Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 6

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  CSS Shenandoah
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  Portrait of John Carroll by Gilbert Stuart
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  Red Cloud
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  Tammy Baldwin
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  George Eliot
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  Red Cloud

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
and Tajikistan (1994)	simply a description of the constitution
Finnish Swedish Heritage Day in Finland	Too short/stubby.
447 – A powerful earthquake destroyed large portions of the Walls of Constantinople, including 57 towers.	Refimprove section
1789 – Pope Pius VI appointed Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.	Large % unref, cn
1860 – Abraham Lincoln won the U.S. presidential election, becoming the first Republican Party candidate to do so.	refimprove, unreferenced section
1865 – Months after the end of the American Civil War, the CSS Shenandoah became the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 38 vessels.	lots of CN tags (10)
1869 – In the first intercollegiate American football game, Rutgers College defeated the College of New Jersey 6–4 in New Brunswick, New Jersey.	Large % unref
1928 – Arnold Rothstein, head of the Jewish mob in New York, died two days after being shot for his failure to pay a large gambling debt.	refimprove
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
1935 – The Hawker Hurricane, the aircraft responsible for 60% of the Royal Air Force's air victories in the Battle of Britain, made its first flight.	refimprove section; lots of CN tags (10)
1962 – The United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 1761, condemning South Africa's apartheid policies.	Stubby
1971 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission conducted the largest underground nuclear test in U.S. history, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.	page numbers needed
1975 – Demonstrators in Morocco began the Green March to Spanish Sahara, calling for the "return of the Moroccan Sahara."	refimprove section
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
1995 – Madagascar's Rova of Antananarivo, which served as the royal palace from the 17th to 19th centuries, was destroyed by fire.	outdated
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 section
Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March |b|1391|	unsourced section
James Naismith |b|1861|	refimprove

Eligible

• 1217 – King Henry III of England issued the Charter of the Forest, re-establishing the rights of access of free men to royal forests.
• 1794 – French Revolutionary Wars: Two British ships were intercepted by a French squadron, leading to the French seizure of HMS Alexander.
• 1863 – American Civil War: A Union brigade defeated a Confederate force at the Battle of Droop Mountain in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.
• 1868 – Red Cloud (pictured), a Native American leader of the Oglala Lakota tribe, signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie, ending Red Cloud's War and establishing the Great Sioux Reservation.
• 1917 – First World War: Canadian forces captured Passendale, Belgium, after three months of fighting against the Germans at the Battle of Passchendaele.
• 1944 – The B Reactor at the Hanford Site in the U.S. state of Washington began producing plutonium, with the facility later going on to create more for nearly the entire American nuclear arsenal.
• 1963 – Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ was appointed by the junta of General Dương Văn Minh to head the South Vietnamese government, five days after Minh deposed and assassinated President Ngô Đình Diệm.
• 1977 – The Kelly Barnes Dam in Stephens County, Georgia, collapsed; the resulting flood killed 39 people and caused US$2.8 million in damages.
• 1988 – Two earthquakes occurring 12 minutes apart struck Yunnan near the China–Myanmar border, killing more than 730 people.
• 2016 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces launched a successful military campaign to isolate and eventually capture Raqqa, the Islamic State's capital.
• Born/died: | Pope John XVII |d|1003| Pope Innocent VII |d|1406| John Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk |d|1461| Suleiman the Magnificent |b|1494| Charles II of Spain |b|1661| Zina Hitchcock |b|1755| James Bowdoin |d|1790| Princess Charlotte of Wales (born 1796) |d|1817| John Philip Sousa |b|1854| Nasta Rojc |bd|1883; 1964| Ida Barney |b|1886| Else Ackermann |b|1933| Doug Sahm |b|1941| Atalie Unkalunt |d|1954| Maria Shriver |b|1955| Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya |b|1962| Jerry Yang |b|1968| Ethan Hawke |b|1970| Emma Stone |b|1988| André Schürrle |b|1990| Anthony Sawoniuk |d|2005|

Notes

• Lê Quang Tung/1963 South Vietnamese coup appears on November 1, Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem on November 2, and 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt on November 11; including Nguyen Ngoc Tho, ideally only one of these should be used per year to avoid topic fatigue.

November 6: Gustavus Adolphus Day in Estonia, Finland, and Sweden Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1856 – The first story from the collection Scenes of Clerical Life by the English author George Eliot was submitted for publication.
• 1939 – As part of their plan to eradicate the Polish intellectual elite, the Gestapo arrested 184 professors, students and employees of the Jagiellonian University (location pictured) in Kraków.
• 2004 – A man committing suicide parked his car on the railway tracks in Ufton Nervet, Berkshire, England, causing a derailment that also killed six people on the train.
• 2012 – Tammy Baldwin became the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.