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Date | Description | Type |
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6th of November 0355 | EVENT | Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with the government of the Prefecture of the Gauls. |
6th of November 1528 | EVENT | Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas. |
6th of November 1632 | EVENT | Thirty years war: Battle of Lutzen is fought, the Swedes are victorious but the King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus dies in the battle. |
6th of November 1789 | EVENT | Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States. |
6th of November 1844 | EVENT | The first constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted. |
6th of November 1856 | EVENT | Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, is submitted for publication. |
6th of November 1860 | EVENT | American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln is elected 16th president of the United States |
6th of November 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America. |
6th of November 1865 | EVENT | American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 vessels. |
6th of November 1869 | EVENT | In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game. |
6th of November 1913 | EVENT | Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa. |
6th of November 1917 | EVENT | World War I: Third Battle of Ypres ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium. |
6th of November 1918 | EVENT | The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed in Poland. |
6th of November 1925 | EVENT | Secret agent Sidney Reilly is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union. |
6th of November 1934 | EVENT | Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority. |
6th of November 1935 | EVENT | Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers. |
6th of November 1935 | EVENT | First flight of the Hawker Hurricane. |
6th of November 1935 | EVENT | Parker Brothers acquires the forerunner patents for MONOPOLY from Elizabeth Magie. |
6th of November 1939 | EVENT | World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau takes place. |
6th of November 1941 | EVENT | 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, the Germans had lost 4.5 million soldiers and that Soviet victory was near. |
6th of November 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign begins. |
6th of November 1943 | EVENT | World War II: the Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings. |
6th of November 1944 | EVENT | Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. |
6th of November 1947 | EVENT | Meet the Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948). |
6th of November 1962 | EVENT | 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. |
6th of November 1963 | EVENT | 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. |
6th of November 1965 | EVENT | Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans made use of this program. |
6th of November 1971 | EVENT | The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. |
6th of November 1975 | EVENT | 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. |
6th of November 1977 | EVENT | The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39. |
6th of November 1985 | EVENT | In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the April 19 Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogota, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices. |
6th of November 1985 | EVENT | The Iran-Contra Affair: The American press reveals that U.S. President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran. |
6th of November 1986 | EVENT | Sumburgh disaster : A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2.5 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record. |
6th of November 1999 | EVENT | Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum. |
6th of November 2004 | EVENT | An express train collides with a stationary carriage near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing 7 and injuring 150. |
6th of November 2005 | EVENT | The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana. |
6th of November 1391 | BIRTHDAY | Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (d. 1425) |
6th of November 1479 | BIRTHDAY | Quuen Joanna I of Castile of Spain (d. 1555) |
6th of November 1494 | BIRTHDAY | Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566) |
6th of November 1550 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Karin Mansdotter of Sweden (d. 1612) |
6th of November 1661 | BIRTHDAY | King Charles II of Spain (d. 1700) |
6th of November 1692 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Racine, French poet (d. 1763) |
6th of November 1753 | BIRTHDAY | Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian sculptor (d. 1802) |
6th of November 1753 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Baptiste Breval, French composer (d. 1823) |
6th of November 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Adolphe Sax, Belgian inventor (d. 1894) |
6th of November 1833 | BIRTHDAY | Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (d. 1908) |
6th of November 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Cesare Lombroso, Italian psychiatrist and criminologist (d. 1909) |
6th of November 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Nelson W. Aldrich, American politician (d. 1915) |
6th of November 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Armand Fallieres, French president (d. 1931) |
6th of November 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (d. 1902) |
6th of November 1854 | BIRTHDAY | John Philip Sousa, American composer (d. 1932) |
6th of November 1855 | BIRTHDAY | E.S. Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist (d. 1942) |
6th of November 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Ignace Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and statesman (d. 1941) |
6th of November 1861 | BIRTHDAY | James Naismith, Canadian inventor of basketball (d. 1939) |
