Es passierte an einem 06 November

1860 : Abraham Lincoln elected President of the United States


On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th President of the United States. With the division of the Democratic Party, he became the first Republican candidate to win the presidency. As they had threatened if the Republican nominee, a fervent supporter of the abolition of slavery, won the election, seven southern States immediately seceded and created the Confederate States of America in March 1861. The civil war was declared a month later, on April 12.

1917 : Bolshevik coup in Russia


On November 6, 1917, the Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin launched a coup without bloodshed against the Provisional Government established at the abdication of the Czar in March of that year. Russia became the first Marxist country in the world. After defeating the czarist forces in 1920, which ended a bloody civil war, the Bolsheviks renamed Russia into USSR in 1922.

1962 : Condemnation of apartheid by the United Nations


On November 6, 1962, the United Nations adopted a resolution condemning the racist apartheid regime of South Africa and asking its members States to cease all military and economic relationship with that country.

1977 : Breaking of a dam in Georgia


On November 6, 1977, Toccoa Falls Dam in Georgia gave suddenly way. The waves run down the canyon to nearly 200km/h and destroyed the christian college situated below. 39 people were killed.

2005 : Tornado in Indiana


On November 6, 2005, a tornado struck the Evansville area in Indiana. Having touched down at 1:50 am at the border between Kentucky and Indiana, it devastated the area with winds up to 320km/h. 25 people were killed.

Zitat des Tages : 06 November

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Geburtstage : 06 November

Armand Fallières, French politician (1841)
Yip Man, Chinese martial artist (1893)
Michel Bouquet, French actor (1925)
Mike Nichols, American director (1931)
Sally Field, American actress (1946)
Sidney Blumenthal, American journalist (1948)
Brad Davis, American actor (1949)
Arturo Sandoval, Cuban trumpeter (1949)
Joseph C. Wilson, American diplomat (1949)
Michael Cunningham, American writer (1952)
Maria Shriver, American journalist (1955)
Lori Singer, American actress (1957)
Florent Pagny, French singer (1961)
Peter DeLuise, American actor and director (1966)
Kelly Rutherford, American actress (1968)
Ethan Hawke, American actor (1970)
Rebecca Romijn, American actress (1972)
Thandie Newton, English actress (1972)
Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (1974)
Taryn Manning, American actress (1978)
Erik Lund, Swedish footballer (1988)
Emma Stone, American actress (1988)

Sie haben uns verlassen 06 November

Tsuchimikado, Emperor of Japan (1231)
Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (1692)
Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (1822)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (1893)
Maurice Leblanc, French writer (1941)
Edgard Varèse, French composer (1965)
Gene Tierney, American actress (1991)
Anthony Shaffer, English playwright (2001)
Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish skier (2006)
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