November 6th is

Cappuccino Day

Job Action Day *

Parents as Teachers Day *

Saxophone Day *

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

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MORE! Adolphe Sax, Opal Kunz and Derrick Bell, click

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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

Belarus –
October Revolution Day 

Dominican Republic –
Constitution Day

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 in future-Texas

1558 – Thomas Kyd born, English playwright; The Spanish Tragedy

1753 – Jean-Baptiste Bréval born, French cellist and composer

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

1814 – Saxophone Day * celebrates Adolphe Sax’s birthday, Belgian saxophone inventor

1833 – Jonas Lie born, notable Norwegian novelist, poet and playwright; Familien paa Gilje (The Family at Gilje)

1851 – Charles Dow born, American journalist, founder of The Wall Street Journal and co-founder of Dow Jones & Company

1854 – John Philip Sousa born, the “March King,” composer and band director; “Stars and Stripes Forever” “The Washington Post”

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

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

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

1886 – Ida Barney born, American astronomer and mathematician; produced 22 volumes of astrometric measurements on 150,000 stars; worked at the Yale University Observatory as a researcher (1922-1955); awarded the American Astronomical Society’s Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy in 1952

1892 – Harold Ross born, American editor, of The New Yorker (1925-1951)

1894 – William C. Hooker patented a mousetrap

1894 – Opal Kunz born, American aviator; first woman pilot to race men in an open competition; chief organizer of the Betsy Ross Air Corps, and charter member of the Ninety-Nines, a women pilots’ organization; during WWI, was a flight instructor for Navy cadets and the Civilian Pilot Training Program

1900 – Ida Lou Anderson born, pioneer in radio broadcasting, and professor; mentor and adviser to Edward R. Murrow; died at age 40 of complications from childhood polio

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

1921 – James R. Jones born, American author; won the 1952 National Book Award for his first published novel, From Here to Eternity

1923 –  Jacob Schick patents the electric shaver

1930 – Derrick Bell born, first tenured African-American professor of law at Harvard Law School (1969-1979); Dean of University of Oregon School of Law (1980-1985); led protests at Harvard over lack of people of color and women on the faculty — Bell resigned his tenured position at Harvard over the school’s refusal to hire a fully-qualified Asian woman; was a New York University professor of law (1991-2011); influential proponent of “critical race theory”; author of Race, Racism and American Law.

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

1938 – Diana E. H. Russell born in South Africa, educated in Britain and the U.S.; feminist writer, sociologist and anti-apartheid activist; pioneer in Women’s Studies, offering one of the earliest courses as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Mills College; organizer of the first International Tribunal on Crimes against Women in Brussels in 1976; advocate for the use of ‘Femicide’ to describe violent murders of women by men because they are female, and adding it as a category to legislation against hate crimes

1940 – Ruth Messinger born, New York City liberal political leader and advocate for public education, ran unsuccessfully for mayor against incumbent Rudy Giuliani in 1997; president and CEO of American Jewish World Service (1998-2016)

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 first moderator, and its only female host to date, from 1947 to 1953

1946 – Sally Field born, American actress and director; Oscar-winner for Best Actress for Norma Rae and Places in the Heart; director and co-author of the TV movie The Christmas Tree (1996), and the feature film Beautiful (2000); advocate for women’s rights and gay rights

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 has been a bone of contention ever since, 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 – 20% of Universal Studios’ Southern California backlot is destroyed by an 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  *

2001 – Parents as Teachers Day * is started by the Parents as Teachers National Center in St. Louis MO; teach your child something new today!

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

2009 – The federal government reported U.S. unemployment rose to 10.2 percent in October, the first time the jobless rate hit double digits since 1983

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