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What are the important events that happened on November 6? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
November 6: Facts & Myths About This Day
November 6 is the 311th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 55 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 24, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,730,851,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectadecahenagon’ day.
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Scorpio is the zodiac 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 84 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,338 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 6 Historical Events
- 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.
- 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.
- 1999 –Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
Who were born on November 6?
- 1550 –Queen Karin Månsdotter of Sweden (d. 1612)
- 1906 –James D. Norris, American businessman and sports team owner (d. 1966)
- 1938 –Branko Mikasinovich, Serbian Slavist and journalist
- 1949 –Nigel Havers, English actor
- 1973 –Nell McAndrew, British model
Who died on November 6?
- 1893 –Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1840)
- 1964 –Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (b. 1925)
- 2005 –Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (b. 1967)
- 2006 –Federico (Fico) López, Puerto Rican basketball player (b. 1962)
- 2009 –Ron Sproat, American TV writer and playwright (b. 1932)
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