6th
November, on this day
355 Roman Emperor
Constantius
II promotes his cousin Julian
to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with the government of the Prefecture
of the Gauls
1429 Henry
VI is crowned King of England. Two years later in Paris he is
crowned King of France
1528 Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first
known European to set foot in Texas.
1572 Supernova is observed in the constellation known as Cassiopeia
1632 Death of
King Gustavus Adolphus the Great of Sweden in the Battle
of Lützen during the Thirty
Years War.
1789 Pope Pius
VI appoints Father John
Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
1813 Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain
1844 Spain grants Dominican Rep independence
1860 United
States presidential election, 1860 - Abraham
Lincoln elected 16th President
1861 Jefferson
Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate
President
1862 In US, NY to San Francisco direct telegraphic link established
1865 CSS
Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after
circumnavigating the globe on its cruise that sank or captured 37
vessels.
1869 Diamonds are discovered at Kimberley in Cape Province, South
Africa
1884 British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea
1888 Benjamin
Harrison beats President Grover Cleveland , 233 electoral votes
to 168, Cleveland received slightly more votes
1900 President
William McKinley (R) re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan
1906 Charles
Evans Hughes (R) elected NY gov beats William Randolph Hearst
1911 Francisco Madeiro inaugurated President of Mexico
1913 Mohandas
K Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa
1917 Bolshevik revolution begins with the capture of the Winter Palace
1917 The end of the Third
Battle of Ypres when British and Canadian troops capture the infamous
Passchendale Ridge
1918 The Second
Polish Republic is proclaimed in Poland.
1923 USSR adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day "weeks"
1924 Stanley
Baldwin becomes PM of England
1925 Secret agent Sidney
Reilly is executed by the OGPU,
the secret police of the Soviet Union.
1928 Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus
Adolphus pastries to commemorate the king.
1928 United
States presidential election, 1928 : Herbert
Hoover (R) beats Alfred E Smith (D) for President
1932 In Germany, the Nazi Party led by Adolf Hitler emerges as the
largest single party in the general election
1935 Maiden flight by Canada's Hawker Hurricane military plane
1935 In Britain, the RAF's first monoplane fighter, the 'Hawker
Hurricane' makes its maiden flight
1936 RCA displays TV for the press
1939 World War II: Sonderaktion
Krakau
1941 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.
1942 Carlson's
patrol during the Guadalcanal
Campaign begins.
1942 In Britain, the Church of England relaxes its rule that women
must wear hats in church
1956 Holland and Spain withdraw from Olympics, protest Soviets in
Hungary
1956 United
States presidential election, 1956 : President Eisenhower (D)
re-elected defeating
Adlai E Stevenson (R)
1956 Suez
Crisis : A ceasefire is announced between Egyptian, French and
British forces fighting for control of the Suez Canal
1956 Construction begins to build the Kariba
High Dam on the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe
1957
Felix Gaillard becomes premier of France
1961 US government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James
Naismith
1962 Edward
M Kennedy 1st elected (Sen-D-MA)
1962 Edward
W Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts
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 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 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 use this program
1966 Lunar
Orbiter 2 launched by US
1971 The AEC
tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin,
on Amchitka
Island in the Aleutians.
1973 Abe
Beame elected 1st jewish mayor on NYC
1973 Coleman
Young elected mayor of Detroit
1975 1st appearance of the Sex
Pistols
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.
1976 Benjamin
Hooks, succeeds Roy
Wilkins as executive director of NAACP (National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People)
1977 The Kelly
Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa,
Georgia, fails, killing 39.
1978 Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule
1984 United
States presidential election, 1984 : President Reagan (R) landslide
(won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D)
1985 Exploratory well at Ranger TX, explodes spilling 6.3 m gallons
of oil
1985 General Jaruzelski elected Poland's head of state
1985 Palace
of Justice siege : 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 authorised the shipment of arms to Iran.
1986
Sumburgh disaster : a British International Helicopters Boeing
234LR Chinook crashed 2.5 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45
people. The deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.
1990
Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1990 Fire destroys some of Universal Studio's stages
1999 Australians vote to keep the British
monarch as their head of state in the Australian
republic referendum.
2002 12 people are killed in a fire on board a train headed for Vienna
from Paris.
2003 Michael
Howard takes over as leader of the Conservative party after Iain
Duncan Smith is ousted in a no-confidence vote
2004 An express
train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton
Nervet, England, killing 6 and injuring 150.
