Life Corporation of India will contribute an additional 150 billion rupees, taking the total size of the fund to 250 billion.
(Reuters, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, Iran said it'll start injecting uranium gas at midnight into 1,044 centrifuges at the underground Fordo facility. The centrifuges there will enrich uranium up to 4.5%.
(AP, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, Iraqi protesters stormed a fourth bridge in central Baghdad, where security forces pushed them back with batons and tear gas, wounding dozens, after two anti-government demonstrators were killed in overnight clashes in the city of Karbala.
(AP, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, Israeli authorities released two Jordanian citizens who'd been detained for two months and returned them to Jordan, easing a standoff that has soured relations between the countries just as they marked a chilly 25th anniversary of their historic peace deal. Israel arrested Heba al-Labadi (32) on Aug. 20 and Abdul Rahman Miri (29) on Sept. 2 as they entered the West Bank from Jordan through an Israeli-controlled crossing.
(AP, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, In northern Jordan a man from a Palestinian refugee camp stabbed eight people, including four foreign tourists and their tour guide, at a popular archaeological site in Jerash. Mustafa Abu Tuameh (22) was subdued and arrested.
(AP, 11/6/19)(SFC, 11/7/19, p.A2)
2019 Nov 6, Mexican investigators said that a suspect has been arrested in the Nov. 4 deaths of 9 American Mormons based in Mexico.
(Insider, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, Slovakian President Zuzana Caputova vetoed a new law extending a ban on publishing opinion polls up to 50 days before elections and vowed to challenge it at the Constitutional Court if the parliament overturns her veto.
(Reuters, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, Slovakia's government approved a bill to double a special tax on banks and extend it indefinitely instead of ending the levy next year, moves the central bank said would threaten financial stability. The banking tax was adopted in 2012 to build a buffer against potential future crises and scheduled to expire at the end of 2020.
(Reuters, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa secured about 200 billion rand ($13.5 billion) of new investment pledges, saying these would spur economic growth and reduce unemployment, but foreign firms made few commitments.
(Reuters, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, In southern Thailand gunmen killed 15 village defense volunteers and wounded five security personnel.
(SFC, 11/7/19, p.A2)
2019 Nov 6, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan revealed that Turkish police detained one of al-Baghdadi's wives and a daughter last year.
(AP, 11/7/19)
2019 Nov 6, The UN said Pierre Krahenbuhl, commissioner general of the agency known as UNRWA, has been placed on administrative leave as an internal probe into alleged mismanagement at the organization proceeds. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees was set up in the years after more than 700,000 Palestinians were expelled or fled their lands during the 1948 war surrounding the creation of Israel.
(AFP, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, In Yemen a Houthi attack late today struck warehouses used by a government-allied force, causing a huge fire. The drone and missile attack targeted buildings near a hospital, causing huge explosions that killed at least eight people.
(AP, 11/7/19)
2020 Nov 6, Joe Biden overtook Donald Trump in the number of ballots counted in Pennsylvania, which Trump must win to have a shot at reelection. Biden now holds a nearly 6,000-vote advantage. Votes in the state were still being counted.
(AP, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, Joe Biden overtook Trump in the number of ballots counted in Georgia, a must-win state for Trump that has long been a Republican stronghold.
(AP, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, The US Treasury slapped sanctions on Gebran Bassil, Lebanon’s ex-foreign minister and a leading Christian political ally of the militant Hezbollah group.
(AP, 11/6/20)(Econ., 11/28/20, p.39)
2020 Nov 6, Police Chief Lang Holland of Marshall, Ark., advocated online that Democrats should be attacked and summarily executed. He resigned soon after his comments were made public.
(NY Times, 11/9/20)
2020 Nov 6, California to date had 960,570 cases of coronavirus and 17,888 deaths. The SF Bay Area had 122,184 cases and 1,832 deaths. Total cases nationwide reached over 9,727,345 with the death toll at 235,071.
(sfist.com, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, Republican US Sen. David Perdue and Democrat Jon Ossoff will face off in a Jan. 5 runoff in Georgia for Perdue’s Senate seat, one of two high-profile contests in the state that could determine which party controls the upper chamber. Democrat Raphael Warnock and Sen. Kelly Loeffler, the Republican appointed last year after Sen. Johnny Isakson retired, will also compete in a runoff on the same day. The twin races in Georgia are likely to settle which party controls the Senate.
(AP, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, In Georgia Rapper King Von (26), aka Dayvon Bennett, and another man were fatally shot after gunfire erupted outside an Atlanta hookah bar early today. Timothy Leeks (22) was soon charged with murder in Bennett's death.
(NBC News, 11/7/20)(SFC, 11/9/20, p.A4)
2020 Nov 6, In Illinois the death toll from the coronavirus surpassed 10,000.
(SFC, 11/7/20, p.A6)
2020 Nov 6, It was reported that Deputy Inspector James Kobel, the commanding officer of the NYPD's workplace discrimination office, has been relieved of his command and placed on modified duty as the department investigates allegations that he posted a slew of racist, sexist and homophobic comments on a message board for police officers.
(CBS News, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, Wisconsin police arrested Nathanael Benton (23), suspected of shooting two police officers earlier in the day in Waukesha County. Benton was also wanted in Fargo, North Dakota, for attempted murder.
(SFC, 11/7/20, p.A4)
2020 Nov 6, A panel of outside advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration voted that a potential Alzheimer’s treatment from Biogen Inc has not been proven to slow progression of the disease, a sharp rebuke to agency staff who earlier this week praised the drug. The FDA still could decide to approve the drug, aducanumab.
(Reuters, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, Humanigen Inc said it has partnered with the US government to help advance development of its drug candidate as a potential COVID-19 treatment following positive response in hospitalized patients in a late-stage study.
(AP, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, At least three civilians were killed in the latest shelling of Nagorno-Karabakh cities as Azerbaijan pushed its offensive to reclaim control over the separatist territory for a sixth straight week.
(AP, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, In Burkina Faso an unknown assailant threw a flammable bottle into a mosque in Ouagadougou, wounding six people.
(AP, 11/8/20)
2020 Nov 6, Ethiopia PM Abiy Ahmed said air strikes have been carried out in the well-armed Tigray region.
(SFC, 11/7/20, p.A3)
2020 Nov 6, The European Union imposed sanctions on the president of Belarus and 14 other officials over their roles in the security crackdown launched during protests of the country's contested August presidential election.
(AP, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, French Health Minister Olivier Veran said that the government is sending 1.6 million rapid virus tests to care homes across the country to allow them to test personnel. More than 400 people with COVID-19 have died in the past week and some residents are again being confined to their rooms and cut off from their families. France hit a record 60,486 new confirmed coronavirus cases.
(AP, 11/6/20)(NBC News, 11/7/20)
2020 Nov 6, In Greece Friday prayers were held for the first time in capital’s first state-sponsored mosque, which opened this week after years-long delays. Athens’ Muslim population numbered around half a million people. The new mosque’s capacity was 300 men and 50 women.
(AP, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, India recorded 47,638 new cases of the novel coronavirus, taking its total to 8.41 million. Deaths rose by 670 in the last 24 hours, taking total mortalities to 124,985.
(Reuters, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, Iraqi security forces opened fire during clashes with hundreds of protesters in the southern city of Basra, killing demonstrator Omar al-Thiabi (29) and wounding several others as tensions flared once again.
(AP, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, It was reported that Natan Zach (89), an Israeli writer who had a major impact on the development of modern Hebrew poetry, has died.
(AP, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, Italy registered 37,809 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, the country's highest ever daily tally. A total of 40,638 people have now died because of COVID-19 in Italy, which has registered some 862,681 coronavirus infections since the start of its outbreak. New coronavirus restrictions came into force.
(Reuters, 11/6/20)(NBC News, 11/7/20)
2020 Nov 6, Italian drinks group Campari said checks conducted after a hacking attack showed data on some of the company's servers had been encrypted and some information had been lost. Earlier this week the Milan-based group famous for its red aperitif said it had been targeted by hackers around Nov. 1.
(Reuters, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, Norway's capital Oslo said it will shut down theatres, cinemas, training centers and swimming pools to contain the spread of the coronavirus, with bars and restaurants no longer able to serve alcohol for three weeks as of Nov 9.
(Reuters, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, Maher al-Akhras (49), a Palestinian prisoner held by Israel, agreed to end more than 100 days of hunger strike. His family and a prisoner rights’ advocate said he had received assurances from Israeli authorities that his open-ended detention wouldn't be extended beyond the end of November.
(AP, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, Poland reported a record 445 new coronavirus-related deaths, as the healthcare system faced shortages in hospital beds, equipment and medics. The country also reported 27,086 new COVID-19 cases.
(Reuters, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, Romania's government said it will impose a nationwide nighttime curfew and close all schools for 30 days from Nov. 9 after seeing the number of daily coronavirus infections double in two weeks. A record 9,714 infections were confirmed in the last 24 hours. More than 7,500 people have died since the beginning of the outbreak in late February.
(Reuters, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, Russia reported 20,582 new coronavirus infections, including 6,253 in Moscow.
(SFC, 11/7/20, p.A6)
2020 Nov 6, South African authorities said they have begun deporting 20 refugees and asylum seekers who were part of a months-long sit-in protest against xenophobia. More migrants were expected to be deported.
(BBC, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, It was reported that criminals, dressed in the uniforms of a well-known South African security company, attacked guards collecting cash in daylight from a takeaway in Johannesburg. After stealing the guards' van, they blew it up with explosives, extracted the cash and sped off in a Porsche and a Volvo SUV.
(The Telegraph, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, Spanish officials said Supreme Court prosecutors have opened a third corruption investigation involving former monarch Juan Carlos I.
(SFC, 11/7/20, p.A2)
2020 Nov 6, Sweden registered 4,697 new coronavirus cases, the highest number since the start of the pandemic. Sweden also registered 20 new deaths from COVID-19, taking the total to 6,022 deaths.
(Reuters, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, Sweden raised its assessment of the risk level for bird flu to elevated from low, after outbreaks registered elsewhere in Europe.
(Reuters, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, The Swiss General Prosecutor’s office said it plans to return 99 percent of the frozen assets belonging to one alleged Russian fraudster and 100 percent of the assets belonging to an alleged Russian crime syndicate boss.
(The Daily Beast, 11/19/20)
2020 Nov 6, The Vatican embassy in Poland said sanctions have been imposed on retired Archbishop Henryk Gulbinowicz (97) after he was accused of sexually abusing a seminarian and of covering up abuse in another case.
(SFC, 11/7/20, p.A2)
2020 Nov 6, Vietnam said it will stick to its strategy of containing COVID-19 rather than rush to secure a supply of a vaccine that could be financially risky.
(Reuters, 11/6/20)
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1217 Nov 6, The Charter of the Forest was sealed in England by the young King Henry III, acting under the regency of William Marshall, 1st Earl of Pembroke, as a complementary charter to the Magna Carta (1215) from which it had evolved.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_the_Forest)
1429 Nov 6, Coronation of Henry VI, King of England.
(HN, 11/6/98)
1479 Nov 6, Johanna, the Insane, Queen of Castilia (1504-20), was born.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1494 Nov 6, Suleiman I (d.1566), the Great, Ottoman sultan (1520-66), was born. Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire, was reported to have a harem of 2,000 women.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R8)(MC, 11/6/01)
1528 Nov 6, A Spanish barge under Don Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca landed in East Texas. The survivors of 2 barges spent the winter on an island they named Isla de Malhado, "The Island of Misfortune." By the spring of 1529 there were 15 castaways left and half the native population was dead from disease.
(ON, 10/03, p.3)
1558 Nov 6, Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (Spanish Tragedy), was born.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1632 Nov 6, Gustavus II Adolphus (37), king of Sweden, died in battle.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1644 Nov 6, Sir Thomas Roe (b.~1581), English scholar and a patron of learning, died. He was an English diplomat of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods and He sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1644. “It is no good state of a body to have a fat head, thin guts and lean members."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Roe)(Econ, 6/30/12, SR p.15)
1730 Nov 6, Hans Hermann von Katte, Prussian lieutenant, was beheaded.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1771 Nov 6, Alois Senefelder, inventor (lithography), was born.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1792 Nov 6, Battle at Jemappes: French army beat the Austrians.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1813 Nov 6, Chilpancingo congress declared Mexico independent of Spain.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1814 Nov 6, Adolphe Sax (d.1894), instrument maker and inventor of the saxophone, was born in Belgium.
(WUD, 1994, p.1272)(HN, 11/6/98)
1836 Nov 6, Charles X (79), King of France (1824-30), died.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1844 Nov 6, The first constitution of the new Dominican Republic was signed in San Cristobal. Pedro Santana, fearing political instability, controlled revisions to the newly written constitution that allowed him to stay in power, and declared himself president of the nation, a post he would hold from 1844-1848, 1853-1856, and 1858-1861. Spain granted independence to the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic won independence from next door Haiti after 2 occupations. [see Feb 27]
(http://dr1.com/articles/history_1.shtml)(SFC, 5/16/96, p.A-9)(Econ, 2/20/10, p.35)
1850 Nov 6, The San Francisco Bay Yerba Buena and Angel islands were reserved for military use.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1851 Nov 6, Charles Henry Dow, American financial journalist, was born. He (with Edward D. Jones) inaugurated the 'Dow-Jones' averages.
(HN, 11/6/99)
1854 Nov 6, John Philip Sousa, "The March Master," American bandmaster, composer and the king of American march music, was born in Washington, D.C. He later wrote 5 novels. Among his 140 marches are "Stars and Stripes Forever" and "Semper Fidelis."
(AP, 11/6/97)(SFEC, 2/8/98, Z1 p.8)(HN, 11/6/00)
1860 Nov 6, Former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th US president. He defeated three other candidates, John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas. He won the US presidential elections with a majority of the electoral votes in a 4-way race. Lincoln became the first president elected from the new Republican Party. Following his election South Carolina seceded from the Union followed by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. Hannibal Hamlin was his vice-president. Lincoln was fatally shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. In 1996 a new biography of Abraham Lincoln by David Donald was published.
(WSJ, 2/10/95, p.A-8)(SFC, 9/1/96, Par. p.12)(WSJ, 9/19/97, p.A13) (AP, 2/12/98)(SFC, 12/21/98, p.A3)(AP, 11/6/08)(SFC, 4/30/99, p.E9)
1861 Nov 6, Dr. James Naismith (d. Nov 28, 1939), Canadian physical education instructor, was born. He invented the game of basketball in 1891.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)(HN, 11/6/99)
1861 Nov 6, Jefferson Davis was elected to a six-year term as president of the Confederacy.
(AP, 11/6/97)(HN, 11/6/98)
1863 Nov 6, A Union force surrounded and scattered defending Confederates at the Battle of Droop Mountain, in West Virginia.
(HN, 11/6/99)
1863 Nov 6, The Battle of Rogersville took place at Big Creek in Hawkins County, Tennessee. Union troops, under the command of Col. Israel Garrard, faced Confederates under the overall command of Brig. Gen. William E. Jones. Confederates won and sent prisoners sent to Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia.
(http://johnsettles.com/roger.htm)
1865 Nov 6, The Confederate ship Shenandoah under Capt. James Waddell surrendered in Liverpool, England, after attacking Yankee commercial shipping off the coast of Alaska. It had sunk of captured 38 vessels, mostly New Bedford whaleships. The surrender of the Shenandoah was the last act of the US Civil War.
(SFC, 1/3/15, p.C2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Shenandoah)
1887 Nov 6, Walter Johnson, baseball pitcher, "The Big Train," was born.
(HN, 11/6/00)
1888 Nov 6, Benjamin Harrison of Indiana won the presidential election, beating incumbent Grover Cleveland on electoral votes, 233-168, although Cleveland led in the popular vote. Tammany Hall helped carry new York for the GOP. In 2008 Charles W. Calhoun authored “Minority Victory: Gilded Age Politics and the Front Porch Campaign of 1888.
(AP, 11/6/97)(WSJ, 11/9/00, p.A26)(WSJ, 12/3/08, p.A15)
1891 Nov 6, Comanche, the only 7th Cavalry horse to survive George Armstrong Custer’s "Last Stand" at the Little Bighorn, died at Fort Riley, Kan.
(HN, 11/6/98)
1892 Nov 6, John Sigvard "Ole" Olsen, comedian (Olsen & Johnson), was born in Wabash, Ind.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1892 Nov 6, Harold Ross, New Yorker editor, was born.
(HN, 11/6/00)
1893 Nov 6, Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia, at age 53.
(HFA, '96, p.18)(AP, 11/6/97)
1896 Nov 6, Jim Jordan, radio comedian (Fibber McGee), was born in Peoria, Il.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1900 Nov 6, President McKinley was re-elected, beating Democrat William Jennings Bryan.
(AP, 11/6/97)(HN, 11/6/98)
1901 Nov 6, Kate Greenaway (b.1846), English children’s book illustrator, died of breast cancer.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Greenaway)
1903 Nov 6, In Hong Kong the South China Morning Post, founded by Tse Tsan-tai and Alfred Cunningham, published its first issue.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Morning_Post)
1903 Nov 6, Panama declared its independence from Colombia.
(ON, 1/00, p.3)
1906 Nov 6, Republican Charles Evans Hughes was elected governor of New York, defeating newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst. In 1910 he was appointed to the US Supreme Court and served until 1916. In 1930 he was appointed as Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court and served until 1941.
(AP, 11/6/99)(SFC, 10/6/05, p.A15)
1911 Nov 6, Maine became a dry state.
(HN, 11/6/98)
1912 Nov 6, Mykola Vytalyevich Lysenko (70), composer, died.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1913 Nov 6, Mohandas K. Gandhi led a march of Indian miners into Transvaal, South Africa. He was arrested 3 times during the 1st 4 days of the march. The miners had struck because the Cape Colony Supreme Court Justice had ruled that only Christian marriages registered by the Registrar of Marriages would be considered legal.
(AP, 11/6/97)(ON, 9/03, p.5)
1915 Nov 6, An order from Constantinople reached the local authorities, at any rate in the Cilician plain, directing them to refrain from further [Armenian] deportations.
(http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/docs/bryce2.htm)
1917 Nov 6, NY allowed women to vote.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1917 Nov 6, Bolshevik "October Revolution" (October 25 on the old Russian calendar), led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky, seized power in Petrograd. [see Nov 7]
(HN, 11/6/98)
1921 Nov 6, James Jones, American novelist, was born. His work included “From Here to Eternity."
(HN, 11/6/00)
1923 Nov 6, Col. Jacob Schick patented the 1st electric shaver.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1923 Nov 6, European inflation soared and one loaf of bread in Berlin was reported to be worth about 140 Billion German Marks. Germany suffered a terrible economic inflation. Hyperinflation eventually made 4.2 trillion marks worth $1.
