Daily Calendar – November 6

The 310th day of the year; 55 days remain until the New Year.

Church Calendar

Martyr Arethas and the many martyrs with him (523); Blessed Elesbaan (Kaleb), King of Ethiopia (c. 553–555); Martyrs Syncletica and her two daughters (6th century); Athanasius, Patriarch of Constantinople (after 1311); Feast of the "Joy of All Who Sorrow" icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1688).

Born:

1494 – Suleiman I the Magnificent (the Lawgiver), Sultan of Turkey from 1520 to 1566; died in 1566.

1814 – Adolphe Sax, Belgian instrument maker and inventor of the saxophone; died in 1894.

1835 – Cesare Lombroso, Italian psychiatrist and anthropologist; died in 1909.

1861 – James Naismith, American physical education instructor who invented the game of basketball in 1891; died in 1939. 1916 – Vakhtang Ninua, a well-known actor; died in 1982.

1928 – Ramaz Pataridze, linguist.

Deaths:

1893 – Pyotr Tchaikovsky, a great Russian composer; born in 1840.

1941 – Maurice Leblanc, a French writer; born in 1863.

2017 – Jansugh Charkviani, a Georgian poet.

Events:

1854 – Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th President of the United States.

1917 – The October Bolshevik coup began in St. Petersburg.

1918 – The Republic of Poland was proclaimed in Kraków.

1928 – Herbert Hoover was elected the 31st President of the United States.

1928 – Colonel Jacob Schick (USA) patented the electric shaver.

1956 – Dwight Eisenhower won the U.S. presidential election.

Notable Days:

Dominican Republic — Constitution Day

Morocco — Green March Day

USA — Saxophone Day