November 6
day of the year
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.
Events Edit
Up to 1950 Edit
- 355 - Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin, Julian the Apostate, to the rank of Caesar.
- 1429 – Henry VI becomes King of England.
- 1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first-known European to set foot in what is now Texas.
- 1789 - Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.
- 1844 – The first Constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted.
- 1860 – Abraham Lincoln is elected President of the United States.
- 1861 – Jefferson Davis is chosen as President of the Confederate States of America.
- 1869 - In New Brunswick, New Jersey, the first inter-college game in American football takes place. Rutgers University defeats Princeton University 6-4.
- 1880 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran discovers the malaria parasite called "Plasmodium falciparum".
- 1888 – Benjamin Harrison is elected President of the United States.
- 1900 – William McKinley is elected to serve a second term as President of the United States, of which he is only able to serve 6 months, as he is fatally shot by Leon Czolgosz the following September.
- 1913 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested after leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
- 1917 - World War I: The Third Battle of Ypres in Belgium ends.
- 1918 – The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed.
- 1928 – Herbert Hoover is elected President of the United States, defeating Al Smith.
- 1936 - Spanish Civil War: The Spanish government relocates to Valencia from Madrid.
- 1939 - World War II: The "Sonderaktion Krakau" takes place, as the Gestapo arrests 184 professors in Krakow.
- 1941 - World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his rule.
- 1942 - World War II: German U-boat U 68 sinks British passenger ship City of Cairo, killing 104 people.
- 1943 - World War II: The Red Army recaptures Kiev.
- 1944 – The element Plutonium is created.
- 1947 – The American TV show Meet the Press debuts.
1951 – 2000 Edit
- 1956 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected to serve a second term as President of the United States.
- 1956 - Building work on the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River in Southern Africa begins.
- 1957 - Félix Gaillard becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1962 – The UN General Assembly condemns South Africa's Apartheid policy, encouraging its members to break-off military and economic ties with the country.
- 1963 – Duong Vanh Minh takes over the 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.
- 1975 - Green March: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tafarya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II to cross into Western Sahara.
- 1977 - The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, US, fails, killing 39 people.
- 1978 – Franz Josef Strauss is elected Minister-President of Bavaria.
- 1981 - Larry Holmes becomes Boxing Heavyweight World Champion, defeating Renaldo Snipes.
- 1982 – Paul Biya becomes President of Cameroon.
- 1984 – Ronald Reagan is elected to serve a second term as President of the United States. His challenger Walter Mondale only managed to win in Minnesota and Washington, DC.
- 1985 – Leftist Guerrillas in Colombia seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogota, killing 115 people, including 11 Supreme Court Justices.
- 1985 - Anibal Cavaco Silva becomes Prime Minister of Portugal.
- 1985 – Iran-Contra Affair: The American press reports that Ronald Reagan had authorised arms shipments to Iran.
- 1986 – Joaquim Chissano is chosen to succeed Samora Machel, who had been killed in a plane crash, as President of Mozambique.
- 1986 – Alex Ferguson becomes the manager of Manchester United. He serves for over 26 1⁄2 years, until May 2013.
- 1986 - Sumburgh Disaster: British International Helicopter Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes into the sea to the east of Sumburgh Airport, at the southernmost point of Shetland. 45 people are killed.
- 1991 – Leningrad is renamed St. Petersburg.
- 1991 – The KGB no longer exists from this date.
- 1995 – In Antananarivo, the former residence of sovereign rulers of Madagascar, is destroyed by fire.
- 1999 – Voters in Australia decide to keep Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as their head of state.
- 1999 - In Berlin, American Bryan Berg builds the world's biggest card house, at 7.71 meters tall, with 91,800 playing cards, at 131 levels high.
From 2001 Edit
- 2001 – Michael Bloomberg is elected Mayor of New York City.
- 2001 - TV Series 24 is first shown.
- 2004 – A train collides with a stationary car at a level crossing near the village of Ufton Nervet in southern England, killing 7 people.
- 2005 – The Evansville Tornado of 2005 kills 25 people in northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.
- 2005 – The Burmese military leaders begin moving government ministries from Rangoon to Pyinmana-Naypidaw.
- 2012 - Barack Obama is elected to a second term as President of the United States, defeating his Republican Party challenger Mitt Romney.
- 2012 - Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.
- 2012 - Puerto Rico holds a referendum on its future status, with indications of a majority vote in favour of becoming the 51st US State.
- 2018 - Mid-term elections are held in the United States: The Democrats gain control of the House of Representatives and also gain some state governorships; the Republicans keep their majority in the Senate.
Births Edit
Up to 1900 Edit
- 15 – Agrippina the Younger, Roman Empress (d. 59)
- 1391 - Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (d. 1425).
- 1479 – Queen Joanna of Castile (d. 1555)
- 1494 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566).
