Today In History.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1814-11-06 | Adolphe Sax invents saxophone |
| 1844-11-06 | Spain grants Dominican Rep independence |
| 1850-11-06 | 1st Hawaiian fire engine |
| 1850-11-06 | Yerba Buena & Angel Islands reserved for military use |
| 1860-11-06 | Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th pres |
| 1862-11-06 | NY-SF direct telegraphic link established |
| 1869-11-06 | 1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6 Princeton 4) |
| 1917-11-06 | Bolshevik revolution begins |
| 1939-11-06 | WGY-TV (Schenectady NY) 1st coml TV station |
| 1952-11-06 | US explodes world's 1st hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok Atoll |
| 1962-11-06 | BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote |
| 1962-11-06 | Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more |
| 1968-11-06 | Nixon elected 37th pres of US defeating Hubert Humphrey |
| 1984-11-06 | Pres Reagan was elected to a second term winning 49 states |
| 1985-11-06 | 22nd Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 9 returns to Earth |
| 1986-11-06 | Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill |