Reuters Following are some of the major events to have occurred on November 6: 1928 - Hebert Hoover becomes U.S. President. 1995 - Israel buried Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by a fellow Jew who opposed peace with the Palestinians. 1996 - More than 2,000 people were killed or lost at sea when a cyclone struck India's major crop-growing state of Andhra Pradesh. 1998 - The first talks between India and Pakistan since 1992 over the disputed Siachen glacier ended when Pakistan rejected an Indian proposal for a ceasefire. 1999 - Australians voted by 55 to 45 percent to reject a constitutional referendum to set up a republic and replace the British monarch as head of state. 2001 - In New York, voters picked Republican media mogul Michael Bloomberg as the new mayor to lead the recovery from the September 11 attacks, succeeding Rudolph Giuliani. 2001 - Belgian national airline Sabena files for bankruptcy. 2003 - German media giant Bertelsmann agreed with Japan's Sony to merge their music units in a 50-50 joint venture. The new company would combine the fifth and second largest record labels. 2003 - Spanish Crown Prince Felipe formal engagement ceremony with television presenter Letizia Oritz. 2004 - Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf became the first head of state to visit Afghanistan to congratulate President Hamid Karzai on a successful election. 2010 - Cammi Granato and Angela James become first women inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
