On This Day:
Wednesday November 6, 2013 This is the 310th day of the year, with 55 days remaining in 2013. Fact of the Day: presidential candidate If you want to be President of the United States, you must meet a few eligibility requirements. The United States Constitution states that to be eligible for the Presidency, a candidate must be a natural-born citizen (or a citizen of the United States at the time the U.S. Constitution was adopted), must be at least 35 years of age, must have been a resident of the United States for at least 14 years, and cannot have already served more than one term. Martin Van Buren, the eighth President of the United States, was the first president not born a British subject, or even of British ancestry.
Holidays Feast day of St. Demetrian of Khytri, St. Melaine, St. Barlaam of Khutyn, St. Leonard of Noblac, St. Winnoc, and St. Illtud.
Morocco: Anniversary of the Green March.
Sweden: Gustavus Adolphus Day.
Events 1429 - Henry VI was crowned King of England.
1860 - Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates and became 16th President of the United States of America; he was the first Republican president.
1861 - Jefferson Davis was elected to a six-year term as president of the Confederacy.
1869 - The first intercollegiate football game took place, between Rutgers University and Princeton University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
1888 - Benjamin Harrison of Indiana won the presidential election, defeating incumbent Grover Cleveland with electoral votes, even though Cleveland won the popular vote.
1911 - Maine became a dry state.
1913 - Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested as he led a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1917 - The Third Battle of Ypres finally ended when Canadian forces take the village of Passchendaele in Belgium; it was one of the bloodiest battles of World War I with 250,000 casualties.
1932 - In general elections held in Germany, the Nazis emerged.
1945 - The first jet landed on a carrier, the USS Wake Island.
1947 - "Meet the Press" premiered on TV, making it the oldest program still on television.
1956 - Construction began on the Kariba High Dam, on the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
1962 - The United Nations condemned South Africa for its Apartheid policies. The General Assembly called on all member states to terminate economic and military relations with South Africa.
1975 - "Good Morning America" premiered on TV.
1976 - Benjamin L. Hooks was chosen to be the new executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
1976 - King Hassan II of Morocco launched the Green March, a mass migration in which over 300,000 unarmed Moroccans marched into the newly sovereign nation of Western Sahara and settle.
1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolutionary Council took power in Iran from the provisional government.
1988 - Six thousand U.S. Defense Department computers were crippled by a virus; the culprit was the 23-year-old son of the head of the country's computer security agency.
2002 - A jury in Beverly Hills convicted actress Winona Ryder of stealing $5,500 worth of merchandise from a Saks Fifth Avenue store.
Births 1771 - Alois Senefelder, German inventor of lithography.
1814 - Antoine-Joseph Sax (Adolphe Sax), Belgian musician and inventor of the saxophone.
1851 - Charles Henry Dow, American financial journalist who, with Edward D. Jones, started the Dow-Jones Averages.
1854 - John Philip Sousa, American bandleader and composer.
1860 - Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish composer and musician.
1861 - James Naismith, Canadian-born American, creator of basketball.
1946 - Sally Field, American film and television actress.
1955 - Maria Shriver, first lady of California and former journalist for NBC.
1957 - Klaus Kleinfeld, German industrialist.
Deaths 1893 - Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, presumably from cholera, although undocumented rumors of suicide abounded.
1989 - Dickie Goodman, creator of "break-in" records.
1991 - Gene Tierney, American actress and former fashion model.
2004 - Fred Dibnah, an English steeplejack, engineer, and eccentric who became a television personality.
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