Saturday, November 6, 2010

November 06

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1. 1865 American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 vessels. Bill Monroe Shenandoah Breakdown Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys
2. 1913 Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa. Baluji Shrivastav Bhajan (Mahatma Ghandi) Classical Indian Ragas
3. 1934 Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority. Jimmie Rodgers Memphis Yodel Jimmie Rodgers Recordings
4. 1944 Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on NagasakiJapan. Vanusa Atomico Platonico Brazilian 60s Nuggets
5. 1947 Meet the Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948). Saturday Looks Good to Me Meet Me By the Water All Your Summer Songs
6. 1971 The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. She & Him This is Not a Test Volume One
7. N/a Gustavus Adolphus Day, death of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and official flag day (Sweden) Of Montreal My, What a Strange Day with a Swede Then Who Will Protect Big Oil, Our Children-

(Historical facts about November 06 are from Wikipedia.)

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