(MT, Fall ‘96, p.7)(HN, 11/6/98)(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R42)
1928 Nov 6, In a first, presidential election results were flashed on an electronic sign outside the New York Times building; Herbert Hoover beat Alfred E. Smith. Norman Thomas was the presidential candidate for the Socialist Party. Hoover won just over 83% of the electoral vote.
(AP, 11/6/97)(SFC, 2/12/00, p.A21)(HNQ, 11/7/00)
1931 Nov 6, Mike Nichols [Peschowsky], film and stage director, was born. His work included “The Graduate."
(HN, 11/6/00)
1932 Nov 6, Don King, fight promoter, was born.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1933 Nov 6, Polly Bemis (b.1853), Chinese American pioneer woman born as Lalu Nathoy, died in Grangeville, Idaho. As a child a group of bandits raided her village and she was forcefully sold by her father for two much needed bags of seed. Lalu was later smuggled into the US and sold as a slave in San Francisco for $2,500 in 1872. Her buyer, Hong King, ran a saloon in a mining camp in Warrens (now Warren, Idaho), Idaho. In 1894 she married Charlie Bemis, whom she had befriended when she first arrived in Warrens. Together, they were among the first pioneers to help settle the Idaho Territory, especially along the Salmon River. Her life was fictionalized in the 1991 film “A Thousand Pieces of Gold," starring Rosalind Chao (as Polly) and Chris Cooper (as Charlie).
(www.answers.com/topic/polly-bemis)
1934 Nov 6, The first Rotary club in Lithuania, the Rotary club of Kaunas, was legally incorporated. It received its charter on 5 May 1935 from the then District Governor of Finland in the Kaunas Town Hall.
(http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~henkypnk/rotlithuania.html)
1936 Nov 6, RCA displayed TV for press.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1938 Nov 6, The Red Ryder and Little Beaver cartoon strip by Fred Harman (b.1902) began appearing in the Chicago Sun. It went out of syndication in 1964.
(WSJ, 12/23/03, p.D8)
1940 Nov 6, The Immigration and Naturalization Service abandoned its Angel Island Station after a fire destroyed the administration building.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W39)(SSFC, 11/1/15, DB p.50)
1941 Nov 6, USA lent Soviet Union $1 million.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1941 Nov 6, Einsatz death groups killed some 18 thousand Jews of Rovno, Ukraine. “Einsatzgruppen" were special soldiers who followed the fighting forces and “cleaned up" the area.
(www.members.tripod.com/~ebionite/zikkar.htm#nov)
1942 Nov 6, Nazis executed 12,000 Minsk ghetto Jews.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1943 Nov 6, Michael Schwerner, civil rights worker, was born. He was murdered in 1964.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1943 Nov 6, Soviet forces reconquered Kiev.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1944 Nov 6, A US bomber came under fire over Slovenia. Co-pilot 2nd Lt. Ernest N. Vienneau was mortally wounded. The pilot was forced to ditch the bomber off Vis Island, Croatia. The wreck of the bomber was found in a dive in 2017. In 2021 Vienneau's remains were buried in his home state of Maine.
(AP, 8/26/21)
1944 Nov 6, British official Lord Moyne was assassinated in Cairo, Egypt, by members of the Zionist Stern gang (Lehi).
(AP, 11/6/06)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehi_%28group%29)
1945 Nov 6, HUAC began an investigation of 7 radio commentators.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1945 Nov 6, The first landing of a jet on a carrier took place on the USS Wake Island when an FR-1 Fireball touched down.
(HN, 11//99)
1946 Nov 6, Britain's National Health Service Act, backed by PM Clement Attlee, received royal assent. It came into effect on 5 July 1948.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Service_Act_1946)(Econ., 2/6/21, p.47)
1946 Nov 6, Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel (b.1909 as Berta Hummel), German nun and artist, died. She became famous for her artwork which was used to create the Hummel figurines beginning in 1935.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Innocentia_Hummel)
1950 Nov 6, A Chinese offensive was halted at Chongchon River, North Korea.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1952 Nov 6, Dmitri Shostakovitch's cantata "About our Fatherland," premiered.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1956 Nov 6, The Eisenhower-Nixon Republican ticket won the presidential elections beating Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson. The Democrats won a majority in both houses of Congress.
(EWH, 1968, p.1210)(AP, 11/6/97)
1956 Nov 6, Pressure from the US and USSR effected a cease-fire in the Middle-East. The UN created an emergency force (UNEF) to supervise a cease fire. Britain’s PM Anthony Eden called French PM Guy Mollet to tell him that Britain was aborting operations in Egypt. German chancellor Konrad Adenauer, meeting with Mollet, remarked that Europe must unite to counter the influence of the United States.
(TOH, 1982, p.1956)(EWH, 1968, p. 1242)(Econ, 7/29/06, p.24)
1956 Nov 6, Holland and Spain withdrew from Olympics, to protest Soviets in Hungary.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1962 Nov 6, Edward M. Kennedy (1932-2009) of Massachusetts was 1st elected as US Senator (D) to fill the vacancy caused by the 1960 resignation of his brother, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, for the term ending January 3, 1965. Pres. Kennedy had persuaded the governor of Massachusetts to appoint his college roommate, Benjamin A. Smith II, until Edward turned 30.
(http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000105)(Econ, 8/29/09, p.30)
1962 Nov 6, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown was re-elected as democratic governor over Richard Nixon by some 300,000 votes.
(SFC, 10/17/96, C2)(SFEM, 11/17/96, p.18)(SFEC, 12/6/98, p.A1)
1962 Nov 6, Saudi Arabia abolished slavery.
(www.hrw.org/reports/1992/saudi/INTROTHR.htm)
1962 Nov 6, The UN General Assembly adopted resolution 1761 (XVII), which established a Special Committee on Apartheid in South Africa. The non-binding resolution called upon members "separately or collectively, in conformity with the charter" to break diplomatic relations with South Africa, to close ports to South African vessels, to forbid vessels flying their flags to enter South African ports, to boycott South African trade, and to suspend landing rights for South African aircraft. The committee held its first meeting on April 2, 1963.
(Econ, 9/15/07, p.74)(www.anc.org.za/un/reddy/aamun.htm)
1965 Nov 6, Edgar Varese (b.1883), French-born pioneer of musical modernism, died. He moved to the US in 1915. Varese was the inventor of the term "organized sound", a phrase meaning that certain timbres and rhythms can be grouped together, sublimating into a whole new definition of music.
(SFC, 4/16/10, p.F6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgard_Var%C3%A8se)
1968 Nov 6, The play “The Ruling Class" by Peter Barnes (1931-2004) opened in Nottingham, England. It was a satirical attack on the church and British aristocracy. It was made into a 1972 film for which Peter O'Toole received an Oscar nomination.
(SFC, 7/3/04, p.B6)(www.answers.com/topic/the-ruling-class-play-6)
1968 Nov 6, At SF State on the one year anniversary of the Gator incident, the Black Students' Union and the Third World Liberation Front issued a list of 10 "nonnegotiable" demands and called for a one day strike. The strike lasted 167 days.
(http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~runamuck/PACEPAPER.htm)(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W3)(SFEC, 3/21/99, Z1 p.4)
1968 Nov 6, Charles Munch (b.1891), French-US conductor, died. He directed the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1949-1962.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_M%C3%BCnch)
1971 Nov 6, The musical "Purlie" closed at ANTA Playhouse in NYC after a total of 688 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=3514)
1971 Nov 6, The US Atomic Energy Commission exploded a 5-megaton bomb beneath Amchitka Island, Alaska, just 87 miles from the Petropavlovsk Russian naval base. It registered as a magnitude-7 earthquake.
(SFC, 12/17/01, p.A4)
1973 Nov 6, Coleman Young (1918-1997) was elected the first African American mayor of Detroit, Mich. He served 5 consecutive terms and chose not to seek re-election in 1993. During WW II he served with the Tuskegee Airmen and after the war founded the National Negro Labor Council. One of his major accomplishments was the integration of the Detroit police force.
(http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_23_98/ai_67185237)(SFEC, 11/30/97, p.C10)
1973 Nov 6, Abraham D. Beame (1906-2001) was elected as the New York city’s 104th and 1st Jewish mayor. He served until 1978.
(SFC, 2/12/01, p.A26)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Beame)
1973 Nov 6, The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) assassinated Oakland school superintendent Marcus Foster and wounded Robert Blackburn, his assistant. The SLA warned against a proposed student ID program. Russell Little and Joseph Remiro were arrested following a shootout in Jan, 1974. Little’s eventual conviction was reversed Feb 28, 1979, due to errant jury instructions. Remiro was sentenced to life in prison.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W22)(SFC, 1/23/01, p.A13)(SFC, 9/17/02, p.A20)(SFC, 11/14/02, p.A17)
1975 Nov 6, Morocco occupied Western Sahara. King Hassan dispatched 350,000 unarmed Moroccans on a "Green March" to the former Spanish Sahara. This began a long war with the Polisario Front guerrilla group, tribal Bedouin who sought independence.
(SFC, 5/7/97, p.C2)(SFC, 7/24/99, p.A9)(WSJ, 6/7/00, p.A1)(SFC, 11/27/00, p.A8)
1976 Nov 6, Benjamin L. Hooks was chosen executive director of the NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, succeeding Roy Wilkins.
(AP, 11/6/97)
1977 Nov 6, San Francisco marijuana smokers held “A Day on the Grass" smoke-in at the Civic Center as the 59th Veterans Day Parade took place.
(SFC, 11/1/02, p.E7)
1977 Nov 6, In Georgia, USA, 39 people were killed when an earthen dam burst, sending a wall of water through Toccoa Falls Bible College.
(AP, 11/6/97)
1978 Nov 6, Pres. Carter signed the Presidential Records Act of 1978, which put the papers of future presidents in the public domain. It envisioned the release of most sensitive records 12 years after a president left office. It governs the official records of Presidents and Vice Presidents created or received after January 20, 1981 and mandates the preservation of all presidential records. In 2001 Pres. Bush signed an executive order allowing either the White House or former presidents to veto the release of presidential papers.
{CarterJ, USA, BushGW}
(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D3)(www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=30124)
1978 Nov 6, The US Bankruptcy Reform Act revised bankruptcy regulations to allow companies to reorganize under Chapter 11 of the law, rather than liquidate under Chapter 7. It replaced the Bankruptcy Act of 1898, sometimes called the Nelson act, and became effective as of Oct 1, 1979.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_Reform_Act_of_1978)
1978 Nov 6, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, appointed a military government. In a nationwide television address, he admitted to the past mistakes and told the nation he had heard the sound of their revolution.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)(http://bss.sfsu.edu/behrooz/Hist-Revolution.htm)
1979 Nov 6, In Iran PM Bazargan resigned as Ayatollah Khomeini (1902-1989) supported the student seizure of the US embassy.
(www.britannica.com/eb/topic-272687/Iran-hostage-crisis)
1984 Nov 6, President Ronald Reagan was re-elected. Reagan beat Mondale in the landslide of 1984 with 97.6% of the Electoral College and over 58% of the popular vote. It almost matched the 1936 landslide of Roosevelt over Landon.
(HN, 11/6/98)(HNQ, 11/7/00)
1985 Nov 6, An exploratory oil well at Ranger, Tx., exploded and spilled 150,000 barrels of oil.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980-1989_world_oil_market_chronology)
1985 Nov 6, In Colombia some 35 leftist M-19 rebels took over the Palace of Justice. A military raid to liberate hostages held by M-19 guerrillas at the Supreme Court followed and cost more than 100 lives, including 11 Supreme Court justices and all 30 guerrillas. Intelligence unit soldiers under the command of Ivan Ramirez escorted 11 people out of the building as the military stormed the palace. Witnesses, including soldiers from Ramirez's unit, later said the captives were tortured and killed. In 2008 Ramirez was arrested and faced "forced disappearance" charges. In Oct prosecutors ordered the arrest of Gen. Jesus Armando Arias, who led Bogota's army brigade during the assault. In 2010 a Colombian judge sentenced retired army Col. Luis Alfonso Plazas to 30 years in prison for the disappearance of the 11 people who went missing after soldiers stormed the palace to retake it from leftist guerrillas.
(WSJ, 1/3/97, p.A6)(WSJ, 1/8/97, p.A12)(SFC, 4/20/98, p.A8)(AP, 5/28/08)(AP, 10/11/08)(AP, 6/10/10)
1986 Nov 6, Pres. Reagan signed a landmark immigration reform bill. The Simpson-Rodino Immigration Reform and Control Act led to amnesty and legal residency for 2.7 million illegal immigrants. Harold Ezell served as the western chief of the immigration service under Ronald Reagan and implemented the act.
(www.cis.org/articles/1987/paper4.html)(SFC, 8/27/98, p.C4)(WSJ, 9/18/06, p.A1)
1986 Nov 6, The Iran arms-for-hostages deal was revealed and damaged the Reagan administration.
(HN, 11/6/99)
1986 Nov 6, FRELIMO designated Joaquim Chissano as president of Mozambique.
(www.cidob.org/bios/castellano/lideres/c-016.htm)
1987 Nov 6, Education Secretary William Bennett, acting with President Reagan's approval, asked Douglas H. Ginsburg to withdraw as a Supreme Court nominee because of revelations that Ginsburg had used marijuana.
(AP, 11/6/97)
1988 Nov 6, Andrei D. Sakharov, the father of the Soviet dissident movement, arrived in the United States for a two-week trip, less than two years after he was freed from internal exile in the Soviet Union.
(AP, 11/6/98)
1989 Nov 6, Kitty Dukakis, wife of Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, was hospitalized after ingesting rubbing alcohol.
(AP, 11/6/99)
1989 Nov 6, Word Perfect 5.1 was released.
(www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/chronology.html)
1989 Nov 6, The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, initiated by Australia, began as an informal Ministerial-level dialogue group with 12 members: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, United States.
(SFEC, 11/23/97, p.A21)(www.apec.org/apec/member_economies.html)
1990 Nov 6, US Democrats increased their congressional voting strength in midterm elections.
(AP, 11/6/00)
1990 Nov 6, William Jefferson became the 1st African American to be elected to Congress from Louisiana since Reconstruction. In 2005 he was under FBI investigation for corruption.
(SFC, 8/4/05, p.A3)
1990 Nov 6, About one-fifth of the Universal Studios back lot in southern California was destroyed in an arson fire.
(AP, 11/6/00)
1990 Nov 6, In Saudi Arabia a group of women got into cars and drove the streets of Riyadh in defiance of a government ban. The protest, which made headlines around the world, cost the 47 female drivers and passengers dearly. They were arrested, lost their jobs for 2 1/2 years, were banned from travel for a year and were condemned by the powerful clergy as harlots. This led interior minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz to ban women from driving.
(AP, 11/14/08)(AFP, 6/16/12)
1991 Nov 6, Actress Gene Tierney died in Houston at age 70.
(AP, 11/6/01)
1991 Nov 6, Kuwait celebrated the dousing of the last oil fires ignited by Iraq during the Persian Gulf War. Iraqi forces had blown up an estimated 732 Kuwaiti oil wells.
(AP, 11/6/01)(WSJ, 1/21/02, p.B1)
1991 Nov 6, Pres. Yeltsin fired Ivan Silayev as prime minister. Yeltsin served as acting prime minister until Yegor Gaidar (1956-2009) was appointed in Jun 1992.
(SFC, 5/13/99, p.A19)(Econ, 12/19/09, p.149)
1991 Nov 6, Russian president Yeltsin outlawed Communist Party.
(http://s99.middlebury.edu/EC230A/Supplements/Chrons/Blasi.html)
1992 Nov 6, President-elect Bill Clinton asked Vernon Jordan and Warren Christopher to lead the White House transition team.
(AP, 11/6/97)
1993 Nov 6, Heavyweight boxer Evander Holyfield defeated Riddick Bowe in a 12-round fight in Las Vegas; the match was interrupted in the seventh round when an intruder, using a paraglider, tried to fly into the ring.
(AP, 11/6/98)
1994 Nov 6, About 300 people crowded a small church in Union, S.C., for the funeral of 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex Smith, who'd been drowned by their mother, Susan Smith.
(AP, 11/6/99)
1995 Nov 6, Michael Guillen published his “Five Equations That Changed the World." The book narrates the stories behind Newton's law of gravity, Daniel Bernoulli's law of hydrodynamic pressure, Michael Farraday's law of electromagnetic induction, Rudolf Clausius's law of entropy, and Albert Einstein's law of mass-energy equivalence.
(WSJ, 11/6/95, p. A-20)
1995 Nov 6, Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell announced plans to move his team to Baltimore.
(AP, 11/6/00)
1995 Nov 6, The US Air Force launched the most powerful unmanned rocket, Titan 4, with a $1 bil. Milstar communications satellite for the defense dept.
(WSJ, 11/7/95, p.A-1)
1995 Nov 6, Funeral services were held in Jerusalem for assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. President Clinton led the US delegation; Arab dignitaries also attended, including Jordan’s King Hussein and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
(AP, 11/6/00)
1996 Nov 6, Andrea Barrett won the National Book Award for fiction for her book: “Ship Fever and Other Stories," a blend of science and history. Victor Martinez won in the category of Young People’s Literature for his novel “Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida."
(SFC, 11/7/96, p.E4)(SFEC, 11/10/96, p.A1)
1996 Nov 6, A day after being re-elected, President Clinton threw a party on the White House lawn; that same day, he received resignations from secretaries of state, defense, energy and commerce.
(AP, 11/6/97)
1996 Nov 6, Chevron Corp. agreed to pay more than $8 million to 777 women in a suit that alleged discrimination in pay, promotions and assignments.
(SFC, 11/7/96, p.a1)
1996 Nov 6, NASA’s $215 million Mars Global Surveyor was delayed for launch. It was supposed to arrive at Mars in Sep, 1997.
(SFC, 8/8/96, p.A6)(SFC, 11/5/96, p.A4)(SFC, 11/7/96, p.B1)
1996 Nov 6, Jim Boggio (56), co-founder with Clifton Buck-Kaufman of the Cotati Accordion Festival, died. Boggio and his band, The Sonoma Swampdogs, were becoming the hottest Zydeco and swamp boogie band in the North San Francisco Bay Area.
(SFC, 8/27/07, p.D2)(www.accordions.com/index/squ/squ_96_11_15.shtml#jim)
1996 Nov 6, Mario Savio (b.1942), founder of the 1964 Berkeley Free Speech Movement, died. In 2009 Robert Cohen authored “Freedom’s Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s."
(SSFC, 10/10/04, p.18)(SFC, 9/23/09, p.E2)
1996 Nov 6, In China Chen Ziming, political dissident, was released on a medical parole from a 13-year sentence that began in 1989.
(SFC, 11/7/96, p.a12)
1996 Nov 6-1996 Nov 7, In India cyclone 07B killed some 2000 in Andhra Pradesh state. Damage was estimated at $1.5 billion.