2005 The Evansville
Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and
Southwestern Indiana.
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Birthdates which
occurred on November 6th:
1558 Thomas Kyd
English dramatist (Spanish Tragedy)
1661 Charles II last Habsburg king of Spain (1665-1700)
1671 Colley Cibber England, dramatist/poet laureate (Love's Last Shift)
1746 Absalom Jones Delaware, born into slavery
1771 Alois Senefelder inventor (lithography)
1814 Adolphe Sax Belgium, musician/inventor (saxophone)
1832 Joseph Smith son of founder of Mormonism
1836 Francis Ellingwood Abbot Boston, theologian (Scientific Theism)
1851 Charles H Dow co-founded Dow Jones/1st editor of Wall St Journal
1854 John Phillip Sousa Wash DC, march king (Stars & Stripes Forever)
1860 Ignace Jan Paderewski Kurylowka Poland, composer/pianist/patriot
1861 James A Naismith inventor (basketball)
1887 Walter Johnson Kansas, Wash Senator pitcher (1907-27) (414-218)
1892 John Sigvard Olsen Wabash IN, comedian (Olsen & Johnson)
1896 Jim Jordan radio comedian (Fibber McGee)
19-- Corey Glover rocker (Living Colour-Biscuits)
19-- Dorothy Meyer Indianapolis IN, actress (Willa-King's Crossing)
1900 Heinrich Himmler Nazi SS leader
1901 Juanita Hall Keyport NJ, actress (Capt Billy)
1904 Selena Royale NYC, actress (Date With Judy, Misleading Lady)
1906 Francis Lederer actor (Diary of a Chambermaid)
1916 Ray Conniff Massachusetts, chorus director (Ray Conniff Singers)
1921 James Jones Robinson IL, novelist (From Here to Eternity)
1923 Robert P Griffin actor (Barricade, Broken Arrow, Crime of Passion)
1928 Peter Matz Pittsburgh PA, orchestra leader (Hullabaloo, Carol
Burnett Show)
1931 Mike Nichols stage/film director (Catch 22, Biloxi Blues)
1933 Knut Johannesen Norway, 5K/10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1964)
1943 Michael Schwerner civil rights worker, murdered in 1964
1946 Sally Field Pasadena CA, we really like her (Gidget, Flying Nun)
1947 Jack Arnold character on Wonder Years
1948 Glenn Frey Detroit, rocker (Eagles-Take it Easy)
1949 Brad Davis Tallahassee FL, actor (Roots, Chiefs)
1950 Ernest Thompson Bellows Fall VT, actor (Sierra, Westside Medical)
1954 Catherine Cryer
1955 Maria Shriver [Mrs A Schwartenegger], Chicago IL, newscaster
(Sunday Today)
1959 Teri Peterson Santa Monica Cal, playmate (July, 1980)
1960 Lance Kerwin Newport Beach Ca, (James at 15, The Lonliest Runner)
1962 Lori Singer Corpus Christi Texas, actress (Fame, V, Footloose)
1966 Lisa Fuller Los Angeles CA, actress (Dawn-General Hospital)
1966 Peter DeLuise actor (Free Ride)
1967 Jana McCoy Portales NM, Miss NM-America (1991)
1967 Rebecca Schaeffer Eugene Oregon, actress (Patti-My Sister Sam)
1968 Kelly Rutherford Elizabethtown Kentucky, actress (Generations)
1970 Ethan Hawke Austin, TX, actor (Dad, Dead Poets Society, Explorers)
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Deaths which occurred on November 6th:
1632 King Gustavus Aldophus of Sweden, dies in battle
1839 Rabbi Hayim Rapoport of Ostrowiec author (Maxim Chayyim), dies
1944 Hannah Senesh Jewish poetess, executed by Nazis in Budapest
1972 Tod Andrews actor (Gray Ghost, Counterthrust), dies at 52
1978 Flora Campbell actress (Faraway Hill, Date With Judy), dies at
67
1980 Mary Michael actress (Birdie-Wonderful John Acton), dies at 77
1987 Ross R Barnett lawyer/(Gov-D-Miss), dies at 89
1987 William C Pahlmann interior decorator (4 Seasons NYC), dies at
80
1991 Gene Tierney actress, dies at 70 of emphysema
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