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
- 355 –Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with the government of the Prefecture of the Gauls.
- 1844 –The first constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted.
- 1865 –American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 vessels.
- 1934 –Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority.
- 1939 –World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau takes place.
- 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.
- 1975 –Green March begins: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.
- 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.
- 2011 –Pedro Gonçalves survives an acute type A aortic dissection
Who were born on November 6?
- 1391 –Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (d. 1425)
- 1479 –Queen Joanna of Castile of Spain (d. 1555)
- 1854 –John Philip Sousa, American composer (d. 1932)
- 1880 –Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942)
- 1892 –George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven (d. 1938)
- 1937 –Marco Vassi, American writer (d. 1989)
- 1949 –Brad Davis, American actor (d. 1991)
- 1972 –Rebecca Romijn, American actress
- 1981 –Kaspars Gorkšs, Latvian footballer
- 1985 –Ettore Marchi, Italian footballer
Who died on November 6?
- 1479 –James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton, Scottish nobleman (b. 1415)
- 1632 –King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (b. 1594)
- 1692 –Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (b. 1619)
- 1816 –Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (b. 1752)
- 2000 –L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (b. 1907)
- 2004 –Fred Dibnah, English television personality (b. 1938)
- 2004 –Johnny Warren, Australian soccer player (b. 1943)
- 2005 –Miguel Aceves Mejía, Mexican actor, composer and singer (b. 1915)
- 2006 –Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (b. 1950)
- 2010 –Jo Myong-Rok, North Korean military official (b. 1928)
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