WHAT HAPPENED ON 6. NOVEMBER
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World War II: the Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings. (6. November 1943)

Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. (6. November 1944)

Meet the Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948). (6. November 1947)

Deputy commander-in-chief of the Eastern China Field Army General Su Yu launches a massive offensive toward Xuzhou, defended by seven different armies under the Suppression General Headquarter of Xuzhou Garrison, the Huaihai Campaign. The largest operational campaign of the Chinese Civil War begins. (6. November 1948)

Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation. (6. November 1962)

Vietnam War: Following the November 1 coup and execution of President Ngo Dinh Diem, coup leader General Duong Van Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam. (6. November 1963)

Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans had made use of this program. (6. November 1965)

The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. (6. November 1971)

Green March begins: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara. (6. November 1975)

The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39. (6. November 1977)

In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices. (6. November 1985)

Sumburgh disaster – A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2.5 ! 21⁄2 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record. (6. November 1986)

The last Kuwaiti oil field fire is extinguished. (6. November 1991)

The Rova of Antananarivo, home of the sovereigns of Madagascar from the 16th to 19th centuries, is destroyed by fire. (6. November 1995)

Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore to become the Baltimore Ravens, the first time the city had a football team since 1983 when they were the Baltimore Colts. (6. November 1995)

Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum. (6. November 1999)

An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing seven and injuring 150. (6. November 2004)

Tammy Baldwin, becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate. (6. November 2012)