On November 6:
1528 Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca became the first known European to set foot in Texas.
1851 Charles Dow, American journalist and economist, was born.
1856 The first work of fiction by George Eliot was submitted for publication.
1861 James Naismith, Canadian inventor of basketball, was born.
1893 Edsel Ford, president of Ford Motor Company, was born.
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1908 Prime Minister Sir Joseph Ward ceremonially opened the North Island main trunk railway line by driving home a final polished silver spike at Manganuioteao, between National Park and Ohakune.
1913 Mohandas Gandhi was arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1917 Third Battle of Ypres ended: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces took Passchendaele in Belgium.
1918 The Second Polish Republic was proclaimed.
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1935 First flight of the Hawker Hurricane.
1944 Plutonium was first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility.
1946 Sally Field, American actress, was born.
1947 George Young, Australian musician fromAC/DC, was born.
1949 Nigel Havers, English actor, was born.
1962 The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution condemning South Africa’s racist apartheid policies and called for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.
1970 Ethan Hawke, American actor, was born.
1975 Green March began: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converged on the southern city of Tarfaya and waited for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.
November 6, 2009 at 10:31 am
The Hawker Hurricane was the overlooked hero of the Battle of Britain. It didn’t have the grace and elegance and speed of the Spitfire, which looked much better for the propaganda photos. But more than two-thirds of Royal Air Force Fighter Command’s squadrons fighting in the Battle of Britain flew Hurricanes,and they accounted for most German losses, too. The-then Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park used to make flying visits to his airfields in No 11 Group with his personal Hurricane.