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November 6
1860 - Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over three other candidates.
1861 - Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1888 - Republican Benjamin Harrison was elected president, beating incumbent President Grover Cleveland in the Electoral College, even though Cleveland won the popular vote.
1893 - Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia at age 53.
1900 - President William B. McKinley was elected to a second term in office, defeating Democrat William Jennings Bryan.
1913 - Mohandas Gandhi led a march of Indian miners in South Africa. He was arrested three times in the first four days of the march.
1928 - Republican Herbert Hoover was elected president over Democrat Alfred E. Smith.
1956 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower won a second term in office, defeating Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson at the polls.
1977 - Thirty-nine people were killed when the Kelly Barnes Dam in Georgia burst, sending a wall of water through Toccoa Falls College.
1984 - President Ronald Reagan won re-election in a landslide over Democrat challenger and former Vice President Walter Mondale.
1986 - Former Navy radioman John A. Walker Jr., the admitted head of a family spy ring, was sentenced in Baltimore to life in prison. (Walker died in prison in 2014 at age 77.)
1990 - Nearly one-fifth of the Universal Studios backlot in Southern California was destroyed in an arson fire.
1997 - Former President George H.W. Bush opened his presidential library at Texas A&M University in College Station; among the guests of honor was President Bill Clinton, the man who had sent him into retirement along with former Presidents Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter.
2001 - Billionaire Michael Bloomberg was elected mayor of New York City.
2009 - The government reported that the unemployment rate rose to 10.2 percent in October, the first time the jobless rate had hit double digits since 1983, and just the second time since World War II. Hours later, President Barack Obama signed a $24 billion economic stimulus bill.
2012 - President Barack Obama won a second term in office, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
2014 - A federal appeals court upheld laws against same-sex marriage in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee. (A divided U.S. Supreme Court overturned the laws in June of 2015.)
2016 - FBI Director James Comey abruptly announced that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton should not face criminal charges related to newly discovered emails from her tenure at the State Department.
2018 - Democrats seized control of the House of Representatives in midterm elections, but Republicans gained seats in the Senate and preserved key governorships, beating back a "blue wave" that never fully materialized.
Birthdays
24 - Sierra Skye (model)
30 - Mercedes Kastner (actress)
31 - Emma Stone (actress)
31 - Robert Ellis (singer)
31 - Barrett Weed (actress)
33 - Ben Rector (singer)
33 - Katie Leclere (actress)
35 - Patina Miller (actress)
40 - Lamar Odom (basketball player)
41 - Taryn Manning (actress)
41 - Nicole Dubuc (actress)
45 - Zoe McLellan (actress)
47 - Rebecca Romijn (model/actress)
47 - Thandie Newton (actress)
49 - Ethan Hawke (actor)
51 - Kelly Rutherford (actress)
53 - Peter DeLuise (actor)
55 - Brad Grunberg (actor)
55 - Corey Glover (singer)
59 - Lance Kerwin (actor)
62 - Lori Singer (actress)
64 - Maria Shriver (news correspondent)
65 - Catherine Crier (TV host)
70 - Rory Block (singer)
73 - Sally Field (actress)
87 - Stonewall Jackson (country singer)
90 - June Squibb (actress)
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Today in Sports History - November 6
1861 - James Naismith, the inventor of the game of basketball, was born in Ontario, Canada.
1869 - The first college football game took place in New Brunswick, New Jersey, with Rutgers defeating Yale 6-4.
1887 - Baseball Hall of Famer Walter Johnson was born in Humboldt, Kansas.
1966 - Tim Brown (Philadelphia Eagles) ran back two kick-offs for touchdowns in the same game against the Dallas Cowboys.
1969 - A tie for the Cy Young Award occurred for the first time. Detroit's Denny McLain and Baltimore's Mike Cuellar both won the award for best pitcher in the American League.
1974 - Mike Marshall of the Los Angeles Dodgers became the first relief pitcher to win the Cy Young Award.
1993 - Evander Holyfield defeats Riddick Bowe in 12 rounds for the heavyweight boxing title.
1995 - ESPN announced a new five-year contract with Major League Baseball, which marked the first time that major league postseason baseball would air on cable television.
1995 - Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell announced his plans to move the franchise to Baltimore and that the contract to finalize the move was signed on October 27.
1995 - Mark Messier scores his 500th career NHL goal.
1996 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls scores 50 points in a game for the 29th time in his career.