(WSJ, 11/8/96, p.A1)(SFC, 11/12/96, p.A11)(www.emergency-management.net/cyclone.htm)
1996 Nov 6, In Japan the Parliament re-elected Ryutaro Hashimoto as prime minister.
(SFC, 11/7/96, p.a13)
1997 Nov 6, The Clinton administration warned Iraq it could face military action or economic sanctions if it continued to bar U.N. weapons inspections.
(AP, 11/6/98)
1997 Nov 6, In Texas the $83 million George Bush Presidential Library and Museum was dedicated on the campus of Texas A&M Univ. at College Station. Among the guests of honor was President Clinton, the man who'd sent him into retirement.
(SFC, 11/6/97, p.A3)(AP, 11/6/98)
1997 Nov 6, In Cuba a train-bus crash killed at least 56 people at Urbano Rey in the eastern sugar province of Holguin.
(WSJ, 11/7/97, p.A1)
1996 Nov 6, In India cyclone 07B struck Andhra Pradesh state. [see Nov 7]
(www.emergency-management.net/cyclone.htm)
1997 Nov 6, It was reported that the Russian Mafia and other East European gangs controlled some 500,000 foreign women as illegal prostitutes in the 15 EU member countries. Some 15,000 gangs operated in Berlin alone.
(SFC, 11/6/97, p.C2,18)
1997 Nov 6, In Belgrade former Serb soldier and convict, Slobodan Misic, was arrested after he told reporters that he had killed up to 80 Croats and Muslims near Vukovar in eastern Croatia and in the Bratunac-Shrebrenica area of eastern Bosnia in 1991.
(SFC, 11/6/97, p.D3)
1997 Nov 6, In Mexico prosecutors announced that 2 of the 3 doctors found dead in oil drums were being charged with the murder of druglord Amado Carillo Fuentes. The 3rd doctor was charged last month.
(SFC, 11/8/97, p.A11)
1997 Nov 6, In Spain flooding of the Guadiana River killed 18 people in Badajoz. A total of 31 died along the Spanish-Portuguese border from the storm induced flood.
(SFC, 11/7/97, p.D3)
1998 Nov 6, Pres. Clinton decided to lift most of the sanctions against India and Pakistan for their nuclear tests in May, as a reward for steps taken toward nuclear control agreements.
(SFC, 11/7/98, p.A14)
1998 Nov 6, Newt Gingrich told fellow lawmakers he intended to give up his bid for a third term as House Speaker, following unforeseen Republican losses in mid-term elections.
(SFC, 11/7/98, p.A1, 4)(AP, 11/6/99)
1998 Nov 6, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., announced he would not run for re-election in 2000.
(AP, 11/6/08)
1998 Nov 6, Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards (71) was charged in a 34-count federal indictment for trying to steer gambling licenses to associates in exchange for payoffs after he left office in 1996.
(SFC, 11/7/98, p.A3)
1998 Nov 6, Scientists reported the successful culture of human stem cells in research financed by Geron Corp. James Thomson of the Univ. of Wisconsin first isolated stem cells from human embryos. Science published this research in an article titled "Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Blastocysts."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Thomson_%28cell_biologist%29)(SFC, 11/6/98, p.A1,A18)(Econ, 1/28/12, p.77)
1998 Nov 6, In Iraq at the Radwaniya prison west of Baghdad 63 prisoners were executed.
(USAT, 3/24/99, p.18A)
1998 Nov 6, In Jerusalem a car bomb exploded at an outdoor market and 2 suicide bombers people were killed and 23 others injured. The peace accord was immediately put on hold by the Israeli cabinet. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
(SFC, 11/6/98, p.D4)(SFC, 11/7/98, p.A12)
1998 Nov 6, In Kosovo 5 ethnic Albanians were killed in a shootout with Serbian police after they left a meeting with US diplomat Chris Hill at Dragobil. Two others were killed the day before.
(SFC, 11/7/98, p.A13)(SFC, 12/10/98, p.C9)
1998 Nov 6, In Russia the government signed a $625 million aid package with the US. Half the food would be free and the other half paid back under a 20-year loan. A deal with foreign creditors on debt was reached and an $800 million loan from Japan was accepted.
(SFC, 11/7/98, p.A12)
1998 Nov 6, Rwanda’s Vice Pres. Paul Kagame admitted to helping rebel forces in Congo.
(SFC, 11/7/98, p.A12)
1999 Nov 6, In Australia elections to decide on severance of ties with the royal family were scheduled. 54.5% voted against a republic in which the head of state would be elected by Parliament.
(SFC, 11/2/99, p.A12)(SFEC, 11/7/99, p.A21)
1999 Nov 6, During his visit to India, Pope John Paul the Second praised Christian missionaries and exhorted his bishops to spread the Christian message across Asia.
(AP, 11/6/00)
1999 Nov 6, In Pakistan a 10-member civilian cabinet, named by Gen. Musharraf, formally took office.
(SFEC, 11/7/99, p.A24)
1999 Nov 6, Rwanda suspended cooperation with a UN tribunal following a decision (Nov 3) by the Int'l. Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda to release Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza, a former Foreign Ministry official, who was held in Tanzania.
(SFEC, 11/7/99, p.A30)
1999 Nov 6, In Tajikistan secular Pres. Emomali Rakhmonov a faced Muslim challenger.
(SFEC, 11/7/99, p.A29)
2000 Nov 6, On Election Eve, George W. Bush and Al Gore campaigned through the final hours of their run for the White House, seeking last-minute momentum in a costly and exhausting race to become the nation's 43rd president.
(AP, 11/6/01)
2000 Nov 6, Surgeons in Manchester, England, separated conjoined twin girls, a procedure that involved allowing one of the girls to die, while giving the survivor a chance at life.
(AP, 11/6/01)
2000 Nov 6, Storms in Western Europe killed at least 19 people.
(WSJ, 11/7/00, p.A1)
2000 Nov 6 In India a mob of Sunnis attacked Shiites in the market area of Mubarakpur in Uttar Pradesh state and 13 people were killed.
(SFC, 11/7/00, p.B2)
2000 Nov 6, Israel rejected a plan for international observers in its conflict with the Palestinians.
(SFC, 11/7/00, p.B2)
2000 Nov 6, In Serbia prisoners rioted in Sremska Mitrovica for shorter sentences and a new prison management. They were also angry over a proposed amnesty law that would free Albanian political prisoners.
(SFC, 11/7/00, p.B2)
2000 Nov 6, In Zanzibar the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi won 34 of the 50 seats in the House of Representatives. The opposition Civic United Front took the remaining 16 seats.
(SFC, 11/7/00, p.B2)
2001 Nov 6, Season One of the television series “24" was first broadcast. It featured Jack Bauer as the protagonist, in which he has trained and worked in various capacities as a government agent, including U.S. Army Delta Force, Los Angeles Police Department SWAT, CIA, and finally the Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Bauer#24_Season_1)
2001 Nov 6, Baseball owners voted 28-2 to eliminate two major league teams by the 2002 season.
(AP, 11/6/02)
2001 Nov 6, Pres. Bush met with France’s Pres. Chirac and addressed an anti-terrorism meeting in Poland via satellite.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 6, The Federal Reserve lowered interest rates for the 10th time this year. The half point drop put the benchmark fed funds rate to 2% and the discount rate to 1.5%, its lowest level in 40 years. The DJIA rose 150 to 9591. The Nasdaq rose 41 to 1835.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.B1)(WSJ, 11/7/01, p.A2)(AP, 11/6/02)
2001 Nov 6, Attorney Gen. Ashcroft directed US DEA agents to go after Oregon doctors in assisted suicide cases. On Nov 8 a federal judge issued a temp block of Ashcroft’s order good until Nov 20.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A1)(SFC, 11/9/01, p.A15)
2001 Nov 6, Michael Bloomberg, self-made billionaire, was elected as the NYC’s 108th mayor. He spent $69 million on his self-financed campaign. He soon introduced “311," a form of centralized customer service for the city.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A15)(WSJ, 12/4/01, p.A1)(Econ, 2/19/05, Survey p.11)
2001 Nov 6, In New Jersey Democrat Jim McGreevey defeated Republican Bret Schundler in the race for governor.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 6, In Virginia Democrat Mark Warner defeated Republican Mark Earley in the race for governor.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 6, Playwright Anthony Shaffer, who'd written the thriller "Sleuth," died in London at age 75.
(AP, 11/6/02)
2001 Nov 6, US bombs killed a number of civilians in Kabul. The UN later reported that erroneous bombing killed 30 civilians in Kabul over the 1st 37 days of bombing.
(SFC, 11/24/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 6, In Munini, Burundi, 24 civilians were reported dead from fighting between Hutu rebels and the Tutsi dominated army.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A16)
2001 Nov 6, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said he would activate 3,900 troops for action in Afghanistan.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A5)
2001 Nov 6, In Northern Ireland David Trimble overcame blocking tactics and was re-elected 1st minister of the N. Ireland Assembly.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A13)
2001 Nov 6, Israeli troops pulled out of Ramallah. 5 Palestinians were killed along with 1 Israeli soldier in an attack on an Israeli army post and a car bomb blast.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A13)(WSJ, 11/7/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 6, Authorities in Ciudad Juarez found the bodies of 3 young women. 5 more bodies were found the next day. Mexican authorities later built a somber memorial of concrete benches, a circular water fountain also made of concrete and a cement plaque with the names of the eight victims. The families of three of the women appealed in 2003 for the court, which is a body of the Organization of American States, to take up the case. On Nov 7, 2011, Mexico's government publicly apologized for failing to prevent the killings of the three women and for the negligence of officials in investigating the crimes.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A19)(AP, 11/7/11)
2001 Nov 6, Russia clinched a deal to build a $2.6 billion nuclear-power plant in Kudunkulam, Tamil Nadu, India. India reiterated its intention of buying a Russian aircraft carrier, the Admiral Gorshkov, for the cost of retrofit estimated at $500 million, along with 2 squadrons of MiG-29C jet fighters.
(WSJ, 11/7/01, p.A16)
2001 Nov 6, In Madrid, Spain, a rush hour car bomb blast injured 95 people. The ETA was suspected and a man and woman were arrested.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A13)
2001 Nov 6, In Istanbul, Turkey, 4 leftist militants, participants in a hunger strike, died during a police raid. The militants had threatened self-immolation.
(SFC, 11/7/01, p.A16)
2002 Nov 6, The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates .5% from 1.75 to 1.25. The Dow rose 92 to 8771 and Nasdaq rose 17 to 1418.99.
(SFC, 11/7/02, p.A22)
2002 Nov 6, A new U.S. draft resolution on Iraq set off a final diplomatic push for tough new weapons inspections, backed by threats of force if Saddam Hussein continues to skirt his disarmament obligations.
(AP, 11/7/02)
2002 Nov 6, Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman called for a state recount following his loss to GOP Rep. Bob Riley by 3,195 votes. Siegelman conceded Nov 18.
(SFC, 11/9/02, p.A4)(WSJ, 11/19/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 6, A jury in Beverly Hills, Calif., convicted Winona Ryder of stealing $5,500 worth of high-fashion merchandise from Saks Fifth Avenue, but a prosecutor said she would not seek to put the actress behind bars.
(AP, 11/6/03)
2002 Nov 6, Muslims across the world started fasting for the holy month of Ramadan.
(Reuters, 11/6/02)
2002 Nov 6, A bus carrying workers home for an Islamic holiday collided with a truck and overturned east of Cairo, killing 24 people and wounding 25 others.
(AP, 11/6/02)
2002 Nov 6, In Fiji a military panel convicted 15 elite army soldiers of mutiny for their roles in a deadly shootout at the country's main barracks two years ago.
(AP, 11/6/02)
2002 Nov 6, In France a fire broke out on an overnight express train, filling a sleeper car with smoke and killing 12 passengers. Five Americans were among the dead, including two children.
(AP, 11/6/02)
2002 Nov 6, In Iran University professor Hashem Aghajari, was sentenced to death on charges of insulting Islam's prophet and questioning the hard-line clergy's interpretation of Islam. He was also was sentenced to 74 lashes, banned from teaching for 10 years and exiled to three remote Iranian cities for 8 years. The death sentence was overturned in 2003 and reimposed May 3, 2004. The 2nd death sentence was again overturned. Aghajari was released on bail July 31, 2004.
(AP, 11/7/02)(WSJ, 5/5/04, p.A1)(AP, 7/3/04)(SSFC, 8/1/04, p.A16)
2002 Nov 6, Benjamin Netanyahu was approved as Israel's foreign minister, bringing him into the Cabinet of the man he seeks to succeed, Ariel Sharon.
(AP, 11/6/02)
2002 Nov 6, In Luxembourg a twin-engine Fokker-50 plane crashed in fog as it approached Findel Airport, killing 17 people and seriously injuring five others.
(AP, 11/6/02)(WSJ, 11/7/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 6, In Morocco King Mohammed VI said the call for a referendum in Western Sahara to determine whether the people want independence is "null" and "inapplicable," his first public dismissal of the plan first put forward in 1991.
(AP, 11/6/02)
2002 Nov 6, A Palestinian laborer opened fire in a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip where he worked, killing his employer and another Israeli before being shot dead.
(AP, 11/6/02)
2002 Nov 6, Muslim guerrillas strafed a southern Philippine village with automatic rifle fire, killing seven people in retaliation for an offensive by troops.
(Reuters, 11/7/02)
2003 Nov 6, Pres. Bush signed the $87.5 billion spending bill for Afghanistan and Iraq.
(WSJ, 11/7/03, p.A1)(AP, 11/6/04)
2003 Nov 6, Federal judges in New York and California blocked a new ban on certain late-term abortions, a day after President Bush signed it into law.
(AP, 11/6/04)
2003 Nov 6, The US Mint unveiled the new nickel
(AP, 11/6/04)
2003 Nov 6, Gene scientists published a map in Nature that shows how DNA controls protein interactions in the fruit fly.
(WSJ, 11/7/03, p.A1)
2003 Nov 6, Two American soldiers were killed near Baghdad and along the Syrian border. Polish forces suffered their first combat death when a Polish major was fatally wounded in an ambush south of the capital.
(AP, 11/6/03)
2003 Nov 6, In the Congo Republic 9 people have died in a suspected outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in a remote forest region where 120 were killed by the disease earlier this year.
(Reuters, 11/7/03)
2003 Nov 6, In India workers burned down a house and killed 21 people from a rival trade union in a battle over jobs at an Indian tea farm.
(AP, 11/6/03)
2003 Nov 6, Indonesia extended martial law and its military offensive in Aceh for 6 months.
(SFC, 11/7/03, p.A9)
2003 Nov 6, In Saudi Arabia 2 suspected militants blew themselves up in Mecca when security forces tried to arrest them. A 3rd was shot to death by police during a raid in Riyadh.
(AP, 11/6/03)
2004 Nov 6, The designers of SpaceShipOne, the first privately manned rocket to burst into space [see Oct 4], were handed a $10 million check and the Ansari X Prize trophy.
(AP, 11/6/05)
2004 Nov 6, The Cassini spacecraft was scheduled to launch its Huygens probe onto Titan. [see Dec 24]
(SFEC, 10/5/97, Z1 p.4)
2004 Nov 6, The African Union mandated South African President Thabo Mbeki to launch an urgent mission to resolve the crisis in Ivory Coast.
(AFP, 11/7/04)
2004 Nov 6, In Baku, Azerbaijan, a gas explosion tore through a two-story apartment building, trapping residents under the debris. At least 4 people were killed.
(AP, 11/6/04)
2004 Nov 6, China's central bank said it would take a "gradual and safe" approach to loosening the yuan-dollar peg.
(AP, 11/6/04)
2004 Nov 6, In England 7 people were killed and 150 injured when a Eurostar high-speed train crashed into a vehicle that was stopped on a level crossing near Ufton Nervet in Berkshire. A motorist's suicide was suspected.
(AP, 11/8/04)
2004 Nov 6, In northwestern Haiti an armed group fired on a police station, prompting officers to flee while prisoners escaped and more than 100 people started a flurry of looting.
(AP, 11/6/04)
2004 Nov 6, Insurgents set off at least two car bombs and attacked a police station in the central Iraqi town of Samarra, killing at least 29 people and wounding 40. Over 50 people were killed across central Iraq including nearly 2 dozen Americans.
(AP, 11/6/04)(SSFC, 11/7/04, p.A1)
2004 Nov 6, Israeli troops killed 5 Palestinians, including a 14-year-old boy, in West Bank and Gaza Strip.
(AP, 11/6/04)
2004 Nov 6, Ivory Coast warplanes bombed French peacekeepers, killing 8 French soldiers and wounding 23. French forces responded by destroying the entire Ivory Coast air force, 2 Russian-made jets and 5 helicopter gunships.
(AP, 11/6/04)(SSFC, 11/7/04, p.A3)
2004 Nov 6, In western Nepal 9 Maoist rebels, five of them women, and a policeman were killed in a series of clashes and an accidental explosion.
(AP, 11/7/04)
2004 Nov 6, In an open letter to the Iraqi people and posted on the Internet, 26 Saudi scholars and religious preachers stressed that armed attacks launched by militant Iraqi groups on U.S. troops and their allies in Iraq were "legitimate" resistance.
(AP, 11/6/04)
2004 Nov 6, In Ukraine tens of thousands of supporters of presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko filled Kiev's main square, joining nationwide protests over alleged election fraud.
(AP, 11/6/04)
2004 Nov 6, Atonazar Arifov, head of the Uzbek unregistered opposition Erk party, announced that Erk would boycott next month's parliamentary vote, saying the government has failed to embrace democracy and calling on the international community to ignore the election.
(AP, 11/6/04)
2005 Nov 6, In a clear jab at Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, President Bush, in Brazil, called on Latin Americans to boldly defend strong democratic institutions.
(AP, 11/6/06)
2005 Nov 6, Paul Tergat of Kenya won the NYC marathon by a third of a second in the closest finish ever. Jelena Prokopcuka of Latvia took the women’s race.
(WSJ, 11/7/05, p.A1)
2005 Nov 6, In SF the annual Veteran’s Day Parade was held on Market St.
(SFC, 11/7/05, p.B1)
2005 Nov 6, The Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress opened in SF for a 5-day meeting and demonstration of new products.
(SFC, 11/7/05, p.A1)
2005 Nov 6, A tornado ripped across southwestern Indiana and northern Kentucky, killing at least 22 people, wrecking homes and knocking out power to thousands.
(AP, 11/6/05)(WSJ, 11/7/05, p.A1)
2005 Nov 6, The head of Azerbaijan's ruling party declared victory in a parliamentary election, with 63 seats. Azerbaijan's president pledged parliamentary elections would be followed by further democratic reform, but his political opponents alleged there were voting violations that could taint the results.
