Notable Historical Events on November 6th
November 6th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
355 |
Emperor Constantine II crowns cousin Julianus keizer of Britain |
1153 |
Treaty of Wallingford (Oxfordshire) signed between King Stephen and the Empress Maude |
1528 |
Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas. |
1534 |
Zealand hit by heavy storm |
1572 |
Supernova is observed in constellation known as Cassiopeia |
1632 |
Battle at Lutzen: Swedish/Saxon army beats imperial armies |
1657 |
Brandenburg & Poland sign unity of Bromberg |
1676 |
King Carlos II of Spain comes of age (at 15) |
1789 |
Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States. |
1792 |
Battle of Jemappes: French army beats Holy Roman Empire |
1813 |
Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain |
1844 |
Spain grants Dominican Rep independence |
1850 |
1st Hawaiian fire engine |
1850 |
Yerba Buena & Angel Islands (SF Bay) reserved for military use |
1860 |
Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th American President |
1861 |
Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate president |
1862 |
NY-SF direct telegraphic link forms |
1863 |
Battle of Rogersville TN |
1864 |
Battle of Droop Mountain, WV (Averell's Raid) |
1865 |
Maastricht-Venlo railway opens in Netherlands |
1865 |
American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels. |
1869 |
1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4) |
1871 |
Cameroon reaches coast of Angola after trip through Africa |
1878 |
Henrik Ibsen's "Samfundets Stotter" premieres in Oslo |
1879 |
Canada celebrates 1st Thanksgiving Day |
1883 |
NYAC organizes 1st American cross-country championship race |
1884 |
British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea |
1884 |
Montreal Foot Ball Club (QFRU) defeats Toronto Argonauts (ORFU) 30-0 in 1st CRFU Championship game |
1885 |
US mint at Carson City, Nevada, directed to close |
1888 |
Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) beats Pres Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more votes |
1897 |
'Peter Pan' opens in NY at Empire Theater |
1900 |
Battle at Bothaville: Major General Charles Knox beats Boers |
1900 |
Republican President William McKinley and his Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt, defeat Democrats' William Jennings Bryan in the US elections |
1903 |
USA recognizes independence of Panama |
1906 |
Charles Evans Hughes (R) elected NY Gov beats William Randolph Hearst |
1906 |
Chinese Government ministries are reorganized as part of the movement towards constitutional government; but in fact the Manchu princes retain control and there is little gain for the Chinese people |
1908 |
Leonid Andreyev's "Dui Nashey Zhizni" premieres in St Petersburg |
1910 |
SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage |
1911 |
Francisco Madeiro inaugurated president of Mexico |
1913 |
Mohandas K Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa |
1914 |
The British land troops (mostly from the Indian Army) at the head of the Persian Gulf in Mesopotamia, and will begin to move westward in an attempt to draw Turkish troops from other fronts |
1915 |
1st military flight in Dutch East Indies (Tandjong Priok) |
1915 |
Sophokles Skouloudis forms Greek government |
1917 |
[OS Oct 24] Bolshevik revolution begins with bombardmentt of the Winter Palace in Petrograd during the Russian October Revolution |
1917 |
NY allows women to vote |
1918 |
Republic of Poland proclaimed |
1918 |
Supreme commander of the army Gen Cutters resigns |
1919 |
1st Dutch radio program: Soirée Musicale with "Turf in you(r) ransel" |
1923 |
USSR adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day "weeks" |
1924 |
Stanley Baldwin becomes PM of UK |
1925 |
British secret agent Sidney Reilly ('Ace of Spies') is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union. |
1928 |
Clevelanders vote to build a stadium with city bonds |
1928 |
Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E Smith (D) for US President |
1928 |
Colonel Jacob Schick patents 1st electric razor |
1928 |
Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the king. |
1932 |
German election - KPD defeats NSDAP |
1934 |
NFL Philadelphia Eagles beat Cincinnati Reds 64-0 |
1935 |
1st test flight of Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft |
1936 |
RCA displays TV for press |
1936 |
Terence Rattigan's "French Without Tears" premieres in London |
1938 |
3 DiMaggio brothers play together for 1st time, charity all star game |
1939 |
WGY-TV (Schenectady, NY), 1st coml TV station, begins service |
