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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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 |
| 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. | multiple issues |
| 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
- 1869 – In the first official American football game, Rutgers College defeated the College of New Jersey, 6–4, in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
- 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 (reconstructed building pictured).
Notes
- Le Quang Tung/1963 South Vietnamese coup appears on November 2 and Arrest and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm featured on November 2, so Nguyen Ngoc Tho should not appear in the same year.
November 6: First day of Eid ul-Adha (Islam, 2011); Constitution Day in the Dominican Republic (1844) and Tajikistan (1994); Finnish Swedish Heritage Day in Finland
- 1856 – Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work by English author George Eliot (pictured), was submitted for publication.
- 1860 – Abraham Lincoln became the first Republican Party candidate to win the U.S. presidential election.
- 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.
- 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.