# On this day: November 6

November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years), with 55 days left until the end of the year.

## November 6 in one line

Headline entries for November 6, from Wikipedia: in 1917, First World War: Canadian forces captured Passendale, Belgium, after three months of fighting against the Germans at the Battle of Passchendaele; born 1494: Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (died 1566); died 1893: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (born 1840). In 2026 it is a Friday, in 2027 a Saturday.

## Events on November 6

- 447 A powerful earthquake destroys large portions of the Walls of Constantinople, including 57 towers. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walls_of_Constantinople)
- 1217 King Henry III of England issued the Charter of the Forest, re-establishing the rights of access of free men to royal forests. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_the_Forest)
- 1792 Battle of Jemappes in the French Revolutionary Wars. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jemappes)
- 1794 French Revolutionary Wars: Two British ships were intercepted by a French squadron, leading to the French seizure of HMS Alexander. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_6_November_1794)
- 1856 The first story from the collection Scenes of Clerical Life by the English author George Eliot was submitted for publication. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scenes_of_Clerical_Life)
- 1860 Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States with only 40% of the popular vote, defeating John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen A. Douglas in a four-way race. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_United_States_presidential_election)
- 1863 American Civil War: A Union brigade defeated a Confederate force at the Battle of Droop Mountain in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Droop_Mountain)
- 1868 Red Cloud, a Native American leader of the Oglala Lakota tribe, signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie, ending Red Cloud's War and establishing the Great Sioux Reservation. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Fort_Laramie_(1868))
- 1900 President William McKinley is re-elected, along with his vice-presidential running mate, Governor Theodore Roosevelt of New York. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_United_States_presidential_election)
- 1917 First World War: Canadian forces captured Passendale, Belgium, after three months of fighting against the Germans at the Battle of Passchendaele. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Passchendaele)
- 1924 The Spanish anarchist group Los Solidarios unsuccessfully attempted to launch an insurrection against the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Solidarios)
- 1936 Spanish Civil War: The republican government flees from Madrid to Valencia, leading to the formation of the Madrid Defense Council in its stead. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_Defense_Council)
- 1939 As part of their plan to eradicate the Polish intellectual elite, the Gestapo arrested 184 professors, students and employees of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderaktion_Krakau)
- 1943 World War II: The 1st Ukrainian Front liberates Kyiv from German occupation. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kiev_(1943))
- 1944 The B Reactor at the Hanford Site in the U.S. state of Washington began producing plutonium, with the facility later going on to create more for nearly the entire American nuclear arsenal. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site)
- 1947 Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut on NBC Television. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Press)
- 1963 Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ was appointed by the junta of General Dương Văn Minh to head the South Vietnamese government, five days after Minh deposed and assassinated President Ngô Đình Diệm. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Ng%E1%BB%8Dc_Th%C6%A1)
- 1971 The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannikin)
- 1977 The Kelly Barnes Dam in Stephens County, Georgia, collapsed; the resulting flood killed 39 people and caused US$2.8 million in damages. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Barnes_Dam)
- 1985 Colombian conflict: leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Justice_siege)
- 1988 Two earthquakes occurring 12 minutes apart struck Yunnan near the China–Myanmar border, killing more than 730 people. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Lancang%E2%80%93Gengma_earthquakes)
- 2002 A Fokker 50 crashes near Luxembourg Airport, killing 20 and injuring three. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxair_Flight_9642)
- 2004 A man committing suicide parked his car on the railway tracks in Ufton Nervet, Berkshire, England, causing a derailment that also killed six people on the train. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ufton_Nervet_rail_crash)
- 2012 Tammy Baldwin became the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Baldwin)
- 2016 Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces launched a successful military campaign to isolate and eventually capture Raqqa, the Islamic State's capital. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raqqa_campaign_(2016%E2%80%932017))
- 2025 Canadian ostrich cull: The Government of Canada kills 314 ostriches after H5N8 is detected in an ostrich farm in Edgewood, BC. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Canadian_ostrich_culling_controversy)

