Uncyclopedia:Anniversaries/November 6

November 6...

• Athens - Revolution Day
• Sparta - Rickroll Day
• Uncyclopedialand - The anniversary of the Wikipedia vs. Uncyclopedia battle of 2008 BCE
• Uncyclopedialand - The anniversary of the Uncyclopedia vs. Wikipedia battle of 2007 BCE
• Bonerland - All Hail Bart Day
• World - It's-a-Hell-Load-of-Holidays-Today Day
• Catholic Saints - November 6 is the feast day of the following Catholic Saints:
  • St. Spamalot
  • St. Winalot
  • St. Leonard of Noblac
  • St. Winnoc
• Dominican Republic - Constitution Day (1844)
• Finland - The Finnish Swedish Heritage Day, an official flag day and name day of Kustaa Aadolf
• Ionia - Day of Remorse
• Sweden - Death of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and official flag day
• Tajikistan - Constitution Day (1994)

Events

The earliest Rickroll video with Rickus Astlius of Sparta, recorded at around 475 BCE.

• c.475 BCE - the first Rickroll prank in Sparta.
• c.450 BCE - The first LOST episode originates from this date.
• c.450 BCE - The first Krypton Factor episode, hosted by Gordonus Burnium XLIX, originates from this date.
• c.400 BCE - The city-state of Corinth open the earliest known cut-and-cover tunnels.

• 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.

• 350 - Roman Emperor Constans imposes a ban on Rickroll.
• 360 - Roman Emperor Constans' ban on Rickroll is lifted: Julian just got Rickroll'd.
• 1064 - The earliest form of Euro-Uncyclopedia, was built in Normandy.

• 1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas.
• 1632 - Death of King Gustavus Adolphus the Great of Sweden in the Battle of Lützen during the Thirty Years War.

• 1648 - King Charles I insults victims of the Bristol and Taunton flash floods.

• 1789 - Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
• 1844 - The first constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted.
• 1845 - Liana Stahnke travels back to this time and demonstrates a way to view Rickroll videos... without getting Rickroll'd: it was simpler than you thought, yet it was LOST.
• 1861 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.

• 1862 - At exactly 15:59 GMT for two hours, nobody in Colombia was in prison.

• 1865 - American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels.
• 1869 - In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University defeats Princeton University, 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
• 1913 - Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
• 1917 - World War I: Third Battle of Ypres ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.
• 1918 - The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed in Poland.
• 1925 - Secret agent Sidney Reilly is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
• 1928 - Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the king.

• 1934 - Memphis, TN became the first major city to enter the TVA.
• 1934 - TVA becomes TV-Avisen, and nationalised for £1 by Denmark's Danmarks Radio.

• 1935 - Before the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation."
• 1935 - First flight of the Hawker Hurricane.
• 1936 - An editor gives up fighting red links, for now.
• 1939 - World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau
• 1941 - World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule. He states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, the Germans had lost 4.5 million soldiers and that Soviet victory was near.
• 1942 - Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign begins.
• 1943 - World War II: Russia recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings.

• 1944 - Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility, subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
• 1945 - The battle of the red links ends with defeat to the red links.

• 1947 - Meet The Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
• 1962 - Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.
• 1963 - Vietnam War: Following the November 1 coup and execution of President Ngo Dinh Diem, coup leader General Duong Van Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam.
• 1965 - Cuba and the United States formally agree to start an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans will use this program.
• 1971 - The AEC tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.

• 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.
• 1976 - Athens Revolution: The Athenian People's Army led by chancellor Liana Stahnke overruns the Greek capital of Athens.
• 1976 - The American English/Italian Organization of Uneducated Yaks is founded.

• 1977 - The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.

• 1978 - The BBC Children in Need Telethon raises nothing.

• 1985 - In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the April 19 Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.
• 1985 - "Irangate" scandal: The American press reveals that US President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran.
• 1986 - Sumburgh disaster - a British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashed 2.5 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people: The deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.

• 1990 - ANT1 (Antena) is launched: the first programme was "TA NEA TOY ANT1".
• 1990 - ANT1 (Ant-ember) is launched: the first programme was "OXI TA NEA TOY ANT1".
• 1992 - Lottery numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 50: Bonus ball -7.
• 1997 - The XNYAPHPCRUTGPL (X-Men's Not Yet Another PHP Hypertext Preprocessor Clone Released Under The GNU's Not Unix Public License) is released.

• 1999 - Australia votes to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.

• 2001 - An intriguing way of linking articles is discovered (Check the editor version of this entry to find out how).

• 2002 - 12 people are killed in a fire on board a train headed for Vienna from Paris.
• 2003 - Charlotte Island is formed as a commonwealth within Athens, and is admitted to the EU.
• 2004 - An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing 6 and injuring 150.
• 2005 - The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.
• 2005 - The military junta of Myanmar begins moving its government ministries from Yangon to Pyinmana.
• 2008 - The United Nations, under pressure from Athens, ceases international recognition of Ionia and terminates its membership.
• 2008 - Someone will mix the above with more boring anniversaries such as these, and the world is finally guaranteed never to end, until 5.5/Apple/26, at least.
• 2009 - Some nerd is expected to discover this page and delights at the previous Doctor Who reference.

• 2010 - The construction of the Ydra Fens, Athens will be completed.

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