1860 - Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over three other candidates.
1861 - Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1888 - Republican Benjamin Harrison was elected president, beating incumbent President Grover Cleveland in the Electoral College, even though Cleveland won the popular vote.
1893 - Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia at age 53.
1900 - President William B. McKinley was elected to a second term in office, defeating Democrat William Jennings Bryan.
1913 - Mohandas Gandhi led a march of Indian miners in South Africa. He was arrested three times in the first four days of the march.
1928 - Republican Herbert Hoover was elected president over Democrat Alfred E. Smith.
1956 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower won a second term in office, defeating Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson at the polls.
1977 - Thirty-nine people were killed when the Kelly Barnes Dam in Georgia burst, sending a wall of water through Toccoa Falls College.
1984 - President Ronald Reagan won re-election in a landslide over Democrat challenger and former Vice President Walter Mondale.
1986 - Former Navy radioman John A. Walker Jr., the admitted head of a family spy ring, was sentenced in Baltimore to life in prison. (Walker died in prison in 2014 at age 77.)
1990 - Nearly one-fifth of the Universal Studios backlot in Southern California was destroyed in an arson fire.
1997 - Former President George H.W. Bush opened his presidential library at Texas A&M University in College Station; among the guests of honor was President Bill Clinton, the man who had sent him into retirement along with former Presidents Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter.
2001 - Billionaire Michael Bloomberg was elected mayor of New York City.
2009 - The government reported that the unemployment rate rose to 10.2 percent in October, the first time the jobless rate had hit double digits since 1983, and just the second time since World War II. Hours later, President Barack Obama signed a $24 billion economic stimulus bill.
2012 - President Barack Obama won a second term in office, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
2014 - A federal appeals court upheld laws against same-sex marriage in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee. (A divided U.S. Supreme Court overturned the laws in June of 2015.)
2016 - FBI Director James Comey abruptly announced that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton should not face criminal charges related to newly discovered emails from her tenure at the State Department.
2018 - Democrats seized control of the House of Representatives in midterm elections, but Republicans gained seats in the Senate and preserved key governorships, beating back a "blue wave" that never fully materialized.
Birthdays
24 - Sierra Skye (model)
30 - Mercedes Kastner (actress)
31 - Emma Stone (actress)
31 - Robert Ellis (singer)
31 - Barrett Weed (actress)
33 - Ben Rector (singer)
33 - Katie Leclere (actress)
35 - Patina Miller (actress)
40 - Lamar Odom (basketball player)
41 - Taryn Manning (actress)
41 - Nicole Dubuc (actress)
45 - Zoe McLellan (actress)
47 - Rebecca Romijn (model/actress)
47 - Thandie Newton (actress)
49 - Ethan Hawke (actor)
51 - Kelly Rutherford (actress)
53 - Peter DeLuise (actor)
55 - Brad Grunberg (actor)
55 - Corey Glover (singer)
59 - Lance Kerwin (actor)
62 - Lori Singer (actress)
64 - Maria Shriver (news correspondent)
65 - Catherine Crier (TV host)
70 - Rory Block (singer)
73 - Sally Field (actress)
87 - Stonewall Jackson (country singer)
90 - June Squibb (actress)
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Today in Sports History - November 6
1861 - James Naismith, the inventor of the game of basketball, was born in Ontario, Canada.
1869 - The first college football game took place in New Brunswick, New Jersey, with Rutgers defeating Yale 6-4.
1887 - Baseball Hall of Famer Walter Johnson was born in Humboldt, Kansas.
1966 - Tim Brown (Philadelphia Eagles) ran back two kick-offs for touchdowns in the same game against the Dallas Cowboys.
1969 - A tie for the Cy Young Award occurred for the first time. Detroit's Denny McLain and Baltimore's Mike Cuellar both won the award for best pitcher in the American League.
1974 - Mike Marshall of the Los Angeles Dodgers became the first relief pitcher to win the Cy Young Award.
1993 - Evander Holyfield defeats Riddick Bowe in 12 rounds for the heavyweight boxing title.
1995 - ESPN announced a new five-year contract with Major League Baseball, which marked the first time that major league postseason baseball would air on cable television.
1995 - Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell announced his plans to move the franchise to Baltimore and that the contract to finalize the move was signed on October 27.
1995 - Mark Messier scores his 500th career NHL goal.
1996 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls scores 50 points in a game for the 29th time in his career.