This is a list of selected November 6 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| and Tajikistan (1994) | simply a description of the constitution |
| Finnish Swedish Heritage Day in Finland | Too short/stubby. |
| 447 – A powerful earthquake destroyed large portions of the Walls of Constantinople, including 57 towers. | Refimprove section |
| 1789 – Pope Pius VI appointed Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States. | Large % unref, cn |
| 1860 – Abraham Lincoln won the U.S. presidential election, becoming the first Republican Party candidate to do so. | refimprove, unreferenced section |
| 1865 – Months after the end of the American Civil War, the CSS Shenandoah became the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 38 vessels. | lots of CN tags (10) |
| 1869 – In the first intercollegiate American football game, Rutgers College defeated the College of New Jersey 6–4 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. | Large % unref |
| 1917 – First World War: Canadian forces captured Passendale, Belgium, after three months of fighting against the Germans at the Third Battle of Ypres. | featured on July 31 |
| 1928 – Arnold Rothstein, head of the Jewish mob in New York, died two days after being shot for his failure to pay a large gambling debt. | refimprove |
| 1935 – Before the Institute of Radio Engineers in New York, American electrical engineer and inventor Edwin Howard Armstrong presented his study on using frequency modulation for radio broadcasting. | refimprove section |
| 1935 – The Hawker Hurricane, the aircraft responsible for 60% of the Royal Air Force's air victories in the Battle of Britain, made its first flight. | refimprove section; lots of CN tags (10) |
| 1962 – The United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 1761, condemning South Africa's apartheid policies. | Stubby |
| 1971 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission conducted the largest underground nuclear test in U.S. history, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. | page numbers needed |
| 1975 – Demonstrators in Morocco began the Green March to Spanish Sahara, calling for the "return of the Moroccan Sahara." | refimprove section |
| 1985 – In Bogotá, Colombia, the Palace of Justice siege left 115 people dead, including all the April 19 Movement rebels that took over the Palace of Justice, and 11 Supreme Court justices that had been held hostages. | outdated, neutrality issues |
| 1986 – Attempting to land at Sumburgh Airport in Shetland, Scotland, carrying workers returning from the Brent oilfield, a Boeing 234LR Chinook crashed into the sea, killing 45 people. | no footnotes |
| 1995 – Madagascar's Rova of Antananarivo, which served as the royal palace from the 17th to 19th centuries, was destroyed by fire. | outdated |
| 1999 – Although opinion polls had clearly suggested that the majority of the electorate favoured republicanism, the Australian republic referendum was defeated, keeping the Australian monarch as the country's official head of state. | refimprove section |
| 2004 – A man committing suicide parked his car on the railway tracks in Ufton Nervet, Berkshire, England, causing a derailment that killed seven people. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1217 – King Henry III of England issued the Charter of the Forest, re-establishing the rights of access for free men to royal forests.
- 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.
- 1963 – Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ was appointed to head the South Vietnamese government by General Dương Văn Minh's junta, five days after the latter deposed and assassinated President Ngô Đình Diệm.
- 1977 – The Kelly Barnes Dam in Stephens County, Georgia, collapsed; the resulting flood killed 39 people and caused US$2.8 million in damages.
- Born/died: | Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March |b|1391| Suleiman the Magnificent |b|1494| Charles II of Spain |b|1661| John Philip Sousa |b|1854| James Naismith |b|1861| Ida Barney |b|1886| Ida Lou Anderson |b|1900| Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya |b|1962| Jerry Yang |b|1968| Anthony Sawoniuk |d|2005|Hilda Braid |d|2007
Notes
- Lê Quang Tung/1963 South Vietnamese coup appears on November 1, Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem on November 2, and 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt on November 11; including Nguyen Ngoc Tho, ideally only one of these should be used per year to avoid topic fatigue.
November 6: Gustavus Adolphus Day in Estonia, Finland and Sweden (1632)
George Eliot
- 1856 – The first story from the collection Scenes of Clerical Life by the English author George Eliot (pictured) was submitted for publication.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2016 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces launched a successful military campaign to isolate and eventually capture Raqqa, the Islamic State's capital.
- John Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (d. 1461)
- James Bowdoin (d. 1790)
- Else Ackermann (b. 1933)
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