6 November

The **6t o November** is the 310t day o the year (311t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 55 days bidin.

## Events

* 1844 - The Dominican Republic adopts its Constitution.
* 1860 - Abraham Lincoln is electit Preses o the Unitit States.
* 1861 - Jefferson Davis is electit Preses o the Confederate States o Americae.
* 1888 - Benjamin Harrison is electit Preses o the Unitit States.
* 1900 - William McKinley is re-electit Preses o the Unitit States.
* 1928 - Herbert Hoover is electit Preses o the Unitit States.
* 1944 - The element plutonium is creatit.
* 1956 - Dwight D. Eisenhower is re-electit Preses o the Unitit States.
* 1982 - Paul Biya becomes Preses o Cameroon.
* 1984 - Ronald Reagan is re-electit Preses o the Unitit States.
* 1986 - A Chinook helicopter carryin ile wirkers crashes intae the North Sea aff Scotland.
* 1991 - The KGB, the Soviet Union's secret service, is abandoned.
* 1999 - Australie republic referendum: A majority (55%) vote tae keep the Breetish monarch as Heid o State.
* 2001 - Michael Bloomberg is electit Mayor o New York Ceety.
* 2005 - Burma stairts muivin some o its ministries frae Rangoon tae Naypyidaw.
* 2012 - Barack Obama is re-electit Preses o the Unitit States, defeatin Mitt Romney.
* 2018 - In mid-term elections, the Democrats regain control o the Unitit States Hoose o Representatives, an Republicans keep control o the Senate.

## Births

* 1494 - Suleiman the Magneeficent, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566)
* 1661 - Charles II o Spain (d. 1700)
* 1814 - Adolphe Sax, Belgian inventor o the saxophone (d. 1894)
* 1854 - John Philip Sousa, American componer (d. 1932)
* 1861 - James Naismith, Canadian-American inventor o basketbaw (d. 1939)
* 1924 - William Auld, Scots writer (d. 2006)
* 1931 - Mike Nichols, German-American theatre an film director, producer an actor (d. 2014)
* 1932 - François Englert, Belgian pheesicist
* 1946 - Sally Field, American actress
* 1954 - Karin Fossum, Norse writer
* 1955 - Maria Shriver, American jurnalist an author
* 1962 - Stuart Dougal, Scots fitbaw referee
* 1970 - Ethan Hawke, American actor
* 1972 - Rebecca Romijn, American actress
* 1974 - Susan Calman, Scots comedienne an presenter
* 1986 - Craig Bryson, Scots fitbawer
* 1987 - Ana Ivanovic, Serbian tennis player
* 1988 - Emma Stone, American actress
* 1988 - Conchita Wurst, Austrick sangster
* 1989 - Jozy Altidore, American fitbawer
* 1990 - André Schürrle, German fitbawer
* 1990 - Kris Wu, Cheenese-Canadian actor, sangster an model
* 1993 - Charlie Flynn, Scots boxer

## Daiths
* 1479 - James Hamilton, 1st Laird Hamilton, Scots nobleman, scholart an politeecian (b. 1415)
* 1752 - Ralph Erskine, Scots kirkman (b. 1685)
* 1818 - Malcolm Laing, Scots historian, advocate an politeecian (b. 1762)
* 1836 - Charles X o Fraunce (b. 1757)
* 1893 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Roushie componer (b. 1840)
* 1893 - Sir Andrew Clark, 1st Baronet, Scots medicinar an pathologist (b. 1826)
* 1958 - Francis George Scott, Scots componer (b. 1880)
* 1964 - Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born Swadish biochemist (b. 1873)
* 2000 - John McPhail, Scots fitbawer (b. 1923)
* 2012 - Clive Dunn, Inglis actor (b. 1920)

## Halidays
* Constitution Day (Dominican Republic, Tajikistan)