1939 |
WRGB TV channel 6 in Schenectady-Alby-Troy, NY (CBS) 1st broadcast |
1939 |
World War II: 'Sonderaktion Krakau' - a Nazi operation against academics in Kraków, Poland |
1940 |
Franklin Roosevelt re-elected US President |
1941 |
Einsatz Gruppe kills 15,000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine |
1941 |
Japanese fleet readies assault on Pearl Harbor |
1941 |
USA lends Soviet Union $1 million |
1942 |
Nazis execute 12,000 Minsk ghetto Jews |
1942 |
Sukarno & Mohammed Hatta found Ampat Serangkai |
1943 |
Soviet troops land on Kertsj peninsula |
1943 |
Soviet forces reconquer Kiev |
1943 |
Stalin says: "The issue of German fascism is lost" |
1945 |
House Committee on Un-American Activities begins investigation of 7 radio commentators |
1945 |
The first landing of a jet on a carrier takes place on USS Wake Island when an FR-1 Fireball touches down |
1949 |
Greek civil war ends |
1950 |
Branch Rickey signs 5-yr contract as VP/GM of Pittsburgh Pirates |
1950 |
Chinese offensive halts at Chongchon River, North Korea |
1950 |
King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India |
1952 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's cantata "About our Fatherland" premieres |
1953 |
French National Meeting grants Saarland more autonomy |
1953 |
Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as manager of Balt Orioles |
1953 |
Masao Oki's symphony "Atomic Bomb" premieres |
1955 |
11th Ryder Cup: US, 8-4 at Thunderbird Ranch & CC Calif |
1955 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1956 |
Holland & Spain withdraw from Olympics in protest against Soviets in Hungary |
1956 |
US Pres Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (D) |
1957 |
"Rumple" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 45 performances |
1957 |
Felix Gaillard becomes premier of France |
1958 |
AL announces that KC will play AL record 52 night games in 1959 |
1958 |
Belgium government of Eyskens & Lilar forms |
1958 |
Wilber Snyder beats V Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ |
1961 |
US government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith |
1962 |
BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote |
1962 |
Edward M Kennedy 1st elected (Sen-D-Mass) |
1962 |
Edward W Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts |
1962 |
Saudi Arabia proclaims abolition of slavery |
1962 |
UN General Assembly adopts resolution condemning South Africa |
1964 |
WEIQ TV channel 42 in Mobile, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1966 |
1st entire lineup televised in color (NBC) |
1966 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies' Golf Open |
1966 |
Lunar Orbiter 2 launched |
1967 |
Bridge at Annabaai crashes on Willemstad, Curacao, kills 15 |
1967 |
US launches Surveyor 6; makes soft landing on Moon Nov 9 |
1968 |
Nixon elected 37th pres of US, defeating Hubert Humphrey |
1968 |
Students of SF State Counsel go on strike |
1969 |
1st Cy Young Award tie (Mike Cuellar, Balt & Denny McLain, Det) |
1970 |
Boog Powell wins AL MVP |
1970 |
Twins Jim Perry wins AL Cy Young Award |
1971 |
"Great Harp" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 7 performances |
1971 |
US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians |
1973 |
"Man With the Golden Girl" begins shooting |
1973 |
Abe Beame eleceted 1st Jewish mayor on NYC |
1973 |
Coleman Young elected mayor of Detroit |
1974 |
Dodger Mike Marshall is 1st relief pitcher to win Cy Young Award |
1975 |
"Hello, Dolly" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 51 performances |
1975 |
1st appearance of Sex Pistols |
1976 |
Benjamin Hooks, succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP |
1976 |
Former Twins relief ace Bill Campbell is 1st free-agent to sign with a new team, joining the Red Sox for $1 million over 4 years |
1977 |
"Hair" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 43 performances |
1977 |
1st Emmy Sports Award presentation |
1977 |
39 killed in an earthen dam burst at Toccoa Falls Bible College, Ga |
1978 |
Iranian general Gholan Reza Azhari forms government |
1978 |
Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule |
1979 |
Ayatollah Khomeini takes over in Iran |
1981 |
Fernando Valenzuela is 1st rookie to win a Cy Young Award |
1981 |
Larry Holmes TKOs Renaldo Snipes in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
1982 |
Joe Altobelli succeeds Earl Weaver as Oriole manager |
1983 |
Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Sports Nippon Team Match Golf Tournament |
1983 |
Discovery transported to Vandenberg AFB, Calif |
1983 |
