1939 - The Hedda Hopper Show debuts with Hollywood gossip Hedda Hopper as host (the show ran until 1951 and made Hopper a powerful figure in the Hollywood elite).
1941 - World War II: Soviet leader Josef Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule. He states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, that the Germans have lost 4.5 million soldiers (a wildly false lie) and that Soviet victory was near.
1957 - Félix Gaillard becomes Prime Minister of France
1962 - 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.
1962 - Richard Nixon loses the election for governor of California, proclaiming "You won't have Nixon to kick around any more."
1965 - Freedom Flights begin: Cuba and the United States formally agree to start an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States (by 1971 250,000 Cubans take advantage of this program).
1971 - The AEC tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
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.
1985 - "Irangate" scandal: The American press reveals that US PresidentRonald Reagan authorized the shipment of arms to Iran.
1985 - The Playboy Club in New York admits topless male "bunnies" for the first time.
November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 55 days remaining.
With 88 days between the equinox on September 23 and the solstice on 21 December, we are considered halfway through the relevant seasons (Autumn or Fall in the northern hemisphere; Spring in the southern hemisphere) on this day.
2005 - The Evansville Tornado of November2005 kills 22 in Indiana and Kentucky.
NovemberÂ’s cold and dark evenings are upon us, and for some loneliness is even greater as people recall memories of an absent loved one.
We remember them and all our loved ones who have died in our November and, this weekend, we will take time to visit our cemeteries and pray at the graves of those who are special to us.
Maybe this November as well as praying for the faithful departed we could take time too to visit and spend time with those who have had a bereavement.
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