November 6......

November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 55 days remaining in the year on this date.

EVENTS

● 355 - Roman Emperor Constantius II raises his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him of the government of the Prefecture of the Gauls.

● 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 (priest) as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.

● 1844 - The first constitution of the Dominican Republic was adopted.

● 1860 - U.S. presidential election, 1860: Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th President of the United States, defeating three other candidates and 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 League Football 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 re-elected 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 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.

● 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 run 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.

● 1942 - SS City of Cairo sunk by German U-Boat U-68 in the South Atlantic en route to Brazil from Cape Town.

● 1944 - Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility, subsequently used in the Fat Man Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

● 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 re-elected by defeating Democrat challenger Adlai E. Stevenson in a rematch of their contest four years earlier.

● 1956 - Allied forces take control of Suez; British and French troops protecting allied interests in the Suez Canal battle with Egyptian soldiers in the Canal Zone.

● 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 execution 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.

● 1972 - Pay and price freeze aims to curb inflation; The Conservative Government has frozen pay and prices in an attempt to halt spiraling inflation. The controls on income and expenditure have been introduced after talks between the government, the Trades Unions Council and the Confederation of British Industry failed to produce an anti-inflationary deal. In a statement to the House of Commons, Prime Minister Edward Heath told MPs the government had decided to bring in laws enforcing price and pay controls.

● 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 landslides 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.

● 1986 - Alex Ferguson is appointed manager of Manchester United F.C.

● 1986 - Oil workers die in helicopter crash; A Chinook helicopter carrying oil rig workers plunges into the North Sea off the coast of Scotland.

● 1988 - Beatle Ringo Starr checks into an alcohol rehabilitation centre.

● 1989 - Kitty Dukakis, wife of presidential candidate and Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis, is hospitalized for drinking rubbing alcohol.

● 1995 - Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell announces he is moving his team to Baltimore.

● 1997 - Former President George H.W. Bush opened his presidential library at Texas A&M University.

● 1998 - Hugo Chávez is elected president of Venezuela

● 1999 - Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.

● 2001 - Belgian national airline Sabena is declared bankrupt.

● 2001 - Billionaire Republican Michael Bloomberg won New York City's mayoral race, defeating Democrat Mark Green.

● 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. She was later placed on three years probation.

● 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.

● 2005 - The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 22 in Indiana and Kentucky.

● 2005 - The military junta of Myanmar begins moving its government ministries from Yangon to Pyinmana.

BIRTHS

● 1391 - Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (d. 1425)

● 1479 - Joanna of Castile, wife of Philip I of Castile (d. 1555)

● 1494 - Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566)

● 1494 - Hans Sachs, German Meistersinger (d. 1576)

● 1510 - John Caius, English physician (d. 1573)

● 1619 - Philips Koninck, Dutch painter (d. 1688)

● 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 Breval, French composer (d. 1823)

● 1779 - Washington Allston, American painter (d. 1843)

● 1814 - Antoine-Joseph (Adolphe) Sax, Belgian-French maker of musical instruments; inventor of the saxophone (d.1894)

● 1825 - Charles Garnier, French architect (d. 1898)

● 1832 - Joseph Smith III, American religious leader; president of Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (1860-1914) (d. 1914)

● 1833 - Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (d.1908)

● 1841 - Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (d. 1915)

● 1841 - Armand Fallières, French president (d. 1931)

● 1851 - Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (d.1902)

● 1854 - John Philip Sousa in Washington, D.C., American band conductor and composer of popular marches (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 in Ontario, Canada, Canadian-born American inventor of basketball (d. 1939)

● 1880 - Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942)

● 1887 - Walter Johnson in Humboldt, Kansas, American baseball player and Hall of Fame member (d. 1946)

● 1892 - Sir John William Alcock, British aviator (d. 1919)

● 1892 - Harold Ross, American editor of The New Yorker (1925-51) (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)

● 1926 - Frank Carson, Northern Irish comedian

● 1931 - Mike Nichols, American film director

● 1932 - Stonewall Jackson, Country singer

● 1937 - Eugene Pitt, Singer (The Jive Five)

● 1937 - Joe Warfield, American actor

● 1938 - Mack Jones, American baseball player (d. 2004)

● 1938 - P.J. Proby, American-born singer and actor

● 1938 - Dumitru Rusu, Romanian painter

● 1939 - Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)

● 1941 - Guy Clark, Country singer

● 1946 - Sally Field, American actress

● 1948 - Glenn Frey, American singer (Eagles)

● 1949 - Brad Davis, American actor (d. 1991)

● 1949 - Rory Block, Singer

● 1949 - Arturo Sandoval, Cuban-born trumpeter

● 1952 - Michael Cunningham, American writer

● 1955 - Maria Shriver, American journalist

● 1957 - Klaus Kleinfeld, German industrialist

● 1957 - Lori Singer, American actress (''Fame'')

● 1960 - Lance Kerwin, Actor

● 1963 - Paul Brindley, Rock musician (The Sundays)

