15th » Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. (It is later named Pikes Peak.)
Famous Birthdays on November in 1806
16th » Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, American educator and author (d. 1887)
24th » William Webb Ellis, English clergyman, created Rugby football (d. 1872)
Famous Deaths for November 1806
16th » Moses Cleaveland, American general, lawyer and politician, founded Cleveland, Ohio (b. 1754)