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Today In History – November 6
There are 55 days remaining until the end of the year.
Today in History the following were elected President of the United States: 1860 Abraham Lincoln; 1900 William McKinley; 1928 Herbert Hoover; 1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected to serve a second term; 1984 Ronald Reagan is elected to serve a second term; and in 2012 Barack Obama is elected to a second term.
The On This Day In History archives at “Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia” contains over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:
November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 55 days remaining until the end of the year.
EVENTS
355 - Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin, Julian the Apostate, to the rank of Caesar.
1429 – Henry VI becomes King of England.
1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first-known European to set foot in what is now Texas.
1789 - Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.
1844 – The first Constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted.
1860 – Abraham Lincoln is elected President of the United States.
1861 – Jefferson Davis is chosen as President of the Confederate States of America.
1869 - In New Brunswick, New Jersey, the first inter-college game in American football takes place. Rutgers University defeats Princeton University 6-4.
1880 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran discovers the malaria parasite called "Plasmodium falciparum".
1888 – Benjamin Harrison is elected President of the United States.
1900 – William McKinley is elected to serve a second term as President of the United States, of which he is only able to serve 6 months, as he is fatally shot by Leon Czolgosz the following September.
1913 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested after leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1917 - World War I: The Third Battle of Ypres in Belgium ends.
1918 – The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed.
1928 – Herbert Hoover is elected President of the United States, defeating Al Smith.
1936 - Spanish Civil War: The Spanish government relocates to Valencia from Madrid.
1939 - World War II: The "Sonderaktion Krakau" takes place, as the Gestapo arrests 184 professors in Krakow.
1941 - World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his rule.
1942 - World War II: German U-boat U 68 sinks British passenger ship City of Cairo, killing 104 people.
1943 - World War II: The Red Army recaptures Kiev.
1944 – The element Plutonium is created.
1947 – The American TV show Meet the Press debuts.
1956 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected to serve a second term as President of the United States.
1956 - Building work on the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River in Southern Africa begins.
1957 - Félix Gaillard becomes Prime Minister of France.
1962 – The UN General Assembly condemns South Africa's Apartheid policy, encouraging its members to break-off military and economic ties with the country.
1963 – Duong Vanh Minh takes over the leadership of South Vietnam.
1965 - Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States.
1975 - Green March: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tafarya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II to cross into Western Sahara.
1977 - The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, US, fails, killing 39 people.
1978 – Franz Josef Strauss is elected Minister-President of Bavaria.
1981 - Larry Holmes becomes Boxing Heavyweight World Champion, defeating Renaldo Snipes.
1982 – Paul Biya becomes President of Cameroon.
1984 – Ronald Reagan is elected to serve a second term as President of the United States. His challenger Walter Mondale only managed to win in Minnesota and Washington, DC.
1985 – Leftist Guerrillas in Colombia seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogota, killing 115 people, including 11 Supreme Court Justices.
1985 - Anibal Cavaco Silva becomes Prime Minister of Portugal.
1985 – Iran-Contra Affair: The American press reports that Ronald Reagan had authorised arms shipments to Iran.
1986 – Joaquim Chissano is chosen to succeed Samora Machel, who had been killed in a plane crash, as President of Mozambique.
1986 – Alex Ferguson becomes the manager of Manchester United. He serves for over 26 1⁄2 years, until May 2013.
1986 - Sumburgh Disaster: British International Helicopter Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes into the sea to the east of Sumburgh Airport, at the southernmost point of Shetland. 45 people are killed.
1991 – Leningrad is renamed St. Petersburg.
1991 – The KGB no longer exists from this date.
1995 – In Antananarivo, the former residence of sovereign rulers of Madagascar, is destroyed by fire.
1999 – Voters in Australia decide to keep Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as their head of state.
1999 - In Berlin, American Bryan Berg builds the world's biggest card house, at 7.71 meters tall, with 91,800 playing cards, at 131 levels high.
2001 – Michael Bloomberg is elected Mayor of New York City.
2001 - TV Series 24 is first shown.
2004 – A train collides with a stationary car at a level crossing near the village of Ufton Nervet in southern England, killing 7 people.
2005 – The Evansville Tornado of 2005 kills 25 people in northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.
2005 – The Burmese military leaders begin moving government ministries from Rangoon to Pyinmana-Naypidaw.
2012 - Barack Obama is elected to a second term as President of the United States, defeating his Republican Party challenger Mitt Romney.
2012 - Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.
2012 - Puerto Rico holds a referendum on its future status, with indications of a majority vote in favour of becoming the 51st US State.
2018 - Mid-term elections are held in the United States: The Democrats gain control of the House of Representatives and also gain some state governorships; the Republicans keep their majority in the Senate.