Events

Pre-1600

• 447 A powerful earthquake destroys large portions of the Walls of Constantinople, including 57 towers.

• 963 Synod of Rome: Emperor Otto I calls a council at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Pope John XII is deposed on charges of an armed rebellion against Otto.

• 1217 The Charter of the Forest is sealed at St Paul's Cathedral, London by King Henry III, acting under the regency of William Marshall, 1st Earl of Pembroke which re-establishes for free men rights of access to the royal forest that had been eroded by William the Conqueror and his heirs.

1601–1900

• 1792 Battle of Jemappes in the French Revolutionary Wars.

• 1860 Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States with only 40% of the popular vote, defeating John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen A. Douglas in a four-way race.

• 1869 In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6–4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.

• 1900 President William McKinley is re-elected, along with his vice-presidential running mate, Governor Theodore Roosevelt of New York.

1901–present

• 1936 Spanish Civil War: The republican government flees from Madrid to Valencia, leading to the formation of the Madrid Defense Council in its stead.

• 1943 World War II: The 1st Ukrainian Front liberates Kyiv from German occupation.

• 1947 Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut on NBC Television.

• 1963 Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ is appointed to head the South Vietnamese government by General Dương Văn Minh's junta, five days after the latter deposed and assassinated President Ngô Đình Diệm.

• 1971 The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.

• 1976 Uttawar forced sterilisations: Mass vasectomy of nearly 800 men of Uttawar village, Palwal district, Haryana during India's Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi.

• 1977 The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.

• 1985 Colombian conflict: leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá.

• 1986 Sumburgh disaster: A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.

• 1988 Lancang–Gengma earthquakes: At least 730 are killed after two powerful earthquakes rock the China–Myanmar border in Yunnan Province.

• 1995 Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore.

• 2002 Jiang Lijun is detained by Chinese police for signing the Open Letter to the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.

• 2002 A Fokker 50 crashes near Luxembourg Airport, killing 20 and injuring three.

• 2004 An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing seven and injuring 120.

• 2012 Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.

• 2016 Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces launch an offensive to capture the ISIL-held city of Raqqa.

• 2025 - Canadian ostrich cull: The Government of Canada kills 314 ostriches after H5N8 is detected in an ostrich farm in Edgewood, BC.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1391 Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (died 1425)

• 1479 Philip I, Margrave of Baden (died 1533)

• 1494 Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (died 1566)

• 1550 Karin Månsdotter, Swedish queen (died 1612)

1601–1900

• 1604 George Ent, English scientist (died 1689)

• 1661 Charles II of Spain, last Habsburg ruler of the Spanish Empire (died 1700)

• 1750 Carlo Aurelio Widmann, Venetian nobleman and admiral (died 1798)

• 1755 Zina Hitchcock, New York politician (died 1832)

• 1814 Adolphe Sax, Belgian-French instrument designer, invented the saxophone (died 1894)

• 1832 Joseph Smith III, American religious leader (died 1914)

• 1839 Elvire Serrouin, French anarchist and protagonist of the Clichy affair (died ?)

• 1841 Nelson W. Aldrich, American businessman and politician (died 1915)

• 1851 Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (died 1902)

• 1854 John Philip Sousa, American composer and bandleader (died 1932)

• 1861 James Naismith, Canadian-American physician and educator, invented basketball (died 1939)

• 1880 Yoshisuke Aikawa, Japanese businessman and politician, founded Nissan Motor Company (died 1967)

• 1884 May Brahe, Australian composer (died 1956)

• 1885 Martin O'Meara, Irish-Australian sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1935)

• 1887 Walter Johnson, American baseball player and manager (died 1946)

• 1897 Jack O'Connor, English cricketer (died 1977)

• 1900 Ida Lou Anderson, American orator and professor, pioneer in the field of radio broadcasting (died 1941)

1901–present

• 1908 Tony Canzoneri, American boxer (died 1959)

• 1913 Cho Ki-chon, North Korean poet (died 1951)

• 1921 Geoff Rabone, New Zealand cricketer (died 2006)

• 1924 Harry Threadgold, English footballer (died 1996)

• 1926 Frank Carson, Northern Irish comedian and actor (died 2012)

• 1926 Zig Ziglar, American soldier, businessman, and author (died 2012)

• 1929 Lu Chao-Hsuan, Taiwanese guitarist, performer and educator. (died 2017)

• 1930 Derrick Bell, American scholar, author and critical race theorist (died 2011)

