November 6

November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 55 days remaining until the end of the year.

With 88 days between the mid-autumn equinox on September 23 and the mid-winter solstice on 21 December, we are considered at the end of (autumn or fall in the northern hemisphere; spring in the southern hemisphere) on this day.

Events

• 355 – Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with the government of the Prefecture of the Gauls.
• 1528 – Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas.
• 1789 – Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
• 1844 – The first constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted.
• 1856 – Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, is submitted for publication.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
• 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.
• 1869 – In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
• 1913 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
• 1917 – World War I: Third Battle of Ypres ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.
• 1918 – The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed in Poland.
• 1925 – Secret agent Sidney Reilly is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
• 1928 – Sweden begins a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the king.
• 1934 – Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority.
• 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.
• 1935 – First flight of the Hawker Hurricane.
• 1935 – Parker Brothers acquires the forerunner patents for MONOPOLY from Elizabeth Magie.
• 1939 – World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau takes place.
• 1941 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule. He states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, the Germans had lost 4.5 million soldiers and that Soviet victory was near.
• 1942 – World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign begins.
• 1943 – World War II: the Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings.
• 1944 – Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
• 1947 – Meet the Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
• 1962 – Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.
• 1963 – Vietnam War: Following the November 1 coup and execution of President Ngo Dinh Diem, coup leader General Duong Van Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam.
• 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 made use of this program.
• 1971 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
• 1975 – Green March begins: 300,000 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.
• 1977 – The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
• 1985 – In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the April 19 Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.
• 1985 – The Iran-Contra Affair: The American press reveals that U.S. President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran.
• 1986 – Sumburgh disaster – A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2.5 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.
• 1999 – Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
• 2002 – 12 people are killed in a fire on board a train bound for Vienna from Paris.
• 2004 – An express train collides with a stationary carriage near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing 7 and injuring 150.
• 2005 – The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.
• 2005 – The military junta of Myanmar begins moving its government ministries from Yangon to Pyinmana.

Births

• 1391 – Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (d. 1425)
• 1479 – Joanna I of Castile, queen of Spain (d. 1555)
• 1494 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566)
• 1550 – Karin Månsdotter, Queen of Sweden (d. 1612)
• 1661 – King Charles II of Spain (d. 1700)
• 1692 – Louis Racine, French poet (d. 1763)
• 1753 – Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian sculptor (d. 1802)
• 1753 – Jean-Baptiste Breval, French composer (d. 1823)
• 1814 – Adolphe Sax, Belgian inventor (d. 1894)
• 1833 – Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (d. 1908)
• 1835 – Cesare Lombroso, Italian psychiatrist and founder of criminology (d. 1909)
• 1841 – Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (d. 1915)
• 1841 – Armand Fallières, French president (d. 1931)
• 1851 – Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (d. 1902)
• 1854 – John Philip Sousa, American composer (d. 1932)

