On this day: 6 November
Events, births and deaths on 6 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · James Watson
- Deaths · Frederick Hauck
10 years ago2016
- Events · Raqqa Campaign
100 years ago1926
- Births · Zig Ziglar
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 16
- 1792Battle of Jemappes — 1792 battle during the War of the First Coalition
- 1794Action of 6 November 1794 — 1794 naval engagement during the French Revolutionary Wars
- 18601860 United States presidential election — election between Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen A. Douglas
- 1863Battle of Droop Mountain — 1863 battle in the American Civil War
- 18691869 college football season — American college football season
- 19001900 United States presidential election — 29th quadrennial U.S. presidential election
- 1903South China Morning Post — Hong Kong newspaper
- 1936Madrid Defense Council — organization
- 1939Sonderaktion Krakau — Nazi German operation against professors and academics of the Jagiellonian University and other universities in German occupied Kraków, Poland, at the beginning of World War II
- 1947Meet the Press — American television Sunday morning talk show broadcast on NBC
- 1948Huaihai Campaign — 1948 military campaign
- 1985Palace of Justice Siege — 1985 attack on the Supreme Court of Colombia by M-19 guerillas
- 19881988 Lancang-Gengma earthquakes — magnitude 7.7 and 7.2 earthquake near the Myanmar−China border region
- 2002Luxair Flight 9642 — aviation accident
- 2012
- 2016Raqqa Campaign — 2016-2017 offensive to liberate Raqqa from ISIL
Births · 60
- 15(Julian date)Agrippina the Younger — Roman empress and member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (AD 15–59)
- 1479(Julian date)Juana I of Castile — Queen of Castile from 1504 and of Aragon from 1516
- 1494(Julian date)Suleiman the Magnificent — the tenth and greatest Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1520–1566)
- 1550Karin Månsdotter — Swedish queen consort (1550-1612)
- 1661Charles II of Spain — king of Spain, lived (1661-1700)
- 1755Stanisław Staszic — Polish philosopher and writer (1755–1826)
- 1814Adolphe Sax — Belgian musical instrument designer and musician (1814–1894)
- 1835Cesare Lombroso — Italian psychiatrist, physician, and criminologist (1835-1909)
- 1841Armand Fallières — 9th president of France (1841–1931)
- 1851Charles Dow — American journalist (1851–1902)
- 1854John Philip Sousa — American conductor and composer (1854–1932)
- 1861James Naismith — Canadian-American coach; inventor of basketball
- 1880Robert Musil — Austrian philosophical writer (1880–1942)
- 1882Feng Yuxiang — Chinese general and politician, took part in overthrowing Qing Empire, a warlord during the Republican era (1882-1948)
- 1882Thomas H. Ince — American film producer (1882–1924)
- 1892George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven — Royal Navy officer (1892–1938)
- 1901Yang Kaihui — wife of Mao Zedong (1901-1930)
- 1926Zig Ziglar — American motivational speaker (1926-2012)
- 1929June Squibb — American actress
- 1931Mike Nichols — American director and comedian (1931–2014)
- 1932
- 1937Yashwant Sinha — Indian administrator and politician
- 1940Johnny Giles — Irish soccer player and manager
- 1946Sally Field — American actress
- 1946George Young — Australian rock musician (1946–2017)
Deaths · 58
- 1231(Julian date)Tsuchimikado — Emperor of Japan
- 1312Christina von Stommeln — Roman Catholic mystic and blessed
- 1406(Julian date)Innocent VII — pope of the Catholic Church from 1404 to 1406
- 1492Antoine Busnois — French composer and poet
- 1600Ishida Mitsunari — samurai who led the Western army in the Battle of Sekigahara
- 1600Konishi Yukinaga — Japanese daimyō who served Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- 1600Ankokuji Ekei — Diplomat of Mōri clan
- 1632(Julian date)Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden — Swedish king (regent 1611–1632) (1594–1632)
- 1656John IV of Portugal — King of Portugal from 1640 to 1656 (lived 1604-1656)
- 1656Jean-Baptiste Morin — French astronomer
- 1672(Julian date)Heinrich Schütz — German composer and organist (1585–1672)
- 1816Gouverneur Morris — American politician (1752-1816)
- 1822Claude Louis Berthollet — French chemist (1748-1822)
- 1887Eugène Pottier — French politician (1816-1887)
- 1893Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Russian composer (1840–1893)
- 1935Henry Fairfield Osborn — American geologist (1857–1935)
- 1941Maurice Leblanc — French writer
- 1946Dunham Jackson — American mathematician (1888–1946)
- 1955Edwin Barclay — Liberian politician (1882-1955)
- 1960Erich Raeder — German admiral (1876–1960)
- 1964Hugo Koblet — Swiss racing cyclist (1925–1964)
- 1965Clarence Williams — American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher (1893-1965)
- 1968Chauncey Sparks — American politician (1884-1968)
- 1978Heiri Suter — Swiss racing cyclist (1899–1978)
- 1985Sanjeev Kumar — Indian film actor (1938-1985)
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