(AP, 11/6/05)(Reuters, 11/6/05)(Econ, 11/12/05, p.55)
2005 Nov 6 Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was arrested, hours after he defied an international arrest warrant and flew from Japan to Chile. Shortly after Fujimori's presence in Chile was confirmed, the Peruvian government asked Santiago to arrest him while a request for his extradition was filed.
(AP, 11/7/05)
2005 Nov 6, China said it had asked the World Health Organization to help it determine whether the death of a 12-year-old girl last month was caused by bird flu.
(AP, 11/6/05)
2005 Nov 6, In northern China an explosion at a coal mine killed 13 miners and left three missing at the Taiping Colliery in Shanxi province's Qingxu County.
(AP, 11/6/05)
2005 Nov 6, In northern China a cave-in at a gypsum mine killed 27 workers and trapped 20 others. The mine collapse occurred in Xingtai, a city in Hebei province, and affected two other nearby mines.
(AP, 11/7/05)
2005 Nov 6, The EU and US urged Ethiopia to end its crackdown on independent journalists and release opposition leaders detained during a week of bloody clashes between demonstrators and police.
(AP, 11/7/05)
2005 Nov 6, French President Jacques Chirac called a security meeting of his top ministers after urban rioting spread, with arsonists striking from the Mediterranean to the German border and into central Paris for the first time. On the 10th night of mayhem, some 1,300 vehicles were torched across France overnight and 349 people were arrested.
(AP, 11/6/05)(AFP, 11/6/05)
2005 Nov 6, Adan Castillo, Guatemala's top anti-narcotics investigator, said he plans to step down in December, after just six months on the job. Castillo said his country's anti-drug agents are no match for some 4,000 smugglers operating in Guatemala.
(AP, 11/6/05)
2005 Nov 6, India’s Sikh PM Singh and Hindu nationalist opposition leader joined to open Swaminarayan Akshardham Temple in New Delhi, one of the biggest Hindu temples of modern times, a $45 million pink sandstone shrine to religious tolerance.
(AP, 11/6/05)
2005 Nov 6, Iran said it supported a stable Iraq and called for expediting the construction of an oil pipeline and railway between the two neighbors.
(AP, 11/6/05)
2005 Nov 6, Dozens of people fled Husaybah, an Iraqi town on the Syrian border, during a lull in fighting between 3,500 US and Iraqi troops and suspected al-Qaida insurgents armed with Kalashnikov rifles and rocket-propelled grenades.
(AP, 11/6/05)
2005 Nov 6, Myanmar’s military junta began moving key ministries to Pyinmana, a secret location in the mountains and dense forest. The ruling junta had shifted headquarters to a series of underground bunkers in Pyinmana, in central Myanmar.
(Econ, 7/23/05, p.24)(WSJ, 11/7/05, p.A18)
2005 Nov 6, Gunmen in Mogadishu threw grenades and a land mine exploded near the convoy carrying Somalia's PM Ali Mohamed Gedi, but the leader escaped unharmed. At least two people were killed and 12 wounded in the attack.
(AP, 11/6/05)
2006 Nov 6, Kenny Chesney won entertainer of the year and Brooks & Dunn's inspirational song "Believe" won three trophies, including single and song of the year, at the 40th Annual Country Music Association Awards.
(AP, 11/6/07)
2006 Nov 6, On the eve of midterm elections, Democrats criticized Republicans as stewards of a stale status quo while President Bush campaigned from Florida to Arkansas to Texas in a drive to preserve GOP control of Congress.
(AP, 11/6/07)
2006 Nov 6, US military trade papers published an editorial calling for the ouster of Defense Sec. Donald Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld signed a letter of resignation on this day, but Pres. Bush waited until Nov 8, one day after elections to make the announcement.
(SSFC, 11/5/06, p.A18)(SFC, 8/14/07, p.A7)
2006 Nov 6, AIDS researchers reported encouraging results for a vaccine based on genetically altered HIV.
(WSJ, 11/7/06, p.A1)
2006 Nov 6, In Danville, Ca., Dimitra Mantas (43) was bludgeoned to death by her son (16), a user of methamphetamine. In 2008 a judge ruled that Andrew Mantas was incompetent to stand trial. In 2011 Andrew was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
(SFC, 11/7/06, p.B1)(SFC, 5/31/08, p.B3)(SFC, 9/14/11, p.C4)
2006 Nov 6, Transparency International, a watchdog group, reported that nearly three-quarters of 163 countries ranked in a new survey suffer from a perception of serious corruption, while in nearly half it is seen as rampant. Finland, Iceland and New Zealand ranked as the least corrupt, while Haiti, Guinea and Myanmar ranked as most corrupt.
(AP, 11/6/06)(Econ, 11/11/06, p.69)
2006 Nov 6, Afghan and US-led troops detained six suspected extremists, including one described as a "known al-Qaida terrorist." Taliban fighters ambushed a police patrol, killing one policeman and wounding two in Zabul province. One Taliban fighter was killed in an ensuing fight. In Helmand province Afghan and NATO forces carried out an operation against Taliban fighters, killing two. An Afghan army soldier was killed when another IED struck a military patrol in the Gereshk area of Helmand province.
(AP, 11/6/06)(AP, 11/7/06)
2006 Nov 6, Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet opened an international gathering of socialist leaders in Santiago by urging them to take advantage of the "reality" of globalization instead of fighting it. Police in Chile arrested 4 suspected computer hackers for allegedly belonging to a group accused of breaking into thousands of government Web sites around the globe, including NASA's.
(AP, 11/7/06)
2006 Nov 6, China's relations with Zimbabwe are "unshakeable", President Hu Jintao said as he met Pres. Mugabe amid accusations that Beijing's ties help shore up a pariah regime.
(AFP, 11/6/06)
2006 Nov 6, Iraq’s Shiite-dominated government offered a major concession to Sunnis that could give jobs back to members of the Baath Party. A US helicopter crashed in Salahuddin province, killing two American soldiers on board. 2 Marines and a soldier were killed in fighting in Anbar province. In northern Iraq flash floods caused by heavy rain killed 18 people and injured 20.
(AP, 11/6/06)(SFC, 11/7/06, p.A13)
2006 Nov 6, A female suicide bomber approached Israeli troops in the northern Gaza Strip and blew herself up. One soldier was lightly wounded in the blast.
(AP, 11/6/06)
2006 Nov 6, Hundreds of Israelis of Ethiopian descent clashed with police and briefly blocked a main road leading into Jerusalem in a protest of the Health Ministry's wholesale discarding of donated Ethiopian blood.
(AP, 11/6/06)
2006 Nov 6, In Italy a Milan court sentenced Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, the accused mastermind of the March 2004 train bombings in Madrid, to 10 years in jail for membership of a terrorist organization. A second Egyptian, Yahya Mawad Mohamed Rajeh, was sentenced to five years in jail in the case.
(AFP, 11/6/06)(WSJ, 11/7/06, p.A1)
2006 Nov 6, In Kenya thousands of delegates from around the world opened a UN conference on next steps to ward off the worst effects of climate change.
(AP, 11/6/06)
2006 Nov 6, Kyrgyzstan President Kurmanbek Bakiyev agreed to several opposition demands after five days of rallies demanding his resignation. Police officers guarding the presidential headquarters switched over to the protesters' side.
(AP, 11/6/06)
2006 Nov 6, In Mexico City simultaneous explosions hit the Federal Electoral Tribunal, a bank branch and the headquarters of the former ruling party early in the day. Authorities deactivated a homemade explosive device at a second bank branch.
(AP, 11/6/06)
2006 Nov 6, In the Netherlands 6 people were arrested on suspicion of recruiting volunteers for jihad, or Islamic holy war, prosecutors said after a year-long investigation.
(AFP, 11/7/06)
2006 Nov 6, In Nicaragua Daniel Ortega appeared headed back to the presidency 16 years after a U.S.-backed rebellion helped oust the former Marxist revolutionary. Partial results and the country's top electoral watchdog indicated he had easily defeated four opponents.
(AP, 11/6/06)
2006 Nov 6, Nigeria signed a deal with British firm Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) to build an earth observation satellite.
(AFP, 11/6/06)
2006 Nov 6, In northern Somalia Islamic fighters clashed with government militia backed by Ethiopian forces.
(SFC, 11/7/06, p.A18)
2006 Nov 6, South Africa's top appeals court dented ex-Deputy President Jacob Zuma's chances of becoming the next president when it confirmed corruption convictions against a former financial adviser.
(Reuters, 11/6/06)
2006 Nov 6, Syria's foreign minister said his country was ready to resume peace talks with Israel and he urged the Jewish state's government to heed calls from within the country for renewed negotiations.
(AP, 11/7/06)
2006 Nov 6, Tajikistan's President Emomali Rakhmonov won re-election to a new, seven-year term according to preliminary results that gave him nearly 80% of the vote. Foreign observers said the vote was flawed.
(AP, 11/7/06)
2006 Nov 6, Canada’s Heritage Oil reported an oil find on the Ugandan side of Lake Albert.
(Econ, 8/25/07, p.45)(http://tinyurl.com/36dnbm)
2007 Nov 6, SF Mayor Gavin Newsom declared victory. The vote tally was expected to take as long as 2 weeks due to a state-mandated hand count.
(SFC, 11/7/07, p.A1)
2007 Nov 6, In Vallejo, Ca., mayoral candidates Osby Davis (62) and Gary Cloutier (45) finished in a dead heat. Cloutier was later sworn in as mayor after elections officials said he won by 4 votes. On Dec 11 Osby was sworn in as mayor following a recount that put him on top by 2 votes.
(SFC, 12/12/07, p.B3)
2007 Nov 6, Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher, dogged by a hiring scandal, lost badly to Democratic challenger Steve Beshear.
(SFC, 11/7/07, p.A16)
2007 Nov 6, Central bankers past and present warned of more credit pain to come as Germany's Commerzbank and a big American lender became the latest to reveal losses from US subprime mortgage lending.
(AP, 11/6/07)
2007 Nov 6, Crude oil prices hit a record highs at $97.10 and closed at a record $96.70 per barrel on the NY Mercantile Exchange.
(SFC, 11/7/07, p.C2)
2007 Nov 6, Astronomers said a new planet has been discovered orbiting a sun-like star 41 light years away in the galaxy called 55 Cancri, making it the first known planetary quintet outside our solar system.
(AP, 11/7/07)(SFC, 11/7/07, p.A5)
2007 Nov 6, George Osmond (90), father of Donny and Marie Osmond and patriarch to the family's singing group The Osmond Brothers, died in Provo, Utah.
(AP, 11/6/08)
2007 Nov 6, Hank Thompson (82), country singer, died in Texas of lung cancer. Between 1948 and 1975 he had 29 songs in the top ten including “A Six Pack to Go" and “The Wild Side of Life" (1952). Kitty Wells (b.1919) sang her 1952 Honky Tonk Angels song, which was written by J.D. Miller in response to Thompson’s Wild Side of Life.
(SFC, 11/9/07, p.B7)
2007 Nov 6, In Afghanistan a bomb targeted a group of lawmakers in the northern province of Baghlan, killing at least 75 people, including 6 lawmakers. 61 schoolchildren were among the dead and 96 other students were wounded. A UN report later said up to two-thirds of the 77 people killed and 100 wounded were hit by bullets from visiting lawmakers' panicked bodyguards.
(Reuters, 11/6/07)(AP, 11/9/07)(AP, 11/17/07)(AP, 11/6/08)
2007 Nov 6, Chinese e-commerce portal Alibaba.com soared in its debut on the Hong Kong stock market. It opened at $3.86 and closed at $5.09.
(AP, 11/6/07)(SFC, 11/7/07, p.C1)
2007 Nov 6, In Bangalore, India, doctors began operating on Lakshmi, a 2-year-old girl born with four arms and four legs, in an extensive surgery that they hope will leave the girl with a normal body. Surgeons completed the surgery the next day and said will it give the girl a chance at a normal life.
(AP, 11/6/07)(AP, 11/7/07)
2007 Nov 6, 2007 became the deadliest year for US troops in Iraq, with at least 853 military deaths.
(AP, 11/6/08)
2007 Nov 6, In Kashmir a 4-day gunbattle began that left five Islamic militants and four Indian soldiers killed.
(AFP, 11/9/07)
2007 Nov 6, Kurdish rebels released another Iranian soldier captured two months ago in northern Iraq.
(AP, 11/6/07)
2007 Nov 6, Italian police said a Europe-wide sweep disrupted an Islamic cell that was recruiting potential suicide bombers for attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan. They announced the arrests of 20 terror suspects, mostly Tunisians. Authorities in Britain, France and Portugal confirmed arrests.
(AP, 11/6/07)
2007 Nov 6, A Mauritanian patrol boat found a drifting boat from Senegal with some 100 people aboard as well as 2 dead bodies. The migrants had spent nearly 3 weeks at sea and thrown 43 dead bodies overboard.
(SFC, 11/7/07, p.A3)
2007 Nov 6, A US diplomat said the disablement of North Korea's nuclear weapons-making facilities has started smoothly and the communist nation should be able to complete the process by the end of the year.
(AP, 11/6/07)
2007 Nov 6, Pakistan's deposed chief justice called on lawyers nationwide to defy police and protest President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's imposition of emergency rule, while the government debated whether to delay parliamentary elections by as much as three months.
(AP, 11/6/07)
2007 Nov 6, Singapore presented its case regarding sovereignty of three disputed islands in the Pacific Ocean at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague, a claim disputed by Malaysia.
(AFP, 11/6/07)
2007 Nov 6, In northern South Africa a blaze swept through a nursing home, killing 12 people and injuring five.
(AP, 11/7/07)
2007 Nov 6, Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir met with South African President Thabo Mbeki in Cape Town for talks on the situation in war-torn Darfur and political upheaval in Khartoum.
(AP, 11/6/07)
2007 Nov 6, In the Vatican Benedict XVI raised concerns about restrictions on Christian worship in Saudi Arabia in the first meeting ever between a pope and a reigning Saudi king.
(AP, 11/6/07)
2007 Nov 6, Zimbabwe’s Attorney General Sobusa Gula-Ndebele was briefly detained over allegations he promised to help a fugitive banker who had fled the southern African nation avoid arrest. Police said he faces corruption charges.
(Reuters, 11/8/07)
2008 Nov 6, President elect Barack Obama chose Rahm Emanuel (48), a fiery partisan unafraid of breaking glass and hurting feelings, as his White House chief of staff. It was reported that Obama's campaign chief strategist David Axelrod, one of the main architects of his election victory, had agreed to become a senior advisor in the White House.
(AP, 11/7/08)
2008 Nov 6, The leaders of GM, Ford and Chrysler came to Capital Hill along with the president of the UAW to discuss billions of dollars in financial help for the struggling car industry.
(SFC, 11/7/08, p.C3)
2008 Nov 6, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed $4.4 billion in new taxes and a similar amount in spending cuts to deal with California's worsening fiscal crisis, saying, "We must stop the bleeding."
(AP, 11/6/08)
2008 Nov 6, Philadelphia’s Mayor Nutter said a budget deficit crises will force the city to close libraries and swimming pools, suspend planned tax reductions, cut more than 800 jobs and trim salaries to deal with a $1 billion shortfall.
(SFC, 11/7/08, p.A7)
2008 Nov 6, David Booth (61), chief executive of Dimensional Fund Advisors mutual fund, said he will donate $300 million to the Univ. of Chicago’s business school.
(WSJ, 11/6/08, p.A4)
2008 Nov 6, In northwest Afghanistan an airstrike killed 13 Taliban militants and seven civilians in Ghormach district of Badghis province, a day after President Hamid Karzai demanded a halt to civilian casualties in US-led coalition operations.
(AP, 11/6/08)
2008 Nov 6, The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan crowned a new king, placing a charismatic Oxford-educated bachelor as head of state of the world's newest democracy. Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (28) became the world's youngest reigning monarch.
(AFP, 11/6/08)
2008 Nov 6, The European Central Bank cut its key interest rate by half a percentage point to 3.25% and the Bank of England made an even more aggressive reduction of 1.5%, from 4.5% to 3%, in an effort to ease the financial crisis and boost their flagging economies. The rate in England was lowest since 1955.
(AP, 11/6/08)(Econ, 11/8/08, p.71)
2008 Nov 6, Authorities said Hungary is preparing a financial aid package worth up to 600 billion forints ($3 billion, 2.3 billion euros) to boost domestic banks' capital and help them refinance debts.
(AP, 11/6/08)
2008 Nov 6, A series of bomb blasts across Baghdad killed six people and injured more than 20 others, in the fourth consecutive day of heightened violence in the Iraqi capital. The al-Qaida leader, known as Abu Ghazwan, was killed during a raid on a weapons cache. An American soldier has died of noncombat related causes.
(AP, 11/6/08)(AP, 11/7/08)(AP, 11/8/08)
2008 Nov 6, In Italy Domenico Magnoli (27), an alleged mobster, woke up in a private Italian clinic following liposuction surgery, and was arrested for trafficking in cocaine. Police alleged that Magnoli, born in Cannes, France, has links to the Piromalli crime clan in the 'ndrangheta syndicate.
(AP, 11/7/08)
2008 Nov 6, Japanese researchers said they had created functioning human brain tissues from stem cells, a world first that has raised new hopes for the treatment of disease.
(AFP, 11/6/08)
2008 Nov 6, Mexican authorities detained Rodolfo de la Guardia Garcia, the No. 2 official in the Federal Agency of Investigation from 2003-2005, suspected of aiding drug traffickers, and Jaime Gonzalez Duran, alleged founder of a vicious gang of drug-cartel hit men. A cache of 540 rifles, 165 grenades, 500,000 rounds of ammunition and 14 sticks of TNT were seized at a house in the city of Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas. This was the largest seizure of drug-cartel weapons in Mexico's history. In the northeast, police mistakenly opened fire on a family of six, seriously wounding a teenage girl. In the west, inmates rioted, killing six. And police in Tijuana found three more bodies accompanied by messages that appeared to be from drug traffickers.
(AP, 11/8/08)
2008 Nov 6, In Nigeria at least six navy personnel were killed in a gun battle between two rival gangs in southern oil-rich Bayelsa state.
(AFP, 11/7/08)
2008 Nov 6, In Pakistan a suicide bomber attacked a gathering of anti-militant Salarzai tribesmen, killing at least 17 and wounding 45 in the Batmalai area of the Bajur tribal region, where the military has clashed with insurgents for months. Another suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into a checkpoint in the Swat Valley killing at least 2 paramilitary troopers.
(AP, 11/6/08)(SFC, 11/7/08, p.A13)
2008 Nov 6, In the central Philippines a small ferry capsized during a storm at Bagongon islet. 11 passengers drowned in waters just 200 yards offshore. 30 survived a 3 remained missing.
(AP, 11/6/08)(AP, 11/7/08)
2008 Nov 6, Romania's defense minister says the country's 501 peacekeepers in Iraq will all leave by the end of the year.
