November 6

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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.

Template:NovemberCalendar2008

Contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and Observances

5 External links

[edit]

Events

1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador �lvar N��ez 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, Rutgers University defeats Princeton University, 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game .
1873 - The Halifax Rugby Club is formed.
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. Tthe show would until 1951, making 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 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 - F�lix 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 bitterly to the press that "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 will 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. The Sex Pistols play their first concert at St. Martin's School of Art in London.
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 Bogot�, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.
1985 - "Irangate" scandal: The American press reveals that US President Ronald Reagan had 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 Ch�vez 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 $5,500 from a New York boutique.
2004 - An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing 6 and injuring 150.
2004 - Official Guided by Voices Day in Dallas, Texas.