Today in History for November 2006
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Historical Events
Results 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 Deaths
Results 1 - 69 of 69
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)
16th - Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
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 - Casey Coleman, American television personality (b. 1951)
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)
