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What happened in history on this day: November 6?
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- 1558 - Birth of Thomas Kyd English dramatist (Spanish Tragedy).
- 1661 - Birth of Charles II last Habsburg king of Spain (1665-1700).
- 1671 - Birth of Colley Cibber England, dramatist/poet laureate (Love's Last Shift).
- 1672 - Death of Heinrich Schütz in Dresden; German composer (Dafne, Musikalische Exequien, Kleine geistliche Konzerte).
- 1771 - Birth of Alois Senefelder inventor (lithography).
- 1792 - Battle of Jemappes, new French Republic army defeats Austrian forces.
- 1813 - Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain.
- 1814 - Birth of Adolphe Sax in Belgium; musician/inventor (saxophone).
- 1836 - Birth of Francis Ellingwood Abbot in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; theologian (Scientific Theism).
- 1839 - Rabbi Hayim Rapoport of Ostrowiec, author (Maxim Chayyim), dies.
- 1844 - Spain grants Dominican Republic independence.
- 1850 - Yerba Buena and Angel Islands (San Francisco Bay) are reserved for military use.
- 1851 - Birth of Charles H Dow; co-founder of Dow Jones/first editor of Wall Steet Journal.
- 1854 - Birth of John Phillip Sousa in Washington DC, USA; march king ("Stars and Stripes Forever") (dies 1932).
- 1861 - Birth of James A Naismith; inventor (basketball) (dies 1939).
- 1861 - Jefferson Davis is elected to six-year term as President of the Confederate States of America.
- 1862 - New York-San Francisco direct telegraphic link established.
- 1869 - First intercollegiate American football game is played in New Brunswick, New Jersey (Rutgers College 6, Princeton University 4).
- 1883 - NYAC organizes first American cross-country championship race.
- 1884 - British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea.
- 1887 - Birth of Walter Johnson in Kansas, USA; Washington Senators' pitcher (1907-27) (414-218).
- 1888 - Benjamin Harrison (Republican-Senator-Indiana) beats President Grover Cleveland (Democrat), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more votes.
- 1892 - Birth of John Sigvard Olsen in Wabash, Indiana, USA; comedian (Olsen and Johnson).
- 1896 - Birth of Jim Jordan; actor, comedian, created Fibber McGee and Molly radio show.
- 1900 - Birth of Heinrich Himmler; Nazi SS leader.
- 1900 - US President William McKinley (Republican) re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan.
- 1901 - Birth of Juanita Hall in Keyport, New Jersey, USA; singer/actress (Bloody Mary - South Pacific Broadway show (Tony Award) and movies, Capt Billy's Mississippi Music Hall TV show (1948)).
- 1903 - The USA recognizes the independence of Panama.
- 1904 - Birth of Selena Royale in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Date With Judy, Misleading Lady).
- 1906 - Birth of Francis Lederer; actor (Diary of a Chambermaid).
- 1911 - Francisco Madeiro inaugurated President of Mexico.
- 1913 - Mohandas K Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners; march in South Africa.
- 1916 - Birth of Ray Conniff in Massachusetts, USA; chorus director (Ray Conniff Singers - "Somewhere My Love", "S'wonderful").
- 1917 - Bolshevik revolution in Russia begins with the capture of the Winter Palace.
- 1921 - Birth of James Jones in Robinson, Illinois, USA; novelist (From Here to Eternity).
- 1923 - Birth of Robert P Griffin; actor (Barricade, Broken Arrow, Crime of Passion).
- 1923 - USSR adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day "weeks".
- 1924 - Stanley Baldwin becomes Prime Minister of England.
- 1924 - Winston Churchill becomes British chancellor of the Exchequer.
- 1928 - Birth of Peter Matz in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; orchestra leader (Hullabaloo, Carol Burnett Show TV show).
- 1928 - Herbert Hoover (Republican) beats Alfred E Smith (Democrat) for US President.
- 1931 - Birth of Mike Nichols; stage/film director (Catch 22, Biloxi Blues).
- 1933 - Birth of Knut Johannesen in Norway; 5000m/10,000m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1964).
- 1935 - Maiden flight by Canada's Hawker Hurricane military plane.
- 1935 - Before the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Edwin Armstrong presents his paper, "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" (i.e. FM radio).
- 1936 - RCA displays a 343-line television system for the press as part of NBC's tenth anniversary celebration.
- 1937 - Italy signs the Anti-Cominterm Pact, joining Germany and Japan.
- 1937 - Birth of Eugene Pitt; ainger (The Jive Five).
- 1939 - General Electric's WGY-TV (Schenectady, New York), first commercial TV station, begins service.
- 1943 - Kiev is liberated by Soviet forces.
- 1944 - Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility in the USA, subsequently used in the Fat Man Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
- 1944 - Birth of Bill Henderson; rocker (Chilliwack).
- 1945 - The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigation of seven radio commentators.
- 1946 - Birth of Sally Field in Pasadena, California, USA; actress (Gidget, Flying Nun, Brothers and Sisters).
