November 6

Birthdays:

1988 ~ Emma Stone, American actress.

1976 ~ Patrick Daniel “Pat” Tillman (d. Apr. 22, 2004), American football player and soldier.  He was killed at age 27 by friendly fire in Afghanistan.

1970 ~ Ethan Hawke, American actor.

1967 ~ Rebecca Schaeffer (d. July 18, 1988), American actress who was murdered by a deranged fan at age 21.

1964 ~ Arne Duncan, 9^th Secretary of Education of the United States.  He served under President Barak Obama.

1955 ~ Maria Shriver, American journalist and member of the Kennedy clan.  She married Arnold Schwarzenegger.

1950 ~ Amir Aczel (d. Nov. 26, 2015), Israeli mathematics historian.  He died of cancer 20 days after his 65^th birthday.

1948 ~ Glenn Frye (d. Jan. 18, 2016), American musician and member of the band, the Eagles.  He died following surgery at age 67.

1946 ~ Sally Field, American actress.

1939 ~ Michael Schwerner (d. June 21, 1964), American civil rights activist who was murdered during Freedom Summer.  He was murdered at age 24.

1932 ~ François Englert, Belgian physicist and recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics.

1931 ~ Mike Nichols (né Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky, d. Nov. 19, 2014), German-born American film and theater director.  He is one of a small group of people who can claim the EGOT, having won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award.  He was the director who was able to conquer Broadway.  His fourth wife was Diane Sawyer.  He died of a heart attack two weeks after his 83^rd birthday.

1927 ~ Herald Price Fahringer (d. Feb. 12, 2015), American teetotling attorney who defended famous pornographers.  He died at age 87.

1924 ~ Robert B. Choate, Jr. (d. May. 3, 2009), American businessman and “citizen lobbyist” for consumer protection in the cereal industry.  He died at age 84.

1916 ~ Ray Conniff (né Joseph Raymond Conniff, d. Oct. 12, 2002), American composer and conductor.  He died 25 days before his 86^th birthday.

1913 ~ Bernice Tannenbaum (d. Apr. 6, 2015), President of Hadassah from 1976 to 1980.  She was 101 years old at the time of her death.

1893 ~ Edsel Ford (d. May 26, 1943), American businessman.  He was the son of Henry Ford.  The car named after him was introduced in 1957, many years after his death.  He died of stomach cancer at age 49.

1892 ~ Harold Ross (d. Dec. 6, 1951), American journalist and co-founder of The New Yorker magazine.  He died a during surgery month after his 59^th birthday.

1886 ~ Ida Barney (d. Mar. 7, 1982), American mathematician and astronomer.  She died at age 95.

1880 ~ Yoshisuke Aikawa (d. Feb. 13, 1967), Japanese entrepreneur and founder of the Nissan Motor Company.  He died at age 86.

1861 ~ James Naismith (d. Nov. 28, 1939), Canadian-American physician.  He is credited with inventing the game of modern basketball.  He died 22 days after his 78^th birthday.

1854 ~ John Philip Sousa (d. Mar. 6, 1932), American conductor and composer, known as The March King.  He died at age 77.

1851 ~ Charles Henry Dow (d. Dec. 4, 1902), American journalist who, along with Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser, founded the Dow Jones & Company.  He was also the founder of the Wall Street Journal.  He died less than a month after his 51^st birthday.

1814 ~ Adolphe-Joseph Sax (d. Feb. 7, 1894), Belgian musician and inventor of the saxophone.  He died at age 79.

1771 ~ Alois Senifelder (d. Feb. 26, 1834), Czech inventor of the lithography printing process.  He died at age 62.

1494 ~ Suleiman the Magnificent (d. Sept. 6, 1566), Ottoman sultan.  He died at age 71.

1479 ~ Joanna of Castile (d. Apr. 12, 1555), daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.  She was the queen of Castile and Aragon, which ultimately were united to become modern Spain.  She was known as Joanna the Mad, as she was mentally ill.  She died at age 75.

