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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 season. We are considered halfway through fall 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 Spain.
- 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.
- 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 - 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 (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).
- 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.
- 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 Colombia, leftist guerrillas of
the April 19 Movement
seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá. By the next day 115 people are
dead, 11 of them Supreme Court justices).
- 1999 - Australians vote to keep the
British queen as their head of state.
Births
- 15 or 16 - Agrippina the younger, Roman empress (d. 59)
- 1814 - Adolphe Sax, saxophone inventor
- 1851 - Charles Dow, journalist,
economist
- 1854 - John Philip
Sousa, composer (d. 1932)
- 1860 - Ignace
Paderewski, composer, politician
- 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)
- 1910 - Erik Ode, film director and actor (d. 1983)
- 1916 - Ray Conniff, composer,
conductor
- 1921 - Julius Hackethal, physician (d. 1991)
- 1921 - James
Jones, writer (d. 1977)
- 1928 - Peter Matz, composer (d. 2002)
- 1931 - Mike Nichols,
director
- 1946 - Sally Fields, actress
- 1948 - Glenn Frey, singer ("The Eagles")
- 1949 - Arturo Sandoval,
trumpeter
- 1955 - Maria Shriver,
journalist and First Lady of California
- 1970 - Ethan Hawke, actor
- 1976 - Pat Tillman, American football player (d. 2004)
- 1979 - Lamar Odom, basketball player
Deaths
- 1003 - Pope John XVII
- 1406 - Pope Innocent
VII
- 1632 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (Julian Calendar)
- 1672 - Heinrich Schütz,
composer
- 1769 - Catherine
II of Russia
- 1816 - Gouverneur
Morris, lawmaker and diplomat
- 1836 - King Charles X
of France
- 1893 - Peter
Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer
- 1925 - Khai Dinh, Emperor of Vietnam
- 1965 - Clarence
Williams, jazz musician (b. 1893)
- 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
- 2003 - Rie Mastenbroek,
Dutch swimmer
Holidays and Observances
November 5 - November 7 -
October 6 - December 6 - more
historical anniversaries
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