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, 1,730,851,200 seconds 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
- 1632 –Thirty years war: Battle of Lützen is fought, the Swedes are victorious but the King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus dies in the battle.
- 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.
- 1869 –In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
- 1913 –Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1977 –The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
- 1995 –The Rova of Antananarivo, home of the sovereigns of Madagascar from the 16th to 19th centuries, is destroyed by fire.
Who were born on November 6?
- 1494 –Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566)
- 1893 –Edsel Ford, American automotive executive (d. 1943)
- 1893 –Yip Man, Chinese martial artist (d. 1972)
- 1922 –Frank J. Lynch, American jurist and state legislator (d. 1987)
- 1937 –Joe Warfield, American actor
- 1941 –Guy Clark, American country singer-songwriter
- 1947 –E. Lee Spence, pioneer underwater archaeologist
- 1981 –Lee Dong Wook, South Korean actor
- 1983 –Jon Hume, Australian singer (Evermore)
- 1986 –Katie Leclerc, American actress
Who died on November 6?
- 1632 –King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (b. 1594)
- 1816 –Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (b. 1752)
- 1960 –Erich Raeder, German grand admiral (b. 1876)
- 1968 –Charles B. McVay III, Ex-U.S. Navy Captain (b. 1898)
- 1984 –Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist and dramatist (b. 1929)
- 2000 –L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (b. 1907)
- 2002 –Sid Sackson, American board game designer (b. 1920)
- 2005 –Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (b. 1967)
- 2006 –Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (b. 1950)
- 2007 –George Osmond, American patriarch of the Osmond family (b. 1917)
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