● 1963 - Rozz Williams, American musician (Christian Death) (d. 1998)

● 1964 - Kerry Conran, American filmmaker

● 1964 - Corey Glover, Rock singer (Living Colour)

● 1965 - Greg Graffin, American singer (Bad Religion)

● 1966 - Paul Gilbert, American guitarist and singer

● 1966 - Christian Lorenz, German keyboardist (Rammstein)

● 1966 - Peter DeLuise, Actor

● 1967 - Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress (d. 1989)

● 1968 - Alfred Williams, American football player

● 1968 - Kelly Rutherford, Actress

● 1970 - Ethan Hawke, American actor

● 1972 - Garry Flitcroft, English footballer

● 1972 - Thandie Newton, Zambian actress

● 1972 - Rebecca Romijn, American actress

● 1972 - Deivi Cruz, Baseball player

● 1973 - Nell McAndrew, British model

● 1976 - Mike Herrera, American singer and bassist (MxPx)

● 1976 - Pat Tillman, American football player (d. 2004)

● 1976 - Catherine Clark, Canadian journalist (also daughter of former Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark)

● 1977 - Patrícia Tavares, Portuguese actress

● 1978 - Daniella Cicarelli, Brazilian supermodel

● 1978 - Nicole Dubuc, Actress

● 1978 - Jolina Magdangal, Filipina singer, actress and television host

● 1979 - Lamar Odom, American basketball player

● 1982 - Sowelu, Japanese pop singer

● 1987 - Ana Ivanović, Serbian tennis player

● 1989 - Mercedes Kastner, Actress

DEATHS

● 1231 - Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1196)

● 1406 - Pope Innocent VII

● 1492 - Antoine Busnois, French composer

● 1550 - Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1487)

● 1632 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (killed in battle) (b. 1594)

● 1656 - King John IV of Portugal (b. 1603)

● 1656 - Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist (b. 1583)

● 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)

● 1790 - James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (b. 1726)

● 1796 - Catherine II of Russia (b. 1729)

● 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 social activist (b. 1800)

● 1846 - Alexander Chavchavadze, Georgian poet and general

● 1893 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg, Russia, Russian composer (b. 1840)

● 1910 - Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (b. 1838)

● 1925 - Khai Dinh, Emperor of Vietnam

● 1929 - Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1867)

● 1936 - Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (b. 1864)

● 1960 - Erich Raeder, German grand admiral (b. 1876)

● 1964 - Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)

● 1964 - Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (b. 1925)

● 1965 - Edgard Varèse, French composer (b. 1883)

● 1965 - Clarence Williams, American musician (b. 1898)

● 1968 - Charles Munch, French conductor and violinist (b. 1891)

● 1968 - Charles B. McVay III, Ex-U.S. Navy Captain

● 1978 - Harry Bertoia, Italian artist and designer (b. 1915)

● 1978 - Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (b. 1899)

● 1984 - Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist and dramatist (b. 1929)

● 1985 - Joel Crothers, Soap Opera Actor (b. 1941)

● 1986 - Elisabeth Grümmer, Alsatian soprano (b. 1911)

● 1989 - Yusaku Matsuda, Japanese actor (b. 1949)

● 1991 - Gene Tierney, American actress (b. 1920)

● 1998 - Marcel Gauthier, Canadian midget wrestler (b. 1928)

● 2000 - David R. Brower, American environmentalist (b. 1912)

● 2000 - L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (b. 1907)

● 2001 - Anthony Shaffer, English dramatist (b. 1926)

● 2002 - Sid Sackson, American board game designer (b. 1920)

● 2003 - Crash Holly, American professional wrestler (b. 1971)

● 2003 - Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (b. 1919)

● 2003 - Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (b. 1962)

● 2004 - Fred Dibnah, English television personality (b. 1938)

● 2004 - Johnny Warren, Australian footballer (b. 1943)

● 2005 - Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (b. 1967)

● 2005 - Rod Donald, New Zealand Politican, Green Party Co-leader (b. 1957)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic Saints:
● St. Atticus
● St. Barlaam
● St. Christine of Stommeln
● St. Demetrian
● St. Edwen
● St. Efflam
● St. Emil
● St. Felix of Fondi
● St. Felix of Thynissa
● St. Illtud
● St. Joseph Khang
● St. Leonard
● St. Leonard of Noblac
● St. Leonard of Reresby
● St. Leonianus
● St. Pinnock
● St. Winoc

● Dominican Republic - Constitution Day (1844)

● Finland - Day of the Swedish Identity an official flag day

● Morocco - Anniversary of the Green March

● Sweden - Death of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and official flag day

● Tajikistan - Constitution Day (1994)

THE SEASONS

● With 88 days between the equinox on September 23 and the solstice on 21 December, we are considered halfway through the relevant seasons (Autumn or Fall in the northern hemisphere; Spring in the southern hemisphere) on this day.


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Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

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