- 1550 - Karin Mansdotter, Queen of Sweden (d. 1612)
- 1617 - Leopoldo de' Medici, Italian cardinal (d. 1675)
- 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 Bréval, French composer (d. 1823)
- 1771 – Alois Senefelder, Austrian actor, playwright and inventor (d. 1834)
- 1794 – Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (d. 1881)
- 1814 – Adolphe Sax, Belgian inventor of the Saxophone (d. 1894)
- 1825 – Charles Garnier, French architect (d. 1898)
- 1832 - Joseph Smith III, American religious leader (d. 1914)
- 1833 – Jonas Lie, Norwegian writer (d. 1908)
- 1835 - Cesare Lombroso, Italian criminologist and physician (d. 1909)
- 1841 – Armand Fallières, President of France (d. 1931)
- 1841 - Nelson W. Aldrich, American politician (d. 1915)
- 1850 - Ernest von Koerber, Austrian politician (d. 1919)
- 1851 - Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (d. 1902)
- 1854 – John Philip Sousa, American composer (d. 1932)
- 1861 – James Naismith, Canadian inventor of basketball (d. 1939)
- 1861 - Thomas Watt Gregory, United States Attorney General (d. 1933)
- 1880 – Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942)
- 1880 - George Poage, American athlete (d. 1962)
- 1882 - Thomas Harper Ince, American movie actor, director and producer (d. 1924)
- 1886 - Ida Barney, American astronomer (d. 1982)
- 1887 - Walter Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1946)
- 1891 - Galaktion Tabidze, Georgian poet (d. 1959)
- 1892 - Harold Ross, American editor (d. 1951)
- 1893 – Edsel Ford, American chief executive of the Ford Motor Company (d. 1943)
1901 – 1950 Edit
- 1903 - June Marlowe, American actress (d. 1984)
- 1908 - Teizo Takeuchi, Japanese footballer (d. 1946)
- 1914 - Jonathan Harris, American actor (d. 2002)
- 1916 – Ray Conniff, American musician (d. 2002)
- 1919 - Christoph Probst, German Resistance activist (White Rose) (d. 1943)
- 1921 – James Jones, American writer (d. 1977)
- 1925 - Michel Bouquet, French actor
- 1926 - Zig Ziglar, American author (d. 2012)
- 1931 – Mike Nichols, German-born American television, stage and movie director (d. 2014)
- 1931 - Peter Collins, British racing driver (d. 1958)
- 1932 - François Englert, Belgian theoretical physicist, joint-winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1932 - Stonewall Jackson, American country music singer
- 1932 - Eugene H. Peterson, American clergyman and biblical scholar (d. 2018)
- 1932 - Ron Saunders, English footballer and manager (d. 2019)
- 1938 - Seishiro Shimatani, Japanese footballer (d. 2001)
- 1939 - Michael Schwerner, American Civil Rights activist (d. 1964)
- 1941 - John Carter, American politician
- 1941 - Guy Clark, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (d. 2016)
- 1943 - Roberto Telch, Argentine footballer (d. 2014)
- 1946 – Sally Field, American actress
- 1946 - Fred Penner, Canadian children’s entertainer
- 1946 - George Young, Scottish-Australian musician (d. 2017)
- 1947 - Carolyn Seymour, English actres
- 1947 - Larry James, American athlete (d. 2008)
- 1948 - Glenn Frey, American rock musician (d. 2016)
- 1949 – Arturo Sandoval, Cuban jazz musician
- 1949 - Brad Davis, American actor (d. 1991)
- 1950 - Marvin Goodfriend, American economist (d. 2019)
1951 – 1975 Edit
- 1951 - Nigel Havers, British actor
- 1952 - Michael Cunningham, American writer
- 1954 – Karin Fossum, Norwegian writer
- 1954 - Mango, Italian singer (d. 2014)
- 1955 – Maria Shriver, American journalist, was married to Arnold Schwarzenegger
- 1956 – Marc Dutroux, Belgian serial killer
- 1957 - Lori Singer, American actress
- 1958 - Trace Beaulieu, American actor, puppeteer, producer and screenwriter
- 1961 - Florent Pagny, French singer-songwriter and actor
- 1962 - Annette Zilinskas, American musician and singer
- 1964 – Arne Duncan, American politician
- 1965 - Valérie Benguigui, French actress (d. 2013)
- 1966 - Paul Gilbert, American guitarist and singer
- 1967 - Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress (d. 1989)
- 1968 - Jerry Yang, Taiwanese-American businessman, co-founder of Yahoo!
