November 6

Events
Up to 1950
355 - Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin, Julian the Apostate, to the rank of Caesar.
1429 - Henry VI becomes King of England.
1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first-known European to set foot in what is now Texas.
1789 - Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.
1844 - The first Constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted.
1860 - Abraham Lincoln is elected President of the United States.
1861 - Jefferson Davis is chosen as President of the Confederate States of America.
1869 - In New Brunswick, New Jersey, the first inter-college game in American football takes place. Rutgers University defeats Princeton University 6-4.
1880 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran discovers the malaria parasite called "Plasmodium falciparum".
1888 - Benjamin Harrison is elected President of the United States.
1900 - William McKinley is elected to serve a second term as President of the United States, of which he is only able to serve 6 months, as he is fatally shot by Leon Czolgosz the following September.
1913 - Mahatma Gandhi is arrested after leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1917 - World War I: The Third Battle of Ypres in Belgium ends.
1918 - The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed.
1928 - Herbert Hoover is elected President of the United States, defeating Al Smith.
1936 - Spanish Civil War: The Spanish government relocates to Valencia from Madrid.
1939 - World War II: The "Sonderaktion Krakau" takes place, as the Gestapo arrests 184 professors in Krakow.
1941 - World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his rule.
1942 - World War II: German U-boat U 68 sinks British passenger ship City of Cairo, killing 104 people.
1943 - World War II: The Red Army recaptures Kiev.
1944 - The element Plutonium is created.
1947 - The American TV show Meet the Press debuts.
1951 2000
1956 - Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected to serve a second term as President of the United States.
1956 - Building work on the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River in Southern Africa begins.
1957 - Felix Gaillard becomes Prime Minister of France.
1962 - The UN General Assembly condemns South Africa's Apartheid policy, encouraging its members to break-off military and economic ties with the country.
1963 - Duong Vanh Minh takes over the leadership of South Vietnam.
1965 - Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States.
1975 - Green March: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tafarya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II to cross into Western Sahara.
1977 - The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, US, fails, killing 39 people.
1978 - Franz Josef Strauss is elected Minister-President of Bavaria.
1981 - Larry Holmes becomes Boxing Heavyweight World Champion, defeating Renaldo Snipes.
1982 - Paul Biya becomes President of Cameroon.
1984 - Ronald Reagan is elected to serve a second term as President of the United States. His challenger Walter Mondale only managed to win in Minnesota and Washington, DC.
1985 - Leftist Guerrillas in Colombia seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogota, killing 115 people, including 11 Supreme Court Justices.
1985 - Anibal Cavaco Silva becomes Prime Minister of Portugal.
1985 - Iran-Contra Affair: The American press reports that Ronald Reagan had authorised arms shipments to Iran.
1986 - Joaquim Chissano is chosen to succeed Samora Machel, who had been killed in a plane crash, as President of Mozambique.
1986 - Alex Ferguson becomes the manager of Manchester United. He serves for over years, until May 2013.
1986 - Sumburgh Disaster: British International Helicopter Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes into the sea to the east of Sumburgh Airport, at the southernmost point of Shetland. 45 people are killed.
1991 - Leningrad is renamed St. Petersburg.
1991 - The KGB no longer exists from this date.
1995 - In Antananarivo, the former residence of sovereign rulers of Madagascar, is destroyed by fire.
1999 - Voters in Australia decide to keep Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as their head of state.
1999 - In Berlin, American Bryan Berg builds the world's biggest card house, at 7.71 meters tall, with 91,800 playing cards, at 131 levels high.
From 2001
2001 - Michael Bloomberg is elected Mayor of New York City.
2001 - TV Series 24 is first shown.
2004 - A train collides with a stationary car at a level crossing near the village of Ufton Nervet in southern England, killing 7 people.
2005 - The Evansville Tornado of 2005 kills 25 people in northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.
2005 - The Burmese military leaders begin moving government ministries from Rangoon to Pyinmana-Naypidaw.
2012 - Barack Obama is elected to a second term as President of the United States, defeating his Republican Party challenger Mitt Romney.
2012 - Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.
2012 - Puerto Rico holds a referendum on its future status, with indications of a majority vote in favour of becoming the 51st US State.
2018 - Mid-term elections are held in the United States: The Democrats gain control of the House of Representatives and also gain some state governorships; the Republicans keep their majority in the Senate.
Births
Up to 1900
15 - Agrippina the Younger, Roman Empress (d. 59)
1391 - Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (d. 1425).
1479 - Queen Joanna of Castile (d. 1555)
1494 - Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566).