• 1855 – Ezra Seymour Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist (d. 1942)
• 1860 – Ignace Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and President of Poland (d. 1941)
• 1861 – James Naismith, Canadian inventor of basketball (d. 1939)
• 1880 – Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942)
• 1880 – Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American writer and novelist (d. 1959)
• 1882 – Thomas Ince, American movie actor, director, producer. (d. 1924)
• 1887 – Walter Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1946)
• 1892 – Harold Ross, American editor (d. 1951)
• 1892 – George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven (d. 1938)
• 1893 – Edsel Ford, president of Ford Motor Company (d. 1943)
• 1903 – June Marlowe, American actress (d. 1984)
• 1906 – James D. Norris, sportsman and businessman (Chicago Blackhawks) (d. 1966)
• 1914 – Jonathan Harris, American actor (d. 2002)
• 1916 – Ray Conniff, American composer and conductor (d. 2002)
• 1921 – James Jones, American writer (d. 1977)
• 1924 – Jeanette Schmid, Austrian professional whistler, AKA Baroness Lips von Lipstrill (d. 2005)
• 1926 – Frank Carson, Northern Irish comedian
• 1930 – Tom Hornbein, American mountaineer
• 1931 – Peter Collins, English race car driver (d. 1958)
• 1931 – Mike Nichols, American film director
• 1932 – Stonewall Jackson, American country singer
• 1937 – Joe Warfield, American actor
• 1937 – Eugene Pitt, American singer (The Jive Five)
• 1938 – Mack Jones, American baseball player (d. 2004)
• 1938 – Jim Pike, American singer (The Lettermen)
• 1938 – P.J. Proby, American-born singer and actor
• 1938 – Diana E. H. Russell, South African feminist writer and activist
• 1938 – Dumitru Rusu, Romanian painter
• 1939 – Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)
• 1939 – Leonardo Quisumbing, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
• 1940 – Ruth Messinger, Manhattan Borough President and President of the American Jewish World Service
• 1940 – Dieter F. Uchtdorf, LDS apostle
• 1940 – Johnny Giles, Irish footballer,
• 1946 – Sally Field, American actress
• 1946 – Fred Penner, Canadian children's entertainer
• 1947 – Jim Rosenthal, English sports presenter
• 1947 – Edward Yang, Taiwanese film director (d. 2007)
• 1947 – George Young, Australian musician (Easybeats)
• 1948 – Glenn Frey, American singer (Eagles)
• 1949 – Brad Davis, American actor (d. 1991)
• 1949 – Arturo Sandoval, Cuban-born trumpeter
• 1949 – Joseph C. Wilson, American diplomat and husband of Valerie Plame
• 1949 – Nigel Havers, English actor
• 1950 – Amir Aczel, lecturer in mathematics
• 1950 – Chris Glen, Scottish bassist The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
• 1951 – Peter Althin, Swedish politician and attorney
• 1951 – John Falsey, American television writer and producer
• 1952 – Michael Cunningham, American writer
• 1954 – Catherine Crier, American television personality
• 1955 – Maria Shriver, American journalist
• 1955 – Alton Coleman, American serial killer
• 1957 – Klaus Kleinfeld, German industrialist
• 1957 – Siobhán McCarthy, Irish singer and actress
• 1957 – Lori Singer, American actress
• 1958 – Trace Beaulieu, American actor
• 1960 – Michael Cerveris, American actor
• 1961 – Florent Pagny, French songwriter and singer
• 1961 – Kazuhiko Aoki, Japanese game creator
• 1961 – Craig Goldy, guitarist for the band (Dio)
• 1962 – Aznil Nawawi, Malaysian host, actor and singer
• 1963 – Rozz Williams, American musician (Christian Death) (d. 1998)
• 1963 – Martin Keepin , Manager of Burtons Menswear Abergavenny, Wales, UK
• 1964 – Kerry Conran, American filmmaker
• 1964 – Arne Duncan, American political figure
• 1964 – Corey Glover, American musician (Living Color)
• 1964 – Greg Graffin, American singer (Bad Religion)
• 1966 – Paul Gilbert, American guitarist and singer
• 1966 – Peter DeLuise, American actor and director
• 1967 – Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress (d. 1989)
• 1968 – Alfred Williams, American football player
• 1968 – Jerry Yang, Chinese American entrepreneur (Yahoo!, Inc.)
• 1968 – Kelly Rutherford, American actress
• 1970 – Ethan Hawke, American actor
• 1972 – Garry Flitcroft, English footballer
• 1972 – Thandie Newton, English actress
• 1972 – Rebecca Romijn, American actress
• 1972 – Deivi Cruz, American baseball player
• 1973 – Nell McAndrew, British model
• 1974 – Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (d. 2009)
• 1975 – Anastasia Blue, American former pornographic actress (d. 2008)
• 1976 – Mike Herrera, American singer and bassist (MxPx)
• 1976 – Jodi Martin, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1976 – Pat Tillman, American football player (d. 2004)
• 1976 – Catherine Clark, Canadian journalist; daughter of Joe Clark
• 1977 – Patrícia Tavares, Portuguese actress
• 1978 – Sandrine Blancke, Belgian actress
• 1978 – Daniella Cicarelli, Brazilian model and television host
• 1978 – Jolina Magdangal, Filipina singer, actress and television host
• 1978 – Taryn Manning, American actress
• 1978 – Zak Morioka, Brazilian racing driver
• 1979 – Myolie Wu , Hong Kong famous star
• 1979 – Lamar Odom, American basketball player
• 1981 – Lee Dong Wook, South Korean actor
• 1981 – Andrew Murray, Canadian Ice Hockey Player
• 1982 – Sowelu, Japanese pop singer
• 1982 – Steve Millar, Candian/American Singer-Songwriter
• 1983 – Janette McBride, Australian/Filipino actress
• 1983 – Jon Hume, Australian singer (Evermore)
• 1984 – Ricky Romero, American baseball player
• 1987 – Ana Ivanović, Serbian tennis player
• 1988 – Erik Lund, Swedish footballer
• 1988 – Emma Stone, American actress
• 1989 – Jozy Altidore, American footballer
• 1989 – Shaina Magdayao, Filipina actress

