Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 6

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 * 1794 – French Revolutionary Wars: Two British ships are intercepted by a French squadron, leading to the French seizure of the HMS Alexander.
 * 1856 – The first story from the collection Scenes of Clerical Life by the English author George Eliot (pictured) was submitted for publication.
 * 1868 – Red Cloud, a Native American leader of the Oglala Lakota tribe, signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie, ending Red Cloud's War and establishing the Great Sioux Reservation.
 * 1939 – As part of their plan to eradicate the Polish intellectual elite, the Gestapo arrested 184 professors, students and employees of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
 * 1944 – The B Reactor at the Hanford Site in the U.S. state of Washington began producing plutonium, with the facility later going on to create more for nearly the entire American nuclear arsenal.
 * 1977 – The Kelly Barnes Dam in Stephens County, Georgia, collapsed; the resulting flood killed 39 people and caused US$2.8 million in damages.
 * 2004 – A man committing suicide parked his car on the railway tracks in Ufton Nervet, Berkshire, England, causing a derailment that killed seven people.
 * 2016 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces launched a successful military campaign to isolate and eventually capture Raqqa, the Islamic State's capital.
 * Born/died: | Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March |b|1391| John Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk |d|1461| Suleiman the Magnificent |b|1494| Charles II of Spain |b|1661| Stanisław Staszic |bap|1755|   James Bowdoin |d|1790|  Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796–1817) |d|1817| John Philip Sousa |b|1854| James Naismith |b|1861|  Ida Barney |b|1886| Ida Lou Anderson |b|1900| Else Ackermann |b|1933|  Doug Sahm |b|1941| Atalie Unkalunt |d|1954| Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya |b|1962| Hilda Braid |d|2007