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Friday, 06 November 2026

2005

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

2004

An express train collides with a stationary carriage near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing 7 and injuring 150.

1999

Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.

1986

Sumburgh disaster

1985

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

The ''Iran-Contra Affair'': The American press reveals that U.S. President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran.

1977

The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.

1975

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.

1971

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

1965

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 made use of this program.

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