- 1947 - NBC TV debuts the Meet the Press TV show.
- 1948 - Birth of Glenn Frey in Detroit, Michigan, USA; rocker (The Eagles - "Take it Easy").
- 1949 - Birth of Brad Davis in Tallahasseem Florida, USA; actor (Roots, Chiefs).
- 1950 - Birth of Ernest Thompson in Bellows Fall, Vermont, USA; actor (Sierra, Westside Medical).
- 1955 - Birth of Maria Shriver in Chicago, Illinois, USA; newscaster (Sunday Today).
- 1955 - Birth of Fred Penner in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; children's entertainer (Fred Penner's Place).
- 1956 - Holland and Spain withdraw from Olympics, protest Soviets in Hungary.
- 1956 - US President Dwight Eisenhower (Republican) re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (Democrat).
- 1957 - Felix Gaillard becomes premier of France.
- 1957 - CBS debuts The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour TV show.
- 1957 - Birth of Lori Singer; actress (Fame).
- 1960 - Birth of Lance Kerwin in Newport Beach, California, USA; actor (James at 15, The Loneliest Runner).
- 1962 - The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and calling on all its members to end economic and military relations with the country.
- 1962 - Birth of Lori Singer in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA; actress (Fame, V, Footloose).
- 1962 - Edward M Kennedy first elected (Senator-Democrat-Massachusetts).
- 1962 - Edward W Brooke (Republican) is elected attorney general of Massachusetts.
- 1963 - Birth of Paul Brindley; rock musician (The Sundays).
- 1964 - The USSR proclaims Richard Sorge posthumously a Hero of the Soviet Union. Sorge headed a Soviet spy ring in Tokyo until his capture in October 1941.
- 1966 - NBC is first network to televise its entire lineup in color.
- 1966 - Birth of Lisa Fuller in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Dawn - General Hospital).
- 1966 - Birth of Peter DeLuise; actor (Free Ride, Stargate SG-1, Robson Arms, SeaQuest DSV).
- 1967 - Birth of Jana McCoy in Portales, New Mexico, USA; Miss New Mexico-America (1991).
- 1967 - Birth of Rebecca Schaeffer in Eugene, Oregon, USA; actress (Patti - My Sister Sam).
- 1967 - US launches Surveyor 6; makes soft landing on Moon November 9.
- 1967 - Phil Donahue begins a TV talk show in Dayton, Ohio.
- 1968 - Birth of Kelly Rutherford in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA; actress (Generations, Melrose Place, E-Ring, The District).
- 1969 - First baseball Cy Young Award tie (Mike Cuellar of the Baltimore Orioles, and Denny McLain of the Detroit Tigers).
- 1970 - Birth of Ethan Hawke in Austin, Texas, USA; actor (Dad, Dead Poets Society, Explorers).
- 1971 - The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
- 1972 - Birth of Rebecca Romijn; model-actress (Pepper Dennis, Just Shoot Me).
- 1972 - Birth of Thandie Newton; actress (ER).
- 1972 - Tod Andrews, actor (Gray Ghost, Counterthrust), dies at age 52.
- 1976 - Benjamin Hooks succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP.
- 1977 - 39 killed in an earthen dam burst at Toccoa Falls Bible College, Georgia.
- 1978 - Birth of Taryn Manning; American actress (Sons of Anarchy, Get Real).
- 1978 - Death of Flora Campbell of cancer at age 67; actress (Faraway Hill TV series, Date With Judy, Love is a Many Splendored Thing, Love of Life).
- 1978 - Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule.
- 1978 - Birth of Nicole Dubuc; actress/writer (Our House, Kim Possible, My Friends Tigger and Pooh).
- 1979 - At Montevideo, Uruguay, the International Olympic Committee adopts a resolution, whereby Taiwan Olympic and sports teams will participate with the name Chinese Taipei in future Olympics Games and international sports tournaments and championships.
- 1980 - Mary Michael, actress (Birdie - Wonderful John Acton), dies at age 77.
- 1982 - Cameroon president Ahmadou Ahidjo resigns, replaced by Paul Biya.
- 1983 - In Eastern China, a magnitude 5.7 earthquake occurs. Thirty-four people killed, about 2,200 injured and about 3,300 houses destroyed in the Heze-Dongming area of Shandong Province.
- 1984 - U.S. presidential election: Ronald Reagan defeats Walter F. Mondale with 59 percent of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon's 61 percent victory in 1972. Reagan carries 49 states in the electoral college; Mondale wins only his home state of Minnesota by a mere 3,761 vote margin, and the District of Columbia.
- 1984 - In the USA, voters approve introduction of state lotteries in California, Oregon, Missouri, and West Virginia. Pari-mutuel racing betting is approved in Missouri. Colorado and Arkansas defeat proposed casino introductions. Oregon votes to amend constitution to prohibit casinos.
- 1985 - 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61A) -Challenger 9- lands at Edwards Air Force Base.