(AP, 11/6/08)
2008 Nov 6, A Romanian computer programmer who hacked into computers used by the U.S. Navy, the Department of Energy and NASA was convicted on Romanian charges and ordered to pay thousands in damages. Victor Faur (28) was also given a 16-month suspended prison sentence. In 2006 Faur was indicted in the United States on nine federal counts of computer intrusion and one of conspiracy.
(AP, 11/10/08)
2008 Nov 6, A group of Saudi activists began a rare public hunger strike to demand judiciary reform and draw attention to the detention without trial of 11 political reformists.
(AP, 11/6/08)
2008 Nov 6, A suspected suicide explosion hit a minibus unloading passengers in Vladikavkaz, the capital of Russia's North Ossetia province, killing 12 people.
(AP, 11/6/08)(Reuters, 11/7/08)
2008 Nov 6, Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou made history when he met with a senior Chinese official as tens of thousands of anti-Beijing protesters brought the island's capital to a standstill.
(AFP, 11/6/08)
2008 Nov 6, State media reported that Zimbabwe's government will release millions of dollars in unspent foreign aid given to the country last year to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. An official said Zimbabwe's largest gold mining firm has stopped operations at its five mines across the strife-torn country, resulting in 5,000 people losing jobs. The closures resulted from long delays in receiving payments for gold delivered to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, which has a monopoly on the country's gold trade.
(AFP, 11/6/08)
2009 Nov 6, The US Labor Dept. said the unemployment rate has surpassed 10% for the first time since 1983, and that it was expected to go higher. Unemployment in October hit 10.2% with some 16 million jobless Americans. President Barack Obama was set to sign a $24 billion economic stimulus bill providing tax incentives to prospective homebuyers and extending unemployment benefits to the longtime jobless.
(AP, 11/6/09)(SFC, 11/7/09, p.A1)
2009 Nov 6, US banking regulators shut down United Commercial Bank of San Francisco. The government had invested $300 million from the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in the parent UCBH Holdings. The assets, loans and 63 branches of UCBH were sold to East West Bank of Pasadena. China Minsheng Bank soon wrote off its 10% stake in UCBH. In 2011 federal authorities filed criminal fraud charges against former executives at the bank.
(SSFC, 11/29/09, p.D1)(Econ, 5/15/10, SR p.18)(SFC, 10/12/11, p.D1)
2009 Nov 6, In Orlando, Florida, Jason Rodriguez (40), a former engineer, fatally shot Otis Beckford (26) and wounded five others at the firm where he once worked. The next day his attorney later said Rodriguez is "very mentally ill" and crumbled under the stress of his divorce, bankruptcy and unemployment. Rodriguez was an entry-level engineer at Reynolds, Smith and Hills for 11 months before he was fired in June 2007. On Jan 4, 2010, Rodriguez was declared incompetent to stand trial.
(AP, 11/7/09)(SFC, 1/5/10, p.A5)
2009 Nov 6, In Afghanistan fighting between members of a joint search operation and insurgents in western Afghanistan left 4 Afghan soldiers, three policemen and a civilian interpreter dead. It appeared that an airstrike during the search for two US paratroopers mistakenly killed 8 Afghans and wounded more than 20 Afghan and American forces. The deputy governor of the southern province of Zabul, Ali Khail, said NATO forces raided an Afghan Red Crescent office in the city of Qalat, killing a security guard and arresting three local Red Crescent employees. NATO issued a statement saying coalition forces killed a militant and arrested a few suspected militants, including someone who was helping insurgents transport weapons and bomb-making materials to the area.
(AP, 11/7/09)
2009 Nov 6, Two British ticketholders shared a jackpot of 90 million pounds ($150 million) in the EuroMillions competition, the largest lottery prizes ever paid out in the UK.
(AP, 11/7/09)
2009 Nov 6, British Airways revealed a quadrupling of net losses in its first half, and axed an extra 1,200 jobs in an "essential" cost-reduction program.
(AP, 11/6/09)
2009 Nov 6, Toronto, Canada, was awarded the 2015 Pan American Games by beating Bogota, Colombia and Lima, Peru on the first ballot in a vote in Guadalajara, Mexico.
(Reuters, 11/7/09)
2009 Nov 6, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao headed to Egypt for a summit with African leaders as Beijing bids to expand its diplomatic and economic influence on the resource-rich continent.
(AP, 11/6/09)
2009 Nov 6, In Cuba Yoani Sanchez, acclaimed dissident blogger, was forced into an unmarked car, beaten, threatened and dumped onto a street.
(Econ, 11/21/09, p.40)
2009 Nov 6, Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo alleged that recent arson attacks and shootings in his nation are the work of a mastermind living in the US. 3 attackers dressed as police officers firebombed a wooden, colonial-era courthouse and a nearby school on Nov 4, and later shot at two police stations, wounding one officer in the jaw and another in the ankle.
(AP, 11/7/09)
2009 Nov 6, Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said that a US-brokered pact failed to end a four-month political crisis after a deadline for forming a unity government passed.
(AP, 11/6/09)
2009 Nov 6, In northern India a crowded bus plunged down a steep mountain gorge, killing 32 people near Baner Khud, Himachal Pradesh state.
(AP, 11/6/09)
2009 Nov 6, Japan pledged $5.5 billion in aid over 3 years for Southeast Asia's 5 Mekong River nations (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam), seeking to deepen ties with the region amid growing influence from China.
(AFP, 11/6/09)
2009 Nov 6, Madagascar's political rivals agreed on posts within a transitional government that will hold power until next year's elections following a power struggle that brought months of volatility to the country.
(AP, 11/7/09)
2009 Nov 6, Mexican police caught Marco Antonio Ibarra in the northern city of Culiacan. The former prison official had spent a year on the run from charges of killing a 19-year-old inmate, whose beating death in Sep, 2008, sparked riots that left nearly two dozen dead, including two American prisoners. Noel Martinez, a district supervisor for the police in Ciudad Juarez, was shot and killed inside his car.
(AP, 11/7/09)(SFC, 11/7/09, p.A2)
2009 Nov 6, The Pakistani army entered Makeen, the last of three militant strongholds targeted by a major offensive in the northwest, as gunmen wounded a senior army officer and a solder in Islamabad. Police shot and killed two would-be suicide bombers in Balakot. The two men opened fire on police when their car was intercepted at a checkpoint in the North West Frontier Province.
(AP, 11/6/09)
2009 Nov 6, Saudi Arabia said it carried out airstrikes against "infiltrators" from Yemen that were limited to areas inside Saudi territory, and vowed to press on with the military action until the border with its restive neighbor was secure. In Yemen, however, a military official said Saudi forces continued to shell rebel position in Saada.
(AP, 11/6/09)
2009 Nov 6, In Scotland finance ministers from the world's leading rich and developing countries to begin the difficult negotiations over how to even out the imbalances weighing on the world economy.
(AP, 11/6/09)
2009 Nov 6, The aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) warned that Southern Sudan is facing a "serious outbreak" of the deadly kala azar tropical disease. Kala azar, or visceral leishmaniasis, is a neglected tropical disease contracted by the bite of a sand fly, endemic in some parts of southern Sudan. Without treatment, almost all victims die within one to four months. If treatment is received on time, some 95% can recover.
(AFP, 11/6/09)
2009 Nov 6, Turkey rebuffed an EU call to reconsider its decision to allow Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir, who is accused of war crimes in Darfur, to attend a summit in Istanbul. Turkey has not signed the Rome Statute which set up the ICC and has said previously the ICC arrest warrant for Beshir could hurt moves to end the conflict in Darfur.
(AFP, 11/6/09)
2009 Nov 6, A UN report said 2 Iranian businessmen working at a Dubai-based firm were linked to video surveillance devices sold to Sudan and used in unmanned drones in Darfur in violation of a UN arms embargo.
(Reuters, 11/6/09)
2009 Nov 6, Zimbabwe averted a political meltdown after PM Morgan Tsvangirai ended a boycott of the unity government, but faced a new deadline to resolve a slate of thorny disputes. He said assurances South Africa will be watching persuaded him to end his boycott.
(AP, 11/6/09)
2010 Nov 6, President Barack Obama announced a host of new trade deals with India supporting tens of thousands of US jobs as he began a 10-day trip through Asia on a determinedly domestic note.
(AP, 11/6/10)
2010 Nov 6, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd said their countries would enhance their military and defense cooperation by expanding joint exercises and the use of each other's training facilities. They also pledged to work together to influence the behavior of an increasingly assertive China.
(AP, 11/6/10)
2010 Nov 6, The Afghan attorney general's office said that it plans to indict an ex-minister for allegedly overcharging the government nearly $20 million for fuel, one of 20 cases involving government officials accused of corruption or misuse of power. An insurgent attack killed a NATO service member in the south. In the southeast a joint Afghan and coalition force killed Mullah Mohammadullah, a Taliban leader in Shahidi Hassas district of Uruzgan province, along with an associate as they were trying to escape on a motorcycle.
(AP, 11/6/10)(AP, 11/7/10)
2010 Nov 6, In Argentina thousands marched in a Gay Pride parade, celebrating the country's status as the first in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage and vowing to campaign for new rights for transgender people. More than 500 same-sex couples have been married since President Cristina Fernandez signed the law on July 21. The theme of the parade was "let's go for more," specifically, a "gender identity" law to enable individuals to change their gender on birth certificates and identity cards.
(AP, 11/7/10)
2010 Nov 6, BBC reporters planned further strikes after a two-day walkout over pension changes successfully disrupted the broadcaster's TV and radio programs.
(AP, 11/6/10)
2010 Nov 6, Tens of thousands of French protesters took to the streets once more for what might prove to be the last in their recent series of marches against President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reform.
(AP, 11/6/10)
2010 Nov 6, A train carrying what activists claim is "the most radioactive ever" cargo of nuclear waste ran the gauntlet of hundreds of protesters as it crossed the Rhine from France to Germany. The shipment was returning German waste for storage after it was treated in France by the Areva group.
(AFP, 11/6/10)
2010 Nov 6, Airlines cancelled at least 36 flights to and from Jakarta, affecting international carriers from Europe to Asia, because of ash from the Mount Merapi volcano.
(AFP, 11/6/10)
2010 Nov 6, Iraq's political rivals reached a breakthrough power-sharing deal in which Nuri al-Maliki, a Shiite, retains the premiership. The deal came 8 months after inconclusive elections. The deal was between the National Alliance, which represents the main Shiite parties, and the Kurdish coalition, while the Sunni-backed Iraqiya's support hinged on its agreement over the posts of speaker and president. A roadside bomb killed two Sunni anti-Qaeda militiamen and two Iraqi soldiers died in separate attacks on checkpoints north of Baghdad. Twin mortar attacks in Baghdad wounded two people. 25 people were wounded when three car bombs exploded outside the homes of officials of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
(AFP, 11/6/10)(AFP, 11/7/10)(AFP, 11/7/10)
2010 Nov 6, In Italy Michael Seifert (86), a former Nazi SS prison guard known as "the beast of Bolzano" for his cruelty, died in an Italian hospital. The Ukrainian-born Seifert was serving a life sentence at the Santa Maria Capua Vetere prison in southern Italy.
(AP, 11/7/10)
2010 Nov 6, In Kenya a police officer in Siakago town went on a shooting rampage, killing 10 people in three different bars. The man was said to be accusing a girl of having infected him with HIV and when he went to look for her he did not find her.
(AP, 11/7/10)
2010 Nov 6, Libyan authorities arrested 10 reporters for criticizing Libya's leadership. They worked for Libya Press, a news agency controlled by the son of leader Moammar Gadhafi. A further 10 journalists working for Al-Ghad titles were rounded up in a second wave of arrests. All the reporters were released on Nov 8, and Moamer Kadhafi asked that an inquiry be opened into the matter.
(AP, 11/7/10)(AFP, 11/8/10)
2010 Nov 6, In Mexico the decapitated body of a 30-year-old man was found in an Acapulco neighborhood. Another man was found shot to death and a 27-year-old woman who had been kidnapped last month was found strangled and dumped in a trash bin, a black hood covering her face. Seven men at a family party in ciudad Juarez were gunned down. 11 other people were killed in the city, including two whose bodies were found dismembered. Police in Oaxaca city found a human head in a gift-wrapped box left on the side of a cliff popular for its view of the picturesque colonial center.
(AP, 11/7/10)
2010 Nov 6, Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket into southern Israel on Saturday but caused no casualties or damage.
(AP, 11/6/10)
2010 Nov 6, In Poland a gigantic statue of Jesus that Poles claim is the world's largest rose majestically above the small town of Swiebodzin, as the grandiose dream of a local priest finally came to pass. Residents believed it will put their town of 22,000 on the map for tourists.
(AP, 11/6/10)
2010 Nov 6, In Russia Oleg Kashin (30), a reporter for the Kommersant newspaper, was left in a coma after two men smashed his head, legs and fingers in an attack that prosecutors believe was linked to his work. Among his more contentious reporting topics has been efforts by environmentalists and opposition activists to protect trees in the Khimki forest near Moscow from being cut down for a new highway.
(AP, 11/6/10)
2010 Nov 6, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said Riyadh has halted mediation efforts between the Afghan government and the Taliban because the fundamentalist movement has refused to break ties with al-Qaida.
(AP, 11/6/10)
2010 Nov 6, Pirates near Somalia fired on French naval forces from a private yacht they had captured. The yacht ran aground the next day and the South African skipper escaped captivity, but the pirates took two crew members hostage onto land.
(AP, 11/8/10)
2010 Nov 6, In Spain Pope Benedict XVI blasted the "aggressive" anti-church sentiment he said was flourishing in Spain as he sought to rekindle the faith in a once-staunchly Roman Catholic nation that is now among Europe's most liberal.
(AP, 11/6/10)
2010 Nov 6, Swedish police arrested Peter Mangs (38) on suspicion of shooting at people with immigrant backgrounds in a yearlong rampage in Malmo, Sweden's third largest city. The first shooting was Oct. 10, 2009, when a 21-year-old convicted drug smuggler on furlough from prison was shot in the head in a parked car. Swedish media said he was hospitalized for a month with a bullet in his brain but survived. A 20-year-old woman sitting next to him was also hit in the head and died. On May 7, 2012, Mangs was charged with three counts of murder and 12 counts of attempted murder. On Nov 23, 20112, Mangs was sentenced to life in prison and ordered 40-year-old Peter Mangs to pay 1.2 million kronor ($180,000) in damages to survivors and their families.
(AP, 11/7/10)(AP, 11/9/10)(AP, 5/7/12)(AP, 11/23/12)
2010 Nov 6, United Nations officials said they were investigating reports that some 700 Congolese women were sexually attacked along the country's border with Angola. Many women had said Angolan soldiers were responsible for their attacks.
(AP, 11/6/10)
2010 Nov 6, A Yemeni judge ordered police to find Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical US-born cleric, "dead or alive" after the al-Qaida-linked preacher failed to appear at his trial for his role in the killing of foreigners.
(AP, 11/6/10)
2011 Nov 6, In the northeast US tens of thousands remained without power 8 days after the Oct 29 snowstorm, including some 88,000 in Connecticut.
(SFC, 11/7/11, p.A5)
2011 Nov 6, In Washington state Julia Biryukova told investigators that her 2-year-old son, Sky Metalwala, vanished in Bellevue after she left him sleeping in her unlocked car after she ran out of gas. Police found that there was enough gas to run a considerable distance.
(SFC, 11/9/11, p.A6)(SFC, 11/10/11, p.A10)
2011 Nov 6, Afghan Pres. Karzai met with Australian PM Julia Gillard, who made an unannounced trip to the country. In the north 2 suicide bombers targeted worshippers on a key Muslim festival, killing seven, including two local police commanders of Old Baghlan City. A roadside bomb ripped through a police vehicle in the south, killing a district police chief and two of his bodyguards.
(AP, 11/6/11)(AFP, 11/7/11)
2011 Nov 6, In Brazil cameraman Gelson Domingos (46) was hit in the chest by a rifle shot while covering the police confrontation with gang members at the Antares slum in Rio's west side. Domingos died despite wearing a bulletproof vest.
(AP, 11/6/11)
2011 Nov 6, CongoDRC opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi (79), while visiting in South Africa, proclaimed himself president and ordered his followers to stage jailbreaks to free detained colleagues. Since the electoral campaign opened Oct. 28, Tshisekedi's supporters have had clashes, some deadly, with police and Kabila supporters in several towns.
(AP, 11/12/11)
2011 Nov 6, In Egypt 11 Hungarian tourists were killed and 27 injured when their bus overturned in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada.
(AFP, 11/6/11)
2011 Nov 6, Greece's embattled PM George Papandreou and main opposition leader agreed to form an interim government to ensure the country's new European debt deal, capping a week of political turmoil.
(AP, 11/7/11)
2011 Nov 6, Guatemala held presidential elections. Retired general and former intelligence director Otto Perez Molina (61) of the conservative Patriotic Party won an easy victory, 54% to 46%, in a runoff race against tycoon-turned-political populist Manuel Baldizon of the Democratic Freedom Revival party.
(AP, 11/7/11)
2011 Nov 6, In Iraq 3 bombs ripped through the sprawling Shorja market in Baghdad, killing eight people at the beginning of a Muslim religious holiday and just hours after the prime minister warned of Iraq's continued danger. A roadside bomb hit a security patrol in the northern city of Mosul, killing an Iraqi soldier.
(AP, 11/6/11)
2011 Nov 6, Israeli President Shimon Peres warned that an attack on Iran is becoming increasingly likely, days before a report by the UN's nuclear watchdog on Iran's nuclear program is due.
(AFP, 11/6/11)
2011 Nov 6, The websites of Israel's army and intelligence services were down today, two days after a hacker group appeared to threaten the Jewish state over its interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla.
(AFP, 11/6/11)
2011 Nov 6, Japan's coastguard arrested the captain of a Chinese fishing boat that allegedly intruded into Japanese territorial waters.
(AFP, 11/6/11)
2011 Nov 6, Nicaragua held presidential elections. On Nov 8 Daniel Ortega was declared the winner as he led with 63% of the votes, compared with 31% for his nearest challenger, Fabio Gadea. International election observers reported problems with access to voting stations.
(AP, 11/7/11)(AP, 11/8/11)
2011 Nov 6, Niger's army intercepted a convoy of cars traveling south from Libya toward Mali, and a cache of arms was seized in the ensuing clash. Libyan nationals and ethnic Tuaregs were in the convoy. One Nigerien soldier was killed and four wounded during the clash.
(AP, 11/9/11)
2011 Nov 6, In Nigeria gunmen suspected of being members of Boko Haram shot dead a police officer at his home as he returned from Eid morning prayers in Maiduguri.
(AFP, 11/6/11)
2011 Nov 6, Oman state media reported that 4 crewmen died and five are still missing after an Indian ship sank in bad weather off its coast.
