November 6 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for November 6
In the headlines today:

2001	US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan reduces the federal lending rate to two percent -- the lowest such rate in 40 years.
1997	Former US president George Bush opens his presidential library at Texas A&M University.
1995	Art Modell, owner of the Cleveland Browns, reveals plans to move the NFL team to Baltimore, MD (where they will be renamed the Ravens).
1977	An earthen dam breaks, with the resulting flash flood killing 39 students and staff at Toccoa Falls Bible College in Georgia.
1956		US president Dwight D. Eisenhower wins his bid for re-election, defeating Democrat challenger Adlai Stevenson. (photo credit: Times Books)
1947	The TV current events show, Meet the Press, has its network debut on NBC.
1928	Herbert Hoover is elected US president over Alfred E. Smith.
1913	Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in South Africa as he leads a protest march for the rights of Indian miners.
1900	US president William McKinley is re-elected, beating Democrat challenger William Jennings Bryan.
1893	Composer Peter Tchaikovsky dies in St. Petersburg, Russia, at age 53.
1888	Benjamin Harrison is elected US president, based on electoral votes, even though incumbent Grover Cleveland has more popular votes.
1869	Football is played as an intercollegiate sport for the first time, as Rutgers beats Princeton, 6-4.
1861	Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederacy.
1860	Abraham Lincoln, a former Congressman from Illinois, is elected US president.