November 6

November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 55 days remaining.

From September 23, there are 88 days in a fall (autumn) season. We are considered halfway through fall (autumn) on November 6.

Events

• 1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot on Texas.
• 1789 - Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.
• 1844 - The Dominican Republic gains its independence from Haiti.
• 1860 - U.S. presidential election, 1860: Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th President of the United States, the first Republican to hold that office.
• 1861 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
• 1869 - In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University defeats Princeton University, 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game .
• 1873 - The Halifax Rugby Club is formed.
• 1888 - U.S. presidential election, 1888: Democrat incumbent Grover Cleveland wins the overall popular vote, but is voted out of office because he loses in the Electoral College to Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison.
• 1900 - U.S. presidential election, 1900: Republican incumbent William McKinley is reelected by defeating Democrat challenger William Jennings Bryan.
• 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 Ypres in Belgium.
• 1918 - The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed in Poland.
• 1928 - Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the king.
• 1928 - U.S. presidential election, 1928: Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin over Democrat Alfred E. Smith.
• 1935 - Before the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" (see: FM radio).
• 1939 - World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau
• 1939 - The Hedda Hopper Show debuts with Hollywood gossip Hedda Hopper as host. The show would until 1951, making Hopper a powerful figure in the Hollywood elite.
• 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, that the Germans have lost 4.5 million soldiers (a wild exaggeration) and that Soviet victory was near.
• 1947 - Meet The Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
• 1956 - U.S. presidential election, 1956: Republican incumbent Dwight D. Eisenhower is reelected by defeating Democrat challenger Adlai E. Stevenson in a rematch of their contest four years earlier.
• 1957 - Félix Gaillard becomes Prime Minister of France
• 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 murder of President Ngo Dinh Diem, coup leader General Duong Van Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam.
• 1965 - Freedom Flights begin: Cuba and the United States formally agree to start an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans will take advantage of this program.
• 1971 - The AEC 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.
• 1975 - The Sex Pistols play their first concert at St. Martin's School of Art in London.
• 1977 - The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
• 1984 - Ronald Reagan defeats Walter Mondale to be re-elected in one of the largest electoral landslide in United States election history.
• 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 - "Irangate" scandal: The American press reveals that US President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran.
• 1985 - The Playboy Club in New York admits topless male "bunnies" for the first time.
• 1988 - Beatle Ringo Starr checks into an alcohol rehabilitation centre.
• 1989 - Kitty Dukakis, wife of presidential candidate and Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis, is hospitalised for drinking rubbing alcohol.
• 1996 - The family of Eduardo Quihua Maquixtle from Vicente Guerrero, Mexico, including his four children, are stabbed by three men accusing them of witchcraft.
• 1998 - Hugo Chávez is elected president of Venezuela
• 1999 - Australians vote to keep the British queen as their head of state.
• 2001 - Michael Bloomberg is elected mayor of New York City.
• 2001 - David Trimble is re-elected prime minister of Northern Ireland
• 2002 - 12 people are killed in a fire on board a train headed for Vienna from Paris
• 2002 - Winona Ryder is found guilty of shoplifting after stealing items worth $5,500 from a New York boutique.
• 2004 - An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing 6 and injuring 150.
• 2004 - Official Guided by Voices Day in Dallas, Texas.

Births

• 1479 - Joanna of Castile, mother of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1555)
• 1494 - Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566)
• 1510 - John Caius, English physician (d. 1573)
• 1661 - King Charles II of Spain (d. 1700)
• 1692 - Louis Racine, French poet (d. 1763)
• 1814 - Adolphe Sax, Belgian inventor (d.1894)
• 1833 - Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (d.1908)
• 1841 - Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (d. 1915)
• 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)
• 1887 - Walter Johnson, baseball player (d. 1946)
• 1892 - Harold Ross, American editor (d.1951)
• 1914 - Jonathan Harris, American actor (d. 2002)
• 1916 - Ray Conniff, American composer and conductor (d.2002)
• 1921 - James Jones, American writer (d. 1977)
• 1931 - Mike Nichols, German director
• 1938 - Mack Jones, baseball player (d. 2004)
• 1939 - Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)
• 1946 - Sally Field, American actress
• 1948 - Glenn Frey, American singer (The Eagles)
• 1949 - Arturo Sandoval, Cuban-born trumpeter
• 1955 - Maria Shriver, American journalist
• 1957 - Lori Singer, American actress
• 1957 - Klaus Kleinfeld, German industrialist
• 1965 - Greg Graffin, American singer (Bad Religion)
• 1966 - Christian Lorenz, German keyboardist (Rammstein)
• 1970 - Ethan Hawke, American actor
• 1972 - Thandie Newton, Zambian actress
• 1973 - Nell McAndrew, British model
• 1976 - Pat Tillman, American football player (d. 2004)
• 1976 - Mike Herrera, American singer and bassist (mxpx)
• 1979 - Lamar Odom, American basketball player

Deaths

• 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)
• 1796 - Catherine II of Russia (b. 1729)
• 1816 - Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (b. 1752)
• 1836 - King Charles X of France (b. 1757)
• 1846 - Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (b. 1800)
• 1893 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1840)
• 1910 - Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (b. 1838)
• 1925 - Khai Dinh, Emperor of Vietnam
• 1964 - Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
• 1965 - Edgar Varèse, French composer (b. 1883)
• 1965 - Clarence Williams, American musician (b. 1893)
• 1968 - Charles Munch, French conductor and violinist (b. 1891)
• 1978 - Harry Bertoia, Italian artist and designer (b. 1915)
• 1984 - Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist and dramatist (b. 1929)
• 1986 - Elisabeth Grümmer, Alsatian soprano (b. 1911)
• 1991 - Gene Tierney, American actress (b. 1920)
• 2000 - L. Sprague De Camp, American writer (b. 1907)
• 2000 - David R. Brower, American environmentalist (b. 1912)
• 2001 - Anthony Shaffer, English dramatist (b. 1926)
• 2002 - Sid Sackson, American board game designer (b. 1920)
• 2003 - Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (b. 1962)
• 2003 - Crash Holly, American professional wrestler (b. 1971)
• 2003 - Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (b. 1919)
• 2004 - Fred Dibnah, English television personality (b. 1938)
• 2004 - Johnny Warren, Australian footballer (b. 1943)

Holidays and Observances

• Dominican Republic - Constitution Day
• Morocco - Anniversary of the Green March
• Sweden - Death of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden an official flag day
• Finland - Day of the Swedish Identity an official flag day

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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