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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)