Deaths

• 1231 – Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1196)
• 1406 – Pope Innocent VII
• 1492 – Antoine Busnois, French composer
• 1550 – Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1487)
• 1632 – King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (b. 1594)
• 1650 – William II, Prince of Orange (b. 1626)
• 1656 – King John IV of Portugal (b. 1603)
• 1656 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist (b. 1583)
• 1692 – Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (b. 1619)
• 1752 – Ralph Erskine, Scottish minister (b. 1685)
• 1771 – John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (b. 1695)
• 1790 – James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (b. 1726)
• 1796 – Catherine II of Russia (b. 1729)
• 1816 – Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (b. 1752)
• 1822 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (b. 1748)
• 1836 – King Charles X of France (b. 1757)
• 1846 – Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and activist (b. 1800)
• 1846 – Alexander Chavchavadze, Georgian poet and general (b. 1786)
• 1893 – Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1840)
• 1903 – Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (b.1895)
• 1910 – Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (b. 1838)
• 1925 – Khải Định, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1885)
• 1929 – Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1867)
• 1936 – Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (b. 1864)
• 1937 – Colin Campbell Cooper, American Impressionist painter (b. 1856)
• 1941 – Maurice Leblanc, French novelist (b. 1864)
• 1960 – Erich Raeder, German grand admiral (b. 1876)
• 1964 – Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
• 1964 – Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (b. 1925)
• 1965 – Edgard Varèse, French composer (b. 1883)
• 1965 – Clarence Williams, American musician (b. 1898)
• 1968 – Charles Munch, French conductor and violinist (b. 1891)
• 1968 – Charles B. McVay III, Ex-U.S. Navy Captain (b. 1898)
• 1970 – Agustín Lara, Mexican composer and poet (b. 1900)
• 1978 – Harry Bertoia, Italian artist and designer (b. 1915)
• 1978 – Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (b. 1899)
• 1984 – Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist and dramatist (b. 1929)
• 1985 – Joel Crothers, Soap Opera Actor (b. 1941)
• 1986 – Elisabeth Grümmer, Alsatian soprano (b. 1911)
• 1987 – Zohar Argov, Israeli singer (b. 1955)
• 1989 – Yusaku Matsuda, Japanese actor (b. 1949)
• 1989 – Dickie Goodman, creator of "break-in" records (b. 1934)
• 1991 – Gene Tierney, American actress (b. 1920)
• 1994 – Jacob Kurtzberg, American comic book artist, writer, and editor (b. 1917)
• 1995 – Aneta Corsaut, American actress (b. 1933)
• 1998 – Marcel Gauthier, Canadian wrestler (b. 1928)
• 2000 – David R. Brower, American environmentalist (b. 1912)
• 2000 – L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (b. 1907)
• 2001 – Anthony Shaffer, English dramatist (b. 1926)
• 2002 – Sid Sackson, American board game designer (b. 1920)
• 2003 – Crash Holly, American professional wrestler (b. 1971)
• 2003 – Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (b. 1919)
• 2003 – Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (b. 1962)
• 2003 – Just Betzer, Danish film producer (b. 1944)
• 2004 – Fred Dibnah, English television personality (b. 1938)
• 2004 – Johnny Warren, Australian soccer player (b. 1943)
• 2005 – Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (b. 1967)
• 2005 – Rod Donald, New Zealand Politician, Green Party Co-leader (b. 1957)
• 2005 – Miguel Aceves Mejía, Mexican actor, composer and singer (b. 1915)
• 2006 – Federico (Fico) López, Puerto Rican basketball player (b. 1962)
• 2006 – Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (b. 1950)
• 2007 – Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist (b. 1920)
• 2007 – Hilda Braid, English actress (b. 1929)
• 2007 – George Grljusich, Australian sports broadcaster (b. c. 1939)
• 2007 – Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, Afghan politician (b. c. 1962)
• 2007 – George Osmond, Osmond family patriarch (b. 1917)
• 2007 – Hank Thompson, American singer (b. 1925)
• 2009 – Ron Sproat, American screenwriter and playwright

Holidays and observances

• Catholic Saints – November 6 is the feast day of the following Catholic Saints:
  • St. Leonard of Noblac
  • St. Winnoc
• Dominican Republic – Constitution Day (1844)
• Finland – Swedishness Day, a flag day
• Sweden – Death of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and official flag day
• Tajikistan – Constitution Day (1994)
• Tatarstan – Constitution Day (1992)

External links

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