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Today In History - November 6 |
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1961 The U.S. government issues a stamp honoring the 100th birthday of James Naismith… Here are Naismith's original 13-rules of the game of Basketball: |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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1558 Thomas Kyd 1566 Julien Perrichon 1607 Sigmund Theophil Staden 1613 Luis de Garay 1659 Theodor Schwartzkopff 1746 Absalom Jones 1753 Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Breval 1757 Louis-Abet Deffroy de Reigny 1771 Alois Senefelder 1779 Michal Bogdanowicz 1796 George Back 1800 Eduard Grell 1814 Adolphe Sax 1818 Pavel Melnikov 1822 Gordon Granger 1832 Joseph Smith 1833 Jonas LI Lie 1836 Francis Ellingwood Abbot 1838 John Grant Mitchell 1851 Charles H. Dow (co-founded Dow Jones) 1854 John Philip Sousa 1855 Eduard Yosif Kotek 1856 Nicholas Nikolajevitsj 1860 Ignace Jan Paderewski 1861 James A. Naismith 1867 Marie Bregendahl 1875 Pompeo Aloisi 1878 Ernest Irving 1879 Eugen Varga 1883 Hubert Bath 1884 Ludomir Rozycki 1885 Emiel Poetou 1887 Walter Johnson 1892 Harold Ross 1892 John Alcock 1896 Jim Jordan 1901 Juanita Hall 1904 Selena Royale 1906 Francis Lederer 1908 Fanny Leys 1909 Heinz Rottger 1909 Henk Bijvanck 1910 Arthur Cohn 1914 Jonathan Harris 1916 Ray Conniff 1918 Ronnie Brody 1919 Alan Lisette 1920 John Smith 1921 Geoff Rabone 1921 James Jones 1922 Lars Edlund 1923 Aleksandra Chudina 1928 Peter Matz 1930 Raymond Baervoets 1931 Tsvetan Tsvetanov 1932 Don King 1933 Joseph Pope 1933 Knut Johannesen 1936 David Ward-Steinman 1937 Edwin Roxburgh 1941 Guy Clark 1941 James Bowman 1943 Michael Schwerner 1944 Bill Henderson 1945 Robert J. Mrazek 1946 Sally Field 1947 Doug Young 1947 Edward Yang 1947 George Lawrence James 1947 George Young 1947 Jack Arnold 1947 John Wilson 1948 Glenn Frey 1949 Brad Davis 1949 Nigel Havers 1950 Ernest Thompson 1954 Catherine Crier 1955 Maria Shriver 1956 Graeme Wood 1959 Teri Peterson 1960 Lance Kerwin 1962 Lori Singer 1963 Jean-Marc Chouinard 1966 Lisa Fuller 1966 Peter DeLuise 1967 Dennis Brown 1967 Jackie Auzias de Turenne 1967 Jana McCoy 1967 Rebecca Schaeffer 1967 Shuzo Matsuoka 1968 Alfred Williams 1968 Chad Curtis 1968 Edward Linskens 1968 Kelly Rutherford 1968 Vlast Plavucha 1969 Bryan Abrams 1969 Don Wengert 1970 Eric Mueller 1970 Ethan Hawke 1970 Maa Tanuvasa 1970 Patrick Burke 1970 Rich Braham 1971 Derrick Alexander 1972 Anthony Brown 1972 Vicki Movessian 1973 Taje Allen 1975 Mike Maurer 1976 Laurie Baker 1978 Nicole Dubuc |
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355 Emperor Constantine II crowns his cousin Julianus Keizer of Britain 1153 The Treaty of Wallingford is signed 1534 Zealand is hit by a heavy storm 1572 A Supernova is observed in constellation known as Cassiopeia 1632 Battle at Lutzen 1657 Brandenburg and Poland sign the unity of Bromberg 1792 Battle at Jemappes 1813 The Chilpancingo congress declares that Mexico is independent of Spain 1844 Spain grants the Dominican Republic independence 1850 The first Hawaiian fire engine goes to work 1860 Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president 1861 Jefferson Davis is elected to a 6 year term as the Confederate president 1862 New York to San Francisco direct telegraphic link forms 1864 Battle of Droop Mountain, WV 1865 The Maastricht-Venlo railway in Netherlands opens 1871 Cameroon reaches the coast of Angola after a trip through Africa 1871 President U.S. Grant is re-elected 1879 Canada celebrates its first Thanksgiving Day 1885 The U.S. Mint at Carson City, Nevada is directed to close 1888 Benjamin Harrison beats President Grover Cleveland 1897 Peter Pan opens in New York at the Empire Theater 1900 Battle at Bothaville 1900 President William McKinley is re-elected over William Jennings Bryan 1903 The USA recognizes the independence of Panama 1911 Francisco Madeiro is inaugurated as president of Mexico 1913 Mohandas