November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 55 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).
SAXOPHONE DAY
SAXOPHONE DAY
1528 – On this day, the Spanish conquistador Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca is shipwrecked on a low sandy island off the coast of Texas. Starving, dehydrated, and desperate, he is the first European to set foot on the soil of the future Lone Star state.
1572 – The appearance of the Milky Way supernova of 1572 (also nown as Tycho's supernova) belongs among the more important specific observation events in the history of astronomy. The appearance of the "new star" helped to revise ancient models of the heavens and to speed on a revolution in astronomy that began with the realized need to produce better astrometric star catalogues (and thus the need for more precise astronomical observing instruments). It also challenged the Aristotelian dogma of the unchangeability of the realm of stars.
The supernova of 1572 is often called "Tycho's supernova", because of Tycho Brahe's extensive work De nova et nullius aevi memoria prius visa stella ("Concerning the Star, new and never before seen in the life or memory of anyone", published in 1573 with reprints overseen by Johannes Kepler in 1602, and 1610), a work containing both Tycho Brahe's own observations and the analysis of sightings from many other observers.
The supernova of 1572 is often called "Tycho's supernova", because of Tycho Brahe's extensive work De nova et nullius aevi memoria prius visa stella ("Concerning the Star, new and never before seen in the life or memory of anyone", published in 1573 with reprints overseen by Johannes Kepler in 1602, and 1610), a work containing both Tycho Brahe's own observations and the analysis of sightings from many other observers.
1789 – Pope Pius VI appoints John Carroll bishop of Baltimore, making him the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1814 – Adolphe Sax, Belgian-French instrument designer, invented the saxophone (d. 1894)
1851 – Charles Dow, American journalist and economist, namesake of Dow-Jones (d. 1902)
1854 – John Philip Sousa, American commander, composer, and conductor (d. 1932)
1861 – James Naismith, Canadian-American physician and educator, invented basketball (d. 1939)
1880 – Yoshisuke Aikawa, Japanese businessman and politician, founded Nissan Motor Company (d. 1967)
1892 – Harold Ross, American journalist and publisher, co-founded The New Yorker (d. 1951)
1893 – Edsel Ford, American lieutenant and businessman, namesake of the Ford Edsel (d. 1943)
From Wikpedia and Google, except as noted.
1861 – On this day in 1861, former Mississippi Senator, Jefferson Davis, is elected president of the Confederate States of America. He ran without opposition, and the election simply confirmed the decision that had been made by the Confederate Congress earlier in the year.
1865 – American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels.
1906 – On this day in 1906, President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt embarks on a 17-day trip to Panama and Puerto Rico, becoming the first president to make an official diplomatic tour outside of the continental United States and to visit the construction of the Panama Canal.
1917 – Led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin (born Vladimir Iliych Ulyanov), leftist revolutionaries launch a nearly bloodless coup d'État against Russia's ineffectual Provisional Government. The Bolsheviks and their allies occupied government buildings and other strategic locations in the Russian capital of Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) and within two days had formed a new government with Lenin as its head. Bolshevik Russia, later renamed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was the world's first Marxist state.
1941 – On this day in 1941, the 24th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Ioseb Jughashvili (Joseph Stalin), premier and dictator of the USSR, delivers a speech to a rally of Moscow Party workers.
1962 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid (strict racial segregation) policies and calling on all its members to end economic and military relations with the country.
In effect from 1948 to 1993, apartheid, which comes from the Afrikaans word for "apartness," was government-sanctioned racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against South Africa's non-white majority. Among many injustices, blacks were forced to live in segregated areas and couldn’t enter whites-only neighborhoods unless they had a special pass. Although whites represented only a small fraction of the population, they held the vast majority of the country's land and wealth.
In effect from 1948 to 1993, apartheid, which comes from the Afrikaans word for "apartness," was government-sanctioned racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against South Africa's non-white majority. Among many injustices, blacks were forced to live in segregated areas and couldn’t enter whites-only neighborhoods unless they had a special pass. Although whites represented only a small fraction of the population, they held the vast majority of the country's land and wealth.
1995 – On November 6, 1995, the owner of the Cleveland Browns football team announces that he is moving the team to Baltimore. The team owner, Art Modell, had purchased the Browns in October 1960 for $4 million. He loved his team and the fans, he said, but Cleveland Stadium was a mess and the city, after building a new baseball stadium and a new basketball arena, didn’t seem inclined to fix it. "They took me for granted," Modell said, "until I had to pull the trigger."
2012 – Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1814 – Adolphe Sax, Belgian-French instrument designer, invented the saxophone (d. 1894)
1851 – Charles Dow, American journalist and economist, namesake of Dow-Jones (d. 1902)
1854 – John Philip Sousa, American commander, composer, and conductor (d. 1932)
1861 – James Naismith, Canadian-American physician and educator, invented basketball (d. 1939)
1880 – Yoshisuke Aikawa, Japanese businessman and politician, founded Nissan Motor Company (d. 1967)
1892 – Harold Ross, American journalist and publisher, co-founded The New Yorker (d. 1951)
1893 – Edsel Ford, American lieutenant and businessman, namesake of the Ford Edsel (d. 1943)
From Wikpedia and Google, except as noted.
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