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 310th day of the year 2017 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 55 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 24, 2017 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 25,165,440 minutes 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 ‘trihectadecagon’ day.
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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 105 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 1,781 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 6 Historical Events
- 1632 –Thirty years war: Battle of Lützen is fought, the Swedes are victorious but the King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus dies in the battle.
- 1918 –The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed in Poland.
- 1934 –Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority.
- 1935 –Edwin Armstrong presents his paper “A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation” to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers.
- 1935 –Parker Brothers acquires the forerunner patents for MONOPOLY from Elizabeth Magie.
- 1941 –World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule. He states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, the Germans had lost 4.5 million soldiers and that Soviet victory was near.
- 1963 –Vietnam War: Following the November 1 coup and execution of President Ngo Dinh Diem, coup leader General Duong Van Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam.
- 1971 –The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
- 1999 –Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
- 2011 –Pedro Gonçalves survives an acute type A aortic dissection
Who were born on November 6?
- 1855 –E.S. Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist (d. 1942)
- 1893 –Edsel Ford, American automotive executive (d. 1943)
- 1939 –Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)
- 1946 –Sally Field, American actress
- 1957 –Siobhán McCarthy, Irish singer and actress
- 1972 –Rebecca Romijn, American actress
- 1979 –Adam LaRoche, American baseball player
- 1981 –Lee Dong Wook, South Korean actor
- 1983 –Jon Hume, Australian singer (Evermore)
- 1997 –Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, English actor
Who died on November 6?
- 1406 –Pope Innocent VII
- 1479 –James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton, Scottish nobleman (b. 1415)
- 1893 –Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1840)
- 1929 –Prince Maximilian of Baden, German statesman (b. 1867)
- 1984 –Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist and dramatist (b. 1929)
- 1985 –Sanjeev Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1938)
- 2000 –L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (b. 1907)
- 2003 –Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (b. 1962)
- 2007 –Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist (b. 1920)
- 2007 –Hilda Braid, English actress (b. 1929)
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