6th of November 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-born American writer and novelist (d. 1959) |
6th of November 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942) |
6th of November 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas H. Ince, American movie actor, director, producer (d. 1924) |
6th of November 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1946) |
6th of November 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Ross, American editor (d. 1951) |
6th of November 1892 | BIRTHDAY | George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven (d. 1938) |
6th of November 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Edsel Ford, American automotive executive (d. 1943) |
6th of November 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Yip Man, Chinese martial artist (d. 1972) |
6th of November 1903 | BIRTHDAY | June Marlowe, American actress (d. 1984) |
6th of November 1906 | BIRTHDAY | James D. Norris, American businessman and sports team owner (d. 1966) |
6th of November 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Harris, American actor (d. 2002) |
6th of November 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Conniff, American composer and conductor (d. 2002) |
6th of November 1921 | BIRTHDAY | James Jones, American novelist (d. 1977) |
6th of November 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Frank J. Lynch, American jurist and state legislator (d. 1987) |
6th of November 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Jeanette Schmid, Austrian professional whistler |
6th of November 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Carson, Northern Irish comedian |
6th of November 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Hornbein, American mountaineer |
6th of November 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Collins, English race car driver (d. 1958) |
6th of November 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Nichols, American film director |
6th of November 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Stonewall Jackson, American country singer |
6th of November 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Warfield, American actor |
6th of November 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene Pitt, American singer (The Jive Five) |
6th of November 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Garry Gross, American photographer (d. 2010) |
6th of November 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Vassi, American writer (d. 1989) |
6th of November 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Mack Jones, American baseball player (d. 2004) |
6th of November 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Branko Mikasinovich, Serbian Slavist and journalist |
6th of November 1938 | BIRTHDAY | P.J. Proby, American-born singer and actor |
6th of November 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Pike, American singer (The Lettermen) |
6th of November 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Dumitru Rusu, Romanian painter |
6th of November 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Diana E. H. Russell, South African feminist writer and activist |
6th of November 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Leonardo Quisumbing, Filipino Supreme Court jurist |
6th of November 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (d. 1964) |
6th of November 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Messinger, American political activist |
6th of November 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Dieter F. Uchtdorf, American religious figure |
6th of November 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Giles, Irish footballer, |
6th of November 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Penner, Canadian children's entertainer |
6th of November 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Sally Field, American actress |
6th of November 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Rosenthal, English sports presenter |
6th of November 1947 | BIRTHDAY | George Young, Australian musician (Easybeats) |
6th of November 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Yang, Taiwanese film director (d. 2007) |
6th of November 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Sidney Blumenthal, American journalist and political figure |
6th of November 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Frey, American singer (Eagles) |
6th of November 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Davis, American actor (d. 1991) |
6th of November 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph C. Wilson, American diplomat; husband of Valerie Plame |
6th of November 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Nigel Havers, English actor |
6th of November 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Arturo Sandoval, Cuban trumpeter |
6th of November 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Glen, Scottish musician (The Sensational Alex Harvey Band) |
6th of November 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Amir Aczel, Israeli mathematics historian |
6th of November 1951 | BIRTHDAY | John Falsey, American television writer and producer |
6th of November 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Althin, Swedish politician and attorney |
6th of November 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Cunningham, American writer |
6th of November 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Hanisch, German footballer |
6th of November 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine Crier, American television personality |
6th of November 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Shriver, American journalist |
6th of November 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Alton Coleman, American serial killer (d. 2002) |
6th of November 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Siobhan McCarthy, Irish singer and actress |