(AFP, 11/6/11)
2011 Nov 6, In Saudi Arabia millions of Muslims stoned pillars representing the devil in a symbolic rejection of temptation on the second day of their annual hajj pilgrimage, a day that also marks the start of the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha. More than 2.9 million Muslims were performing the hajj this year.
(AP, 11/6/11)
2011 Nov 6, In Sudan unidentified gunmen killed a UN peacekeeper and injured two others in an attack on a patrol in the war-ravaged Darfur region.
(AFP, 11/7/11)
2011 Nov 6, Syrians in the restive region of Homs performed special prayers for a major Muslim holiday to the sound of explosions and gunfire as government troops pushed forward their assault on the area, killing at least 16 people. The Arab League called an emergency meeting on Syria's failure to implement its peace plan. Altogether 23 people were killed in today’s crackdown.
(AP, 11/6/11)(AFP, 11/6/11)(AP, 11/7/11)
2011 Nov 6, Fishermen on a Taiwanese boat fought back against Somali pirates and freed themselves after a hijacking in the Indian Ocean. Some of the 28 crew on the Chin Yi Wen overcame the hijackers then the boat met up with British anti-piracy vessels nearby.
(AP, 11/6/11)
2011 Nov 6, The death toll from Thailand's worst floods in half a century climbed past 500, as advancing pools of polluted black water threatened Bangkok's subway system and new evacuations were ordered in the sprawling capital.
(AP, 11/6/11)
2011 Nov 6, Miss Venezuela, Ivian Sarcos, was crowned the 2011 winner of the Miss World beauty pageant at a glittering final ceremony in London.
(AP, 11/7/11)
2011 Nov 6, Two Yemeni soldiers were reported killed in overnight clashes with suspected Al-Qaeda fighters near the militant stronghold of Zinjibar.
(AFP, 11/6/11)
2011 Nov 6, Young supporters of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe stoned and beat up backers of PM Morgan Tsvangirai, blocking a planned rally of his Movement for Democratic Change party.
(AFP, 11/6/11)
2012 Nov 6, President Barack Obama rolled to re-election, vanquishing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney despite a weak economy that plagued his first term and put a crimp in the middle class dreams of millions. Obama claimed 303 electoral votes vs. 206 for Romney and 49.8% of the popular vote vs. 48.7%.
(AP, 11/7/12)(SFC, 11/7/12, p.A1)
2012 Nov 6, In California Proposition 30, Gov. Brown’s tax plan for education, passed. Prop 35, an initiative to increase sex-trafficking fines, passed by a landslide. Voters also approved Proposition 36, an initiative to change the three strike law. Prop 31 for budget process changes failed; Prop 32 to stop payroll political contributions failed; Prop 33 for insurance rates by driver history failed; Prop 34 to repeal the death penalty failed; prop 37 to label genetically modified food failed; Prop 38 on tax increases for education failed; prop 39 on taxes for multi-state businesses failed.
(SFC, 11/7/12, p.A14)(SFC, 11/8/12, p.A20)
2012 Nov 6, San Francisco voters approved Prop B, a $195 million park bond and Prop C to provide money for affordable housing. Prop D to consolidate the elections for city attorney and city treasurer also won. Prop E, a plan to revise the city’s business tax, passed as did Prop G, a policy statement opposing increased corporate financing in politics. Voters rejected Prop F, a plan to take the first steps to drain the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir.
(SFC, 11/7/12, p.A17)
2012 Nov 6, The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and owners of the Pacific Rod and Gun Club reached an agreement allowing the club to remain open for up to 2 more years at its 14-acre space on the shores of Lake Merced.
(SFC, 11/7/12, p.C2)
2012 Nov 6, Colorado voters approved Amendment 64 allowing adults over 21 to possess up to an ounce of marijuana, thought using the drug publicly would still be banned. Amendment 64 took effect in December.
(SFC, 11/7/12, p.A10)(SFC, 3/14/14, p.A6)
2012 Nov 6, In Indiana Mike Pence, a Republican congressman, was elected state governor.
(Econ, 11/10/12, p.34)
2012 Nov 6, Maine and Maryland became the first states to approve same sex marriage by popular vote.
(SFC, 11/7/12, p.A10)
2012 Nov 6, Massachusetts voters approved a measure to allow marijuana for medical reasons, joining 17 other states.
(SFC, 11/7/12, p.A10)
2012 Nov 6, Michigan voters supported Pres. Obama and defeated efforts by Ambassador Bridge owner Manuel Moroun to require a public vote before any competing int’l. crossing can be built with state money. This helped clear the way for a new Canadian-financed bridge.
(SFC, 11/8/12, p.A5)
2012 Nov 6, Montana elected Steve Bullock (b.1966) as state governor.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bullock_%28American_politician%29)
2012 Nov 6, In North Carolina Pat McCrory, a Republican former mayor of Charlotte, defeated Walter Dalton to become the state’s first Republican governor in 20 years.
(Econ, 11/10/12, p.32)
2012 Nov 6, Oklahoma voters approved a measure that wipes out all affirmative action programs in state government hiring, education and contracting practices.
(SFC, 11/7/12, p.A10)
2012 Nov 6, Oklahoma executed Garry Thomas Allen (56) for the 1986 killing of his fiancee, despite claims that he was insane.
(SFC, 11/7/12, p.A5)
2012 Nov 6, Washington state approved I-501, a measure establishing a system of state-licensed marijuana growers, processors and retail stores where adults could buy up to an ounce of marijuana.
(SFC, 11/7/12, p.A10)(Econ, 7/12/14, p.25)
2012 Nov 6, The number of people linked to a meningitis outbreak has climbed to 419 cases and included 30 deaths. It has been traced to contaminated steroid shots mixed by a pharmacy in Framingham, Mass.
(SFC, 11/6/12, p.A5)
2012 Nov 6, British actor Clive Dunn (b.1920), best known as a bumbling old butcher in the popular World War Two sitcom "Dad' s Army" (1968-1970), died in Portugal.
(AP, 11/7/12)
2012 Nov 6, In Bulgaria Patriarch Maxim (b.1914), as Marin Naidenov Minkov, died in Sofia. He weathered a revolt over his communist-era ties to lead the Balkan country's Orthodox Christians for more than 40 years.
(AP, 11/6/12)
2012 Nov 6, In Egypt gunmen shot and critically injured Selim Said el-Gamal, a senior security official, in the country's turbulent northern Sinai region.
(AP, 11/6/12)
2012 Nov 6, Greek trade unions started a general strike and nationwide protests against a new package of austerity measures to be voted on this week.
(SFC, 11/7/12, p.A2)
2012 Nov 6, In Iraq a suicide bomber driving a car packed with explosives detonated the vehicle near an Iraqi military base in Taji as soldiers changed shifts, killing at least 32 people and wounding more than 46.
(AP, 11/6/12)
2012 Nov 6, Ivory Coast officials said up to 10 new mass graves have been discovered near the site of a July 20 attack on a camp for displaced people. Rights groups have claimed summary executions were carried out by the Republican Forces of Ivory Coast, known by its French acronym of FRCI.
(AP, 11/6/12)
2012 Nov 6, A 54% majority of Puerto Ricans sought to change their ties with the United States and become the 51st US state in a non-binding referendum that would require final approval from Congress. Puerto Ricans also ousted Luis Fortuno, the pro-statehood governor in a close election. Challenger Alejandro Garcia Padilla won by less than 1 percent.
(AP, 11/7/12)
2012 Nov 6, Russia’s Pres. Putin fired Anatoly Serdyukov, his powerful defense minister, after police raided the property of a real estate company involved the privatization of valuable ministry land near Moscow.
(SFC, 11/7/12, p.A4)
2012 Nov 6, Russia wheeled out one of its treasured Cold War trophies, publishing a rare interview with George Blake, a 90-year-old British double agent. Blake worked for the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, from the 1940s. He became a committed communist while a North Korean prisoner during the Korean war, and worked for Moscow after being posted by MI6 to Berlin in 1955.
(AP, 11/6/12)
2012 Nov 6, In Syria gunmen killed Mohammed Osama Laham, the brother of Syria's parliament speaker, as he drove to work in Damascus. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said air raids on Houla, a group of villages in central province of Homs, killed seven people.
(AP, 11/6/12)
2012 Nov 6, A spokesman for Hamas said the Syrian government has sealed its offices in Damascus, finalizing the break between the Islamic militant group and its former patron.
(AP, 11/6/12)
2012 Nov 6, In South Africa Gold Fields said that thousands of employees returned to work at the company's KDC East mine ending a 23-day strike. The National Union of Mineworkers that the 12,000 miners fired from platinum mining company Anglo American Platinum in Rustenburg for staging illegal strikes since September had still not returned to work, and negotiations were underway.
(AP, 11/6/12)
2012 Nov 6, New South African banknotes, featuring the image of former president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, went into circulation.
(AP, 11/6/12)
2012 Nov 6, Sri Lanka made public charges against Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake involving misuse of her position and failing to adequately declare assets. Critics said it was an effort by Pres. Mahinda Rajapaksa to curb the independence of the judiciary. Parliament tabled her impeachment leaving the speaker, the president’s eldest brother, to appoint a committee to investigate allegations against her.
(SFC, 11/9/12, p.A5)(Econ, 11/10/12, p.42)
2012 Nov 6, Turkey's state-run news agency reported that seven Syrian generals have defected to Turkey.
(AP, 11/6/12)
2012 Nov 6, A Turkish court opened a trial in absentia of four former Israeli military commanders in the killing of nine people aboard a Turkish aid ship that tried to break a Gaza blockade in 2010.
(AP, 11/6/12)
2013 Nov 6, US federal authorities in Florida arrested a 3rd senior Navy official, Cmdr. Jose Luis Sanchez, in connection with an extensive bribvery scheme in Asia involving prostitutes and luxury travel.
(SFC, 11/7/13, p.A1)
2013 Nov 6, William Potts (56), a former US militant who hijacked a plane to Cuba in 1984, flew home to the United States where he faced federal charges for air piracy. On July 16, 2014, Potts was sentenced to 20 years in prison. The sentence effectively gave him credit for serving 13 years in Cuba making him eligile for parole in 7 years.
(AP, 11/6/13)(SFC, 7/18/14, p.A6)
2013 Nov 6, In Michigan 3 men were killed in a back gambling room at Al’s Barbershop on Detroit’s east side. 6 others were wounded.
(SFC, 11/8/13, p.A7)
2013 Nov 6, Scientists in Utah unveiled the bones of a dinosaur discovered in 2009. It was named Lythronax argestes, or "king of gore," for its large teeth and apparent dominance as a predator. They dated it to about 80 million BC.
(Reuters, 11/7/13)
2013 Nov 6, Twitter priced its IPO at $26 per share. TWTR closed at $44.90 per share, up 73%.
(SFC, 11/7/13, p.A1)(SFC, 11/8/13, p.A13)
2013 Nov 6, Afghan police found the bodies of 7 soldiers, believed to have been killed by their Taliban captors in Zabul province.
(AP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, British energy firm Centrica said it has signed a deal to supply British homes with Qatari liquefied natural gas in a tie-up worth £4.4 billion and lasting until 2018.
(AFP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, Britain’s BAE Systems said it will axe 1,775 shipbuilding jobs and close a historic yard as a government austerity drive hits demand.
(AFP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, Cameroonian author Leonora Miano scooped France's Femina literary prize and used her acceptance speech to denounce racist insults directed at the French justice minister.
(AFP, 11/7/13)
2013 Nov 6, In China supporters of jailed politician Bo Xilai established a new political party, the Zhi Xian Party, to support the former high-ranking official who was handed a life sentence for corruption in September.
(AFP, 11/10/13)
2013 Nov 6, In China a series of bombs packed with ball bearings exploded outside a provincial headquarters of the ruling Communist Party, killing at least one person in Taiyuan, Shanxi province.
(AFP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, A court in Egypt upheld an earlier ruling that banned the Muslim Brotherhood and ordered its assets confiscated.
(AP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, It was reported that a total of 20 dead whales have been discovered along Ghana's coastline in the last four years, including at least eight since September. Environmental groups said they are concerned, given the proximity of the discoveries to the country's new offshore petroleum industry.
(AFP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, Greek schools shut and flights were disrupted as workers held a general strike to protest austerity imposed by foreign lenders.
(AP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, In Iran gunman ambushed and killed Musa Nouri, a state prosecutor, in a restive southeastern region near the Pakistani border. Sunni Islamist Baluch militants claimed responsibility for killing the prosecutor in revenge for a decision to hang 16 prisoners following a cross-border attack by the group two weeks ago.
(AP, 11/6/13)(Reuters, 11/7/13)
2013 Nov 6, In Iraq a suicide bomber detonated an oil tanker rigged with explosives at a police station north of Baghdad, killing 7 policemen. Attacks elsewhere left 8 dead.
(AP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, An Israeli court found former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman innocent of all charges in a graft trial, clearing the way for one of Israel's most powerful and polarizing figures to return to his post as the nation's top diplomat.
(AP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, An Ivory Coast court sentenced 15 former top cocoa sector officials to up to 20 years in prison for corruption under ex-president Laurent Gbagbo, in a bid to clean up the industry in the world's top cocoa grower.
(Reuters, 11/7/13)
2013 Nov 6, Japan's hotels, restaurants and food shops were being warned over dishonest labelling amid a growing scandal that is threatening to undermine the country's reputation for safe, high-quality produce.
(AFP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan asked lawmakers to extend a state of emergency declared in the northeast in May for an additional six months, saying the Islamist insurgency had not yet been contained.
(AFP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, A Qatari court released Matthew and Grace Huang, a US couple, on trial for allegedly causing the death of their eight-year-old adopted daughter to sell her body parts.
(AFP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, A Saudi-owned newspaper reported that authorities have detained more than 16,000 migrant workers in the first 48 hours of a security sweep targeting foreigners working illegally in the kingdom.
(AP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, Saudi authorities beheaded a Pakistani man in the eastern Qatif province after he was convicted of drug trafficking in the kingdom.
(AFP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, In Syria a car bomb killed at least 8 security personnel in a rare attack on a military intelligence headquarters in the southern city of Suweida. A bomb exploded in a central square of Damascus, killing 8 people and wounding several others.
(Reuters, 11/6/13)(AFP, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, Tajik President Imomali Rakhmon, his only serious rival disqualified, headed for re-election in a Central Asian country beset by poverty and facing security threats from neighboring Afghanistan.
(Reuters, 11/6/13)
2013 Nov 6, The UN weather agency said world carbon dioxide pollution levels in the atmosphere are accelerating and reached a record high in 2012.
(AP, 11/6/13)
2014 Nov 6, Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged Trendon Shavers (32), founder of Bitcoin Savings and Trust, with fraud and accused him of masterminding a $4.5 million Ponzi scheme.
(SFC, 11/7/14, p.C2)
2014 Nov 6, The Sixth US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld antigay marriage laws in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee.
(SFC, 11/7/14, p.A7)
2014 Nov 6, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art said Jerry Perenchino, the former chairman and CEO of Univision, has donated some 47 pieces of art from the 1870s to the 1930s. The museum must first complete construction of a new building designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, planned for 2023.
(SFC, 11/7/14, p.D2)
2014 Nov 6, In Idaho 2 chief warrant officers were killed whenn their helicopter crashed during a training mission near the Boise airport.
(SFC, 11/8/14, p.A5)
2014 Nov 6, The Archdiocese of Chicago released files on three dozen more abusive clergy members to fulfill Cardinal Francis George’s pledge to do so before he retires.
(SFC, 11/7/14, p.A6)
2014 Nov 6, An independent investigation by the Harvard Law School reported that troops commanded by Myanmar's powerful interior minister and two other senior officials tortured and killed civilians while fighting an ethnic rebellion in Karen state from 2005-2008.
(Reuters, 11/6/14)
2014 Nov 6, In Michigan Mike Duggan was elected mayor of Detroit after an unlikely write-in campaign. This made him the city’s first white mayor in 40 years.
(http://tinyurl.com/ycwae2b6)(Econ, 9/16/17, p.21)
2014 Nov 6, In Belgium some 100,000 workers demonstrated in Brussels to protest government free-market reforms and austerity measures. Police fired tear gas and the water cannon to break up incidents.
(AP, 11/6/14)
2014 Nov 6, Bulgaria's central bank stripped Corporate Commercial Bank, the country's fourth-biggest lender, of its license and announced that it will launch bankruptcy proceedings against the bank, which had negative capital of leva 3.75 billion ($2.4 billion). Main shareholder Tsvetan Vasilev, who is out of the country, has been charged with embezzlement.
(AP, 11/6/14)
2014 Nov 6, The European Court of Justice upheld a decision against Italy over toxic waste treatment, ruling it had failed to act against illegal dumps dotting the countryside around the southern city of Naples.
(Reuters, 11/6/14)
2014 Nov 6, A Guam jury convicted three people of mailing drugs from Las Vegas to Guam. Nine other defendants signed plea deals in the case.
(AP, 11/6/14)
2014 Nov 6, In Hong Kong pro-democaracy protesters clashed with police for the first time in over two weeks. Thousands remained camped on the streets demanding open nominations in elections for the city’s leader.
(SFC, 11/7/14, p.A2)
2014 Nov 6, Israel allowed Palestinian farmers to ship produce from the blockaded Gaza Strip to the occupied West Bank, via Israeli territory, for the first time since 2007.
(Reuters, 11/6/14)
2014 Nov 6, A Kenyan Roman Catholic priest, Father Guyo Waqo, and four others were sentenced to death by a court in Nairobi for murdering Italian Bishop Luigi Locati in 2005.
(AP, 11/6/14)
2014 Nov 6, Libya's supreme court invalidated the internationally recognized parliament, setting the stage for deepening political chaos. The Tripoli court also nullified a constitutional amendment that led to elections on June 25, thereby invalidating the polls and all decisions that resulted from them. The ruling followed intense clashes between pro-government militias and Islamist fighters in Benghazi that have killed more than 30 people in the past three days.
(AFP, 11/6/14)
2014 Nov 6, In New Zealand drummer Phil Rudd (60) of Australian rock band AC/DC, whose hits include "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap," was accused of trying to arrange two killings as well as possession of drugs.
(AP, 11/6/14)
2014 Nov 6, In Pakistan a policeman in Gujrat hacked Tufail Haider (55) to death for allegedly making derogatory remarks about the companions of the Prophet Muhammad.
(AP, 11/6/14)
2014 Nov 6, In northwest Syria a US-led coalition, set up to fight Islamic State, bombed the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front and the Ahrar al-Sham radical faction. One strike on a base near the northern city of Aleppo killed at least six Nusra fighters. Residents of Harem said at least 4 children were killed and dozens injured in an attack they believed was launched by the coalition. Fighting in a majority Druze region near Lebanon killed 31 combatants loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and 14 rebels, including Al-Qaeda militants.
