6 November

The 6t o November is the 310t day o the year (311t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 55 days bidin.

Events

Results o the 1860 election in the Unitit States.

Results o the 1888 election in the Unitit States.

• 1844 - The Dominican Republic adopts its Constitution.
• 1860 - Abraham Lincoln is electit Preses o the Unitit States.
• 1861 - Jefferson Davis is electit Preses o the Confederate States o Americae.
• 1888 - Benjamin Harrison is electit Preses o the Unitit States.
• 1900 - William McKinley is re-electit Preses o the Unitit States.
• 1928 - Herbert Hoover is electit Preses o the Unitit States.
• 1944 - The element plutonium is creatit.
• 1956 - Dwight D. Eisenhower is re-electit Preses o the Unitit States.
• 1982 - Paul Biya becomes Preses o Cameroon.
• 1984 - Ronald Reagan is re-electit Preses o the Unitit States.
• 1986 - A Chinook helicopter carryin ile wirkers crashes intae the North Sea aff Scotland.
• 1991 - The KGB, the Soviet Union's secret service, is abandoned.
• 1999 - Australie republic referendum: A majority (55%) vote tae keep the Breetish monarch as Heid o State.
• 2001 - Michael Bloomberg is electit Mayor o New York Ceety.
• 2005 - Burma stairts muivin some o its ministries frae Rangoon tae Naypyidaw.
• 2012 - Barack Obama is re-electit Preses o the Unitit States, defeatin Mitt Romney.
• 2018 - In mid-term elections, the Democrats regain control o the Unitit States Hoose o Representatives, an Republicans keep control o the Senate.

Births

François Englert

Emma Stone

• 1494 - Suleiman the Magneeficent, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566)
• 1661 - Charles II o Spain (d. 1700)
• 1814 - Adolphe Sax, Belgian inventor o the saxophone (d. 1894)
• 1854 - John Philip Sousa, American componer (d. 1932)
• 1861 - James Naismith, Canadian-American inventor o basketbaw (d. 1939)
• 1924 - William Auld, Scots writer (d. 2006)
• 1931 - Mike Nichols, German-American theatre an film director, producer an actor (d. 2014)
• 1932 - François Englert, Belgian pheesicist
• 1946 - Sally Field, American actress
• 1954 - Karin Fossum, Norse writer
• 1955 - Maria Shriver, American jurnalist an author
• 1962 - Stuart Dougal, Scots fitbaw referee
• 1970 - Ethan Hawke, American actor
• 1972 - Rebecca Romijn, American actress
• 1974 - Susan Calman, Scots comedienne an presenter
• 1986 - Craig Bryson, Scots fitbawer
• 1987 - Ana Ivanovic, Serbian tennis player
• 1988 - Emma Stone, American actress
• 1988 - Conchita Wurst, Austrick sangster
• 1989 - Jozy Altidore, American fitbawer
• 1990 - André Schürrle, German fitbawer
• 1990 - Kris Wu, Cheenese-Canadian actor, sangster an model
• 1993 - Charlie Flynn, Scots boxer

Daiths

• 1479 - James Hamilton, 1st Laird Hamilton, Scots nobleman, scholart an politeecian (b. 1415)
• 1752 - Ralph Erskine, Scots kirkman (b. 1685)
• 1818 - Malcolm Laing, Scots historian, advocate an politeecian (b. 1762)
• 1836 - Charles X o Fraunce (b. 1757)
• 1893 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Roushie componer (b. 1840)
• 1893 - Sir Andrew Clark, 1st Baronet, Scots medicinar an pathologist (b. 1826)
• 1958 - Francis George Scott, Scots componer (b. 1880)
• 1964 - Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born Swadish biochemist (b. 1873)
• 2000 - John McPhail, Scots fitbawer (b. 1923)
• 2012 - Clive Dunn, Inglis actor (b. 1920)

Halidays

• Constitution Day (Dominican Republic, Tajikistan)