November 6

## Events 
### Up to 1950 
* 355 &ndash; Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin, Julian the Apostate, to the rank of Caesar.
* 1429 &ndash; Henry VI becomes King of England.
* 1528 &ndash; Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first-known European to set foot in what is now Texas.
* 1789 &ndash; Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.
* 1844 &ndash; The first Constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted.
* 1860 &ndash; Abraham Lincoln is elected President of the United States.
* 1861 &ndash; Jefferson Davis is chosen as President of the Confederate States of America.
* 1869 &ndash; In New Brunswick, New Jersey, the first inter-college game in American football takes place. Rutgers University defeats Princeton University 6–4.
* 1880 &ndash; Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran discovers the malaria parasite called "Plasmodium falciparum".
* 1888 &ndash; Benjamin Harrison is elected President of the United States.
* 1900 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Mahatma Gandhi is arrested after leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
* 1917 &ndash; World War I: The Third Battle of Ypres in Belgium ends.
* 1918 &ndash; The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed.
* 1928 &ndash; Herbert Hoover is elected President of the United States, defeating Al Smith.
* 1936 &ndash; Spanish Civil War: The Spanish government relocates to Valencia from Madrid.
* 1939 &ndash; World War II: The "Sonderaktion Krakau" takes place, as the Gestapo arrests 184 professors in Krakow.
* 1941 &ndash; World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his rule.
* 1942 &ndash; World War II: German U-boat *U 68* sinks British passenger ship *City of Cairo*, killing 104 people.
* 1943 &ndash; World War II: The Red Army recaptures Kiev.
* 1944 &ndash; The element Plutonium is created.
* 1947 &ndash; The American TV show Meet the Press debuts.

### 1951 &ndash; 2000 
* 1956 &ndash; Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected to serve a second term as President of the United States.
* 1956 &ndash; Building work on the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River in Southern Africa begins.
* 1957 &ndash; Félix Gaillard becomes Prime Minister of France.
* 1962 &ndash; The UN General Assembly condemns South Africa's Apartheid policy, encouraging its members to break-off military and economic ties with the country.
* 1963 &ndash; Duong Vanh Minh takes over the leadership of South Vietnam.
* 1965 &ndash; Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States.
* 1975 &ndash; 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 &ndash; The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, US, fails, killing 39 people.
* 1978 &ndash; Franz Josef Strauss is elected Minister-President of Bavaria.
* 1981 &ndash; Larry Holmes becomes Boxing Heavyweight World Champion, defeating Renaldo Snipes.
* 1982 &ndash; Paul Biya becomes President of Cameroon.
* 1984 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Leftist Guerrillas in Colombia seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogota, killing 115 people, including 11 Supreme Court Justices.
* 1985 &ndash; Anibal Cavaco Silva becomes Prime Minister of Portugal.
* 1985 &ndash; Iran-Contra Affair: The American press reports that Ronald Reagan had authorised arms shipments to Iran.
* 1986 &ndash; Joaquim Chissano is chosen to succeed Samora Machel, who had been killed in a plane crash, as President of Mozambique.
* 1986 &ndash; Alex Ferguson becomes the manager of Manchester United. He serves for over  years, until May 2013.
* 1986 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Leningrad is renamed St. Petersburg.
* 1991 &ndash; The KGB no longer exists from this date.
* 1995 &ndash; In Antananarivo, the former residence of sovereign rulers of Madagascar, is destroyed by fire.
* 1999 &ndash; Voters in Australia decide to keep Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as their head of state.
* 1999 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Michael Bloomberg is elected Mayor of New York City.
* 2001 &ndash; TV Series 24 is first shown.
* 2004 &ndash; A train collides with a stationary car at a level crossing near the village of Ufton Nervet in southern England, killing 7 people.
* 2005 &ndash; The Evansville Tornado of 2005 kills 25 people in northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.
* 2005 &ndash; The Burmese military leaders begin moving government ministries from Rangoon to Pyinmana–Naypidaw.
* 2012 &ndash; Barack Obama is elected to a second term as President of the United States, defeating his Republican Party challenger Mitt Romney.
* 2012 &ndash; Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.
* 2012 &ndash; Puerto Rico holds a referendum on its future status, with indications of a majority vote in favour of becoming the 51st US State.
