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6th November

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1962: U.N. condemns apartheid


The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution condemning South Africa’s racist apartheid policies and calls on all member states to terminate economic and military relations with the country. Following the 1960 massacre of unarmed demonstrators at Sharpeville near Johannesburg in South Africa, the international movement to end apartheid gained wide international support. However, few major Western powers, nor South Africa’s other main trading powers, supported a full economic or military embargo against the country. Nonetheless, U.N. opposition grew and in 1973 a U.N. resolution declared apartheid a crime against humanity. In 1974, South Africa was suspended from the General Assembly.

1999

A national referendum in Australia rejects breaking from the British monarchy and creating an Australian republic.

1996

Bill Clinton becomes the first Democratic President since Franklin D Roosevelt to be re-elected.

1986

45 oil rig workers are killed when a helicopter which is transporting them crashes off the coast of Scotland. 

1986

One of the most successful British football mangers ever, Alex Ferguson, starts his reign as manager of Manchester United.

1972

In Britain, the Conservative government freezes pay and prices in an attempt to and stop inflation increasing.

1963

The Vietnam War: Following the coup which deposed Ngo Dinh Diem, General Duong Van Minh assumes control of South Vietnam.

1957

Félix Gaillard becomes Prime Minister of France.

1956

A ceasefire is announced between Egyptian, French and British forces fighting for control of the Suez Canal.

1935

In Britain, the RAF’s first monoplane fighter, the Hawker Hurricane makes its maiden flight.

1928

Republican Herbert Hoover defeats Democrat Alfred E. Smith in the American Presidential election.

1917

The First World War: The end of the Third Battle of Ypres when British and Canadian troops capture the infamous Passchendale Ridge.

1900

In America, Republican President William McKinley is re-elected after defeating Democrat challenger, William Jennings Bryan.

1860

Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln is narrowly elected American President.

1789

Pope Pius VI appoints John Carroll bishop of Baltimore, making him the first Catholic bishop in the United States.

1528

The Spanish conquistador Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first European to discover Texas.

1949

British actor Nigel Havers.

1932

American boxing promoter Don King.

1926

Irish comedian Frank Carson.

1921

Novelist James Jones Robinson III - author of 'From Here To Eternity'.

1892

Pioneer aviator Sir John Alcock is born in Manchester.

1814

Adolphe Sax, instrument inventor who gave his name to the saxophone, is born in Dinant, Belgium.

1893

Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, dies aged 53 after drinking unboiled water in St Petersburg during a cholera epidemic. His final and most popular work was 'Symphony No 6, the Pathetique'.