• 1931 Mike Nichols, German-born American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2014)

• 1932 François Englert, Belgian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2026)

• 1933 Else Ackermann, German physician and pharmacologist (died 2019)

• 1937 Leo Goeke, American tenor and actor (died 2012)

• 1938 Mack Jones, American baseball player (died 2004)

• 1939 Leonardo Quisumbing, Filipino lawyer and jurist (died 2019)

• 1939 Michael Schwerner, American activist (died 1964)

• 1940 Johnny Giles, Irish footballer and manager

• 1941 Guy Clark, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2016)

• 1941 Doug Sahm, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 1999)

• 1946 Sally Field, American actress

• 1946 George Young, Scottish guitarist, songwriter, and producer (died 2017)

• 1948 Glenn Frey, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 2016)

• 1949 Elwood Edwards, American voice actor (died 2024)

• 1949 Ariel Henry, Haitian prime-minister, neurosurgeon, and politician

• 1950 Shaikh Rasheed Ahmad, Pakistani politician

• 1950 Nimalan Soundaranayagam, Sri Lankan educator and politician (died 2000)

• 1952 Michael Cunningham, American novelist and screenwriter

• 1953 Frank Hanisch, German footballer

• 1953 Brian McKechnie, New Zealand cricketer and rugby player

• 1955 Mark Donaldson, New Zealand rugby player

• 1955 Maria Shriver, American journalist and author

• 1956 Graeme Wood, Australian cricketer and footballer

• 1960 Lance Kerwin, American actor (died 2023)

• 1962 Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya, Russian pilot and former cosmonaut

• 1963 Rozz Williams, American singer, musician and artist (died 1998)

• 1964 Mike Brewer, New Zealand rugby player

• 1966 Paul Gilbert, American guitarist

• 1966 Stephanie Vozzo, American professional comic book colorist and music agent

• 1967 Shuzo Matsuoka, Japanese tennis player and sportscaster

• 1967 Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress and model (died 1989)

• 1968 Kelly Rutherford, American actress

• 1968 Jerry Yang, Taiwanese-American engineer and businessman, co-founded Yahoo!

• 1971 Laura Flessel-Colovic, French fencer and politician

• 1972 Rebecca Romijn, American model and actress

• 1973 David Giffin, Australian rugby player

• 1974 Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (died 2009)

• 1976 Sal Vulcano, American comedian and actor

• 1978 Erik Cole, American ice hockey player

• 1978 Zak Morioka, Brazilian race car driver

• 1979 Adam LaRoche, American baseball player

• 1979 Lamar Odom, American basketball player

• 1979 Brad Stuart, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1981 Kaspars Gorkšs, Latvian footballer

• 1981 Luke Jackson, American basketball player and coach

• 1981 Andrew Murray, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1983 Nicole Hosp, Austrian skier

• 1984 Ricky Romero, American baseball player

• 1984 Sebastian Schachten, German footballer

• 1985 Sun Yue, Chinese basketball player

• 1986 Ben Rector, American singer, songwriter and musician

• 1986 Conor Sammon, Irish footballer

• 1987 Ana Ivanovic, Serbian tennis player

• 1988 John Holland, Puerto Rican-American basketball player

• 1988 Erik Lund, Swedish footballer

• 1988 James Paxton, Canadian baseball player

• 1988 Emma Stone, American actress

• 1988 Conchita Wurst, Austrian singer

• 1989 Jozy Altidore, American soccer player

• 1989 Aaron Hernandez, American football player (died 2017)

• 1990 André Schürrle, German footballer

• 1990 Akua Shōma, Japanese sumo wrestler

• 1990 Bowen Yang, Australian-born American actor, comedian, podcaster, and writer

• 1991 Doron Lamb, American basketball player

• 1992 Rebecca Allen, Australian basketball player

• 1992 Nasya Dimitrova, Bulgarian volleyball player

• 1992 Paula Kania-Choduń, Polish tennis player

• 1992 Kim Ah-young, South Korean singer and actress

• 1992 Stefan Ortega, German footballer

• 1993 Josh Wakefield, English footballer

• 1994 Isaah Yeo, Australian rugby league player

• 1995 Addin Fonua-Blake, Australian-Tongan rugby league player

• 1995 Sam Reinhart, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1997 Aliona Bolsova, Spanish-Moldovan tennis player

• 1997 Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, English actor and model

