WHAT HAPPENED ON 6. NOVEMBER
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Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with the government of the Prefecture of the Gauls. (6. November 355)

Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in the area that would become Texas. (6. November 1528)

Thirty years war: Battle of Lützen is fought, the Swedes are victorious but the King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus dies in the battle. (6. November 1632)

Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States. (6. November 1789)

The first constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted. (6. November 1844)

Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, is submitted for publication. (6. November 1856)

American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America. (6. November 1861)

American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 unarmed merchant vessels. (6. November 1865)

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. (6. November 1869)

Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa. (6. November 1913)

World War I: Third Battle of Ypres ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium. (6. November 1917)

The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed. (6. November 1918)

Arnold Rothstein, the head of the Jewish mob in New York, was shot and mortally wounded on the 4 Nov., and died on 6 Nov.; He was assassinated by George "Hump" McManus, for failing to pay a large gambling debt. (6. November 1928)

Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority. (6. November 1934)

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. (6. November 1935)

First flight of the Hawker Hurricane, with its K5083 first prototype. (6. November 1935)

Parker Brothers acquires the forerunner patents for MONOPOLY from Elizabeth Magie. (6. November 1935)

World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau takes place. (6. November 1939)

World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his 27-year rule. He falsely states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, the Germans had lost 4.5 million soldiers and that Soviet victory was near. (6. November 1941)

World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign begins. (6. November 1942)