Tor Bay Buccaneers' James Wilder rushes for 219 yards vs Minnesota Vikings |
1983 |
Turkey Turgut Özals Moederland party wins elections |
1984 |
President Reagan (R) landslide (won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D) |
1984 |
Willie Hernandez wins AL MVP Award |
1985 |
22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61A) -Challenger 9- lands at Edwards AFB |
1985 |
Exploratory well in Ranger, Texas, blows out, spilling 150,000 bbl (24,000 m3) of crude oil |
1985 |
M-19 guerrillas occupy Palace of Justice Bogota Colombia |
1985 |
Space shuttle Challenger lands at Edwards, Calif |
1986 |
Houston's Mike Scott (18-10) wins NL Cy Young |
1986 |
President Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill |
1986 |
Rev Donald Wildmon begins a campaign against Howard Stern |
1988 |
18th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:07 |
1988 |
19th NYC Marathon won by Steve Jones in 2:08:20 |
1988 |
Japan & MLB all stars played to a 6-6 draw (Game 2 of 7) |
1988 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
1988 |
Steve Jones wins NY men's marathon; Grete Waitz 9th women's title |
1989 |
US marshals & FCC sieze pirate radio station WJPL in Brooklyn |
1990 |
Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame |
1990 |
Braves' Dave Justice wins NL Rookie of Year |
1990 |
Fire destroys some of Universal Studios' stages |
1990 |
Guam Republican governor Joseph Ada re-elected |
1990 |
Iran's oil-producing region suffers a serious earthquake |
1991 |
"Moscow Circus Cirk Valentin" opens at Gershwin NYC for 32 perfs |
1991 |
Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovitsj returns to St Petersburg |
1991 |
Keck II, biggest telescope in use at Mauna Kea Hawaii |
1991 |
Maximus 2.0 BBS released |
1991 |
Robert M Gates, becomes 15th director of CIA |
1991 |
Russian president Boris Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party |
1993 |
Actor Howard Rollins arrested for drunk driving |
1993 |
Evander Holyfield beats Riddick Bowe in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
1993 |
Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arcangues, Brocco, Cardmania, Hollywood Wildcat, Kotashaan, Lure, Phone Chatter at Belmont |
1994 |
24th NYC Women's Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:27:37 |
1994 |
25th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:11:21 |
1994 |
Emomali Rachmonov recognized as president of Tadzjikistan |
1994 |
Woo-Soon Ko wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Golf Cup |
1995 |
Art Modell officially announces Cleveland Browns are moving to Balt |
1995 |
Israel buries Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by a fellow Jew who opposed peace with Palestinians |
1996 |
LA Dodger Todd Hollandsworth wins NL Rookie of Year |
1997 |
"Proposals" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 76 performances |
1997 |
SF Giants manager Dusty Baker named NL Manager of the Year |
1999 |
Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum. |
2001 |
Crude oil for December delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) falls to a two-year low after OPEC members warn that a downward price spiral could occur if major non-OPEC oil exporters do not reduce oil production |
2002 |
12 people are killed in a fire on board a train headed for Vienna from Paris. |
2002 |
36th Country Music Association Award: Alan Jackson & Martina McBride wins |
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. |
2005 |
The military junta of Myanmar (Burma) begins moving its government ministries from Yangon to Pyinmana. |
2006 |
40th Country Music Association Award: Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood & Keith Urban wins |
2012 |
5 people are shot at a poultry processing plant in Fresno, California |
2012 |
Barack Obama re-elected as US President |
2012 |
US territory Puerto Rico votes to become a US State |
2012 |
Green Moon wins the Melbourne Cup race at Flemington |
2013 |
8 people are killed and 50 are injured by a suicide bombing in Damascus, Syria |
2013 |
15 people are killed after a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq |
2014 |
The Republicans win control of the US Senate in mid-term elections, increasing its power in the final two years of Obama's presidency |
2015 |
Mormon church labels same-sex couples apostates |
2016 |
LeBron James becomes NBA's No. 10 all-time scorer, Cavs remain undefeated |
2016 |
Brad Pitt seeks joint custody in divorce from Angelina Jolie |
2017 |
Gunman kills at least 26 worshipers at small-town Texas church |
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