• 1997 Elena-Gabriela Ruse, Romanian tennis player

• 2001 Day'Ron Sharpe, American basketball player

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 1003 Pope John XVII

• 1312 Christina von Stommeln, Roman Catholic mystic and stigmatic (born 1242)

• 1406 Pope Innocent VII (born 1339)

• 1492 Antoine Busnois, French composer and poet (born 1430)

1601–1900

• 1656 Jean-Baptiste Morin, French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer (born 1583)

• 1672 Heinrich Schütz, German organist and composer (born 1585)

• 1692 Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French author and poet (born 1619)

• 1752 Ralph Erskine, Scottish minister (born 1685)

• 1816 Gouverneur Morris, American scholar, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to France (born 1752)

• 1893 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (born 1840)

1901–present

• 1918 Alan Arnett McLeod, Canadian lieutenant, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1899)

• 1942 Emil Starkenstein, Czech pharmacologist and academic (born 1884)

• 1955 Edwin Barclay, 18th president of Liberia (born 1882)

• 1964 Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (born 1925)

• 1965 Clarence Williams, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (born 1898)

• 1968 Chauncey Sparks, American politician and 41st Governor of Alabama (born 1884)

• 1978 Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (born 1899)

• 1984 Gastón Suárez, Bolivian author and playwright (born 1929)

• 1985 Sanjeev Kumar, Indian film actor (born 1938)

• 1987 Zohar Argov, Israeli singer (born 1955)

• 1991 Gene Tierney, American actress (born 1920)

• 1998 Sky Low Low, Canadian wrestler (born 1928)

• 2000 L. Sprague de Camp, American historian and author (born 1907)

• 2003 Just Betzer, Danish production manager and producer (born 1944)

• 2003 Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer and coach (born 1919)

• 2004 Johnny Warren, Australian footballer, manager, and sportscaster (born 1943)

• 2005 Rod Donald, New Zealand lawyer and politician (born 1957)

• 2005 Anthony Sawoniuk, Belarusian SS officer (born 1921)

• 2006 Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish skier (born 1950)

• 2006 Federico López, Mexican-Puerto Rican basketball player (born 1962)

• 2007 Hilda Braid, English actress and singer (born 1929)

• 2007 George Grljusich, Australian footballer and sportscaster (born 1939)

• 2007 Hank Thompson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1925)

• 2009 Ron Sproat, American screenwriter and playwright (born 1932)

• 2010 Robert Lipshutz, American soldier and lawyer, 17th White House Counsel (born 1921)

• 2011 Roger Faulques, French military officer and mercenary (born 1924)

• 2012 Joel Connable, American journalist and actor (born 1973)

• 2012 Clive Dunn, English actor (born 1920)

• 2012 Frank J. Prial, American journalist and author (born 1930)

• 2013 Tarla Dalal, Indian chef and author (born 1936)

• 2013 Ace Parker, American football and baseball player (born 1912)

• 2014 Maggie Boyle, English singer and flute player (born 1956)

• 2014 Tommy Macpherson, Scottish soldier and businessman (born 1920)

• 2014 Rick Rosas, American bass player (born 1949)

• 2015 Bobby Campbell, English footballer and manager (born 1937)

• 2015 Yitzhak Navon, Israeli author, playwright, and politician, 5th President of Israel (born 1921)

• 2017 Richard F. Gordon Jr., American naval officer, aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut (born 1929)

• 2018 Bernard Landry, Canadian lawyer, politician and Premier of Quebec (born 1937)

• 2020 Ken Spears, American writer (born 1938)

• 2020 King Von, American rapper (born 1994)

• 2023 Antoni Martí, Andorran politician, former Prime Minister of Andorra (born 1963)

• 2024 Dorothy Allison, American writer (born 1949)

• 2024 John Nott, British politician (born 1932)

• 2024 Madeleine Riffaud, French poet, journalist and Resistance member (born 1924)

• 2024 Tony Todd, American actor (born 1954)

• 2025 Rick Hauck, American naval officer, fighter pilot, and NASA astronaut (born 1941)

• 2025 James Watson, American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist (born 1928)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast days:

• Barlaam of Khutyn

• Demetrian

• Illtud

• Leonard of Noblac

• Melaine of Rennes

• Winnoc

• November 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Gustavus Adolphus Day (in Sweden, Finland and Estonia)

• Finnish Swedish Heritage Day (in Finland)

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

• Obama Day (in Kenya)

References

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