November 6
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 Núńez 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 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 Chávez 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 )
1841 - Nelson W. Aldrich , Senator from Rhode Island (d. 1915 )
1851 - Charles Dow , journalist, economist (d.1902 )
1854 - John Philip Sousa , American composer (d. 1932 )
1860 - Ignace Paderewski , Polish pianist, composer, and politician (d.1941 )
1861 - James Naismith , inventor of basketball (d. 1939 )
1880 - Robert Musil , German novelist (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 , actor (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 , American actress
1948 - Glenn Frey , singer (The Eagles )
1949 - Arturo Sandoval , trumpeter
1955 - Maria Shriver , journalist and First Lady of California
1957 - Lori Singer , actress
1965 - Greg Graffin , singer and founder of Bad Religion
1966 - Christian Lorenz , keyboardist for Rammstein
1970 - Ethan Hawke , actor
1972 - Thandie Newton , actress
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 Varčse , 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
External links
November 5 - November 7 - October 6 - December 6 - more historical anniversaries
