Daily Calendar for Friday, November 6, 2026
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Friday, November 6, 2026
Born
- Adolphe Sax (inventor & musician) –
- Charles Henry Dow (founder of Dow Jones & Company) –
- John Philip Sousa (composer) –
- James Naismith (invented game of basketball) –
- Henry Knox Sherrill (clergyman) –
- Charles W. Yost (diplomat) –
- Sally Field (actress) –
- Glenn Frey (musician) –
- Maria Shriver (newscaster) –
- Ethan Hawke (actor) –
- Rebecca Romijn (actress) –
- Emma Stone (actress) –
Died
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (composer) –
- James Peter Robertson (posthumous Victoria Cross recipient) –
- Clarence "Ace" Parker (professional football player) –
Events
- First recorded sightings of supernova in Cassiopeia –
- Abraham Lincoln was elected president –
- Canada’s second national Thanksgiving Day after confederation –
- Electric shaver patent awarded to Col. Jacob Schick –
- Talking headlight installed on locomotive, Schenectady, New York –
- Meet the Press made its television debut –
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower won reelection –
- President Ronald Reagan won reelection in an electoral landslide –
- National Public Radio announced the largest donation in its history, a cash bequest from the will of the late philanthropist Joan Kroc of about $200 million. The nonprofit organization called the donation the largest monetary gift ever received by an American cultural institution. –
Weather
- Early season snow in Missouri, St. Louis receives 13.3 inches –
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, received eight inches of snow –
- 87 degrees F, Charleston, South Carolina –
- A tornado tore across western Kentucky and Indiana, killing at least 22 people –
- Deadly tornado struck near Evansville, Indiana –