November 6

November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 55 days remaining.

Events

• 1528 - Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca[?] discovers Texas
• 1844 - Dominican Republic gains its independence from Spain
• 1861 - Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederacy.
• 1869 - The first intercollegiate American football game is played.
• 1917 - Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
• 1917 - Third Battle of Ypres ends. Canadians take Passchendaele, Belgium
• 1918 - Republic proclaimed in Poland
• 1928 - Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the king
• 1999 - Australians vote to keep the British queen as their head of state
• 2002 - Winona Ryder convicted of shoplifting

Births

• 15 or 16 - Agrippina the younger, Roman empress (+ 59)
• 1814 - Adolphe Sax, saxophone inventor
• 1851 - Charles Dow, journalist, economist
• 1854 - John Philip Sousa, composer (+ 1932)
• 1860 - Ignace Paderewski[?], composer, politician
• 1861 - James Naismith, inventor of basketball (+ 1939)
• 1880 - Robert Musil, novelist (The Man Without Qualities[?]) (+ 1942)
• 1892 - Harold Ross[?], editor (The New Yorker)
• 1910 - Erik Ode[?], film director and actor (+ 1983)
• 1916 - Ray Conniff[?], composer, conductor
• 1921 - Julius Hackethal[?], physician (+ 1991)
• 1921 - James Jones[?], writer (+ 1977)
• 1928 - Peter Matz[?], composer (+ 2002)
• 1931 - Mike Nichols, director
• 1946 - Sally Fields, actress
• 1948 - Glenn Frey[?], singer ("The Eagles")
• 1949 - Arturo Sandoval, Jazz prefromer
• 1955 - Maria Shriver[?], journalist
• 1970 - Ethan Hawke, actor

Deaths

• 1632 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (Julian Calendar)
• 1672 - Heinrich Schütz, composer
• 1769 - Catherine II of Russia
• 1836 - King Charles X of France
• 1893 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer
• 1925 - Khai Dinh[?], Emperor of Vietnam
• 1991 - Gene Tierney, actress
• 2000 - L. Sprague De Camp[?], science fiction writer
• 2001 - Anthony Shaffer, filmwriter

Holidays and Observances

• Dominican Republic - Constitution Day[?]
• Morocco - Anniversary of the Green March[?]
• Sweden - Death of of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden an official flag day

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