Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 6
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.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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George Eliot by François D'Albert Durade
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Gustavus Adolphus Day in Sweden (1632) | unreferenced stub |
| 1632 – King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden was killed in the Battle of Lützen during the Thirty Years' War. | Gustavus has unreferenced sections, Battle needs footnotes |
| 1860 – Abraham Lincoln became the first Republican Party candidate to win the U.S. presidential election. | unreferenced section |
| 1865 – Months after the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse effectively ended the American Civil War, the CSS Shenandoah (pictured) became the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 38 vessels. | lead too short |
| 1962 – The United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 1761, condemning South Africa's apartheid policies. | Stubby |
| 1975 – Demonstrators in Morocco began the Green March to Spanish Sahara, calling for the "return of the Moroccan Sahara." | Tagged with {{update}} |
| 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. | tagged for update |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Eligible
- 1856 – Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work by English author George Eliot, was submitted for publication.
- 1869 – In the first official American football game, Rutgers College defeated the College of New Jersey, 6–4, in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
- 1917 – First World War: Canadian forces captured Passendale, Belgium, after three months of fighting against the Germans at the Third Battle of Ypres.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1944 – The Hanford Atomic Facility in the U.S. state of Washington produced its first plutonium, and it would go on to create more for almost the entire American nuclear arsenal.
- 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.
- 1977 – The Kelly Barnes Dam in Stephens County, Georgia, US, collapsed, and the resulting flood killed 39 people and caused $2.8 million in damages.
Notes
- Le 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: Election Day in the United States (2012); Constitution Day in the Dominican Republic (1844) and Tajikistan (1994); Finnish Swedish Heritage Day in Finland
- 1789 – Pope Pius VI appointed Father John Carroll (pictured) as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
- 1939 – As part of their plan to eradicate the Polish intellectual elite, the Gestapo arrested 184 professors, students and employees of Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
- 1963 – Nguyen Ngoc Tho was appointed to head the South Vietnamese government by the military junta of General Duong Van Minh, five days after the latter deposed and assassinated President Ngo Dinh Diem.
- 1995 – Madagascar's Rova of Antananarivo, which served as the royal palace from the 17th to 19th centuries, was destroyed by fire.
- 2004 – A man attempting to commit suicide parked his car on the railway tracks in Ufton Nervet, Berkshire, England, causing a derailment that killed seven people.