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 Nagasaki, Japan. | 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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