(Reuters, 11/6/14)(AFP, 11/7/14)(AFP, 11/8/14)
2014 Nov 6, Uganda's military said it has suspended 15 soldiers who were peacekeepers in Somalia over various allegations of misconduct.
(AP, 11/6/14)
2014 Nov 6, Ukraine announced passport controls around areas held by pro-Russian separatists in the latest step toward what resembles the breakup of the ex-Soviet republic, as heavy artillery fire erupted in Donetsk. Several more bodies of victims from the July 17 crash of Malaysia Flight 17 were found near the crash site.
(AFP, 11/6/14)(SFC, 11/8/14, p.A2)
2014 Nov 6, In Wales Cerys Marie Yemm (22) died from injuries at Sirhowy Arms Hotel, a homeless hostel in Argoed, near Blackwood. Her suspected attacker died after he was Tasered by police when they arrived following a report a man was attacking a woman at the hotel. The BBC reported that Yemm was "murdered in an act of cannibalism", and had been in a relationship with the suspect Matthew Williams (34).
(AFP, 11/7/14)
2014 Nov 6, Yemeni tribesmen blew up the country's main oil export pipeline, forcing crude flows to stop.
(Reuters, 11/6/14)
2015 Nov 6, President Barack Obama killed the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, declaring it would have undercut US efforts to clinch a global climate change deal at the center of his environmental legacy.
(AP, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, US and coalition warplanes carried out 20 air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.
(Reuters, 11/7/15)
2015 Nov 6, The US military deployed six F-15C fighter jets to Turkey's southern Incirlik air base to help defend Turkish airspace against potential intruders.
(AP, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, In Kentucky police Officer Daniel Ellis (33) died two days after he was ambushed and shot while searching an apartment for a robbery suspect. The attempted murder charge against Raleigh Sizemore Jr. (34) was upgraded to murder.
(SFC, 11/7/15, p.A5)
2015 Nov 6, British drugmaker AstraZeneca said it had agreed to buy US group ZS Pharma, a specialist in treating high potassium levels linked to kidney disease.
(AFP, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, In Bulgaria a man (28) stabbed a 15-year-old girl to death on the steps of a secondary school in Sliven, then wounded a teacher and another man before shooting and critically wounding himself.
(Reuters, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, Cambodia's defense minister said China has provided Cambodia with shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, as the two countries agreed on new military aid to boost close ties.
(Reuters, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, Chinese state television reported that China and Vietnam have agreed to maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea and not take any acts that "complicate" the issue.
(Reuters, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, President Juan Manuel Santos apologized for Colombia's actions during a 1985 army raid on the Supreme Court in which nearly 100 people were killed after the building was taken hostage by guerrillas.
(AP, 11/7/15)
2015 Nov 6, Cuban leader Raul Castro received a warm welcome in Mexico as President Enrique Pena Nieto sought to end a diplomatic chill and boost business opportunities on the island.
(AFP, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, Germany's parliament voted to criminalize commercial euthanasia after rejecting draft laws that would have made assisted suicide fully legal in the country. German lawmakers passed a bill allowing assisted suicide for "altruistic motives" but banning the practice in cases where it is being conducted on a "business" basis.
(Reuters, 11/6/15)(AP, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, Germany's flagship airline, Lufthansa, canceled 290 flights as cabin crew workers went on strike at Frankfurt and Duesseldorf airports.
(AP, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, Greenpeace said its registration to operate in India has been canceled. Tamil Nadu state, where it was registered, canceled the permit without giving the group a hearing. India began cracking down on foreign-funded charities last year after a government intelligence bureau report said economic growth was hurt when the groups rallied communities against polluting industries. On Nov 20 Greenpeace said a hold has been put on the ban to operate.
(AP, 11/6/15)(AP, 11/20/15)
2015 Nov 6, In Iraq three blasts in different parts of Baghdad killed at least 6 people and wounded 18.
(AP, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a female Palestinian motorist (73) who the military said tried to run them over in the occupied West Bank. A knife-wielding assailant wounded an Israeli civilian. The attacker fled the scene and was being searched for. Israeli forces shot and killed Palestinian Salame Abu Jamaa (23) during a protest east of Khan Yunis. Back to back shootings in Hebron wounded three Israelis.
(Reuters, 11/6/15)(SFC, 11/7/15, p.A4)
2015 Nov 6, Toyota said it is investing $1 billion in a research company it's setting up in Silicon Valley to develop artificial intelligence and robotics, underlining the Japanese automaker's determination to lead in futuristic cars that drive themselves and apply the technology to other areas of daily life.
(AP, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, Mexican officials said authorities are investigating local security officials who put at least 105 unidentified victims of violent crime in a mass grave in central Mexico.
(Reuters, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said all flights to Egypt will be suspended until proper security is in place there.
(AP, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, Senegal charged five people suspected of links to Nigerian militant group Boko Haram. The five were arrested last month in the suburbs of Dakar and the central town of Kaolak.
(Reuters, 11/9/15)
2015 Nov 6, Serbian police said they have arrested several drug and arms traffickers, as well as a fugitive suspect in this year's clashes between police and armed groups in Macedonia.
(AP, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, A Saudi woman and a child were killed in the border region of Najran by a shell fired from Yemen.
(AP, 11/7/15)
2015 Nov 6, In Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Hassan, a Minnesota man and lawful permanent resident of the US but not an American citizen, surrendered to Somalia's federal government. He had joined al-Shabab in Somalia more than seven years ago.
(AP, 12/8/15)
2015 Nov 6, In Togo violence broke out in Mango, some 600 km (370 miles) north of Lome, when law enforcement officers tried to disperse an unauthorized march by a group that opposed plans to rehabilitate several protected areas.
(AFP, 11/8/15)
2015 Nov 6, Turkish Airlines canceled flights to Sharm al-Sheikh in Egypt on Friday and Saturday nights over security concerns.
(Reuters, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, The Green Climate Fund (GCF), a multi-billion dollar fund set up by the United Nations to help poor countries tackle climate change, approved its first eight projects, a key step before a global climate summit starts on Nov 30.
(Reuters, 11/6/15)
2015 Nov 6, The UN warned that over 90,000 people in war-torn southern Somalia have been hit by weeks of severe flooding, almost half of them forced from their homes.
(AFP, 11/7/15)
2015 Nov 6, In southern Yemen at least 19 people were killed in Saudi-led coalition air strikes and clashes between pro-government forces and rebels.
(AFP, 11/7/15)
2016 Nov 6, Algeria's army seized a cache of weapons, including 17 anti-aircraft missiles in the southern desert province of Adrar.
(Reuters, 11/6/16)
2016 Nov 6, In central Oklahoma a 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck near Cushing. The state recorded 19 earthquakes in the past week. Scientists have linked the sharp increase to the underground disposal of wastewater from oil and gas production.
(SFC, 11/7/16, p.A5)
2016 Nov 6, Bangladesh police said 53 people have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in attacks and looting from Hindu homes. Hindu homes and temples in the Brahmanbairs district have come under attack during the last week, after a local youth allegedly shared a Facebook post that Islamic hardliners said denigrated the Masjid al-Haram — a holy site for Muslims.
(Reuters, 11/6/16)
2016 Nov 6, British PM Theresa May said she would deliver a full exit from the European Union, hitting back at critics of her Brexit strategy who have threatened to try to block the process in parliament.
(Reuters, 11/6/16)
2016 Nov 6, Tesco Bank, the financial arm of Britain’s biggest retailer, detected suspicious transactions over the last 24 hours on 40,000 current (checking) accounts. Raiders succeeded in stealing from 9,000 accounts. On Nov 8, Tesco Bank said it had reimbursed all losses to the tune of £2.5m ($3.1m).
(Econ, 11/12/16, p.68)
2016 Nov 6, Bulgarians voted in a first round of a presidential election. Left-leaning air force General Rumen Radev (53), seen as sympathetic to Moscow, won the first round, dealing a blow to PM Boyko Borisov (57). Radev took 25.45 percent of the vote, followed by ruling center-right GERB party candidate Tsetska Tsacheva with 21.97 percent. A run-off will take place on Nov. 13.
(AFP, 11/6/16)(Reuters, 11/8/16)
2016 Nov 6, Hong Kong police fired pepper spray and protesters threw bottles and road cones in clashes near China's representative office where activists had gathered to demonstrate against Beijing's attempts to stop a fledgling independence movement.
(Reuters, 11/6/16)
2016 Nov 6, The Indian army said Pakistani shelling killed two of its soldiers at posts along the border of Indian-administered Kashmir. Five others including three civilians were injured.
(Reuters, 11/6/16)
2016 Nov 6, In India the Delhi state government said that schools in the capital will be closed for the next three days, as the city struggles with one of the worst spells of air pollution in recent years.
(AFP, 11/6/16)
2016 Nov 6, In Iraq Islamic State fighters targeted troops with car bombs and ambushes in Mosul, stalling an army advance, but faced attack on a new front as US-backed Kurdish-Arab forces launched a campaign for the Syrian city of Raqqa.
(Reuters, 11/6/16)(AFP, 11/6/16)
2016 Nov 6, In Iraq ten Iranian pilgrims were killed in a suicide attack in Samarra.
(Reuters, 11/6/16)
2016 Nov 6, Montenegro’s chief special prosecutor said Russian nationalists were behind the alleged Oct 16 coup attempt that included plans to assassinate the pro-Western prime minister because of his government's bid to join NATO.
(AP, 11/6/16)
2016 Nov 6, Nicaragua held elections to select their president and lawmakers in their National Assembly. Pres. Ortega ran with his wife, Rosario Murillo, as his vice presidential candidate in a race against five lesser-known candidates. Ortega overwhelmingly won re-election to a third consecutive term. The opposition called the voting a farce.
(AFP, 11/6/16)(AP, 11/7/16)
2016 Nov 6, In Russia a gas explosion hit a two-story apartment building before dawn in Ivanovo, 250 km (150 miles) northeast of Moscow. Six people were killed and four seriously injured.
(AP, 11/6/16)
2016 Nov 6, In Somalia a week-old ceasefire between the forces of the semi-autonomous regions of Galmudug and Puntland broke down as fighting over a disputed border area erupted again, killing at least 19 soldiers.
(Reuters, 11/6/16)
2016 Nov 6, South Korean prosecutors arrested two former aides of Pres. Park Geun-hye. Ahn Jongbeom was arrested for pressuring companies into making large donations to non-profit organizations controlled by Choi Sonsil and Jung Ho-sung for passing classified documents to Choi Soonsil, whose relationship with the president has sparked a political scandal.
(SFC, 11/7/16, p.A3)
2016 Nov 6, In Syria at least six children were killed in government shelling that hit a kindergarten in the rebel-held town of Harasta outside Damascus.
(AFP, 11/6/16)
2016 Nov 6, The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-Arab militia, announced an offensive to eject the Islamic State from Raqqa.
(Econ, 11/12/16, p.47)
2016 Nov 6, Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party said it was pulling out of parliament after nine of its MPs including the two co-leaders were arrested in an unprecedented crackdown. The state-run Anadolu Agency said police have detained 15 suspects in an operation involving raids across the southeastern province of Adana targeting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group.
(AFP, 11/6/16)(Reuters, 11/6/16)
2016 Nov 6, In Yemen the Mwatana Organization for Human Rights said that violations by the warring parties in Taiz have killed or wounded hundreds of civilians.
(AP, 11/6/16)
2017 Nov 6, The United States embassy in Turkey confirmed that it has resumed processing visas at its missions on a "limited basis".
(Reuters, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross denied wrongdoing over business ties to a shipping firm linked to Vladimir Putin's inner circle, detailed in a vast leak of financial documents that also revealed Britain's Queen Elizabeth II's investments in tax havens. The findings emerged as part of the Paradise Papers released by the US-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which was behind the Panama Papers made public last year.
(AFP, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, In the SF Bay Area Lawrence Janson (17) was gunned down outside Olympic Continuation High School in Concord. Police called it a targeted attack and made five arrests over the next 24 hours. On Nov. 8 four suspects, including Kristhiam Uceda (20), Bryan Sermeno-Chachagua (18) and two juveniles, were charged in the killing. No charges were filed against a fifth juvenile.
(SFC, 11/8/17, p.D5)(SFC, 11/10/17, p.D7)
2017 Nov 6, Broadcom offered $103 billion offer to buy competitor Qualcomm for $70 per share. Qualcomm jumped $1.77, or 2.9 percent, to $63.59 and Broadcom added $2.10 to $275.73.
(AP, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, Afghan officials said seven of Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum's bodyguards, convicted of the sexual assault and illegal imprisonment of a political rival, have been sentenced to five years in jail. The seven bodyguards were convicted over the incident on Nov. 1, but were not yet in custody.
(AFP, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, A British man was convicted of killing his adopted 18-month-old baby after violently shaking her and striking her head. Toddler Elsi Scully-Hicks died in May 2016 after suffering a fractured skull while being violently shaken, two weeks after being formally adopted by defendant Matthew Scully-Hicks and his husband.
(AFP, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, The EU denounced as "shocking" revelations on the way top companies and dignitaries, including Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, avoid taxes using offshore wealth hubs.
(AFP, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, In France Eric Vuillard's "L'Ordre du Jour," or "The Agenda," was awarded the Goncourt Prize in a Paris cafe, part of a long-running tradition. The novel portrays the Nazis as the product of big business interests — including businesses that remain major industrial players today.
(AP, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu pledged 200 million shekels ($57 million) to build safe bypass roads for Jewish West Bank settlers, in a move that looks to satisfy a key constituent but anger Palestinians who consider it a further encroachment upon their hoped for future state.
(AP, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, In Italy G7 health ministers meeting in Milan issued a joint statement that says “climate and environmental-related factors can aggravate existing health risks and create new threats".
(AP, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, In Japan US Pres. Donald Trump urged Japan to protect itself from nuclear-armed North Korea by buying billions of dollars of US military equipment.
(SFC, 11/7/17, p.A2)
2017 Nov 6, A Latvian businessman won a court case against the owners of English soccer team Blackpool over the running of the club following its promotion to the Premier League. A judge ruled that the Oyston family had shown unfair prejudice against shareholders by excluding them from key decisions, information and share of profits.
(AP, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, Liberia's Supreme Court halted the presidential election runoff, which had been scheduled for Nov. 7, until the National Elections Commission investigates allegations of irregularities and fraud in the first round.
(AP, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, Five migrants died as a German nonprofit organization and the Libyan coast guard tried to rescue them from their foundering boat in the Mediterranean. Each side blamed the other for botching the operation.
(AP, 11/7/17)
2017 Nov 6, In northeastern Nigeria at least two civilians were killed when dozens of Boko Haram fighters tried to storm Gulak town, Adamawa state, but were repelled by troops.
(AP, 11/7/17)
2017 Nov 6, Saudi King Salman swore in new officials to take over from a powerful prince and former minister believed to be detained in a large-scale sweep that has shocked the country and upended longstanding traditions within the ruling family.
(AP, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, The Saudi-led military coalition said it would close all air, land and sea ports to Yemen to stem the flow of arms to Houthi rebels from Iran. The move was likely to worsen a humanitarian crisis in Yemen that has pushed some seven million to the brink of famine and left more than half a million infected with cholera.
(Reuters, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, Senegal reported that two buses have collided, killing at least 25 people and injuring at least a dozen, including many who were heading to an annual pilgrimage.
(AP, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, Somalia's Islamist al Shabaab insurgency shot four men accused of spying in a public execution which underscored the insurgents' control of swathes of the country's southern region even as the government girds up for an offensive against them.
(Reuters, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, President Tayyip Erdogan announced plans to demolish the Ataturk Culture Center in Istanbul, named after the founder of modern secular Turkey, in a move critics see as another attempt by the Islamist-rooted ruling party to roll back secularism. The AKM has been closed to the public for the past 10 years over disagreements regarding its renovation and infrastructure.
(Reuters, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, The UN said this year will be among the three hottest on record, as almost 200 countries began talks in Germany to bolster a global climate accord that the United States plans to quit.
(Reuters, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, Vietnam’s government said the death toll from Typhoon Damrey and ensuing floods has reached 61 and that some reservoirs were dangerously near capacity after persistent rain.
(Reuters, 11/6/17)
2017 Nov 6, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe fired Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, as the battle between Mnangagwa and Mugabe's wife Grace to succeed the veteran leader intensified.
(AFP, 11/6/17)
2018 Nov 6, Democrats wrested control of the US House of Representatives from Trump's Republicans in midterm elections seen as a referendum on his two-year-old presidency and closely watched around the world. Republicans increased their majority in the Senate. Onetime Somali refugee Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, shared the historic distinction of becoming the first two Muslim women elected to Congress.
(Reuters, 11/7/18)(AFP, 11/7/18)
2018 Nov 6, San Francisco voters approved Prop. C, designed to inject the most money ever at city homeless problems by taxing big businesses.
(SFC, 11/7/18, p.A1)
2018 Nov 6, Voters in Mt. View, California, the home town of Google, backed Measure P, which implements a per-employee business license tax that ranges from $5 to $150 per worker, rising with the size of the company.
(SFC, 11/9/18, p.D2)
2018 Nov 6, Colorado voters rejected a measure that could have sharply reduced oil and gas drilling, including the method known as fracking, by requiring new oil and gas wells to be farther from occupied buildings than allowed under current law.
(AP, 11/7/18)
2018 Nov 6, Guillermo Falcon, one of Miami's former drug kingpins, was deported to the Dominican Republic after completing a 20-year money-laundering sentence. His partner Salvador Magluta continued to serve a 195-year drug trafficking sentence.
(SFC, 11/21/18, p.A6)
2018 Nov 6, Illinois voters elected J.B. Pritzker, the billionaire heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune, as state governor.
(SFC, 11/7/18, p.A6)
2018 Nov 6, In Kansas, Sharice Davids and Deb Haaland became the first Native American women elected to Congress.
(AFP, 11/7/18)
2018 Nov 6, Kansas voters elected Laura Kelly (D) over Kris Kobach (R) to serve as state governor.
(SFC, 11/7/18, p.A6)
2018 Nov 6, Michigan voters elected Gretchen Whitmer (D) to serve as state governor.
(SFC, 11/7/18, p.A6)
2018 Nov 6, Voters in Michigan passed a ballot measure to legalize marijuana. Rashida Tlaib became the first Palestinian-American woman to be elected to the US Congress representing southwest Detroit and its suburbs west to the city of Dearborn.
(AP, 11/7/18) (Reuters, 11/7/18)
2018 Nov 6, Missouri became the 31st state to approve marijuana for medical use.
(AP, 11/7/18)
2018 Nov 6, Missouri voters back a ballot initiative known as Clean Missouri. This put a squeeze on campaign contributions and limited the value of gifts and meals lobbyists could dish out. It also stated that an independent demographer would have the final say in the redistricting commission.
