What day of the week was November 5, 2006?

The day of the week November 5th, 2006 fell on was a Sunday.

There were 50 days until Christmas.

Bülent Ecevit the Turkish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1925) died on this day in 2006.

Saddam Hussein the former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al- Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'a Muslims in 1982.