This day in history – November 6

• 1153 Treaty of Wallingford (Oxfordshire) signed between King Stephen and the Empress Maude (aka Matilda).

• 1528 Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes first known European to set foot in Texas.

• 1850 First Hawaiian fire engine.

• 1860 Abraham Lincoln elected 16th American President.

• 1879 Canada celebrates 1st Thanksgiving Day.

• 1913 Mahatma Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners’ march in South Africa.

• 1925 British secret agent Sidney Reilly (‘Ace of Spies’) is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.

• 1962 Saudi Arabia proclaims abolition of slavery.

• 1962 UN General Assembly adopts resolution condemning South Africa.

• 1975 “Hello, Dolly” opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 51 performances.

• 1975 1st appearance of Sex Pistols.

• 1990 Fire destroys some of Universal Studios’ stages.

• 1991 Russian President Boris Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party.

• 1995 Israel buries Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by Jewish extremist Yigal Amir who opposed peace with Palestinians

• 1996 “The English Patient” based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje, directed by Anthony Minghella and starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche and Kristen Scott Thomas premieres in Los Angeles (Best Picture 1997).

• 2002 12 people are killed in a fire on board a train headed for Vienna from Paris.

• 2004 An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing six and injuring 150.

• 2005 The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.

• 2005 The military junta of Myanmar (Burma) begins moving its government ministries from Yangon to Pyinmana.

• 2005 “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”, the 4th film based on the books by J. K. Rowling, premieres in London. Goes on to become most successful film of the year, earning almost US$ 900 million.

• 2012 5 people are shot at a poultry processing plant in Fresno, California.

• 2013 8 people are killed and 50 are injured by a suicide bombing in Damascus, Syria.

• 2013 15 people are killed after a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq.

Source: www.onthisday.com