November 6 in History

Historical Events on November 6

355

Roman emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with the government of the Prefecture of the Gauls.
447

A powerful earthquake destroys large portions of the Walls of Constantinople, including 57 towers.
963

Synod of Rome: Emperor Otto I calls a council at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Pope John XII is deposed on charges of a armed rebellion against Otto.
1217

The Charter of the Forest is sealed at St Paul's Cathedral, London by King Henry III, acting under the regency of William Marshall, 1st Earl of Pembroke which re-establishes for free men rights of access to the royal forest that had been eroded by William the Conqueror and his heirs.
1528

Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in the area that would become Texas.
1789

Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
1792

Battle of Jemappes in the French Revolutionary Wars.
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.
1860

Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th President of United States.
1861

American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
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 unarmed merchant 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.
1913

Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1917

World War I: Battle of Passchendaele ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.
1918

The Provisional People's Government of the Republic of Poland is established.
1928

Herbert Hoover is elected the 31st President of the United States.
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.
1939

World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau takes place.
1941

World War II: During the Battle of Moscow, Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet people for only the second time.
1942

World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign begins.
1942

World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
1943

World War II: The Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings.
1944

Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1945

Concerned that her cover was about to be blown, Elizabeth Bentley turns herself in to the FBI and confesses she had been spying for the Soviet Union.
1947

Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut.
1948

Deputy commander-in-chief of the Eastern China Field Army General Su Yu launches a massive offensive toward Xuzhou, defended by seven different armies under the General Suppression Headquarters of Xuzhou Garrison, the Huaihai Campaign. The largest operational campaign of the Chinese Civil War begins.
1956

Dwight D. Eisenhower is reelected President of the United States.
1962

The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.
1963

Following the November 1 coup and execution of President Ngo Dinh Diem, coup leader General Dương Văn 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 had 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.
1977

The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
1984

Ronald Reagan is reelected President of the United States.
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 !21⁄2 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.
1995

Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore, the first time the city had a NFL team since 1983 when they were the Baltimore Colts.
1999

Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
2004

An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing seven and injuring 150.
2012

Barack Obama is reelected President of the United States; Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.
2013

Several small bombs explode outside a provincial office of the Chinese Communist Party in the northern city of Taiyuan, killing at least one person and wounding eight others.

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