1550 - Karin Mansdotter, Queen of Sweden (d. 1612)
1617 - Leopoldo de' Medici, Italian cardinal (d. 1675)
1661 - King Charles II of Spain (d. 1700)
1692 - Louis Racine, French poet (d. 1763)
1753 - Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian sculptor (d. 1802)
1753 - Jean-Baptiste Breval, French composer (d. 1823)
1771 - Alois Senefelder, Austrian actor, playwright and inventor (d. 1834)
1794 - Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (d. 1881)
1814 - Adolphe Sax, Belgian inventor of the Saxophone (d. 1894)
1825 - Charles Garnier, French architect (d. 1898)
1832 - Joseph Smith III, American religious leader (d. 1914)
1833 - Jonas Lie, Norwegian writer (d. 1908)
1835 - Cesare Lombroso, Italian criminologist and physician (d. 1909)
1841 - Armand Fallieres, President of France (d. 1931)
1841 - Nelson W. Aldrich, American politician (d. 1915)
1850 - Ernest von Koerber, Austrian politician (d. 1919)
1851 - Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (d. 1902)
1854 - John Philip Sousa, American composer (d. 1932)
1861 - James Naismith, Canadian inventor of basketball (d. 1939)
1861 - Thomas Watt Gregory, United States Attorney General (d. 1933)
1880 - Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942)
1880 - George Poage, American athlete (d. 1962)
1882 - Thomas Harper Ince, American movie actor, director and producer (d. 1924)
1886 - Ida Barney, American astronomer (d. 1982)
1887 - Walter Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1946)
1891 - Galaktion Tabidze, Georgian poet (d. 1959)
1892 - Harold Ross, American editor (d. 1951)
1893 - Edsel Ford, American chief executive of the Ford Motor Company (d. 1943)
1901 1950
1903 - June Marlowe, American actress (d. 1984)
1908 - Teizo Takeuchi, Japanese footballer (d. 1946)
1914 - Jonathan Harris, American actor (d. 2002)
1916 - Ray Conniff, American musician (d. 2002)
1919 - Christoph Probst, German Resistance activist (White Rose) (d. 1943)
1921 - James Jones, American writer (d. 1977)
1925 - Michel Bouquet, French actor
1926 - Zig Ziglar, American author (d. 2012)
1931 - Mike Nichols, German-born American television, stage and movie director (d. 2014)
1931 - Peter Collins, British racing driver (d. 1958)
1932 - Francois Englert, Belgian theoretical physicist, joint-winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics
1932 - Stonewall Jackson, American country music singer
1932 - Eugene H. Peterson, American clergyman and biblical scholar (d. 2018)
1932 - Ron Saunders, English footballer and manager (d. 2019)
1938 - Seishiro Shimatani, Japanese footballer (d. 2001)
1939 - Michael Schwerner, American Civil Rights activist (d. 1964)
1941 - John Carter, American politician
1941 - Guy Clark, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (d. 2016)
1943 - Roberto Telch, Argentine footballer (d. 2014)
1946 - Sally Field, American actress
1946 - Fred Penner, Canadian children's entertainer
1946 - George Young, Scottish-Australian musician (d. 2017)
1947 - Carolyn Seymour, English actres
1947 - Larry James, American athlete (d. 2008)
1948 - Glenn Frey, American rock musician (d. 2016)
1949 - Arturo Sandoval, Cuban jazz musician
1949 - Brad Davis, American actor (d. 1991)
1950 - Marvin Goodfriend, American economist (d. 2019)
1951 1975
1951 - Nigel Havers, British actor
1952 - Michael Cunningham, American writer
1954 - Karin Fossum, Norwegian writer
1954 - Mango, Italian singer (d. 2014)
1955 - Maria Shriver, American journalist, was married to Arnold Schwarzenegger
1956 - Marc Dutroux, Belgian serial killer
1957 - Lori Singer, American actress
1958 - Trace Beaulieu, American actor, puppeteer, producer and screenwriter
1961 - Florent Pagny, French singer-songwriter and actor
1962 - Annette Zilinskas, American musician and singer
1964 - Arne Duncan, American politician
1965 - Valerie Benguigui, French actress (d. 2013)
1966 - Paul Gilbert, American guitarist and singer
1967 - Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress (d. 1989)
1968 - Jerry Yang, Taiwanese-American businessman, co-founder of Yahoo!
