What Happened In November 2006 In History

Historical Events for November, 2006

• 10th » Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.
• 10th » The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia is opened and dedicated by U.S. President George W. Bush, who announces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will receive the Medal of Honor.
• 11th » Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial, London known as New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
• 15th » Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.
• 21st » Anti-Syrian Lebanese Minister and MP Pierre Amine Gemayel called Pierre Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut.
• 23rd » A 23 November 2006 Sadr City bombings or series of bombings kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.
• 27th » The House of Commons of Canada Canadian House of Commons approves a motion tabled by Canadian Prime Minister Prime Minister Stephen Harper recognizing Québécois nation motion the Québécois as a nation within Canada.

Famous Deaths for November 2006

• 1st » Adrienne Shelly, American actress, director, and screenwriter (b. 1966)
• 1st » William Styron, American author (b. 1925)
• 3rd » Paul Mauriat, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1925)
• 3rd » Marie Rudisill, American author (b. 1911)
• 3rd » Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorean footballer (b. 1937)
• 6th » Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish skier (b. 1950)
• 6th » Federico López, Puerto Rican basketball player (b. 1962)
• 7th » Aino Kukk, Estonian chess player (b. 1930)
• 7th » Bryan Pata, American football player (b. 1984)
• 7th » Johnny Sain, American baseball player and coach (b. 1917)
• 7th » Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist andf politician (b. 1924)
• 8th » Basil Poledouris, American composer and conductor (b. 1945)
• 8th » Hannspeter Winter, Austrian physicist (b. 1941)
• 9th » Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
• 9th » Ellen Willis, American journalist and activist (b. 1941)
• 9th » Markus Wolf, German intelligence director (b. 1923)
• 10th » Diana Coupland, English actress and singer (b. 1932)
• 10th » Fokko du Cloux, Dutch mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1954)
• 10th » Gerald Levert, American singer-songwriter and producer (LeVert and LSG) (b. 1966)
• 10th » Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
• 10th » Nadarajah Raviraj, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1962)
• 10th » Jack Williamson, American author, critic, and academic (b. 1908)
• 11th » Belinda Emmett, Australian actress (b. 1974)
• 11th » Harry Lehotsky, American-Canadian pastor and activist (b. 1957)
• 12th » Jacob E. Smart, American general (b. 1909)
• 14th » Sumner Shapiro, American admiral (b. 1926)
• 15th » David K. Wyatt, American historian and author (b. 1937)
• 15th » Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian model (b. 1985)
• 16th » Milton Friedman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize in Economics or Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• 16th » Yuri Levada, Russian sociologist and political scientist (b. 1930)
• 17th » Ruth Brown, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1928)
• 17th » Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1927)
• 17th » Bo Schembechler, American football player and coach (b. 1929)
• 20th » Robert Altman, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1925)
• 20th » Zoia Ceaușescu, Romanian mathematician (b. 1950)
• 20th » Donald Hamilton, American author (b. 1916)
• 20th » Andre Waters, American football player and coach (b. 1962)
• 21st » Hassan Gouled Aptidon, Somalian-Djiboutian politician, 1st President of Djibouti (b. 1916)
• 21st » Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese lawyer and politician (b. 1972)
• 21st » Kathryn Johnston, American shooting victim (b. 1914)
• 21st » Robert Lockwood, Jr., American guitarist (b. 1915)
• 22nd » Pat Dobson, American baseball player and coach (b. 1942)
• 23rd » Jesús Blancornelas, Mexican journalist, co-founded 'Zeta (magazine) named Zeta Magazine' (b. 1936)
• 23rd » Nick Clarke, English journalist (b. 1948)
• 23rd » Betty Comden, American actress, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 23rd » Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy (b. 1962)
• 23rd » Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930)
• 23rd » Willie Pep, American boxer (b. 1922)
• 24th » Juice Leskinen, Finnish singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
• 24th » George W. S. Trow, American author, playwright, and critic (b. 1943)
• 24th » Zdeněk Veselovský, Czech zoologist (b. 1938)
• 25th » Luciano Bottaro, Italian illustrator (b. 1931)
• 25th » Valentín Elizalde, Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1979)
• 25th » Phyllis Fraser, American actress and publisher, co-founded Beginner Books (b. 1916)
• 25th » Kenneth M. Taylor, American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1919)
• 25th » Antonis Vratsanos, Greek soldier (b. 1919)
• 26th » Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos, Portuguese painter and poet (b. 1923)
• 26th » Dave Cockrum, American author and illustrator (b. 1943)
• 26th » Isaac Gálvez, Spanish cyclist (b. 1975)
• 26th » Raúl Velasco, Mexican television host and producer (b. 1933)
• 27th » Don Butterfield, American tuba player (b. 1923)
• 27th » Bebe Moore Campbell, American author and educator (b. 1950)
• 27th » Casey Coleman, American sportscaster (b. 1951)
• 27th » Alan Freeman, Australian-English radio host (b. 1927)
• 28th » Lyubov Polishchuk, Russian actress (b. 1949)
• 28th » Robert Volpe, American police officer and painter (b. 1942)
• 29th » Allen Carr, English-Spanish accountant and author (b. 1934)
• 30th » Elhadi Adam, Sudanese poet and songwriter (b. 1927)
• 30th » Rafael Buenaventura, Filipino banker (b. 1938)

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