November 6th in History
On This Day in History
- Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America (1861)
- The CSS Shenandoah becomes the last Confederate combat unit to surrender (1865)
- Rutgers beats Princeton 6-4 in the first official intercollegiate American football game (1869)
- Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in South Africa for leading a labor protest march (1913)
- The Hawker Hurricane flies for the first time (1935)
- Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility, providing material for the Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki (1944)
- Meet the Press debuts on television (1947)
- The last burning Kuwaiti oil field following the Iraqi withdrawal after Desert Storm is extinguished (1991)
Birthdays
- Adolphe Sax, musical instrument inventor (1814)
- Charles Dow, economist and journalist (1851)
- John Philip Sousa, composer (1854)
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski, pianist and second prime minister of the Republic of Poland (1860)
- James Naismith, inventor of basketball (1861)
- Walter Johnson, baseball player (1887)
- Harold Ross, co-founder of The New Yorker (1892)
- Edsel Ford, car namesake (1893)
- June Marlowe, Our Gang/Little Rascals schoolteacher (1903)
- Jonathan Harris, Lost in Space villain (2002)
- Ray Conniff, composer and conductor (1916)
- James Jones, author (1921)
- Zig Ziglar, motivational speaker (1926)
- Mike Nichols, director and producer (1931)
- Stonewall Jackson, honky tonk singer (1932)
- Marco Vassi, author (1937)
- Michael Schwerner, murdered civil rights activist (1939)
- Sally Field, actress (1946)
- Sidney Blumenthal, journalist (1948)
- Glenn Frey, singer-songwriter (1948)
- Arturo Sandoval, trumpet player (1949)
- Rebecca Schaeffer, murdered actress (1967)
- Ethan Hawke, actor and director (1970)
- Rebecca Romijn, supermodel and actress (1972)
- Pat Tillman, football player and Army Ranger (1976)
- Emma Stone, actress (1988)
Deaths
- Екатерина II Великая (Catherine the Great), Russian empress (1796 — O. S.; 17 Nov. Gregorian)
- Gouverneur Morris, American politician (1816)
- Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky), composer (1893)
- Erich Raeder, Kriegsmarine leader (1960)
- Edgard Varèse, composer (1965)
- Gene Tierney, actress (1991)
- L. Sprague de Camp, science fiction writer (2000)
- Sid Sackson, game designer (2002)
- Hank Thompson, country singer-songwriter (2007)
Holidays
- Constitution Day (Dominican Republic, Tajikistan, Tatarstan)
- Finnish Swedish Heritage Day (Finland)
- Green March (Morocco)
- Gustavus Adolphus Day (Sweden)
- International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict (International)
- Marooned Without a Compass Day (informal, US)
- National Men Make Dinner Day (informal, US)
- National Nachos Day (US)
- Saxophone Day (honoring the birthday of Adolphus Sax)
November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years), with 55 days remaining until year’s end.