What are the important events that happened on November 6? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
November 6: Facts & Myths About This Day
November 6 is the 311th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 55 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 24, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 480,792 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectadecahenagon’ day.
Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 84 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,338 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 6 Historical Events
- 1528 –Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas.
- 1844 –The first constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted.
- 1856 –Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, is submitted for publication.
- 1944 –Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
- 1962 –Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa’s racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.
- 1971 –The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
- 1985 –In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.
- 1995 –The Rova of Antananarivo, home of the sovereigns of Madagascar from the 16th to 19th centuries, is destroyed by fire.
- 1999 –Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
- 2005 –The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.
Who were born on November 6?
- 1550 –Queen Karin Månsdotter of Sweden (d. 1612)
- 1851 –Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (d. 1902)
- 1932 –Stonewall Jackson, American country singer
- 1937 –Eugene Pitt, American singer (The Jive Five)
- 1937 –Garry Gross, American photographer (d. 2010)
- 1937 –Marco Vassi, American writer (d. 1989)
- 1948 –Sidney Blumenthal, American journalist and political figure
- 1955 –Alton Coleman, American serial killer (d. 2002)
- 1964 –Arne Duncan, American political figure
- 1964 –Corey Glover, American musician (Living Color)
Who died on November 6?
- 1231 –Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1196)
- 1632 –King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (b. 1594)
- 1846 –Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and activist (b. 1800)
- 1893 –Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1840)
- 1965 –Clarence Williams, American musician (b. 1898)
- 1968 –Charles Münch, French conductor and violinist (b. 1891)
- 1970 –Agustín Lara, Mexican composer and poet (b. 1897)
- 1978 –Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (b. 1899)
- 2001 –Anthony Shaffer, English dramatist (b. 1926)
- 2003 –Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (b. 1962)
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