November 6
1860 - Republican Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States, defeating John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas.
1861 - Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1888 - Republican Benjamin Harrison won the electoral vote over incumbent Democrat President Grover Cleveland, despite Cleveland winning the popular vote. (It would be the last time the popular vote winner would lose the election until 2000.)
1893 - Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia at age 53.
1913 - Mohandas Gandhi led a march of miners in South Africa, getting arrested three times in the first four days of the march.
1947 - "Meet the Press," the longest-running television show in America, made its debut on NBC, hosted by the show's co-creator, Martha Rountree.
1956 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower won reelection, defeating Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson for the second time.
1977 - The Kelly Barnes Dam in Georgia burst, sending a wall of water through Toccoa Falls College, killing 39 people.
1984 - President Ronald Reagan was elected to a second term over former Democratic Vice President Walter Mondale in a historic landslide that saw Reagan win every state but Mondale's native Minnesota.
2012 - President Barack Obama won a second term in the White House, defeating Republican Mitt Romney.
Birthdays
25 - Bobby Finke (swimmer)
29 - Sierra Skye (model)
32 - Paige DeSorbo (reality star)
34 - Bowen Yang (actor/comedian)
36 - Emma Stone (actress)
36 - Barrett Weed (actress)
45 - Lamar Odom (basketball player)
46 - Taryn Manning (actress)
52 - Rebecca Romijn (actress/model)
52 - Thandiwe Newton (actress)
54 - Ethan Hawke (actor)
56 - Kelly Rutherford (actress)
69 - Maria Shriver (journalist)
72 - Michael Cunningham (author)
78 - Sally Field (actress)
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Today in Sports History - November 6
1861 - James Naismith, the inventor of the game of basketball, was born in Almonte, Ontario, Canada.
1869 - The first college football game took place, with Rutgers defeating Princeton, 6-4.
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.
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.
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 - Art Modell, owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced plans to relocate his franchise to Baltimore.
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.
