TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 6 2018
1572 Supernova is observed in the constellation known as Cassiopeia
1812 The first winter snow falls on the French Army as Napoleon Bonaparte retreats form Moscow.
1813 Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain
1860 Abraham Lincoln is elected 16th president of the United States.
1861 Jefferson Davis is elected to a six-year term as president of the Confederacy.
1870 Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming became the first woman to cast a vote in the US general elections.
1891 Comanche, the only 7th Cavalry horse to survive George Armstrong Custer’s “Last Stand” at the Little Bighorn, dies at Fort Riley, Kansas.
1900 President William McKinley (R) re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan
1911 Maine becomes a dry state.
1917 The Bolshevik “October Revolution” (October 25 on the old Russian calendar), led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky, seizes power in Petrograd.
1923 As European inflation soars, one loaf of bread in Berlin is reported to be worth about 140 billion German marks.
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E Smith (D) for President
1956 President Eisenhower (D) re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (R)
1968 Richard Nixon wins in a close contest for president over Mr Humphrey and will become the 37th president of the United States .
1975 1st appearance of the Sex Pistols
1978 Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule; General Gholan Reza Azhari forms government
1985 Guerrillas of the leftist 19th of April Movement seize Colombia’s Palace of Justice in Bogata; during the two-day siege and the military assault to retake the building over 100 people are killed, including 11 of the 25 Supreme Court justices.
1986 A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LRR Chinook crashes 2.5 miles east of Sumburgh Airport; 45 people are killed, the deadliest civilian helicopter crash to date (2013).
1986 Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill
1986 The Iran arms-for-hostages deal is revealed, damaging the Reagan administration.
1996 Bill Clinton wins a resounding victory over Republican Bob Dole and will be the President of the United States for four more years in the White House.
1999 Australia’s voters reject a referendum to make the country a republic with a president appointed by Parliament.
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