November 6
November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 55 days remaining.
Events
- 1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Alvar Nunez 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 Spain.
- 1860 - U.S. presidential election, 1860: Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th President of the United States, becoming the first Republican to become president.
- 1861 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
- 1869 - In New Brunswick, New Jersey, the first official intercollegiate American football game is played.
- 1913 - Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
- 1917 - Bolshevik Revolution begins: In Russia, Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin leads his leftist revolutionaries in a nearly bloodless coup d'état against the ineffective Provisional Government (Russia was still using the Julian Calendar at the time, so period references show an October date).
- 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.
- 1928 - Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the king.
- 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 - The Hedda Hopper Show debuts with Hollywood gossip Hedda Hopper as host (the show ran until 1951 and made Hopper a powerful Hollywood elite).
- 1941 - World War II: Soviet leader Josef Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule (the first time was earlier that year on July 2). 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 wildly false lie) 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).
- 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 take advantage of this program).
- 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 Columbia, leftist guerrillas of the April 19 Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá (by the next day 115 people were dead, 11 of whom were Supreme Court justices).
- 1999 - Australians vote to keep the British queen as their head of state.
- 2002 - Winona Ryder is convicted of shoplifting.
Births
- 15 or 16 - Agrippina the younger, Roman empress († 59)
- 1814 - Adolphe Sax, saxophone inventor
- 1851 - Charles Dow, journalist, economist
- 1854 - John Philip Sousa, composer († 1932)
- 1860 - Ignace Paderewski, composer, politician
- 1861 - James Naismith, inventor of basketball († 1939)
- 1880 - Robert Musil, novelist (The Man Without Qualities) († 1942)
- 1892 - Harold Ross, editor (The New Yorker)
- 1910 - Erik Ode, film director and actor († 1983)
- 1916 - Ray Conniff, composer, conductor
- 1921 - Julius Hackethal, physician († 1991)
- 1921 - James Jones, writer († 1977)
- 1928 - Peter Matz, composer († 2002)
- 1931 - Mike Nichols, director
- 1946 - Sally Fields, actress
- 1948 - Glenn Frey, singer ("The Eagles")
- 1949 - Arturo Sandoval, Jazz prefromer
- 1955 - Maria Shriver, journalist
- 1970 - Ethan Hawke, actor
Deaths
- 1632 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (Julian Calendar)
- 1672 - Heinrich Schütz, composer
- 1769 - Catherine II of Russia
- 1836 - King Charles X of France
- 1893 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer
- 1925 - Khai Dinh, Emperor of Vietnam
- 1991 - Gene Tierney, actress
- 2000 - L. Sprague De Camp, science fiction writer
- 2000 - David R. Brower, founder of many environmentalist organizations
- 2001 - Anthony Shaffer, filmwriter
Holidays and Observances
- Dominican Republic - Constitution Day
- Morocco - Anniversary of the Green March
- Sweden - Death of of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden an official flag day
November 5 - November 7 - October 6 - December 6 - more historical anniversaries
See also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December