What happened on November 6 in other years, from the events Wikipedia's editors chose for its "On this day":
- 1217: King Henry III of England issued the Charter of the Forest, re-establishing the rights of access of free men to royal forests. → Charter of the Forest
- 1863: American Civil War: A Union brigade defeated a Confederate force at the Battle of Droop Mountain in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. → Battle of Droop Mountain
- 1924: The Spanish anarchist group Los Solidarios unsuccessfully attempted to launch an insurrection against the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera. → Los Solidarios
- 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. → B Reactor
- 1988: Two earthquakes occurring 12 minutes apart struck Yunnan near the China–Myanmar border, killing more than 730 people. → 1988 Lancang–Gengma earthquakes
- 2016: Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces launched a successful military campaign to isolate and eventually capture Raqqa, the Islamic State's capital. → Raqqa campaign (2016–2017)
Born on November 6
- 1494: Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (died 1566)
- 1946: Sally Field, American actress
- 1988: Emma Stone, American actress
- 1988: Conchita Wurst, Austrian singer
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