November 6

Today's Events

  • 1814
    Adolphe Sax invents saxophone
  • 1844
    Spain grants Dominican Rep independence
  • 1850
    1st Hawaiian fire engine
  • 1850
    Yerba Buena & Angel Islands reserved for military use
  • 1860
    Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th pres
  • 1862
    NY-SF direct telegraphic link established
  • 1869
    1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6 Princeton 4)
  • 1917
    Bolshevik revolution begins
  • 1939
    WGY-TV (Schenectady NY) 1st coml TV station
  • 1952
    US explodes world's 1st hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok Atoll
  • 1962
    BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote
  • 1962
    Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more
  • 1968
    Nixon elected 37th pres of US defeating Hubert Humphrey
  • 1984
    Pres Reagan was elected to a second term winning 49 states
  • 1985
    22nd Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 9 returns to Earth
  • 1986
    Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill
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