* 2018 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Agrippina the Younger, Roman Empress (d. 59)
* 1391 &ndash; Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (d. 1425).
* 1479 &ndash; Queen Joanna of Castile (d. 1555)
* 1494 &ndash; Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566).
* 1550 &ndash; Karin Mansdotter, Queen of Sweden (d. 1612)
* 1617 &ndash; Leopoldo de' Medici, Italian cardinal (d. 1675)
* 1661 &ndash; King Charles II of Spain (d. 1700)
* 1692 &ndash; Louis Racine, French poet (d. 1763)
* 1753 &ndash; Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian sculptor (d. 1802)
* 1753 &ndash; Jean-Baptiste Bréval, French composer (d. 1823)
* 1771 &ndash; Alois Senefelder, Austrian actor, playwright and inventor (d. 1834)
* 1794 &ndash; Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (d. 1881)
* 1814 &ndash; Adolphe Sax, Belgian inventor of the Saxophone (d. 1894)
* 1825 &ndash; Charles Garnier, French architect (d. 1898)
* 1832 &ndash; Joseph Smith III, American religious leader (d. 1914)
* 1833 &ndash; Jonas Lie, Norwegian writer (d. 1908)
* 1835 &ndash; Cesare Lombroso, Italian criminologist and physician (d. 1909)
* 1841 &ndash; Armand Fallières, President of France (d. 1931)
* 1841 &ndash; Nelson W. Aldrich, American politician (d. 1915)
* 1850 &ndash; Ernest von Koerber, Austrian politician (d. 1919)
* 1851 &ndash; Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (d. 1902)
* 1854 &ndash; John Philip Sousa, American composer (d. 1932)
* 1861 &ndash; James Naismith, Canadian inventor of basketball (d. 1939)
* 1861 &ndash; Thomas Watt Gregory, United States Attorney General (d. 1933)
* 1880 &ndash; Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942)
* 1880 &ndash; George Poage, American athlete (d. 1962)
* 1882 &ndash; Thomas Harper Ince, American movie actor, director and producer (d. 1924)
* 1886 &ndash; Ida Barney, American astronomer (d. 1982)
* 1887 &ndash; Walter Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1946)
* 1891 &ndash; Galaktion Tabidze, Georgian poet (d. 1959)
* 1892 &ndash; Harold Ross, American editor (d. 1951)
* 1893 &ndash; Edsel Ford, American chief executive of the Ford Motor Company (d. 1943)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1903 &ndash; June Marlowe, American actress (d. 1984)
* 1908 &ndash; Teizo Takeuchi, Japanese footballer (d. 1946)
* 1914 &ndash; Jonathan Harris, American actor (d. 2002)
* 1916 &ndash; Ray Conniff, American musician (d. 2002)
* 1919 &ndash; Christoph Probst, German Resistance activist (White Rose) (d. 1943)
* 1921 &ndash; James Jones, American writer (d. 1977)
* 1925 &ndash; Michel Bouquet, French actor
* 1926 &ndash; Zig Ziglar, American author (d. 2012)
* 1931 &ndash; Mike Nichols, German-born American television, stage and movie director (d. 2014)
* 1931 &ndash; Peter Collins, British racing driver (d. 1958)
* 1932 &ndash; François Englert, Belgian theoretical physicist, joint-winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics
* 1932 &ndash; Stonewall Jackson, American country music singer
* 1932 &ndash; Eugene H. Peterson, American clergyman and biblical scholar (d. 2018)
* 1932 &ndash; Ron Saunders, English footballer and manager (d. 2019)
* 1938 &ndash; Seishiro Shimatani, Japanese footballer (d. 2001)
* 1939 &ndash; Michael Schwerner, American Civil Rights activist (d. 1964)
* 1941 &ndash; John Carter, American politician
* 1941 &ndash; Guy Clark, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (d. 2016)
* 1943 &ndash; Roberto Telch, Argentine footballer (d. 2014)
* 1946 &ndash; Sally Field, American actress
* 1946 &ndash; Fred Penner, Canadian children's entertainer
* 1946 &ndash; George Young, Scottish-Australian musician (d. 2017)
* 1947 &ndash; Carolyn Seymour, English actres
* 1947 &ndash; Larry James, American athlete (d. 2008)
* 1948 &ndash; Glenn Frey, American rock musician (d. 2016)
