History

Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to the United States Congress on November 7, 1916, when Montana voters sent her to the House of Representatives. Her election broke a barrier that had stood since the founding of the republic: for the first time in the nation’s history, a woman won a seat in the federal Congress. The timing made ...

Canada’s first transcontinental railway was completed on November 7, 1885, when the last spike was driven at Craigellachie, British Columbia. The driving of that final spike united Canada from coast to coast by rail, made settlement of the Prairies possible, and became one of the most powerful symbols of Canadian nationhood — achieved at enormous human cost. The story began ...

The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought on November 7, 1811, when United States forces under William Henry Harrison clashed with the Native American military alliance built by the Shawnee leader Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa. Fought near the confluence of the Tippecanoe and Wabash rivers in what is now Indiana, the battle destroyed the alliance’s stronghold, scattered its warriors, and ...

The London Gazette first published on November 7, 1665, beginning one of the world’s oldest continuously published newspapers. Its first edition was printed during a year of crisis in England — a year that would test the nation’s government, its press and its people — and the paper it launched is still publishing official notices today. Newspapers as we know ...

November 6 holidays, observances and history: here is everything the day holds, from nachos and saxophones to Lincoln, Gandhi, and the Bolshevik Revolution. November 6 is a full and varied day: in 2026 it falls on a Friday, which makes it Love Your Lawyer Day, National Jersey Friday, Fountain Pen Day and National Medical Science Liaison Awareness and Appreciation Day ...

Emma Stone, born on November 6, 1988, in Scottsdale, Arizona, is the American actress who won two Academy Awards, for La La Land and Poor Things. She broke through in Easy A (2010) and has since built one of the most respected careers in modern film, while co-founding the production company Fruit Tree with her husband, Dave McCary. Stone’s two ...

Thandiwe Newton, born on November 6, 1972, in London, England, is the English actress known for Crash, Westworld, and Mission: Impossible 2. Born to a Zimbabwean mother and an English father, she grew up between cultures and has brought that range to a career spanning big-budget blockbusters and acclaimed television. Newton’s work runs from Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) to the ...

June Squibb, born on November 6, 1929, in Vandalia, Illinois, is the American actress best known for her Academy Award-nominated role in Nebraska. Her career is one of the great late-blooming stories in show business: decades of acclaimed stage and screen work, followed by a film breakthrough that arrived when most careers are winding down. Squibb worked on Broadway for ...

Ethan Hawke, born on November 6, 1970, in Austin, Texas, is the American actor, author, and director known for Dead Poets Society and the Before trilogy. Across more than three decades, he has balanced film stardom with a restless curiosity, moving between acting, writing novels, directing, and working in theater. Hawke first rose to fame as a teenager in Dead ...

Maria Shriver, born on November 6, 1955, in Chicago, Illinois, is the American journalist and author, a member of the Kennedy family, and the former First Lady of California. Shriver built her own distinguished career in broadcast journalism before becoming First Lady of California, and she has remained a prominent public figure — an author, a journalist, and an advocate ...