November 6th is

Return to Standard Time

Fill Our Staplers Day II

Job Action Day *

The March King Day *

National Nachos Day

Saxophone Day *

International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict *

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MORE!  John Philip Sousa, Mohandas Gandhi and Martha Rountree, click

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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

Sikhism – Installation of Holy Scriptures/Guru Granth Sahib Ji

Belarus – October Revolution Day

Dominican Republic – Constitution Day

India – Chhath Puja Parva/Surya Sasthi
(sun god, Surya, festival)

Kyrgyzstan – Social Revolution Day

Morocco & Western Sahara – Green March Day *

Tajikistan – Constitution Day

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On This Day in HISTORY

1528 – Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot on the soil of future-Texas.

1789 – Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first U.S. Catholic bishop, of the Diocese of Baltimore

1814 – Adolphe Sax, Belgian inventor of the saxophone, is born – Saxophone Day *

1854 – John Philip Sousa, the “March King,” * composer and band director, is born

1856 – Scenes of Clerical Life, three short stories by the author later known as George Eliot, submitted for publication

1860 – Abraham Lincoln elected the sixteenth U.S. president

1861 – Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.

1894 – William C. Hooker patented a mousetrap

1903 – Panama’s ambassador to the U.S., Philippe Bunau-Varilla, signs the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, which granted the U.S. rights to build and indefinitely administer the Panama Canal Zone and its defenses

1913 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa

1923 –  Jacob Schick patents the electric shaver

1935 – Edwin Armstrong presents his paper “A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation” to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers, announcing his development of FM radio

1944 – Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the ‘Fat Man’ atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan

1947 – First show for NBC News of Meet the Press –  Martha Rountree, co-founder of Meet the Press, was the only female moderator of the show, serving as the show’s host from November 6, 1947, to November 1, 1953

1948 – Glenn Frey, musician-singer with The Eagles, is born

1952 – The first hydrogen bomb is exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean

1962 – U.N. General Assembly adopts a resolution condemning South Africa’s racist apartheid policies, and calling for all member states to terminate military and economic relations with South Africa

1965 – ‘Freedom Flights’ program allows 250,000 Cubans refugees in the U.S. by 1971

1967 – Phil Donahue’s talk show makes its debut as a local program in Dayton OH

1973 – NASA’s Pioneer 10 spacecraft begins photographing Jupiter

1975 – Following an International Court of Justice declaration that there were legal ties between the Moroccan throne and the Sahrawi people, King Hassan II of Morocco launches the Green March, a mass march of 300,000 unarmed Moroccans, to “reclaim” the nation of Western Sahara from Spanish colonialism – Western Sahara continues to be a bone of contention, with the Polisario Front of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic fighting for self-rule

1983 – U.S. Army choppers drop hundreds of leaflets over northern and central Grenada, urging residents to cooperate in locating any Grenadian or Cuban resisters to the invasion

1984 – For the first time in 193 years, the New York Stock Exchange remained open during a presidential election day

1986 – U.S. intelligence sources publicly confirm the Lebanese magazine Ash Shiraa’s story that the U.S. secretly sold arms to Iran to secure release of American hostages

1989 – Attempting to free the U.S. hostages held in Iran, the U.S. announces it will unfreeze $567 million in Iranian assets that had been held since 1979

1990 – Universal Studios’ Southern California backlot is damaged by arson fire

1991 –Kuwait douses the last oil fire Iraq ignited during the Persian Gulf War

1995 – Queen releases their album Made in Heaven

1999 – Australian voters reject anti-Queen Elizabeth II referendum as their head of state

2001 – U.N. General Assembly declares November 6 as International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict  *

2008 – Job Action Day * is started by LiveCareers to connect people with job-search and career advice

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Visuals

• Environmental devastation caused by war
• International flags
• Bishop John Carroll of Baltimore
• Drawing of William C. Hooker’s mousetrap
• Edwin Armstrong, inventor of FM radio
• Meet the Press – Martha Rountree with Thomas Dewey
• The Green March in the Western Sahara
• Universal Studios Courthouse clocktower made famous in “Back to the Future” movie stands undamaged in the middle of 1990 arson fire damage –  LAT photo by Ken Lubas

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