November 6
1632 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden was killed in battle.
1860 - Republican Abraham Lincoln is elected president of the United States over John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas.
1861 - Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1888 - Republican Benjamin Harrison was elected president, defeating incumbent President Grover Cleveland in the Electoral College even though Cleveland had 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 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 the White House, defeating Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson.
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 by a landslide over former Vice President Walter Mondale.
1990 - About one-fifth of the Universal Studios backlot in southern California was destroyed in an arson fire.
2009 - The government reported that unemployment rose to 10.2 percent in the U.S. in October, the first time the jobless rate had hit double digits since 1983.
2012 - President Barack Obama was elected to a second term in office, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
2014 - The march toward same-sex marriage across the U.S. hit a roadblock when a federal appeals court upheld haws against the practice in four states: Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee. (A divided U.S. Supreme Court overturned the laws in June 2015.)
2015 - President Barack Obama rejected the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, declaring it would undercut U.S. efforts to clinch a global climate change deal at the center of his environmental legacy. (President Donald Trump would reverse the Obama decision, but President Joe Biden canceled the permit for the pipeline on the day he took office.)
2016 - FBI Director James Comey abruptly announced that Democrat Hillary Clinton should not face criminal charges related to newly discovered emails from her tenure at the State Department.
2017 - Former Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner reported to prison in Massachusetts to begin a 21-month sentence for sexting with a 15-year-old girl.
2020 - Democrat Joe Biden overtook President Donald Trump in Georgia as the counting of votes continued in the battleground state; Biden also expanded his lead over Trump in Pennsylvania and Nevada. The federal agency that oversees U.S. election security pushed back at unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud in a statement, saying that local election offices had detection measures that “make it highly difficult to commit fraud through counterfeit ballots.” Sen. Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, said Trump was “damaging the cause of freedom” and inflaming “destructive and dangerous passions” by claiming, without foundation, that the election was rigged and stolen from him.
Birthdays
26 - Sierra Skye (model)
32 - Mercedes Kastner (actress)
33 - Emma Stone (actress)
35 - Ben Rector (singer)
35 - Katie Leclerc (actress)
37 - Patina Miller (actress)
42 - Lamar Odom (basketball player)
43 - Taryn Manning (actress)
43 - Nicole Dubuc (actress)
47 - Zoe McLellan (actress)
49 - Rebecca Romijn (actress/model)
49 - Thandie Newton (actress)
51 - Ethan Hawke (actor)
53 - Kelly Rutherford (actress)
55 - Peter DeLuise (actor)
57 - Brad Grunberg (actor)
61 - Lance Kerwin (actor)
64 - Lori Singer (actress)
66 - Maria Shriver (news correspondent)
67 - Catherine Crier (TV host)
75 - Sally Field (actress)
92 - 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 intercollegiate football game took place, with Rutgers defeating Princeton, 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.
1974 - Mike Marshall became the first relief pitcher to win the Cy Young Award.
1982 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the National Football League (NFL) could not dictate the home town of a team. The case resulted from the Oakland Raiders wanting to move to Los Angeles.
1993 - Evander Holyfield defeats Riddick Bowe in 12 rounds for the heavyweight boxing crown.
1995 - Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell publicly announced his plans to move the franchise to Baltimore.
1995 - ESPN announced a five-year contract extension with Major League Baseball. The contract represented the first time that baseball's post season would be on cable.
1995 - Mark Messier scored his 500th NHL goal.
1996 - Michael Jordan scored 50 points for the 29th time in his career.
1632 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden was killed in battle.
1860 - Republican Abraham Lincoln is elected president of the United States over John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas.
1861 - Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1888 - Republican Benjamin Harrison was elected president, defeating incumbent President Grover Cleveland in the Electoral College even though Cleveland had 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 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 the White House, defeating Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson.
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 by a landslide over former Vice President Walter Mondale.
1990 - About one-fifth of the Universal Studios backlot in southern California was destroyed in an arson fire.
2009 - The government reported that unemployment rose to 10.2 percent in the U.S. in October, the first time the jobless rate had hit double digits since 1983.
2012 - President Barack Obama was elected to a second term in office, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
2014 - The march toward same-sex marriage across the U.S. hit a roadblock when a federal appeals court upheld haws against the practice in four states: Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee. (A divided U.S. Supreme Court overturned the laws in June 2015.)
2015 - President Barack Obama rejected the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, declaring it would undercut U.S. efforts to clinch a global climate change deal at the center of his environmental legacy. (President Donald Trump would reverse the Obama decision, but President Joe Biden canceled the permit for the pipeline on the day he took office.)
2016 - FBI Director James Comey abruptly announced that Democrat Hillary Clinton should not face criminal charges related to newly discovered emails from her tenure at the State Department.
2017 - Former Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner reported to prison in Massachusetts to begin a 21-month sentence for sexting with a 15-year-old girl.
2020 - Democrat Joe Biden overtook President Donald Trump in Georgia as the counting of votes continued in the battleground state; Biden also expanded his lead over Trump in Pennsylvania and Nevada. The federal agency that oversees U.S. election security pushed back at unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud in a statement, saying that local election offices had detection measures that “make it highly difficult to commit fraud through counterfeit ballots.” Sen. Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, said Trump was “damaging the cause of freedom” and inflaming “destructive and dangerous passions” by claiming, without foundation, that the election was rigged and stolen from him.
Birthdays
26 - Sierra Skye (model)
32 - Mercedes Kastner (actress)
33 - Emma Stone (actress)
35 - Ben Rector (singer)
35 - Katie Leclerc (actress)
37 - Patina Miller (actress)
42 - Lamar Odom (basketball player)
43 - Taryn Manning (actress)
43 - Nicole Dubuc (actress)
47 - Zoe McLellan (actress)
49 - Rebecca Romijn (actress/model)
49 - Thandie Newton (actress)
51 - Ethan Hawke (actor)
53 - Kelly Rutherford (actress)
55 - Peter DeLuise (actor)
57 - Brad Grunberg (actor)
61 - Lance Kerwin (actor)
64 - Lori Singer (actress)
66 - Maria Shriver (news correspondent)
67 - Catherine Crier (TV host)
75 - Sally Field (actress)
92 - 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 intercollegiate football game took place, with Rutgers defeating Princeton, 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.
1974 - Mike Marshall became the first relief pitcher to win the Cy Young Award.
1982 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the National Football League (NFL) could not dictate the home town of a team. The case resulted from the Oakland Raiders wanting to move to Los Angeles.
1993 - Evander Holyfield defeats Riddick Bowe in 12 rounds for the heavyweight boxing crown.
1995 - Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell publicly announced his plans to move the franchise to Baltimore.
1995 - ESPN announced a five-year contract extension with Major League Baseball. The contract represented the first time that baseball's post season would be on cable.
1995 - Mark Messier scored his 500th NHL goal.
1996 - Michael Jordan scored 50 points for the 29th time in his career.