first day of Eid al-Adha (Islam)
Daylight Savings Time ends (USA)
Constitution Day in the Dominican Republic (1844)
Constitution Day in Tajikistan (1994)
Finnish Swedish Heritage Day in Finland
Gustavus Adolphus Day in Sweden
ROYAL ENGAGEMENT ANNIVERSARY
Infante Felipe of Spain, Prince of Asturias, Prince of Girona, Prince of Viana, Duke of Montblanc, Count of Cervera, Lord of Balaguer & Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano {2003}
ROYAL WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES
Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg & Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma {1919}
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, Earl of Ulster, Baron Culloden & Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott {1935}
Prince Louis Alphonse/Luis Alfonso of Bourbon, Duke of Anjou & Maria Margarita Vargas Santaella {2004} [religious]
ROYAL CHRISTENING
Prince Nikolai of Denmark, Count of Monpezat {1999} [son of Prince Joachim of Denmark, Count of Monpezat (son of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark)]
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
355 Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with the government of the Prefecture of the Gauls.
1632 Thirty Years War: the Battle of Lutzen is fought, the Swedes are victorious but King Gustavus Adolphus II of Sweden dies in the battle. {Nov. 6 is the Old Style date}
1789 Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
1975 Green March begins: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.
1999 Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1479 Queen [regent] Juana "the Mad" of Castile + Leon, Queen of Aragon, Queen of Sardinia, Sicily + Naples, Countess Palatine consort of Burgundy, Duchess consort of Burgundy, Brabant, Limburg, + Luxembourg, Countess consort of Artois, Flanders, Hainault, Holland, + Zeeland (d.1555)
1494 Suleiman I "the Magnificent/the Lawgiver", Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d.1566)
1550 Queen consort Karin/Catherine of Sweden (d.1612)
1661 King Charles II of Spain (d.1700)
1892 The Most Honourbale George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven {born Prince George of Battenberg; was Earl of Medina from 1917-1921} (son of Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine) (d.1938)
DEATHS
1231 Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan
1406 Pope Innocent VII
1550 Ulrich, Duke of Wurttemberg
1632 King Gustavus Adolphus/Gustav Adolf II "the Great" of Sweden {Nov. 6 is the Old Style date}
1650 Willem II, Prince of Orange, Stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands
1656 King Joao IV "the Restorer" of Portugal + the Algarves
1796 Empress Catherine II "the Great" of Russia (born Princess Sophie/Sophia Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst)
1817 Princess Charlotte of Wales, Princess Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duchess in Saxony
1836 King Charles X of France + Navarre
1903 Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (b.1895)
1925 Emperor Khai Dinh of Vietnam
1929 Prince Maximilian of Baden
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