- 1985 - Exploratory well at Ranger, Texas, explodes spilling 6.3 million gallons of oil.
- 1985 - General Jaruzelski elected Poland's head of state.
- 1985 - Death of Joel Crothers of a heart attack at age 44; actor (Dark Shadows, Secret Storm, Another World, Edge of Night, Somerset, Santa Barbara).
- 1986 - US President Ronald Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill.
- 1986 - A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2.5 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. This is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.
- 1986 - New York's WOR-TV pays a record (for syndicated TV show) $182,000 per episode of The Cosby Show, for the fall, 1988 season. Previous record was $80,000 per show for Cheers.
- 1987 - Ross R Barnett, American lawyer/politician (Governor-Democrat-Mississippi), dies at age 89.
- 1987 - William C Pahlmann, interior decorator (Four Seasons, New York City), dies at age 80.
- 1988 - Birth of Emma Stone; American actress (Drive).
- 1988 - Japan and Major League Baseball All-Stars play to a 6-6 draw (Game 2 of 7).
- 1988 - In the Burma-China Border Region, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs. 730 people killed, 3,900 injured, 267,000 homeless, 29 reservoirs severely damaged and 67 percent of the public buildings destroyed in the Lancang-Menglian area, China.
- 1988 - Steve Jones wins New York men's marathon; Grete Waitz 9th women's title.
- 1989 - Birth of Mercedes Kastner; actress (Beverly Hills 90210 TV show).
- 1990 - Fire destroys some of Universal Studio's stages.
- 1990 - In southern Iran, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake occurs. At least 22 people killed, 100 injured, 21,000 homeless and 18 villages severely damaged.
- 1991 - The KGB officially stops operations.
- 1995 - Death of Aneta Corsaut of cancer at age 62; actress (Helen Crump - Andy Griffith Show, Judge - Matlock).
- 1997 - In Southern Quebec, Canada, a magnitude 4.8 earthquake occurs. Felt as far south as Ottawa, Ontario and as far east as Edmundston, New Brunswick. Felt in western Maine, northern New Hampshire, northern Vermont and parts of northeastern New York in the United States.
- 1999 - Australians vote to keep the monarch as their head of state.
- 2001 - John Bennett of the United Kingdom dives 307.8m deep at Escarcia point, Puerto Galero in the Philippines, deepest scuba dive to date.
- 2001 - FOX begins airing episodes of the TV show 24.
- 2002 - The U.S. Federal Reserve System drops its primary discount rate by 50 basis points to 0.75 percent, putting the real interest rate solidly below the inflation rate.
- 2003 - Death of Mike Lockwood (Crash Holly), WWE wrestler (born 1971).
- 2004 - The Ufton Nervet rail crash in Berkshire, England kills seven people.
- 2004 - In Côte d'Ivoire, National Army bombings kill nine people, including French United Nations soldiers. French United Nations forces retaliate by destroying the National Army's air force.
- 2005 - A tornado hits western Kentucky and southwestern Indiana, killing at least 22.
- 2005 - Azerbaijan parliamentary election: Results are disputed between the New Azerbaijan Party and the Azadliq Party opposition.
- 2007 - Legislative elections are held in the U.S. states of Kentucky, Mississippi, New Jersey, and Virginia; Kentucky and Mississippi also hold gubernatorial elections.
- 2007 - A suicide bomber kills at least 50 people in Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan. Among the dead are six members of the National Assembly.
- 2007 - Death of Hank Thompson at 82 years of age; country singing star (29 songs in the country top ten, "A Six Pack to Go", "The Wild Side of Life", "Waiting in the Lobby of Your Heart", "Rub-A-Dub-Dub", "Oklahoma Hills").
- 2008 - The Bank of England drops the interest rate from 4.5 percent to 3, lowest since 1955.
- 2008 - King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck of Bhutan is crowned, having ascended to the throne in 2006.
- 2008 - St. James Auctions sells a unique Russian 1755 Elizabeth I gold 20-ruble pattern coin graded AU-58 by NGC for 1,782,500 pounds (US$2.82 million), world record price for a non-US coin.
- 2009 - A US Army major opens fire on fellow soldiers at the Fort Hood military base in Texas, killing 13 people and injuring 30.
- 2009 - A CDN$50-million Lotto Max lottery jackpot is won by a person in Pine Falls, Manitoba, Canada.
- 2010 - The government of Myanmar releases opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest.
- 2017 - Death of Feliciano Rivilla, Spanish footballer (born 1936).
- 2019 - At least 37 people are killed and 60 others injured when gunmen attack a Canadian gold mining company convoy on a road in Burkina Faso.
- 2019 - French helicopter crash in Mali kills 13 French soldiers.
- 2020 - Death of Jim Marurai, 8th Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (born 1947).
- 2021 - Death of Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé, 12th Prime Minister of Mali (born 1948).
- 2021 - Death of Yukhym Zvyahilsky, Acting Prime Minister of Ukraine (born 1933).
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