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NOVEMBER 6
- Indian Freedom fighter Bipin Chandra Pal (one of the “Lal Bal Pal” triumvirate) born on 7 November, 1858 in Sylhet District, Bengal Presidency of British India.
- Bahadur shah II Zafar, the last mughal emperor, breathed his last in British captivity in Rngoon.
- Indian physicist Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman or C V Raman born on November 7, 1888 in Tiruchirapalli, Madras Presidency in British India.
- Indian film actor Sanjeev Kumar, died in 1985
- In 1860, Americans elected as their president Abraham Lincon, whose victory led to the secession of Southern states and the long and bloody Civil War that lasted until 1865 and ended Slavery in the United States.
- Hillary Rodham Clinton, wife of the president, has won a seat for the Democrats in the Senate to become the only First Lady to win elective office in US history.
- ‘Meet the Press’, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut on NBC Television in 1947.
- The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb in 1971 on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. Its code-name was Manikin.
- James Naismith, Canadian-American physician and educator, invented basketball in 1861
