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 310^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 55 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 24, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,373,120 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.

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 103 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 4,703 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

November 6 Historical Events

• 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.
• 1913 –
  Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
• 1917 –
  World War I: Third Battle of Ypres ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1986 –
  Sumburgh disaster – A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2.5 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.
• 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?

• 1479 –
  Queen Joanna of Castile of Spain (d. 1555)
• 1753 –
  Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian sculptor (d. 1802)
• 1833 –
  Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (d. 1908)
• 1921 –
  James Jones, American novelist (d. 1977)
• 1937 –
  Eugene Pitt, American singer (The Jive Five)
• 1938 –
  Mack Jones, American baseball player (d. 2004)
• 1949 –
  Nigel Havers, English actor
• 1961 –
  Florent Pagny, French songwriter and singer
• 1976 –
  Catherine Clark, Canadian journalist; daughter of Joe Clark
• 1997 –
  Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, English actor

Who died on November 6?

• 1978 –
  Harry Bertoia, Italian artist and designer (b. 1915)
• 1991 –
  Gene Tierney, American actress (b. 1920)
• 1998 –
  Marcel Gauthier, Canadian wrestler (b. 1928)
• 2002 –
  Sid Sackson, American board game designer (b. 1920)
• 2003 –
  Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (b. 1919)
• 2005 –
  Miguel Aceves Mejía, Mexican actor, composer and singer (b. 1915)
• 2006 –
  Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (b. 1950)
• 2007 –
  George Grljusich, Australian sports broadcaster (b. 1939)
• 2007 –
  Hilda Braid, English actress (b. 1929)
• 2010 –
  Jo Myong-Rok, North Korean military official (b. 1928)