## Born on November 6

- 1494 Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (died 1566) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suleiman_the_Magnificent)
- 1661 Charles II of Spain, last Habsburg ruler of the Spanish Empire (died 1700) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_Spain)
- 1814 Adolphe Sax, Belgian-French instrument designer, invented the saxophone (died 1894) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Sax)
- 1854 John Philip Sousa, American composer and bandleader (died 1932) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Philip_Sousa)
- 1861 James Naismith, Canadian-American physician and educator, invented basketball (died 1939) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith)
- 1926 Zig Ziglar, American soldier, businessman, and author (died 2012) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zig_Ziglar)
- 1931 Mike Nichols, German-born American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2014) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Nichols)
- 1932 François Englert, Belgian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2026) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Englert)
- 1946 Sally Field, American actress [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Field)
- 1948 Glenn Frey, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 2016) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Frey)
- 1952 Michael Cunningham, American novelist and screenwriter [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cunningham)
- 1955 Maria Shriver, American journalist and author [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Shriver)
- 1968 Jerry Yang, Taiwanese-American engineer and businessman, co-founded Yahoo! [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Yang)
- 1968 Kelly Rutherford, American actress [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Rutherford)
- 1972 Rebecca Romijn, American model and actress [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Romijn)
- 1979 Lamar Odom, American basketball player [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_Odom)
- 1987 Ana Ivanovic, Serbian tennis player [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Ivanovic)
- 1988 Emma Stone, American actress [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Stone)
- 1988 Conchita Wurst, Austrian singer [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conchita_Wurst)
- 1989 Jozy Altidore, American soccer player [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jozy_Altidore)
- 1990 André Schürrle, German footballer [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Sch%C3%BCrrle)
- 1997 Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, English actor and model [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_Fiennes_Tiffin)

## Died on November 6

- 1003 Pope John XVII [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_XVII)
- 1406 Pope Innocent VII (born 1339) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Innocent_VII)
- 1492 Antoine Busnois, French composer and poet (born 1430) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Busnois)
- 1672 Heinrich Schütz, German organist and composer (born 1585) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Sch%C3%BCtz)
- 1893 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (born 1840) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky)
- 1991 Gene Tierney, American actress (born 1920) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Tierney)
- 2012 Clive Dunn, English actor (born 1920) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Dunn)
- 2015 Yitzhak Navon, Israeli author, playwright, and politician, 5th President of Israel (born 1921) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Navon)
- 2017 Richard F. Gordon Jr., American naval officer, aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut (born 1929) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_F._Gordon_Jr.)
- 2020 King Von, American rapper (born 1994) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Von)
- 2023 Antoni Martí, Andorran politician, former Prime Minister of Andorra (born 1963) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Mart%C3%AD)
- 2024 Tony Todd, American actor (born 1954) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Todd)
- 2024 Dorothy Allison, American writer (born 1949) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Allison)
- 2025 James Watson, American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist (born 1928) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watson)

## Holidays and observances

- Christian feast days: Barlaam of Khutyn [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barlaam_of_Khutyn)
- Christian feast days: Demetrian [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrian)
- Christian feast days: Illtud [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illtud)
- Christian feast days: Leonard of Noblac [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_of_Noblac)
- Christian feast days: Melaine of Rennes [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melaine)
- Christian feast days: Winnoc [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnoc)
- Christian feast days: November 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_6_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics))
- Gustavus Adolphus Day (in Sweden, Finland and Estonia) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavus_Adolphus_Day)
- Finnish Swedish Heritage Day (in Finland) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland-Swedish_Heritage_Day)
- International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_for_Preventing_the_Exploitation_of_the_Environment_in_War_and_Armed_Conflict)
- Obama Day (in Kenya) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_Day)

## Sources

- [Wikipedia — “November 6”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_6) — events, births, deaths and observances (text under CC BY-SA 4.0) (checked 2026-10-15)
- [Wikipedia — “Selected anniversaries/November 6”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/November_6) — the anniversaries editors chose for the date and the article each one is about (checked 2026-10-15)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) — in how many language editions each entry's own article exists, used to fill the lists (CC0) (checked 2026-10-15)
- [vacanza/holidays (open-source holiday rules, MIT licence)](https://github.com/vacanza/holidays) — holiday rules used to build the lists (checked 2026-10-15)

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article [“November 6”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_6) and the articles it links to ([authors and history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_6?action=history)), retrieved 2026-10-15 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this selection is shared under the same licence. Every anniversary that Wikipedia's editors selected for November 6 stays on the list; the remaining places, up to 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths, go to the entries whose own article — about the event itself, or else the person or thing it is about — appears in the most language editions (counted from Wikidata); an article about a person or thing, which covers far more than one day, counts half. An entry with no article of its own counts, also at half, by the least covered article it links, and one that links only places counts for nothing. Each list runs by year, and the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures, audio and video.

## November 6 in the calendar

| Year | Weekday | ISO week | Moon (UTC) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | Friday | 2026-W45 | 🌘 Waning Crescent |
| 2027 | Saturday | 2027-W44 | 🌓 First Quarter |
| 2028 | Monday | 2028-W45 | 🌖 Waning Gibbous |
| 2029 | Tuesday | 2029-W45 | 🌑 New Moon |
| 2030 | Wednesday | 2030-W45 | 🌔 Waxing Gibbous |

Moon phases are for the day in UTC; at the edges of a phase your local date can differ.

## Public holidays on November 6

None of the 28 countries we track has a public holiday on November 6 in 2026 or 2027.

[Today's holidays in 28 countries →](https://whathappen.today/holidays/)

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