November 6 holidays in 2017

Historical Events on November 6

• 1860: Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16^th President of the United States.
• 1861: Jefferson Davis becomes the president of the Confederate States of America.
• 1913: While leading Indian miners in South Africa, Mohandas Gandhi is arrested.
• 1934: The first major city that joins the Tennessee Valley Authority is Memphis, Tennessee.
• 1941: Joseph Stalin addresses the people of Russia during the Battle of Moscow.
• 1943: As they are retreating from the advance of the Soviet Red Army, German forces destroy most of Kiev’s ancient buildings.
• 1944: Weapon’s grade plutonium is produced for the first time at Hanford Atomic Facility. This plutonium would be used in the “Fat Man” bomb that’s dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
• 1945: Elizabeth Bentley surrenders to the FBI and confesses that she’s been a spy for the Soviet Union.
• 1947: Meet the Press airs on TV for the first time.
• 1962: The apartheid practices of South Africa are condemned by a resolution passed by the United Nations General Assembly. This resolution urges all United Nation member nations to cease all economic and military relations with this country.
• 1971: The largest underground hydrogen bomb – Cannikin – is detonated by the U.S Atomic Energy Commission on Amchitka Island in the Aluetian Island chain.

Famous Birthdays on November 6

• Canadian-American physician and inventor of basketball, James Naismith is born in 1861.
• American illustrator and painter Everett Shinn is born in 1876.
• American actress June Squibb is born in 1929.
• English race car driver Peter Collins is born in 1931.
• American photographer Gary Gross is born in 1937.
• American author Marco Vassi is born in 1937.
• American actress Sally Field is born in 1946.
• English actress Carolyn Seymour is born in 1947.
• American singer-songwriter and actor, Glenn Frey is born in 1948.
• American screenwriter John Falsey is born in 1951.
• American novelist and screenwriter Michael Cunningham is born in 1952.