* 1949 &ndash; Arturo Sandoval, Cuban jazz musician
* 1949 &ndash; Brad Davis, American actor (d. 1991)
* 1950 &ndash; Marvin Goodfriend, American economist (d. 2019)

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Nigel Havers, British actor
* 1952 &ndash; Michael Cunningham, American writer
* 1953 &ndash; Michele Catain, American crew member and real estate agent
* 1954 &ndash; Karin Fossum, Norwegian writer
* 1954 &ndash; Mango, Italian singer (d. 2014)
* 1955 &ndash; Maria Shriver, American journalist, was married to Arnold Schwarzenegger
* 1956 &ndash; Marc Dutroux, Belgian serial killer
* 1957 &ndash; Lori Singer, American actress
* 1958 &ndash; Trace Beaulieu, American actor, puppeteer, producer and screenwriter
* 1961 &ndash; Florent Pagny, French singer-songwriter and actor
* 1962 &ndash; Annette Zilinskas, American musician and singer
* 1964 &ndash; Arne Duncan, American politician
* 1965 &ndash; Valérie Benguigui, French actress (d. 2013)
* 1966 &ndash; Paul Gilbert, American guitarist and singer
* 1967 &ndash; Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress (d. 1989)
* 1968 &ndash; Jerry Yang, Taiwanese-American businessman, co-founder of Yahoo!
* 1968 &ndash; Kelly Rutherford, American actress
* 1970 &ndash; Ethan Hawke, American actor
* 1972 &ndash; Rebecca Romijn, American actress and model
* 1972 &ndash; Thandie Newton, English actress
* 1973 &ndash; Nell McAndrew, English model and runner
* 1973 &ndash; Sandy Robson, Canadian actor
* 1974 &ndash; Susan Calman, Scottish comedienne and television presenter
* 1974 &ndash; Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (d. 2009)

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Jodi Martin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1976 &ndash; Pat Tillman, American football player and soldier (d. 2004)
* 1977 &ndash; Sienna West, American pornographic movie actress
* 1978 &ndash; Sandrine Blancke, Belgian actress
* 1978 &ndash; Taryn Manning, American singer-songwriter, actress and fashion designer
* 1979 &ndash; Brad Stuart, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1981 &ndash; Lee Dong Wook, South Korean actor
* 1981 &ndash; Cassie Bernall, American student (d. 1999)
* 1983 &ndash; Nicole Hosp, Austrian skier
* 1983 &ndash; Jon Hume, Australian singer
* 1984 &ndash; Ricky Romero, American baseball player
* 1986 &ndash; Craig Bryson, Scottish footballer
* 1986 &ndash; Katie Leclerc, American actress
* 1986 &ndash; Conor Sammon, Irish footballer
* 1987 &ndash; Ana Ivanovic, Serbian tennis player
* 1988 &ndash; Erik Lund, Swedish footballer
* 1988 &ndash; Conchita Wurst, Austrian singer and performer, winner of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest
* 1988 &ndash; Emma Stone, American actress
* 1989 &ndash; Jozy Altidore, American footballer
* 1990 &ndash; André Schürrle, German footballer
* 1990 &ndash; Kris Wu, Chinese rapper, singer-songwriter and actor
* 1991 &ndash; Mike van Duinen, Dutch footballer
* 1991 &ndash; Doron Lamb, American basketball player
* 1992 &ndash; Kim Yura, South Korean singer
* 1992 &ndash; Fang Bo, Chinese ping pong player
* 2002 &ndash; Mya-Lecia Naylor, English actress (d. 2019)

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* 1231 &ndash; Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1196)
* 1406 &ndash; Pope Innocent VII
* 1492 &ndash; Antoine Busnois, French composer and poet (b. 1430)
* 1650 &ndash; William II, Prince of Orange (b. 1626)
* 1656 &ndash; King John IV of Portugal (b. 1604)
* 1656 &ndash; Jean-Baptiste Morin, French mathematician, astrologer and astronomer (b. 1583)
* 1672 &ndash; Heinrich Schütz, German composer (b. 1585)
* 1771 &ndash; John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (b. 1695)
* 1790 &ndash; James Bowdoin, Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1726)
* 1816 &ndash; Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (b. 1752)
