November 6: Day of the year

November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 55 days remaining until the end of the year.

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 Núñez 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 - Félix 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 ​26 ¹⁄₂ 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.

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 Bréval, 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 Fallières, 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 - François 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
• 1953 – Michele Catain, American crew member and real estate agent
• 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 - Valérie 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 – André Schürrle, 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
• 1992 – Fang Bo, Chinese ping pong player
• 2002 – Mya-Lecia Naylor, English actress (d. 2019)

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 Schütz, 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)

• Constitution Day (Dominican Republic, Tajikistan, Tatarstan)
• Finnish-Swedish Heritage Day (Finland)
• Gustavus Adolphus Day (Sweden)
• Green March (Morocco)