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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.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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and Tajikistan (1994) refimprove
1632 – King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden was killed in the Battle of Lützen during the Thirty Years' War. Gustavus: refimprove section, Battle: refimprove
1789Pope Pius VI appointed Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States. lots of CN tags
1860Abraham Lincoln became the first Republican Party candidate to win the U.S. presidential election. unreferenced section
1917First World War: Canadian forces captured Passendale, Belgium, after three months of fighting against the Germans at the Third Battle of Ypres. featured on July 31
1928Arthur Rothstein, head of the Jewish mob in New York, died two days after being shot for his failure to pay a large gambling debt. inappropriate tone
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. refimprove section
1939 – As part of their plan to eradicate the Polish intellectual elite, the Gestapo arrested 184 professors, students and employees of Jagiellonian University in Kraków. unreferenced section
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." outdated
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. outdated, neutrality issues
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
2004 – A man committing suicide parked his car on the railway tracks in Ufton Nervet, Berkshire, England, causing a derailment that killed seven people. refimprove section

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Notes

November 6: Constitution Day in the Dominican Republic (1844); Gustavus Adolphus Day in Estonia, Finland and Sweden (1632); Finnish Swedish Heritage Day in Finland

Portrait of George Eliot by François D'Albert Durade
Portrait of George Eliot by François D'Albert Durade

Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March (b. 1391) · James Bowdoin (d. 1790) · Jerry Yang (b. 1968)

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