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Today in History ~ November 6
Events1528 - Cabeza de Vaca discovers what would become Texas [H]
1572 - Supernova is observed in constellation known as Cassiopeia
1792 - Battle at Jemappes: French army beats Ausrtrians
1813 - Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain
1844 - Spain grants Dominican Rep independence
1850 - Yerba Buena & Angel Islands (SF Bay) reserved for military use
1860 - Former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates to become the 16th president of the United States. [H]
1861 - Jefferson Davis was elected to a six-year term as president of the Confederate States of America.
1863 - Battle of Rogersville TN
1864 - Battle of Cane Hill, AK
1865 - CSS Shenandoah strikes its flag at Liverpool, England; the final act of the Confederate States of America
1869 - 1st intercollegiate football game played (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4).
1871 - Pres Grant re-elected
1878 - Henrik Ibsen's "Samfundets Stotter," premieres in Oslo
1879 - Canada celebrates 1st Thanksgiving Day
1888 - Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) beats Pres Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more popular votes
1897 - Peter Pan opens in NY at Empire Theater
1900 - Pres William McKinley (R) re-elected, beating Democrat William Jennings Bryan.
1903 - USA recognizes independence of Panama
1906 - Republican Charles Evans Hughes was elected governor of New York, defeating newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst.
1913 - Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested as he led a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1917 - Bolshevik revolution begins with capture of Winter Palace. Because it took place under the old czarist calendar, it is known as the October Revolution.
1917 - NY allows women to vote
1918 - Republic of Poland proclaimed
1921 - The cult of Rudolph Valentino was launched with the release of his silent film "The Sheik," which despite negative reviews immediately caught the attention of women across the country.
1922 - King George V proclaims Irish Free state
1923 - Col Jacob Schick patents 1st electric shaver
1928 - In a first, the results of Herbert Hoover's election victory over Alfred E. Smith were flashed onto an electric sign outside the New York Times building.
1936 - RCA displays TV for press
1940 - Franklin D Roosevelt re-elected president
1941 - Einsatz death groups kills 15,000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine
1941 - Japanese fleet readies assault on Pearl Harbor
1941 - USA lends Soviet Union $1 million
1942 - Nazis execute 12,000 Minsk ghetto Jews
1943 - Soviet forces re-conquer Kiev
1945 - HUAC begins investigation of 7 radio commentators
1949 - Greeks civil war ends
1950 - Chinese offensive halts at Chongchon River, North Korea
1952 - The United States exploded the world's first hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific.
1952 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's cantata "About our Fatherland," premieres
1956 - Holland & Spain withdraw from Olympics, protest Soviets in Hungary
1956 - Pres Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (D)
1962 - Edward M Kennedy 1st elected (Sen-D-Mass)
1962 - Saudi Arabia abolishes slavery
1966 - 1st entire lineup televised in color (NBC)
1968 - Richard Nixon was elected 37th president of the United States, defeating Democrat Hubert Humphrey.
1973 - Abe Beame elected 1st Jewish mayor on NYC
1973 - Coleman Young elected mayor of Detroit
1975 - King Hassan II of Morocco launched the Green March.
1976 - Benjamin L. Hooks was chosen to be the new executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, succeeding Roy Wilkins.
1977 - 39 people were killed when an earthen dam burst, sending a wall of water through Toccoa Falls Bible College in Georgia.
1978 - Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule
1979 - Ayatolla Khomeini takes over in Iran
1984 - Ronald Reagan (R) landslide (won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D)
1985 - Exploratory well at Ranger Texas, explodes spilling 6.3 m gallons of oil
1986 - Rev Donald Wildmon begins a campaign against Howard Stern
1986 - President Reagan signed the landmark immigration reform bill, the first U.S. immigration law authorizing penalties for employers who hire illegal aliens.
1990 - A gunman opened fire as Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev presided over the Revolution Day parade. Gorbachev was not hurt.
1991 - Keck II, biggest telescope in use at Mauna Kea Hawaii
1991 - Russian president Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party
1991 - Ukraine signed the Soviet economic-union treaty at the Kremlin.
1991 - Kuwait celebrated the dousing of the last oil fires ignited by Iraq during the Persian Gulf War.
1992 - A presidential commission called on Congress to restore laws against women combat pilots repealed the previous year.
1993 - The ruling New Zealand National Party won a one-seat majority in general elections.
1994 - George Foreman, 45, became the oldest boxer to win a championship fight in any weight class by knocking out Michael Moore in Las Vegas to claim the International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Association heavyweight titles.
1995 - Art Modell officially announces Cleveland Browns are moving to Baltimore
1995 - Numerous world leaders gathered in Jerusalem for the funeral of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
1996 - The Republican and Democratic Party chairmen met at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to "bury the hatchet."
1996 - A day after being re-elected, President Clinton threw a party on the White House lawn; that same day, he received resignations from secretaries of state, defense, energy and commerce.
1996 - A cyclone struck southeastern India, claiming an estimated 1,000 lives.
1997 - President Clinton and three of the four living former Presidents of the United States attended the dedication of the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum at Texas A&M University at College Station, Texas. Nancy Reagan stood in for her husband, who could not attend.
2000 - Surgeons in Manchester, England, separated conjoined twin girls, a procedure that involved allowing one of the girls to die, while giving the survivor a chance at life.
