Today in History for November 2006

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 9 of 9

5th - Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'as in 1982.
10th - Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj assassinated in Colombo.
11th - The New Zealand war memorial monument was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
12th - The former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia.
17th - Official naming of element 111, Roentgenium (Rg).
21st - Anti-Syrian Lebanese Minister and MP Pierre Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut.
24th - Israeli rapist Benny Sela escapes from police custody while being transferred to a court hearing.
27th - The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper's motion to declare Québécois a nation within a unified Canada.
27th - Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician and former President of the Italian Republic, resigned from his position as lifetime senator.

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 8 of 8

4th - Radio and television journalist Alison Stewart (40) weds MSNBC vice-president of prime-time programming Bill Wolff (40) at the stylish New York restaurant Cipriani 23rd Street
4th - Croatian princess Paola Doimi de Frankopan (37) weds son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent Lord Nicholas Windsor (37) at St. Stephen of Abyssina in Vatican City
4th - 1996 summer Olympics gold medalist gymnast Dominique Moceanu (25) weds podiatrist Dr. Michael Canales (29) in Houston, Texas
7th - NASCAR racer Jeff Gordon (38) weds Belgian model and actress Ingrid Vandebosch (36) at the Hacienda de San Antonio Resort in Colima, Mexico
8th - Malaysian actress Sazzy Falak (25) weds co-founder of LVG Consultants and LVG MoneySkool Nazril Idrus
10th - "The Grudge" actor Jason Behr (32) weds actress KaDee Strickland (30) in Ojai, California
11th - Dutch Formula One racer Christijan Albers (27) weds Liselore Kooijman at The Grand in Amsterdam
18th - American film actor and producer Tom Cruise (44) weds actress Katie Holmes (27) at Odescalchi Castle in Bracciano, Italy

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 3 of 3

2nd - Rocker Rod Stewart (58) divorces model Rachel Hunter (33) due to irreconcilable differences
27th - "Baywatch" actress Pamela Anderson (39) divorces singer Kid Rock (36) due to irreconcilable differences only 4 months after getting married
27th - Actress Selma Blair (34) divorces actor-rocker Ahmet Zappa (32) due to irreconcilable differences after more than 2 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 68 of 68

1st - William Styron, American author (b. 1925)
1st - Adrienne Shelly, American actress (b. 1966)
3rd - Paul Mauriat, French musician (b. 1925)
3rd - Marie Rudisill, American author and "Fruitcake Lady" (b. 1911)
3rd - Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorean footballer (b. 1937)
4th - Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American memoirist (Cheaper by the Dozen) (b. 1908)
4th - Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician (b. 1915)
5th - Bülent Ecevit, four term Turkish Prime Minister (b. 1925)
6th - Federico (Fico) López, Puerto Rican basketball player (b. 1962)
6th - Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (b. 1950)
7th - Bryan Pata, American football defensive tackle (University of Miami) (murdered) (b. 1981)
7th - Johnny Sain, American baseball pitcher (b. 1917)
7th - Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (b. 1924)
8th - Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (b. 1945)
8th - Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist
9th - Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
9th - Markus Wolf, East German Intelligence Director (b. 1923)
10th - Diana Coupland, British comedy actress (b. 1932)
10th - Gerald Levert, American singer (b. 1966)
10th - Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
10th - Nadarajah Raviraj, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1962)
10th - Fokko du Cloux, mathematician (b. 1954)
11th - Belinda Emmett, Australian actress (b. 1974)
11th - Harry Lehotsky, pastor and activist (b. 1957)
12th - General Jacob E. Smart, US Air Force leader World War II (b. 1909)
15th - Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian model (b. 1985)
15th - David K. Wyatt, American historian (b. 1937)
Economist Milton Friedman (16th) 16th - Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 94
16th - Yuri Levada, Russian sociologist (b. 1930)
17th - Bo Schembechler, American football coach (b. 1929)
17th - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (b. 1924)
17th - Ruth Brown, American blues singer (b. 1928)
17th - Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927)
20th - Robert Altman, American film director (b. 1925)
20th - Zoia Ceauşescu, Romanian mathematician (b. 1950)
20th - Andre Waters, American football player (b. 1962)
21st - Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese Cabinet minister (assassinated) (b. 1972)
21st - Robert Lockwood, Jr., American blues guitarist (b. 1915)
22nd - Pat Dobson, American baseball player (b. 1942)
23rd - Nick Clarke, English radio presenter (b. 1948)
23rd - Betty Comden, American lyricist (b. 1917)
23rd - Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy (b. 1962)
23rd - Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930)
23rd - Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919)
23rd - Willie Pep, American boxer (b. 1922)
24th - Juice Leskinen, Finnish rock singer (b. 1950)
24th - George W. S. Trow, American writer (b. 1943)
24th - Zdeněk Veselovský, Czech zoologist (b. 1938)
25th - Sean Bell, American shooting victim (b. 1983)
25th - Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist (b. 1931)
25th - Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (b. 1920)
25th - Valentin Elizalde, Mexican singer (b. 1979)
25th - Kenneth M. Taylor, American pilot (b. 1919)
25th - Phyllis Fraser, American actress and children's book publisher (b. 1916)
26th - Mário Cesariny, Portuguese painter and writer (b. 1923)
26th - Raúl Velasco, Mexican television host (b. 1933)
26th - Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (b. 1943)
26th - Stephen Heywood, American builder (b. 1969)
26th - Isaac Gálvez, Spanish procyclist (b. 1975)
27th - Don Butterfield, American tuba player (b. 1923)
27th - Alan Freeman, British disc jockey known by his nickname 'Fluff' (b. 1927)
27th - Bebe Moore Campbell, American author (b. 1950)
27th - Casey Coleman, American sportscaster (b. 1951)
28th - Lyubov Polishchuk, Russian actress (b. 1949)
28th - Robert Volpe, Artist ,Art Theft Detective (b.1942)
29th - Allen Carr, English anti-smoking campaigner (b. 1934)
30th - Elhadi Adam, Sudanese poet and lyricist (b. 1927)
30th - Rafael Buenaventura, Former BSP Governor (b. 1938)