History

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 ...

Mike Nichols, born on November 6, 1931, in Berlin, Germany, was the German-born American director who won an Academy Award for The Graduate and, with Emmy, Grammy, and Tony awards to his name, was one of the few EGOT winners in entertainment history. Nichols began his career as a comedian, performing with Elaine May in the celebrated improvisational duo Nichols ...

Sally Field, born on November 6, 1946, in Pasadena, California, is the American actress who won two Academy Awards for Best Actress, for Norma Rae (1979) and Places in the Heart (1984). Field began her career on television in the 1960s, starring in the sitcoms Gidget and The Flying Nun — light-hearted roles that made her a household name but ...

On November 6, 1962, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution condemning South Africa’s racist apartheid policies and calling for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the country. The UN Condemns Apartheid resolution was an early step in the international isolation of the apartheid regime, which continued until apartheid’s end in the early 1990s. ...