November 6

November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 55 days remaining.

Events:

• 1861 - Jefferson Davis is elected to a six-year term as president of the Confederacy.

• 1869 - The first intercollegiate American football game is played. Rutgers defeats Princeton, 6 to 4.

• 1917 - The Bolshevik? October Revolution, led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky, seizes power in Petrograd.

Births:

• 1880 - Robert Musil, Austrian novelist ([The Man Without Qualities]?)

Deaths:

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See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

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