Events that Changed the World:

2012 ~ Election Day in the United States where the presidential election was between Barack Obama (b. 1961) and Willard “Mitt” Romney (b. 1947).  President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden (b. 1942) were re-elected.

1984 ~ Ronald Reagan (1911 ~ 2004) was reelected as President of the United States.

1965 ~ Cuba and the United States formally agreed to begin the Cuban airlift for individuals who sought to leave Cuba for the United States.  By 1971, over 250,000 Cubans had left Cuba under this program.

1956 ~ Dwight David Eisenhower (1890 ~ 1969) was reelected as President of the United States.

1947 ~ Meet the Press made it television debut.

1934 ~ Memphis, Tennessee became the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority.

1928 ~ Herbert Hoover (1874 ~ 1964) was elected as the 31th President of the United States.

1913 ~ Mohandas Gandhi (1869 ~ 1948) was arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.

1869 ~ The first intercollegiate American football game took place between Rutgers College and Princeton University.  Rutgers beat Princeton by a score of 6-4.

1861 ~ Jefferson Davis (1808 ~ 1889) was elected President of the Confederate States of America.

1860 ~ Abraham Lincoln (1809 ~ 1865) was elected as the 16^th President of the United States.

Good-Byes:

2015 ~ Yitzhak Navon (b. Apr. 9, 1921), 5^th President of Israel.  He was President from May 1978 until May 1983.  He died at age 94.

2010 ~ Robert Lipshutz (b. Dec. 27, 1921), 17^th White House Counsel.  He served under President Jimmy Carter from January 1977 until October 1979.  He died at age 88.

1991 ~ Gene Tierney (b. Nov. 19, 1920), American actress.  She died 13 days before her 71^st birthday.

1987 ~ Zohar Argov (b. July 16, 1955), Israeli singer.  He committed suicide at age 32.

1964 ~ Hans von Euler-Chelpin (b. Feb. 15, 1863), German-born chemist and recipient of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his investigation into fermentation of sugars and enzymes.  He died at age 91.

1941 ~ William Sulzer (b. Mar. 18, 1863), 39^th Governor of New York State.  He served as Governor for 10 months, from January 1913 until October 1913 when he was impeached.  He died at age 78.

1935 ~ William “Billy” Sunday (b. Nov. 19, 1862), American baseball player-turned-evangelist.  He died 13 days before his 73^rd birthday.

1933 ~ Andrey Lyapchev (b. Nov. 30, 1866), Bulgarian attorney and Prime Minister of Bulgaria.  He served as Prime Minister from January 1926 until June 1931.  He died 24 days before his 67^th birthday.

1895 ~ Joel Müller (b. 1827), German rabbi.

1893 ~ Peter Tchaikovsky (né Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, b. May 7, 1840), Russian composer, best known for The Nutcracker Suite and the 1812 Overture.  He died at age 53.

1836 ~ King Charles X of France (b. Oct. 9, 1757).  He was King from September 1824 until August 1830.  He died 28 days after his 79^th birthday.

1790 ~ James Bowdoin (b. Aug. 7, 1726), 2^nd Governor of Massachusetts.  He was Governor from May 1785 through May 1787.  Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine is named in his honor.  He died at age 64.

1656 ~ Jean-Baptiste Morin (b. Feb. 23, 1583). French mathematician.  He died at age 73.

1650 ~ William II, Prince of Orange (b. May 27, 1626).  He died of smallpox at age 24.

1632 ~ King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (b. Dec. 9, 1594).  He was King of Sweden from October 1611 until his death 21 years later.  He was killed in the Battle of Lützen about a month before his 38^th birthday.

1406 ~ Pope Innocent VII (né Cosimo de’Migliorati, b. 1339).  He was Pope from October 1401 until his death 2 years later.  The exact date of his birth is not known, but he is believed to have been 67 at the time of his death.

1003 ~ Pope John XVII (b. 945).  He was Pope for 6 months, from May 1003 until his death in November 1003.  The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been 48 years old at the time of his death.