TODAY IN HISTORY
November 6, 1865: The CSS Shenandoah surrenders in Liverpool, almost six months after Confederate General Joseph Johnston’s surrender at Bennett Place, North Carolina, had ended the US Civil War. The Shenandoah circumnavigated the globe, having set out from England in October 1864 with a mission to disrupt Union commerce. It sailed through the Indian Ocean to Australia, then spent some time attacking US whaling vessels in the North Pacific before planning an attack on San Francisco and then aborting it when its captain, James Waddell, learned of the war’s end. He opted to return to Liverpool and surrender there due to concerns that his crew would be treated as pirates by the US government.
November 6, 1975: The Moroccan government organizes the “Green March” to demand a Spanish withdrawal from that country’s Western Sahara colony. Some 350,000 people, accompanied by 20,000 soldiers, entered the territory carrying Moroccan flags and copies of the Quran. The Spanish government, trying to prepare for the imminent death of longtime dictator Francisco Franco, responded to the march by opening up negotiations about the future of Western Sahara. The status of the territory remains disputed between the claims of the Moroccan monarchy and the Sahrawi independence movement known as Polisario.
MIDDLE EAST
ISRAEL-PALESTINE
The Israeli military (IDF) killed a 15 year old Palestinian in Gaza’s Mawasi displacement zone on Friday. There are no further details here as far as I know.