2001 - Speaking at a Warsaw summit, President Bush said for the first time that Osama Bin Laden was trying to get chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
2001 - Baseball owners voted overwhelmingly in favor of eliminating two money-losing teams by the start of the 2002 season. But, no further action was taken.
2002 - The U.N. Security Council began considering the revised U.S. draft resolution that would declare Iraq in continuing "material breach" of previous measures and warn Baghdad of "serious consequences" if it fails to cooperate with weapons inspectors.
Birthdays Today
1479 - Johanna, the Insane, Queen of Castilia (1504-20)
1494 - Sulayman I, the Great, sultan of Turkey (1520-66)
1558 - Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (Spanish Tragedy)
1671 - Colley Cibber, England, dramatist/poet laureate (Love's Last Shift)
1771 - Aloys Senefelder, inventor of lithography.
1814 - Adolphe (Antoine) Sax (musician: Belgian instrument-maker inventor of the saxophone, saxotromba)
1851 - Charles H Dow, co-founded Dow Jones/1st editor of Wall St Journal
1854 - John Philip Sousa ('The March King': composer, bandleader: Stars and Stripes Forever, Semper Fidelis, El Capitan, King Cotton, The Thunderer, Washington Post March)
1860 - Ignace Jan Paderewski (composer: musician: piano: Minuet in G; Polish patriot: 1st Premier of Poland [1919]; brought white Zinfandel wine grapes to U.S. for the first time)
1861 - James Naismith (invented: game of basketball)
1892 - Ole (John Sigvard) Olsen (vaudevillian: team: Olsen & Johnson: Hellzapoppin'; actor: All Over Town, Country Gentlemen; TV host [w/Johnson]: Fireball Fun-for-All)
1896 - Jim Jordan, Peoria IL, radio comedian (Fibber McGee)
1916 - Ray Conniff (choral/orchestra director: theme from Dr. Zhivago; LP: S'wonderful, Somewhere My Love; musician: trombone)
1921 - James Jones, Robinson Ill, novelist (From Here to Eternity)
1923 - Renato Capecchi, Italian violinist/baritone
1927 - Martin Pavelich (hockey)
1931 - Mike Nichols (Peschkowsky) (Academy Award-winning director: The Graduate [1967]; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Silkwood, Postcards from the Edge, The Day of the Dolphin; comedian: [w/Elaine May])
1932 - Don King, fight promoter
1932 - Stonewall Jackson (singer: Waterloo, Me and You and a Dog Named Boo, Help Stamp Out Loneliness, B.J. the D.J., Why I'm Walkin')
1937 - Eugene Pitt (singer: group: The Genies: Who's that Knockin'; group: Jive Five: Never Never, What Time is It?, I'm a Happy Man; solo: My True Story)
1941 - Doug Sham (singer: group: Sir Douglas Quintet: She's about a Mover)
1943 - Michael Schwerner, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964
1943 - Mike Clifford (singer: Close to Cathy)
1946 - Sally Field (Academy Award-winning actress: Norma Rae [1979], Places in the Heart [1984]; Gidget series, Steel Magnolias, Mrs. Doubtfire, Smokey and the Bandit series, Hooper, Forrest Gump, Absence of Malice; Emmy Award-winner: The Big Event/NBC World Premiere Movie: Sybil [1977]; The Flying Nun, Gidget, The Girl with Something Extra, Alias Smith and Jones)
1948 - Glenn Frey (musician, songwriter, singer: group: The Eagles: Take It Easy, One of these Nights, Lyin' Eyes, Hotel California, New Kid in Town, Life in the Fast Lane, Heartache Tonight; solo: Smuggler's Blues; LP: No Fun Aloud, The Allnighter, The Heat is On, You Belong to the City)
1955 - Maria Shriver (TV news correspondent: 1986, The American Parade, Today; news anchor: NBC News; married to actor, Arnold Schwarzenegger)
1960 - Lance Kerwin (actor: James at 15, The Family Holvak, The Loneliest Runner, The Mysterious Stranger, Salem's Lot, The Snow Queen)
1961 - Lori Singer (actress: Footloose, Short Cuts, Sunset Grill, Summer Heat, Equinox, Fame; musician: cellist)
1966 - Peter DeLuise (actor: seaQuest DSV, 21 Jump Street, Children of the Night, Rescue Me, The Midnight Hour)
1978 - Nicole Dubuc (actress: Our House, Major Dad)
Famous deaths
1632 - Gustavus II Adolphus, king of Sweden, dies in battle at 37 [H]
1672 - Heinrich Schutz, German composer (Weihnachtsoratorium), dies at 87
1730 - Hans Hermann von Katte, Prussian lieutenant, beheaded
1836 - Charles X, King of France (1824-30), dies at 79
1893 - Piotr Ilyich Tchaikofsky, Rus composer (Nutcracker), dies at 53
1912 - Mykola Vytalyevich Lysenko, composer, dies at 70
1944 - Hannah Senesh, Jewish poet, executed by Nazis in Budapest
1965 - Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varese, composer, dies at 81
1968 - Charles Munch, French/US conductor (Boston Symphony Orch), dies at 77
1991 - Actress Gene Tierney died in Houston at age 70.
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