6th of November 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Klaus Kleinfeld, German industrialist |
6th of November 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Lori Singer, American actress |
6th of November 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Cam Clarke, American voice actor |
6th of November 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Trace Beaulieu, American actor |
6th of November 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Holland Rogers, American writer |
6th of November 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Cerveris, American actor |
6th of November 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Florent Pagny, French songwriter and singer |
6th of November 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Kazuhiko Aoki, Japanese game creator |
6th of November 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Goldy, American musician (Dio) |
6th of November 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Aznil Nawawi, Malaysian host, actor and singer |
6th of November 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Rozz Williams, American musician (Christian Death) (d. 1998) |
6th of November 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Arne Duncan, American political figure |
6th of November 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Corey Glover, American musician (Living Color) |
6th of November 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Graffin, American singer (Bad Religion) |
6th of November 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Kerry Conran, American filmmaker |
6th of November 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Unglaube, German footballer |
6th of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Gilbert, American guitarist and singer |
6th of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Peter DeLuise, American actor and director |
6th of November 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress (d. 1989) |
6th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Williams, American football player |
6th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Yang, American internet entrepreneur |
6th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly Rutherford, American actress |
6th of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Ethan Hawke, American actor |
6th of November 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Clonie Gowen, American poker player |
6th of November 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Garry Flitcroft, English footballer |
6th of November 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Deivi Cruz, Dominican baseball player |
6th of November 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Thandie Newton, English actress |
6th of November 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Rebecca Romijn, American actress |
6th of November 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Nell McAndrew, British model |
6th of November 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (d. 2009) |
6th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Anastasia Blue, American former pornographic actress (d. 2008) |
6th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Herrera, American singer and bassist (MxPx) |
6th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jodi Martin, Australian singer-songwriter |
6th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Tillman, American football player (d. 2004) |
6th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine Clark, Canadian journalist; daughter of Joe Clark |
6th of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Patricia Tavares, Portuguese actress |
6th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Sandrine Blancke, Belgian actress |
6th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Daniella Cicarelli, Brazilian model and television host |
6th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jolina Magdangal, Filipina singer, actress and television host |
6th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Taryn Manning, American actress |
6th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Zak Morioka, Brazilian racing driver |
6th of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Lamar Odom, American basketball player |
6th of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Stuart, Canadian hockey player |
6th of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Myolie Wu, Hong Kong actress |
6th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Dong Wook, South Korean actor |
6th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Murray, Canadian hockey player |
6th of November 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Millar, Canadian singer and songwriter |
6th of November 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Sowelu, Japanese pop singer |
6th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Janette McBride, Australian-born Filipino actress |
6th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Hume, Australian singer (Evermore) |
6th of November 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ricky Romero, American baseball player |
6th of November 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Ettore Marchi, Italian footballer |
6th of November 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Ana Ivanovic, Serbian tennis player |
6th of November 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Emma Stone, American actress |
6th of November 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Lund, Swedish footballer |
6th of November 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Jozy Altidore, American soccer player |
6th of November 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Shaina Magdayao, Filipina actress |
6th of November 1997 | BIRTHDAY | Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, English actor |
6th of November 2001 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Abdullah bin Al Ghazi of Jordan |