1968 - Kelly Rutherford, American actress
1970 - Ethan Hawke, American actor
1972 - Rebecca Romijn, American actress and model
1972 - Thandie Newton, English actress
1973 - Nell McAndrew, English model and runner
1973 - Sandy Robson, Canadian actor
1974 - Susan Calman, Scottish comedienne and television presenter
1974 - Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (d. 2009)
From 1976
1976 - Jodi Martin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1976 - Pat Tillman, American football player and soldier (d. 2004)
1977 - Sienna West, American pornographic movie actress
1978 - Sandrine Blancke, Belgian actress
1978 - Taryn Manning, American singer-songwriter, actress and fashion designer
1979 - Brad Stuart, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Lee Dong Wook, South Korean actor
1981 - Cassie Bernall, American student (d. 1999)
1983 - Nicole Hosp, Austrian skier
1983 - Jon Hume, Australian singer
1984 - Ricky Romero, American baseball player
1986 - Craig Bryson, Scottish footballer
1986 - Katie Leclerc, American actress
1986 - Conor Sammon, Irish footballer
1987 - Ana Ivanovic, Serbian tennis player
1988 - Erik Lund, Swedish footballer
1988 - Conchita Wurst, Austrian singer and performer, winner of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest
1988 - Emma Stone, American actress
1989 - Jozy Altidore, American footballer
1990 - Andre Schurrle, German footballer
1990 - Kris Wu, Chinese rapper, singer-songwriter and actor
1991 - Mike van Duinen, Dutch footballer
1991 - Doron Lamb, American basketball player
1992 - Kim Yura, South Korean singer
2002 - Mya-Lecia Naylor, English actress (d. 2019)
Deaths
Up to 1900
1231 - Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1196)
1406 - Pope Innocent VII
1492 - Antoine Busnois, French composer and poet (b. 1430)
1650 - William II, Prince of Orange (b. 1626)
1656 - King John IV of Portugal (b. 1604)
1656 - Jean-Baptiste Morin, French mathematician, astrologer and astronomer (b. 1583)
1672 - Heinrich Schutz, German composer (b. 1585)
1771 - John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (b. 1695)
1790 - James Bowdoin, Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1726)
1816 - Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (b. 1752)
1822 - Claude-Louis Berthollet, French chemist (b. 1748)
1836 - King Charles X of France (b. 1757)
1846 - Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and activist (b. 1800)
1846 - Alexander Chavchavadze, Georgian poet and general (b. 1786)
1893 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1840)
1901 2000
1905 - George Williams, English founder of the YMCA (b. 1821)
1910 - Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (b. 1838)
1914 - Carl Hans Lody, German naval reserve officer (b. 1877)
1925 - Emperor Khai Dinh of Vietnam (b. 1885)
1929 - Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1867)
1933 - Andrei Lyapchev, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1866)
1935 - Henry Fairfield Osborn, American geologist and paleontologist (b. 1857)
1937 - Colin Campbell Cooper, American painter and academic (b. 1856)
1944 - Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, British politician (b. 1880)
1951 - Tom Kiely, Irish athlete (b. 1869)
1964 - Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German chemist (b. 1873)
1965 - Clarence Williams, American musician (b. 1898)
1970 - Agustin Lara, Mexican composer and poet (b. 1897)
1978 - Harry Bertoia, Italian artist and designer (b. 1915)
1982 - Shiro Teshima, Japanese footballer (b. 1907)
1985 - Sanjeev Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1938)
1987 - Ross Barnett, American politician, 52nd Governor of Mississippi (b. 1898)
1991 - Gene Tierney, American actress (b. 1920)
1997 - Anne-Stine Ingstad, Norwegian archaeologist (b. 1918)
1999 - Regina Ghazaryan, Armenian painter (b. 1915)
2000 - David Brower, American environmentalist (b. 1912)
From 2001
2001 - Anthony Shaffer, British writer, screenwriter and playwright (b. 1926)
2002 - Sid Jackson, American board game designer (b. 1920)
2003 - Mike Lockwood, American professional wrestler (b. 1971)
2004 - Fred Dibnah, British television personality (b. 1938)
2005 - Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (b. 1967)
2006 - Fernando Fernandez Ochoa, Spanish skier (b. 1950)
2007 - Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist (b. 1920)
2007 - Hank Thompson, American musician (b. 1925)
2007 - George Osmond, American patriarch of the Osmond family (b. 1917)
2008 - Larry James, American athlete (b. 1947)
2010 - Siddhartha Shankar Roy, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1920)
2011 - Margaret Field, American actress (b. 1922)
2012 - Maxim of Bulgaria, Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (b. 1914)
2012 - Clive Dunn, British actor, comedian and singer (b. 1920)
2013 - Ace Parker, American football and baseball player (b. 1912)
2014 - Rick Rosas, American musician (b. 1949)
2014 - Victor Kostetskiy, Russian actor (b. 1941)
2014 - Tommy Macpherson, Scottish army officer (b. 1920)
2014 - Alok Nembang, Nepalese movie director (b. 1973)
2015 - Yitzhak Navon, President of Israel (b. 1921)
2017 - Richard F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut (b. 1929)
2017 - Karin Dor, German actress (b. 1938)
2017 - Abdul Aziz bin Fahd, Saudi prince (b. 1973)
2017 - Feliciano Rivilla, Spanish footballer (b. 1936)
2018 - Jonathan Cantwell, American racing cyclist (b. 1982)
2018 - Bernard Landry, Canadian politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1937)
2019 - Lev Anninsky, Russian literary critic, journalist and screenwriter (b. 1934)
Observances
Constitution Day (Dominican Republic, Tajikistan, Tatarstan)
Finnish-Swedish Heritage Day (Finland)
Gustavus Adolphus Day (Sweden)
Green March (Morocco)
November 06