Today in History...Nov 6th

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Events:
1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1865 – American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 vessels.
1869 – In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
1913 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1917 – World War I: Third Battle of Ypres ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.
1935 – Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers.
1935 – First flight of the Hawker Hurricane.
1939 – World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau takes place.
1941 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule. He states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, the Germans had lost 4.5 million soldiers and that Soviet victory was near.
1942 – World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign begins.
1943 – World War II: the Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings.
1944 – Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1965 – Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans made use of this program.
1971 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1977 – The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
1986 – Sumburgh disaster – A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2.5 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.
2002 – 12 people are killed in a fire on board a train bound for Vienna from Paris.
2004 – An express train collides with a stationary carriage near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing 7 and injuring 150.
2005 – The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.


Birthdays:
1937 – Joe Warfield, American actor
1937 – Eugene Pitt, American singer (The Jive Five)
1938 – Mack Jones, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1938 – Jim Pike, American singer (The Lettermen)
1938 – P.J. Proby, American-born singer and actor
1946 – Sally Field, American actress
1948 – Glenn Frey, American singer (Eagles)
1949 – Brad Davis, American actor (d. 1991)
1955 – Maria Shriver, American journalist
1955 – Alton Coleman, American serial killer
1957 – Lori Singer, American actress
1958 – Trace Beaulieu, American actor
1960 – Michael Cerveris, American actor
1963 – Rozz Williams, American musician (Christian Death) (d. 1998)
1964 – Kerry Conran, American filmmaker
1964 – Arne Duncan, American political figure
1964 – Corey Glover, American musician (Living Color)
1964 – Greg Graffin, American singer (Bad Religion)
1966 – Paul Gilbert, American guitarist and singer
1966 – Peter DeLuise, American actor and director
1967 – Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress (d. 1989)
1968 – Alfred Williams, American football player
1968 – Jerry Yang, Chinese American entrepreneur (Yahoo!, Inc.)
1968 – Kelly Rutherford, American actress
1970 – Ethan Hawke, American actor
1975 – Anastasia Blue, American former pornographic actress (d. 2008)
1976 – Mike Herrera, American singer and bassist (MxPx)
1976 – Pat Tillman, American football player (d. 2004)
1978 – Taryn Manning, American actress
1979 – Lamar Odom, American basketball player
1982 – Steve Millar, Candian/American Singer-Songwriter
1984 – Ricky Romero, American baseball player
1988 – Emma Stone, American actress
1989 – Jozy Altidore, American footballer

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