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.

Events

Up to 1950

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

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

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

Up to 1900

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

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

1951 – Nigel Havers, British actor
1952 – Michael Cunningham, American writer
1953 – Michele Catain, American crew member and real estate agent
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

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
1992 – Fang Bo, Chinese ping pong player
2002 – Mya-Lecia Naylor, English actress (d. 2019)

Deaths

Up to 1900

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

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

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

Constitution Day (Dominican Republic, Tajikistan, Tatarstan)
Finnish-Swedish Heritage Day (Finland)
Gustavus Adolphus Day (Sweden)
Green March (Morocco)