| 126647 | November 6 | Event | 1963 – Following the November 1 coup and execution of President Ngo Dinh Diem, coup leader General Dương Văn Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam. |
| 126648 | November 6 | Event | 1965 – Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans had made use of this program. |
| 126649 | November 6 | Event | 1971 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. |
| 126650 | November 6 | Event | 1975 – Green March begins: Three hundred thousand unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara. |
| 126651 | November 6 | Event | 1977 – The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39. |
| 126652 | November 6 | Event | 1985 – In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices. |
| 126653 | November 6 | Event | 1986 – Sumburgh disaster: A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2.5 !21⁄2 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record. |
| 126654 | November 6 | Event | 1991 – The last Kuwaiti oil field fire is extinguished. |
| 126655 | November 6 | Event | 1995 – The Rova of Antananarivo, home of the sovereigns of Madagascar from the 16th to 19th centuries, is destroyed by fire. |
| 126656 | November 6 | Event | 1995 – Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore to become the Baltimore Ravens, the first time the city had a football team since 1983 when they were the Balt |
| 126657 | November 6 | Event | 1999 – Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum. |
| 126658 | November 6 | Event | 2004 – An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing seven and injuring 150. |
| 126659 | November 6 | Event | 2012 – Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate. |
| 126660 | November 6 | Birth | 1391 – Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (d. 1425) |
| 126631 | November 6 | Event | 1917 – World War I: Third Battle of Ypres ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium. |
| 126632 | November 6 | Event | 1918 – The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed. |
| 126633 | November 6 | Event | 1928 – Arnold Rothstein, the head of the Jewish mob in New York, was shot and mortally wounded on November 4, and died on November 6. He was assassinated by George "Hump" McManus, for failing to pay a large gambling debt. |
| 126634 | November 6 | Event | 1934 – Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority. |
| 126635 | November 6 | Event | 1935 – Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers. |
| 126636 | November 6 | Event | 1935 – First flight of the Hawker Hurricane, with its K5083 first prototype. |
| 126637 | November 6 | Event | 1935 – Parker Brothers acquires the forerunner patents for Monopoly from Elizabeth Magie. |
| 126638 | November 6 | Event | 1939 – World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau takes place. |
| 126639 | November 6 | Event | 1941 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his 19-year rule (the first had been on July 2). He falsely states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, the German |
| 126640 | November 6 | Event | 1942 – World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign begins. |
| 126641 | November 6 | Event | 1942 – World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219. |
| 126642 | November 6 | Event | 1943 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings. |
| 126643 | November 6 | Event | 1944 – Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. |
| 126644 | November 6 | Event | 1947 – Meet the Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948). |
| 126645 | November 6 | Event | 1948 – Deputy commander-in-chief of the Eastern China Field Army General Su Yu launches a massive offensive toward Xuzhou, defended by seven different armies under the General Suppression Headquarters of Xuzhou Garrison, the Huaihai Campaign. The largest |
| 126646 | November 6 | Event | 1962 – The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation. |