On This Day:
Thursday November 6, 2014 This is the 310th day of the year, with 55 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: raindrops The essential difference between a precipitation particle and cloud particle is size; an average raindrop is equal to 1 million cloud droplets.
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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