6th of November 1231 | DEATH | Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (Born 1196) |
6th of November 1406 | DEATH | Pope Innocent VII |
6th of November 1492 | DEATH | Antoine Busnois, French composer |
6th of November 1550 | DEATH | Ulrich, Duke of Wurttemberg (Born 1487) |
6th of November 1632 | DEATH | King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (Born 1594) |
6th of November 1650 | DEATH | William II, Prince of Orange (Born 1626) |
6th of November 1656 | DEATH | King John IV of Portugal (Born 1603) |
6th of November 1656 | DEATH | Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist (Born 1583) |
6th of November 1692 | DEATH | Gedeon Tallemant des Reaux, French writer (Born 1619) |
6th of November 1752 | DEATH | Ralph Erskine, Scottish minister (Born 1685) |
6th of November 1771 | DEATH | John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (Born 1695) |
6th of November 1790 | DEATH | James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (Born 1726) |
6th of November 1796 | DEATH | Catherine II of Russia (Born 1729) |
6th of November 1816 | DEATH | Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (Born 1752) |
6th of November 1822 | DEATH | Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (Born 1748) |
6th of November 1836 | DEATH | King Charles X of France (Born 1757) |
6th of November 1846 | DEATH | Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and activist (Born 1800) |
6th of November 1846 | DEATH | Alexander Chavchavadze, Georgian poet and general (Born 1786) |
6th of November 1893 | DEATH | Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (Born 1840) |
6th of November 1903 | DEATH | Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (Born1895) |
6th of November 1910 | DEATH | Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (Born 1838) |
6th of November 1925 | DEATH | Emperor Khai ?inh of Vietnam (Born 1885) |
6th of November 1929 | DEATH | Prince Maximilian of Baden, German statesman (Born 1867) |
6th of November 1936 | DEATH | Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (Born 1864) |
6th of November 1937 | DEATH | Colin Campbell Cooper, American painter (Born 1856) |
6th of November 1941 | DEATH | Maurice Leblanc, French novelist (Born 1864) |
6th of November 1960 | DEATH | Erich Raeder, German grand admiral (Born 1876) |
6th of November 1964 | DEATH | Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (Born 1925) |
6th of November 1964 | DEATH | Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1863) |
6th of November 1965 | DEATH | Edgard Varese, French composer (Born 1883) |
6th of November 1965 | DEATH | Clarence Williams, American musician (Born 1898) |
6th of November 1968 | DEATH | Charles Munch, French conductor and violinist (Born 1891) |
6th of November 1968 | DEATH | Charles B. McVay III, Ex-U.S. Navy Captain (Born 1898) |
6th of November 1970 | DEATH | Agustin Lara, Mexican composer and poet (Born 1897) |
6th of November 1978 | DEATH | Harry Bertoia, Italian artist and designer (Born 1915) |
6th of November 1978 | DEATH | Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (Born 1899) |
6th of November 1984 | DEATH | Gaston Suarez, Bolivian novelist and dramatist (Born 1929) |
6th of November 1985 | DEATH | Joel Crothers, American actor (Born 1941) |
6th of November 1986 | DEATH | Elisabeth Grummer, Alsatian soprano (Born 1911) |
6th of November 1987 | DEATH | Zohar Argov, Israeli singer (Born 1955) |
6th of November 1989 | DEATH | Yusaku Matsuda, Japanese actor (Born 1949) |
6th of November 1989 | DEATH | Dickie Goodman, American entertainer (Born 1934) |
6th of November 1991 | DEATH | Gene Tierney, American actress (Born 1920) |
6th of November 1995 | DEATH | Aneta Corsaut, American actress (Born 1933) |
6th of November 1998 | DEATH | Marcel Gauthier, Canadian wrestler (Born 1928) |
6th of November 2000 | DEATH | L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (Born 1907) |
6th of November 2000 | DEATH | David R. Brower, American environmentalist (Born 1912) |
6th of November 2001 | DEATH | Anthony Shaffer, English dramatist (Born 1926) |
6th of November 2002 | DEATH | Sid Sackson, American board game designer (Born 1920) |
6th of November 2003 | DEATH | Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (Born 1919) |
6th of November 2003 | DEATH | Crash Holly, American professional wrestler (Born 1971) |
6th of November 2003 | DEATH | Just Betzer, Danish film producer (Born 1944) |
6th of November 2003 | DEATH | Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (Born 1962) |
6th of November 2004 | DEATH | Fred Dibnah, English television personality (Born 1938) |
6th of November 2004 | DEATH | Johnny Warren, Australian soccer player (Born 1943) |
6th of November 2005 | DEATH | Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (Born 1967) |
6th of November 2005 | DEATH | Rod Donald, New Zealander politician (Born 1957) |
6th of November 2005 | DEATH | Miguel Aceves Mejia, Mexican actor, composer and singer (Born 1915) |
6th of November 2006 | DEATH | Federico (Fico) Lopez, Puerto Rican basketball player (Born 1962) |
6th of November 2006 | DEATH | Francisco Fernandez Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (Born 1950) |
6th of November 2007 | DEATH | Hilda Braid, English actress (Born 1929) |
6th of November 2007 | DEATH | Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, Afghan politician (Born 1962) |
6th of November 2007 | DEATH | Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist (Born 1920) |
6th of November 2007 | DEATH | George Grljusich, Australian sports broadcaster (Born 1939) |
6th of November 2007 | DEATH | Hank Thompson, American singer (Born 1925) |
6th of November 2007 | DEATH | George Osmond, American patriarch of the Osmond family (Born 1917) |
6th of November 2009 | DEATH | Ron Sproat, American TV writer and playwright (Born 1932) |
6th of November 2010 | DEATH | Jo Myong-Rok, North Korean military official (Born 1928) |
6th of November 2010 | DEATH | Robert Lipshutz, American attorney and counsel to the Carter Adminisrtation (Born 1921) |