About November 6
November 6, 2025 is the 310th 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.
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Scorpio is the sun 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.
What Happened On November 6
- 1528 –Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas.
- 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.
- 1844 –The first constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted.
- 1856 –Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, is submitted for publication.
- 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.
- 1918 –The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed in Poland.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: Carlson’s patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign begins.
- 1947 –Meet the Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
- 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.
- 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.
- 1965 –Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans made use of this program.
- 1971 –The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
- 1985 –In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.
- 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.
- 1995 –The Rova of Antananarivo, home of the sovereigns of Madagascar from the 16th to 19th centuries, is destroyed by fire.
- 2004 –An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing 7 and injuring 150.
- 2011 –Pedro Gonçalves survives an acute type A aortic dissection
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