* 1822 &ndash; Claude-Louis Berthollet, French chemist (b. 1748)
* 1836 &ndash; King Charles X of France (b. 1757)
* 1846 &ndash; Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and activist (b. 1800)
* 1846 &ndash; Alexander Chavchavadze, Georgian poet and general (b. 1786)
* 1893 &ndash; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1840)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1905 &ndash; George Williams, English founder of the YMCA (b. 1821)
* 1910 &ndash; Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (b. 1838)
* 1914 &ndash; Carl Hans Lody, German naval reserve officer (b. 1877)
* 1925 &ndash; Emperor Khai Dinh of Vietnam (b. 1885)
* 1929 &ndash; Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1867)
* 1933 &ndash; Andrei Lyapchev, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1866)
* 1935 &ndash; Henry Fairfield Osborn, American geologist and paleontologist (b. 1857)
* 1937 &ndash; Colin Campbell Cooper, American painter and academic (b. 1856)
* 1944 &ndash; Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, British politician (b. 1880)
* 1951 &ndash; Tom Kiely, Irish athlete (b. 1869)
* 1964 &ndash; Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German chemist (b. 1873)
* 1965 &ndash; Clarence Williams, American musician (b. 1898)
* 1970 &ndash; Agustin Lara, Mexican composer and poet (b. 1897)
* 1978 &ndash; Harry Bertoia, Italian artist and designer (b. 1915)
* 1982 &ndash; Shiro Teshima, Japanese footballer (b. 1907)
* 1985 &ndash; Sanjeev Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1938)
* 1987 &ndash; Ross Barnett, American politician, 52nd Governor of Mississippi (b. 1898)
* 1991 &ndash; Gene Tierney, American actress (b. 1920)
* 1997 &ndash; Anne-Stine Ingstad, Norwegian archaeologist (b. 1918)
* 1999 &ndash; Regina Ghazaryan, Armenian painter (b. 1915)
* 2000 &ndash; David Brower, American environmentalist (b. 1912)

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; Anthony Shaffer, British writer, screenwriter and playwright (b. 1926)
* 2002 &ndash; Sid Jackson, American board game designer (b. 1920)
* 2003 &ndash; Mike Lockwood, American professional wrestler (b. 1971)
* 2004 &ndash; Fred Dibnah, British television personality (b. 1938)
* 2005 &ndash; Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (b. 1967)
* 2006 &ndash; Fernando Fernandez Ochoa, Spanish skier (b. 1950)
* 2007 &ndash; Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist (b. 1920)
* 2007 &ndash; Hank Thompson, American musician (b. 1925)
* 2007 &ndash; George Osmond, American patriarch of the Osmond family (b. 1917)
* 2008 &ndash; Larry James, American athlete (b. 1947)
* 2010 &ndash; Siddhartha Shankar Roy, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1920)
* 2011 &ndash; Margaret Field, American actress (b. 1922)
* 2012 &ndash; Maxim of Bulgaria, Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (b. 1914)
* 2012 &ndash; Clive Dunn, British actor, comedian and singer (b. 1920)
* 2013 &ndash; Ace Parker, American football and baseball player (b. 1912)
* 2014 &ndash; Rick Rosas, American musician (b. 1949)
* 2014 &ndash; Victor Kostetskiy, Russian actor (b. 1941)
* 2014 &ndash; Tommy Macpherson, Scottish army officer (b. 1920)
* 2014 &ndash; Alok Nembang, Nepalese movie director (b. 1973)
* 2015 &ndash; Yitzhak Navon, President of Israel (b. 1921)
* 2017 &ndash; Richard F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut (b. 1929)
* 2017 &ndash; Karin Dor, German actress (b. 1938)
* 2017 &ndash; Abdul Aziz bin Fahd, Saudi prince (b. 1973)
* 2017 &ndash; Feliciano Rivilla, Spanish footballer (b. 1936)
* 2018 &ndash; Jonathan Cantwell, American racing cyclist (b. 1982)
* 2018 &ndash; Bernard Landry, Canadian politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1937)
* 2019 &ndash; 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)