K. Gandhi is arrested for leading Indian miners in a march in South Africa 1915 Sophokles Skouloudis forms the Greek government 1917 The Bolshevik revolution begins with the capture of the Winter Palace 1917 New York State allows women to vote 1918 The Republic of Poland is proclaimed 1918 The Supreme Commander of the Army, General Cutters, resigns 1922 King George V proclaims the Irish Free state 1923 Colonel Jacob Schick patents the first electric shaver 1923 The U.S.S.R. adopts an experimental calendar with 5-day "weeks" 1924 Stanley Baldwin becomes Prime Minister of England 1928 Herbert Hoover beats Alfred E Smith for president 1932 German election: KPD defeats NSDAP 1935 The first test flight of the British Hurricane aircraft 1935 Maiden flight by Canada's Hawker Hurricane military plane 1936 RCA displays Television for the press 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected as president 1941 The Einsatz group kills 15,000 Jews of Rovno, Ukraine 1941 The Japanese fleet readies for the assault on Pearl Harbor 1941 The USA lends the Soviet Union $1 million 1942 The Nazis execute 12,000 Minsk ghetto Jews 1943 Russian troops land on the Kertsj peninsula 1943 The Soviet forces re-conquer Kiev 1943 Stalin says "The issue of German fascism is lost" 1949 The Greeks civil war ends 1950 The Chinese offensive halts at the Chongchon River, North Korea 1956 Holland and Spain withdraw from the Olympics in protest of the Soviets in Hungary 1956 President Eisenhower is re-elected by defeating Adlai E. Stevenson 1957 Felix Gaillard becomes the Premier of France 1961 The U.S. government issues a stamp honoring the 100th birthday of James Naismith 1962 Edward M. Kennedy is first elected a Senator 1962 Edward W. Brooke is elected Attorney General of Massachusetts 1962 Richard M. Nixon tells the press that he won't be available to "kick around any more" 1962 Saudi Arabia proclaims it's abolishing slavery 1962 The U.N. General Assembly adopts a resolution condemning South Africa 1966 The first entire lineup is televised in color on NBC 1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies' Golf Open 1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 is launched 1968 Richard Nixon is elected the 37th President of U.S. by defeating Hubert Humphrey 1968 Students of the San Francisco State Counsel go on strike 1971 The U.S. performs an underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island, Aleutians 1973 Abe Beame is elected the first Jewish mayor of New York City 1973 Coleman Young is elected the mayor of Detroit 1976 Benjamin Hooks succeeds Roy Wilkins as the executive director of NAACP 1977 The first Emmy Sports Award presentations 1978 Iranian general Gholan Reza Azhari forms a government 1978 The Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule 1979 Ayatolla Khomeini takes over in Iran 1981 Fernando Valenzuela becomes the first rookie to win a Cy Young Award 1981 Larry Holmes TKOs Renaldo Snipes for the heavyweight boxing title 1984 President Reagan landslide re-election win over Walter Mondale 1985 An exploratory well at Ranger, TX, explodes, spilling 6.3 m gallons of oil 1986 Reagan signs a landmark Immigration Reform bill 1988 The 18th New York City Women's Marathon is won by Grete Waitz: 2:28:07 1988 19th New York City Marathon is won by Steve Jones: 2:08:20 1990 Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame 1990 Fire destroys some of the Universal Studio's stages 1990 Guam Republican governor Joseph Ada re-elected 1991 Robert M. Gates becomes the 15th director of the CIA 1991 Russian president Yeltsin outlaws the Communist Party 1993 Actress Allison Angrim weds Robert Schoonover 1993 Evander Holyfield beats Riddick Bowe for the heavyweight boxing title 1994 The 24th New York City Women's Marathon is won by Tegla Loroupe: 2:27:37 1994 The 25th New York City Marathon is won by German Silva: 2:11:21 1994 Emomali Rachmonov is recognized as the president of Tadzjikistan |
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