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 311st day of the year 2016 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 55 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 24, 2016 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 410,664 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.
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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 83 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 1,416 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.
- 1632 –Thirty years war: Battle of Lützen is fought, the Swedes are victorious but the King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus dies in the battle.
- 1789 –Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
- 1935 –Parker Brothers acquires the forerunner patents for MONOPOLY from Elizabeth Magie.
- 1939 –World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau takes place.
- 1944 –Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
- 1947 –Meet the Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
- 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.
- 1995 –The Rova of Antananarivo, home of the sovereigns of Madagascar from the 16th to 19th centuries, is destroyed by fire.
- 2005 –The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.
Who were born on November 6?
- 1753 –Jean-Baptiste Breval, French composer (d. 1823)
- 1887 –Walter Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1946)
- 1924 –Jeanette Schmid, Austrian professional whistler (d. 2005)
- 1931 –Mike Nichols, American film director
- 1937 –Joe Warfield, American actor
- 1940 –Ruth Messinger, American political activist
- 1946 –Fred Penner, Canadian children’s entertainer
- 1957 –Klaus Kleinfeld, German industrialist
- 1961 –Craig Goldy, American musician (Dio)
- 1977 –Patrícia Tavares, Portuguese actress
Who died on November 6?
- 1550 –Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1487)
- 1925 –Emperor Khải Định of Vietnam (b. 1885)
- 1937 –Colin Campbell Cooper, American painter (b. 1856)
- 1964 –Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (b. 1925)
- 1970 –Agustín Lara, Mexican composer and poet (b. 1897)
- 1985 –Sanjeev Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1938)
- 1989 –Yusaku Matsuda, Japanese actor (b. 1949)
- 2005 –Miguel Aceves Mejía, Mexican actor, composer and singer (b. 1915)
- 2006 –Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (b. 1950)
- 2007 –George Osmond, American patriarch of the Osmond family (b. 1917)
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