- 1968 - Kelly Rutherford, American actress
- 1970 – Ethan Hawke, American actor
- 1972 - Rebecca Romijn, American actress and model
- 1972 - Thandie Newton, English actress
- 1973 - Nell McAndrew, English model and runner
- 1973 – Sandy Robson, Canadian actor
- 1974 - Susan Calman, Scottish comedienne and television presenter
- 1974 – Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (d. 2009)
From 1976 Edit
- 1976 - Jodi Martin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1976 - Pat Tillman, American football player and soldier (d. 2004)
- 1977 - Sienna West, American pornographic movie actress
- 1978 - Sandrine Blancke, Belgian actress
- 1978 - Taryn Manning, American singer-songwriter, actress and fashion designer
- 1979 - Brad Stuart, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1981 - Lee Dong Wook, South Korean actor
- 1981 - Cassie Bernall, American student (d. 1999)
- 1983 - Nicole Hosp, Austrian skier
- 1983 - Jon Hume, Australian singer
- 1984 - Ricky Romero, American baseball player
- 1986 - Craig Bryson, Scottish footballer
- 1986 - Katie Leclerc, American actress
- 1986 - Conor Sammon, Irish footballer
- 1987 – Ana Ivanovic, Serbian tennis player
- 1988 – Erik Lund, Swedish footballer
- 1988 - Conchita Wurst, Austrian singer and performer, winner of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest
- 1988 – Emma Stone, American actress
- 1989 – Jozy Altidore, American footballer
- 1990 – André Schürrle, German footballer
- 1990 - Kris Wu, Chinese rapper, singer-songwriter and actor
- 1991 - Mike van Duinen, Dutch footballer
- 1991 - Doron Lamb, American basketball player
- 1992 - Kim Yura, South Korean singer
- 2002 - Mya-Lecia Naylor, English actress (d. 2019)
Deaths Edit
Up to 1900 Edit
- 1231 – Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1196)
- 1406 - Pope Innocent VII
- 1492 - Antoine Busnois, French composer and poet (b. 1430)
- 1650 – William II, Prince of Orange (b. 1626)
- 1656 – King John IV of Portugal (b. 1604)
- 1656 - Jean-Baptiste Morin, French mathematician, astrologer and astronomer (b. 1583)
- 1672 – Heinrich Schütz, German composer (b. 1585)
- 1771 - John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (b. 1695)
- 1790 - James Bowdoin, Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1726)
- 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 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1840)
1901 – 2000 Edit
- 1905 - George Williams, English founder of the YMCA (b. 1821)
- 1910 - Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (b. 1838)
- 1914 - Carl Hans Lody, German naval reserve officer (b. 1877)
- 1925 – Emperor Khai Dinh of Vietnam (b. 1885)
- 1929 – Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1867)
- 1933 - Andrei Lyapchev, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1866)
- 1935 - Henry Fairfield Osborn, American geologist and paleontologist (b. 1857)
- 1937 - Colin Campbell Cooper, American painter and academic (b. 1856)
- 1944 – Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, British politician (b. 1880)
- 1951 - Tom Kiely, Irish athlete (b. 1869)
- 1964 – Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German chemist (b. 1873)
- 1965 - Clarence Williams, American musician (b. 1898)
- 1970 – Agustin Lara, Mexican composer and poet (b. 1897)
- 1978 - Harry Bertoia, Italian artist and designer (b. 1915)
- 1982 - Shiro Teshima, Japanese footballer (b. 1907)
- 1985 – Sanjeev Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1938)
- 1987 - Ross Barnett, American politician, 52nd Governor of Mississippi (b. 1898)
- 1991 – Gene Tierney, American actress (b. 1920)
- 1997 – Anne-Stine Ingstad, Norwegian archaeologist (b. 1918)
- 1999 - Regina Ghazaryan, Armenian painter (b. 1915)
- 2000 - David Brower, American environmentalist (b. 1912)
From 2001 Edit
- 2001 - Anthony Shaffer, British writer, screenwriter and playwright (b. 1926)
- 2002 - Sid Jackson, American board game designer (b. 1920)
- 2003 – Mike Lockwood, American professional wrestler (b. 1971)
- 2004 - Fred Dibnah, British television personality (b. 1938)
- 2005 - Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (b. 1967)
- 2006 - Fernando Fernandez Ochoa, Spanish skier (b. 1950)
- 2007 – Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist (b. 1920)
- 2007 – Hank Thompson, American musician (b. 1925)
- 2007 - George Osmond, American patriarch of the Osmond family (b. 1917)
- 2008 - Larry James, American athlete (b. 1947)
- 2010 - Siddhartha Shankar Roy, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1920)
- 2011 - Margaret Field, American actress (b. 1922)
- 2012 - Maxim of Bulgaria, Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (b. 1914)
- 2012 - Clive Dunn, British actor, comedian and singer (b. 1920)
- 2013 - Ace Parker, American football and baseball player (b. 1912)
- 2014 - Rick Rosas, American musician (b. 1949)
- 2014 - Victor Kostetskiy, Russian actor (b. 1941)
- 2014 - Tommy Macpherson, Scottish army officer (b. 1920)
- 2014 - Alok Nembang, Nepalese movie director (b. 1973)
- 2015 - Yitzhak Navon, President of Israel (b. 1921)
- 2017 - Richard F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut (b. 1929)
- 2017 - Karin Dor, German actress (b. 1938)
- 2017 - Abdul Aziz bin Fahd, Saudi prince (b. 1973)
- 2017 - Feliciano Rivilla, Spanish footballer (b. 1936)
- 2018 - Jonathan Cantwell, American racing cyclist (b. 1982)
- 2018 - Bernard Landry, Canadian politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1937)
- 2019 - Lev Anninsky, Russian literary critic, journalist and screenwriter (b. 1934)
Observances Edit
- Constitution Day (Dominican Republic, Tajikistan, Tatarstan)
- Finnish-Swedish Heritage Day (Finland)
- Gustavus Adolphus Day (Sweden)
- Green March (Morocco)