About November 6
November 6, 2020 is the 311st day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 55 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 98 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1941 –World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule. He states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, the Germans had lost 4.5 million soldiers and that Soviet victory was near.
- 1942 –World War II: Carlson’s patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign begins.
- 1944 –Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2011 –Pedro Gonçalves survives an acute type A aortic dissection
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