(https://tinyurl.com/y5xxwtsa)(Econ., 9/12/20, p.24)
2018 Nov 6, Voters in Utah joined the growing number of US states to legalize medical marijuana.
(SSFC, 11/11/18, p.A8)
2018 Nov 6, Washington state voters raised the minimum age from 18 to 21 for buying semiautomatic rifles.
(SFC, 2/12/19, p.A7)
2018 Nov 6, In Afghanistan the Taliban attacked border troops in western Farah province killing at least 20.
(SFC, 11/7/18, p.A2)
2018 Nov 6, An aircraft flew 20 tons of pine nuts from Afghanistan to China, inaugurating their first air cargo link as the landlocked South Asian nation turns to overseas markets to offset its trade deficit.
(Reuters, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, A United Nations report released today found that 56 civilians were killed and 379 others wounded in attacks during Afghanistan's recent parliamentary election.
(AP, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, Representatives from Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia signed an agreement to identify victims of the 1990s wars. Around 12,000 people were still not accounted for out of the 40,000 missing from the wars that tore apart the former Yugoslavia.
(AFP, 11/7/18)
2018 Nov 6, Cameroon's President Paul Biya (85) was sworn in for a seventh term after disputed elections and amid mounting unrest in an English-speaking region.
(AFP, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, China rejected Western criticism of suspected mass detention and heavy surveillance of Uighurs in the western region of Xinjiang as Western countries including France, Germany and the United States, called on China to close down detention camps that activists say hold 1 million Uighurs and other Muslims.
(Reuters, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, The 6-day biennial Airshow China opened in the coastal city of Zhuhai. It is traditionally an event for Beijing to parade its growing aviation prowess.
(Reuters, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, In China billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates helped kickoff the 3-day "Reinvented Toilet" Expo in Beijing.
(SFC, 11/7/18, p.A3)
2018 Nov 6, China unveiled a replica of its first permanently crewed space station, which would replace the international community's orbiting laboratory and symbolizes the country's major ambitions beyond Earth.
(AFP, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, The EU extended sanctions against Venezuela until November 2019 for what it said were human rights violations and undermining of democracy and the rule of law under President Nicolas Maduro.
(Reuters, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, French police arrested five men and a woman, all from the radical far right, suspected of plotting to attack French President Emmanuel Macron.
(AP, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, Hungary's government set out plans to create new administrative courts overseen by the justice minister - a move the leftist opposition has said will limit the independence of the judiciary.
(Reuters, 11/7/18)
2018 Nov 6, A Hungarian police spokesman said that a probe opened in February on the basis of findings by the European Union's anti-fraud office OLAF had been terminated.
(AFP, 11/7/18)
2018 Nov 6, In India the northern city of Ayodhya broke a Guinness World Record by lighting 300,150 earthen lamps and keeping them lit for at least 45 minutes as part of the annual celebration of Diwali.
(SFC, 11/7/18, p.A2)
2018 Nov 6, UN investigators said more than 200 mass graves containing between 6,000 and 12,000 bodies have been found in Iraq from the time of the Islamic State group's three-year reign.
(AP, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, Italy said it will help Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman, leave her country because her life is in danger following charges of blasphemy against Islam that put her on death row for eight years.
(Reuters, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, In Mexico thousands of Central Americans dreaming of getting to the United States awoke to donations of fruit and hot coffee at a sports stadium in Mexico's chilly capital as the US held midterm elections.
(AP, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, Peru's former police chief Raul Becerra and a dozen others were arrested for allegedly trafficking babies. One five-month-old baby was rescued as police raided 18 properties in the southern city of Arequipa.
(Reuters, 11/7/18)
2018 Nov 6, In the Philippines lawyer Benjamin Ramos (56) was shot and killed as he left his office by men on a motorcycle near the town of Kabankalan. He was the 34th lawyer killed since Pres. Rodrigo Duterte took office.
(SFC, 11/9/18, p.A4)
2018 Nov 6, Romania's President Klaus Iohannis blasted the ruling party's leader as a "criminal at the top of the state apparatus," saying politicians with criminal convictions are trying to take over the country's justice system and undermine efforts to fight corruption.
(AP, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, Russia's PM Dmitry Medvedev signed measures approving regulations that would identify smartphone messenger users by their cellphone numbers. The decree goes into effect after 180 days.
(AP, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, In Syria a bomb went off inside a car in the northern town of Manbij, killing one person.
(AP, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that joint patrols by US forces and a Kurdish-led militia in northern Syria are "unacceptable".
(AP, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey would not abide by the renewed US sanctions on Iran's oil and shipping industries, adding that they were aimed at "unbalancing the world".
(Reuters, 11/6/18)
2018 Nov 6, Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed they halted advances of their adversaries, the US-backed, Saudi-led Arab coalition, at a key battlefield around a strategic Red Sea port city. Fighting continued around Hodeida despite the statement from the Shiite rebels.
(AP, 11/6/18)
2019 Nov 6, The US Justice Department announced that two men arrested last year for spying on Iranian dissidents in the United States have pleaded guilty to charges in a Washington court. Iranian-US dual citizen Ahmadreza Mohammadi Doostdar and Majid Ghorbani, an Iranian resident of California, tried to penetrate the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), a group of Iranian dissidents in exile, in New York and Washington from 2017-2018.
(AP, 11/7/19)
2019 Nov 6, US federal prosecutors said that three Saudi nationals were charged in Southern California with violating federal export laws by buying $100,000 worth of gun parts in the US while on student visas and smuggling them to Saudi Arabia.
(AP, 11/7/19)
2019 Nov 6, Brianna Williams reported Taylor Rose Williams (5) missing from their Jacksonville home. On Nov 12 Williams was charged with child neglect and providing false information to police in the case after investigators found human remains near her hometown in Demopolis, Alabama. Sheriff’s officials say Williams was admitted to the hospital in serious condition because of an apparent overdose.
(AP, 11/14/19)
2019 Nov 6, New York developer Paramount Group confirmed in an earnings report that it is buying the former Chevron headquarters at 555 and 575 market St. in San Francisco for $722 million, in one of the biggest real estate deals in city history.
(SFC, 11/8/19, p.D1)
2019 Nov 6, A federal judge in Manhattan struck down a rule letting health care clinicians object to providing abortions and other services that conflict with their moral and religious beliefs.
(SFC, 11/7/19, p.A5)
2019 Nov 6, The Washington Post reported that US federal prosecutors have charged two former Twitter employees with spying on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government. Beginning in 2015 the former employees snooped on the accounts of people who were critical of Saudi Arabia.
(Business Insider, 11/7/19)
2019 Nov 6, In Texas Justen Hall (38) was scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. CST (0000 GMT) at the state's death chamber in Huntsville for the murder of Melanie Billhartz on Oct. 28, 2002. He had been convicted of strangling Billhartz so she would not tell police about a drug house where he and members of his white supremacist gang gathered.
(Reuters, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, In Benin Albert Tevoedjre (b.1929), a political scientist and one of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's most trusted experts on social and economic development strategies for Africa, died in Porto-Novo. His 1980 book "Poverty, Wealth of Mankind" was honored in France for its work in macroeconomics.
(AP, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, In Bolivia scores were injured and one person killed in protests over a contentious presidential election last month.
(Reuters, 11/7/19)
2019 Nov 6, In Burkina Faso unidentified assailants attacked a convoy transporting workers of Canadian gold producer Semafo Inc., killing at least 38 people.
(Bloomberg, 11/7/19)
2019 Nov 6, Chile's Pres. Sebastian Pinera sent a law to parliament to guarantee a minimum wage of $480 a month, part of an ambitious social spending plan announced last month as the protests grew. The government planned to draw $600 million from a sovereign wealth fund to finance the social plan. Protests continued.
(Reuters, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, Cyprus said that it had started a process to strip 26 individuals of citizenship they received under a secretive passports-for-investment scheme, admitting it had flaws.
(Reuters, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, In Hong Kong a knife-wielding assailant injured Junius Ho, a pro-Beijing lawmaker, and his assistant, as tensions worsen with protests nearing the start of a sixth continuous month. Police arrested the attacker.
(The Telegraph, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, India's cabinet approved 100 billion rupees ($1.41 billion) for a fund to help clear stalled housing projects. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the State Bank of India (SBI) and state-run insurance company Life Corporation of India will contribute an additional 150 billion rupees, taking the total size of the fund to 250 billion.
(Reuters, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, Iran said it'll start injecting uranium gas at midnight into 1,044 centrifuges at the underground Fordo facility. The centrifuges there will enrich uranium up to 4.5%.
(AP, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, Iraqi protesters stormed a fourth bridge in central Baghdad, where security forces pushed them back with batons and tear gas, wounding dozens, after two anti-government demonstrators were killed in overnight clashes in the city of Karbala.
(AP, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, Israeli authorities released two Jordanian citizens who'd been detained for two months and returned them to Jordan, easing a standoff that has soured relations between the countries just as they marked a chilly 25th anniversary of their historic peace deal. Israel arrested Heba al-Labadi (32) on Aug. 20 and Abdul Rahman Miri (29) on Sept. 2 as they entered the West Bank from Jordan through an Israeli-controlled crossing.
(AP, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, In northern Jordan a man from a Palestinian refugee camp stabbed eight people, including four foreign tourists and their tour guide, at a popular archaeological site in Jerash. Mustafa Abu Tuameh (22) was subdued and arrested.
(AP, 11/6/19)(SFC, 11/7/19, p.A2)
2019 Nov 6, Mexican investigators said that a suspect has been arrested in the Nov. 4 deaths of 9 American Mormons based in Mexico.
(Insider, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, Slovakian President Zuzana Caputova vetoed a new law extending a ban on publishing opinion polls up to 50 days before elections and vowed to challenge it at the Constitutional Court if the parliament overturns her veto.
(Reuters, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, Slovakia's government approved a bill to double a special tax on banks and extend it indefinitely instead of ending the levy next year, moves the central bank said would threaten financial stability. The banking tax was adopted in 2012 to build a buffer against potential future crises and scheduled to expire at the end of 2020.
(Reuters, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa secured about 200 billion rand ($13.5 billion) of new investment pledges, saying these would spur economic growth and reduce unemployment, but foreign firms made few commitments.
(Reuters, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, In southern Thailand gunmen killed 15 village defense volunteers and wounded five security personnel.
(SFC, 11/7/19, p.A2)
2019 Nov 6, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan revealed that Turkish police detained one of al-Baghdadi's wives and a daughter last year.
(AP, 11/7/19)
2019 Nov 6, The UN said Pierre Krahenbuhl, commissioner general of the agency known as UNRWA, has been placed on administrative leave as an internal probe into alleged mismanagement at the organization proceeds. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees was set up in the years after more than 700,000 Palestinians were expelled or fled their lands during the 1948 war surrounding the creation of Israel.
(AFP, 11/6/19)
2019 Nov 6, In Yemen a Houthi attack late today struck warehouses used by a government-allied force, causing a huge fire. The drone and missile attack targeted buildings near a hospital, causing huge explosions that killed at least eight people.
(AP, 11/7/19)
2020 Nov 6, Joe Biden overtook Donald Trump in the number of ballots counted in Pennsylvania, which Trump must win to have a shot at reelection. Biden now holds a nearly 6,000-vote advantage. Votes in the state were still being counted.
(AP, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, Joe Biden overtook Trump in the number of ballots counted in Georgia, a must-win state for Trump that has long been a Republican stronghold.
(AP, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, The US Treasury slapped sanctions on Gebran Bassil, Lebanon’s ex-foreign minister and a leading Christian political ally of the militant Hezbollah group.
(AP, 11/6/20)(Econ., 11/28/20, p.39)
2020 Nov 6, Police Chief Lang Holland of Marshall, Ark., advocated online that Democrats should be attacked and summarily executed. He resigned soon after his comments were made public.
(NY Times, 11/9/20)
2020 Nov 6, California to date had 960,570 cases of coronavirus and 17,888 deaths. The SF Bay Area had 122,184 cases and 1,832 deaths. Total cases nationwide reached over 9,727,345 with the death toll at 235,071.
(sfist.com, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, Republican US Sen. David Perdue and Democrat Jon Ossoff will face off in a Jan. 5 runoff in Georgia for Perdue’s Senate seat, one of two high-profile contests in the state that could determine which party controls the upper chamber. Democrat Raphael Warnock and Sen. Kelly Loeffler, the Republican appointed last year after Sen. Johnny Isakson retired, will also compete in a runoff on the same day. The twin races in Georgia are likely to settle which party controls the Senate.
(AP, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, In Georgia Rapper King Von (26), aka Dayvon Bennett, and another man were fatally shot after gunfire erupted outside an Atlanta hookah bar early today. Timothy Leeks (22) was soon charged with murder in Bennett's death.
(NBC News, 11/7/20)(SFC, 11/9/20, p.A4)
2020 Nov 6, In Illinois the death toll from the coronavirus surpassed 10,000.
(SFC, 11/7/20, p.A6)
2020 Nov 6, It was reported that Deputy Inspector James Kobel, the commanding officer of the NYPD's workplace discrimination office, has been relieved of his command and placed on modified duty as the department investigates allegations that he posted a slew of racist, sexist and homophobic comments on a message board for police officers.
(CBS News, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, Wisconsin police arrested Nathanael Benton (23), suspected of shooting two police officers earlier in the day in Waukesha County. Benton was also wanted in Fargo, North Dakota, for attempted murder.
(SFC, 11/7/20, p.A4)
2020 Nov 6, A panel of outside advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration voted that a potential Alzheimer’s treatment from Biogen Inc has not been proven to slow progression of the disease, a sharp rebuke to agency staff who earlier this week praised the drug. The FDA still could decide to approve the drug, aducanumab.
(Reuters, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, Humanigen Inc said it has partnered with the US government to help advance development of its drug candidate as a potential COVID-19 treatment following positive response in hospitalized patients in a late-stage study.
(AP, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, At least three civilians were killed in the latest shelling of Nagorno-Karabakh cities as Azerbaijan pushed its offensive to reclaim control over the separatist territory for a sixth straight week.
(AP, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, In Burkina Faso an unknown assailant threw a flammable bottle into a mosque in Ouagadougou, wounding six people.
(AP, 11/8/20)
2020 Nov 6, Ethiopia PM Abiy Ahmed said air strikes have been carried out in the well-armed Tigray region.
(SFC, 11/7/20, p.A3)
2020 Nov 6, The European Union imposed sanctions on the president of Belarus and 14 other officials over their roles in the security crackdown launched during protests of the country's contested August presidential election.
(AP, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, French Health Minister Olivier Veran said that the government is sending 1.6 million rapid virus tests to care homes across the country to allow them to test personnel. More than 400 people with COVID-19 have died in the past week and some residents are again being confined to their rooms and cut off from their families. France hit a record 60,486 new confirmed coronavirus cases.
(AP, 11/6/20)(NBC News, 11/7/20)
2020 Nov 6, In Greece Friday prayers were held for the first time in capital’s first state-sponsored mosque, which opened this week after years-long delays. Athens’ Muslim population numbered around half a million people. The new mosque’s capacity was 300 men and 50 women.
(AP, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, India recorded 47,638 new cases of the novel coronavirus, taking its total to 8.41 million. Deaths rose by 670 in the last 24 hours, taking total mortalities to 124,985.
(Reuters, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, Iraqi security forces opened fire during clashes with hundreds of protesters in the southern city of Basra, killing demonstrator Omar al-Thiabi (29) and wounding several others as tensions flared once again.
(AP, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, It was reported that Natan Zach (89), an Israeli writer who had a major impact on the development of modern Hebrew poetry, has died.
(AP, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, Italy registered 37,809 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, the country's highest ever daily tally. A total of 40,638 people have now died because of COVID-19 in Italy, which has registered some 862,681 coronavirus infections since the start of its outbreak. New coronavirus restrictions came into force.
(Reuters, 11/6/20)(NBC News, 11/7/20)
2020 Nov 6, Italian drinks group Campari said checks conducted after a hacking attack showed data on some of the company's servers had been encrypted and some information had been lost. Earlier this week the Milan-based group famous for its red aperitif said it had been targeted by hackers around Nov. 1.
(Reuters, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, Norway's capital Oslo said it will shut down theatres, cinemas, training centers and swimming pools to contain the spread of the coronavirus, with bars and restaurants no longer able to serve alcohol for three weeks as of Nov 9.
(Reuters, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, Maher al-Akhras (49), a Palestinian prisoner held by Israel, agreed to end more than 100 days of hunger strike. His family and a prisoner rights’ advocate said he had received assurances from Israeli authorities that his open-ended detention wouldn't be extended beyond the end of November.
(AP, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, Poland reported a record 445 new coronavirus-related deaths, as the healthcare system faced shortages in hospital beds, equipment and medics. The country also reported 27,086 new COVID-19 cases.
(Reuters, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, Romania's government said it will impose a nationwide nighttime curfew and close all schools for 30 days from Nov. 9 after seeing the number of daily coronavirus infections double in two weeks. A record 9,714 infections were confirmed in the last 24 hours. More than 7,500 people have died since the beginning of the outbreak in late February.
(Reuters, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, Russia reported 20,582 new coronavirus infections, including 6,253 in Moscow.
(SFC, 11/7/20, p.A6)
2020 Nov 6, South African authorities said they have begun deporting 20 refugees and asylum seekers who were part of a months-long sit-in protest against xenophobia. More migrants were expected to be deported.
(BBC, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, It was reported that criminals, dressed in the uniforms of a well-known South African security company, attacked guards collecting cash in daylight from a takeaway in Johannesburg. After stealing the guards' van, they blew it up with explosives, extracted the cash and sped off in a Porsche and a Volvo SUV.
(The Telegraph, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, Spanish officials said Supreme Court prosecutors have opened a third corruption investigation involving former monarch Juan Carlos I.
(SFC, 11/7/20, p.A2)
2020 Nov 6, Sweden registered 4,697 new coronavirus cases, the highest number since the start of the pandemic. Sweden also registered 20 new deaths from COVID-19, taking the total to 6,022 deaths.
(Reuters, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, Sweden raised its assessment of the risk level for bird flu to elevated from low, after outbreaks registered elsewhere in Europe.
(Reuters, 11/6/20)
2020 Nov 6, The Swiss General Prosecutor’s office said it plans to return 99 percent of the frozen assets belonging to one alleged Russian fraudster and 100 percent of the assets belonging to an alleged Russian crime syndicate boss.
(The Daily Beast, 11/19/20)
2020 Nov 6, The Vatican embassy in Poland said sanctions have been imposed on retired Archbishop Henryk Gulbinowicz (97) after he was accused of sexually abusing a seminarian and of covering up abuse in another case.
(SFC, 11/7/20, p.A2)
2020 Nov 6, Vietnam said it will stick to its strategy of containing COVID-19 rather than rush to secure a supply of a vaccine that could be financially risky.
(Reuters, 11/6/20)
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