November 6
1860 - Republican Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States, defeating three other candidates.
1861 - Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1888 - Republican Benjamin Harrison was elected president, beating incumbent Grover Cleveland in the Electoral College, even though Cleveland led in the popular vote.
1893 - Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia at age 53.
1900 - President William B. McKinley won 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, 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 a second term in a landslide over Democrat challenger 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 - About 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; among the guests of honor was President Bill Clinton, the man who had sent him into retirement.
2001 - Billionaire Michael Bloomberg was elected mayor of New York City.
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 won a second term, 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 laws 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 decision.)
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.
2019 - Democrats announced that they would launch public impeachment hearings the following week; first to testify would be William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine.
2019 - The U.S. Senate gave final congressional approval to a bill making some types of animal cruelty a federal felony.
Birthdays
25 - Sierra Skye (model)
31 - Mercedes Kastner (actress)
32 - Emma Stone (actress)
32 - Barrett Weed (actress)
32 - Robert Ellis (singer)
34 - Ben Rector (inger)
34 - Katie Leclerc (actress)
36 - Patina Miller (actress)
41 - Lamar Odom (basketball player)
42 - Taryn Manning (actress)
42 - Nicole Dubuc (actress)
46 - Zoe McLellan (actress)
48 - Rebecca Romijn (model/actress)
48 - Thandie Newton (actress)
50 - Ethan Hawke (actor)
52 - Kelly Rutherford (actress)
54 - Peter DeLuise (actor)
56 - Brad Grunberg (actor)
60 - Lance Kerwin (actor)
63 - Lori Singer (actress)
65 - Maria Shriver (news correspondent)
66 - Catherine Crier (TV host)
74 - Sally Field (actress)
91 - June Squibb (actress)
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Today in Sports History - November 6
1861 - James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, was born in Ontario, Canada.
1869 - The first intercollegiate football game took place in New Brunswick, New Jersey with Rutgers defeating Princeton 6-4.
1887 - Baseball Hall of Famer Walter Johnson was born in Humboldt, Kansas.
1909 - Kansas defeated Nebraska 6-0.
1915 - Nebraska defeated Nebraska Wesleyan 30-0.
1920 - Penn State defeated Nebraska 20-0.
1937 - #6 Nebraska and Kansas played to a 13-13 tie.
1943 - Nebraska defeated Kansas State 13-7.
1948 - Nebraska defeated Kansas State 32-0.
1954 - #20 Nebraska defeated Kansas 41-20.
1965 - #3 Nebraska defeated Kansas 42-6.
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.
1971 - #1 Nebraska defeated Cockeye State 37-0.
1974 - Mike Marshall became the first relief pitcher to win the Cy Young Award.
1976 - #9 Nebraska defeated #13 Oklahoma State 14-10.
1982 - #6 Nebraska defeated Oklahoma State 48-10.
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 - #6 Nebraska defeated Kansas 21-20.
1995 - Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell announced his plans to move the team 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 of the Chicago Bulls scored 50 points in a game for the 29th time in his career.
1999 - #9 Nebraska defeated #21 Texas A&M 37-0.
2004 - Cockeye State defeated Nebraska 34-27.
2010 - #9 Nebraska defeated Cockeye State 31-30 in overtime.
1860 - Republican Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States, defeating three other candidates.
1861 - Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1888 - Republican Benjamin Harrison was elected president, beating incumbent Grover Cleveland in the Electoral College, even though Cleveland led in the popular vote.
1893 - Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia at age 53.
1900 - President William B. McKinley won 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, 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 a second term in a landslide over Democrat challenger 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 - About 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; among the guests of honor was President Bill Clinton, the man who had sent him into retirement.
2001 - Billionaire Michael Bloomberg was elected mayor of New York City.
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 won a second term, 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 laws 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 decision.)
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.
2019 - Democrats announced that they would launch public impeachment hearings the following week; first to testify would be William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine.
2019 - The U.S. Senate gave final congressional approval to a bill making some types of animal cruelty a federal felony.
Birthdays
25 - Sierra Skye (model)
31 - Mercedes Kastner (actress)
32 - Emma Stone (actress)
32 - Barrett Weed (actress)
32 - Robert Ellis (singer)
34 - Ben Rector (inger)
34 - Katie Leclerc (actress)
36 - Patina Miller (actress)
41 - Lamar Odom (basketball player)
42 - Taryn Manning (actress)
42 - Nicole Dubuc (actress)
46 - Zoe McLellan (actress)
48 - Rebecca Romijn (model/actress)
48 - Thandie Newton (actress)
50 - Ethan Hawke (actor)
52 - Kelly Rutherford (actress)
54 - Peter DeLuise (actor)
56 - Brad Grunberg (actor)
60 - Lance Kerwin (actor)
63 - Lori Singer (actress)
65 - Maria Shriver (news correspondent)
66 - Catherine Crier (TV host)
74 - Sally Field (actress)
91 - June Squibb (actress)
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Today in Sports History - November 6
1861 - James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, was born in Ontario, Canada.
1869 - The first intercollegiate football game took place in New Brunswick, New Jersey with Rutgers defeating Princeton 6-4.
1887 - Baseball Hall of Famer Walter Johnson was born in Humboldt, Kansas.
1909 - Kansas defeated Nebraska 6-0.
1915 - Nebraska defeated Nebraska Wesleyan 30-0.
1920 - Penn State defeated Nebraska 20-0.
1937 - #6 Nebraska and Kansas played to a 13-13 tie.
1943 - Nebraska defeated Kansas State 13-7.
1948 - Nebraska defeated Kansas State 32-0.
1954 - #20 Nebraska defeated Kansas 41-20.
1965 - #3 Nebraska defeated Kansas 42-6.
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.
1971 - #1 Nebraska defeated Cockeye State 37-0.
1974 - Mike Marshall became the first relief pitcher to win the Cy Young Award.
1976 - #9 Nebraska defeated #13 Oklahoma State 14-10.
1982 - #6 Nebraska defeated Oklahoma State 48-10.
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 - #6 Nebraska defeated Kansas 21-20.
1995 - Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell announced his plans to move the team 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 of the Chicago Bulls scored 50 points in a game for the 29th time in his career.
1999 - #9 Nebraska defeated #21 Texas A&M 37-0.
2004 - Cockeye State defeated Nebraska 34-27.
2010 - #9 Nebraska defeated Cockeye State 31-30 in overtime.