6 November - Definition and Overview

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, the first official intercollegiate American football game is played.
• 1873 - Formation of the Halifax Rugby Club.
• 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 ran until 1951 and made Hopper a powerful figure in the Hollywood elite).
• 1941 - World War II: Soviet leader Josef 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 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).
• 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.
• 1962 - Richard Nixon loses the election for governor of California, proclaiming "You won't have Nixon to kick around any more."
• 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).
• 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.
• 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 - "Irangate" scandal: The American press reveals that US President Ronald Reagan 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 - The wife of presidential candidate and Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis, Kitty 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 Chavez 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 5500 US dollar USD from a New York boutique.
• 2004 - An express train collided with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England. There were half a dozen fatalities and 150 injured.
• 2004 - Official Guided by Voices Day in Dallas, Texas.

Births

• 15 or 16 - Agrippina the younger, Roman empress (d. 59)
• 1494 - Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1566)
• 1814 - Adolphe Sax, saxophone inventor (d.1894)
• 1833 - Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (d.1908)
• 1851 - Charles Dow, journalist, economist (d.1902)
• 1854 - John Philip Sousa, composer (d. 1932)
• 1860 - Ignace Paderewski, composer, politician (d.1941)
• 1861 - James Naismith, inventor of basketball (d. 1939)
• 1880 - Robert Musil, novelist (The Man Without Qualities) (d. 1942)
• 1887 - Walter Johnson, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1946)
• 1892 - Harold Ross, editor (The New Yorker) (d.1951)
• 1910 - Erik Ode, film director and actor (d. 1983)
• 1914 - Jonathan Harris, Character Actor famous as Dr. Smith in Lost in Space (d. 2002)
• 1916 - Ray Conniff, composer, conductor (d.2002)
• 1921 - Julius Hackethal, physician (d. 1991)
• 1921 - James Jones, writer (d. 1977)
• 1928 - Peter Matz, composer (d. 2002)
• 1931 - Mike Nichols, director
• 1938 - Mack Jones, Major League Baseball player (d. 2004)
• 1946 - Sally Field, actress
• 1948 - Glenn Frey, singer ("The Eagles")
• 1949 - Arturo Sandoval, trumpeter
• 1955 - Maria Shriver, journalist and First Lady of California
• 1965 - Greg Graffin, singer and founder of Bad Religion
• 1966 - Christian Lorenz, keyboardist for Rammstein
• 1970 - Ethan Hawke, actor
• 1972 - Thandie Newton, actress (Mission: Impossible II, The Chronicles of Riddick)
• 1976 - Pat Tillman, American football player (d. 2004)
• 1979 - Lamar Odom, basketball player
• 1989 - Katherine Watson, British actress

Deaths

• 1003 - Pope John XVII
• 1406 - Pope Innocent VII
• 1632 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (Julian Calendar)
• 1672 - Heinrich Schütz, composer
• 1796 - Catherine the Great of Russia
• 1816 - Gouverneur Morris, lawmaker and diplomat
• 1836 - King Charles X of France
• 1846 - Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (b. 1800)
• 1893 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer
• 1925 - Khai Dinh, Emperor of Vietnam
• 1965 - Edgar Varèse, composer (b. 1883)
• 1965 - Clarence Williams, jazz musician (b. 1893)
• 1968 - Charles Munch, French conductor and violinist (b. 1891)
• 1978 - Harry Bertoia, Italian artist and designer (b. 1915)
• 1986 - Elisabeth Grümmer, Alsatian soprano (b. 1911)
• 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
• 2002 - Sid Sackson, board game designer
• 2003 - Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor
• 2003 - Crash Holly, professional wrestler
• 2003 - Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer
• 2004 - Fred Dibnah, English steeplejack
• 2004 - Johnny Warren, Australian soccer legend

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

November 5 - November 7 - October 6 - December 6 - more historical anniversaries