November 6

November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 55 days remaining.

Events

   * 1528 - Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca discovers Texas
   * 1844 - Dominican Republic gains its independence from Spain
   * 1861 - Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederacy.
   * 1869 - The first intercollegiate American football game is played.
   * 1917 - Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
   * 1917 - Third Battle of Ypres ends. Canadians take Passchendaele,
     Belgium
   * 1918 - Republic proclaimed in Poland
   * 1928 - Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to
     commemorate the king
   * 1999 - Australians vote to keep the British queen as their head of
     state
   * 2002 - Winona Ryder convicted of shoplifting

Births

   * 15 or 16 - Agrippina the younger, Roman empress (+ 59)
   * 1814 - Adolphe Sax, saxophone inventor
   * 1851 - Charles Dow, journalist, economist
   * 1854 - John Philip Sousa, composer (+ 1932)
   * 1860 - Ignace Paderewski, composer, politician
   * 1861 - James Naismith, inventor of basketball (+ 1939)
   * 1880 - Robert Musil, novelist (The Man Without Qualities) (+ 1942)
   * 1892 - Harold Ross, editor (The New Yorker)
   * 1910 - Erik Ode, film director and actor (+ 1983)
   * 1916 - Ray Conniff, composer, conductor
   * 1921 - Julius Hackethal, physician (+ 1991)
   * 1921 - James Jones, writer (+ 1977)
   * 1928 - Peter Matz, composer (+ 2002)
   * 1931 - Mike Nichols, director
   * 1946 - Sally Fields, actress
   * 1948 - Glenn Frey, singer ("The Eagles")
   * 1949 - Arturo Sandoval, Jazz prefromer
   * 1955 - Maria Shriver, journalist
   * 1970 - Ethan Hawke, actor

Deaths

   * 1632 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (Julian Calendar)
   * 1672 - Heinrich SchŸtz, composer
   * 1769 - Catherine II of Russia
   * 1836 - King Charles X of France
   * 1893 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer
   * 1925 - Khai Dinh, Emperor of Vietnam
   * 1991 - Gene Tierney, actress
   * 2000 - L. Sprague De Camp, science fiction writer
   * 2001 - Anthony Shaffer, filmwriter

Holidays and Observances

   * Dominican Republic - Constitution Day
   * Morocco - Anniversary of the Green March
   * Sweden - Death of of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden an official flag
     day

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