6 November
Notable Births
Day'Ron Sharpe
b. 2001
American basketball player (born 2001)
Aliona Bolsova
b. 1997
Spanish-Moldovan tennis player (born 1997)
Hero Fiennes Tiffin
b. 1997
British actor and producer (born 1997)
Elena-Gabriela Ruse
b. 1997
Romanian tennis player (born 1997)
Addin Fonua-Blake
b. 1995
New Zealand and Tonga international rugby league footballer
Sam Reinhart
b. 1995
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1995)
Isaah Yeo
b. 1994
Australia international rugby league footballer
Rebecca Allen (basketball)
b. 1992
Australian basketball player (born 1992)
Paula Kania-Choduń
b. 1992
Polish tennis player (born 1992)
Yura (South Korean singer)
b. 1992
South Korean actress and singer (born 1992)
Stefan Ortega
b. 1992
German footballer (born 1992)
Doron Lamb
b. 1991
American basketball player (born 1991)
André Schürrle
b. 1990
German footballer (born 1990)
Akua Shōma
b. 1990
Japanese sumo wrestler
Bowen Yang
b. 1990
American comedian and actor (born 1990)
Jozy Altidore
b. 1989
American soccer player (born 1989)
Aaron Hernandez
b. 1989
American football player and murderer (1989–2017)
John Holland (basketball)
b. 1988
American Puerto Rican basketball player (born 1988)
Erik Lund (footballer)
b. 1988
Swedish footballer and manager (born 1988)
James Paxton (baseball)
b. 1988
Canadian baseball player (born 1988)
Notable Deaths
Frederick Hauck
d. 2025
American naval captain and astronaut (1941–2025)
James Watson
d. 2025
American biologist (1928–2025)
Dorothy Allison
d. 2024
American writer (1949–2024)
John Nott
d. 2024
British politician (1932–2024)
Madeleine Riffaud
d. 2024
French poet, journalist and Resistance member (1924–2024)
Tony Todd
d. 2024
American actor (1954–2024)
Antoni Martí
d. 2023
Andorran politician (1963–2023)
Ken Spears
d. 2020
American animator (1938–2020)
King Von
d. 2020
American rapper (1994–2020)
Bernard Landry
d. 2018
Premier of Quebec from 2001 to 2003
Richard F. Gordon Jr.
d. 2017
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1929–2017)
Yitzhak Navon
d. 2015
President of Israel from 1978 to 1983
Rick Rosas
d. 2014
Musical artist
Tarla Dalal
d. 2013
Indian chef (1936–2013)
Ace Parker
d. 2013
American athlete and coach (1912–2013)
Clive Dunn
d. 2012
English actor (1920–2012)
Roger Faulques
d. 2011
French military officer and mercenary
Robert Lipshutz
d. 2010
American lawyer (1921–2010)
Hilda Braid
d. 2007
British actress (1929–2007)
Hank Thompson (musician)
d. 2007
American country music singer-songwriter (1925–2007)
On This Day in History
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2016
Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces launch an offensive to capture the ISIL-held city of Raqqa.
Syrian civil war
2012
Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.
Tammy Baldwin
2004
An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing seven and injuring 120.
Ufton Nervet rail crash
2002
Jiang Lijun is detained by Chinese police for signing the Open Letter to the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.
Jiang Lijun
2002
A Fokker 50 crashes near Luxembourg Airport, killing 20 and injuring three.
Fokker 50
1995
Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore.
Cleveland Browns relocation controversy
1988
Lancang–Gengma earthquakes: At least 730 are killed after two powerful earthquakes rock the China–Myanmar border in Yunnan Province.
1988 Lancang–Gengma earthquakes
1986
Sumburgh disaster: A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.
1986 British International Helicopters Chinook crash
1985
Colombian conflict: leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá.
Colombian conflict
1977
The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
Kelly Barnes Dam
1976
Uttawar forced sterilisations: Mass vasectomy of nearly 800 men of Uttawar village, Palwal district, Haryana during India's Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi.
Uttawar forced sterilisations
1971
The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
United States Atomic Energy Commission
1963
Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ is 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.
Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ
1947
Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut on NBC Television.
Meet the Press
1943
World War II: The 1st Ukrainian Front liberates Kyiv from German occupation.
World War II
1936
Spanish Civil War: The republican government flees from Madrid to Valencia, leading to the formation of the Madrid Defense Council in its stead.
Spanish Civil War
1900
President William McKinley is re-elected, along with his vice-presidential running mate, Governor Theodore Roosevelt of New York.
William McKinley
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.
New Brunswick, New Jersey
1860
Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States with only 40% of the popular vote, defeating John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen A. Douglas in a four-way race.
Abraham Lincoln
1792
Battle of Jemappes in the French Revolutionary Wars.
Battle of Jemappes