Hankering For History: Events that happened today in history, Nov 6th!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on November 6th!

1429	Henry VI is crowned King of England.
1812	The first winter snow falls on the French Army as Napoleon Bonaparte retreats form Moscow.
1854	John Philip Sousa, the king of American march music, was born in Washington, D.C.
1860	Abraham Lincoln is elected 16th president of the United States.
1861	Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederacy.
1861	James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, was born in Ontario, Canada.
1861	Jefferson Davis is elected to a six-year term as president of the Confederacy.
1863	A Union force surrounds and scatters defending Confederates at the Battle of Droop Mountain, in West Virginia.
1887	Baseball Hall of Famer Walter Johnson was born in Humboldt, Kansas.
1888	Republican Benjamin Harrison was elected president, beating incumbent Grover Cleveland in the Electoral College, even though Cleveland led in the popular vote.
1891	Comanche, the only 7th Cavalry horse to survive George Armstrong Custer’s “Last Stand” at the Little Bighorn, dies at Fort Riley, Kansas.
1893	Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1900	President William B. McKinley was returned to office, defeating Democrat William Jennings Bryan.
1911	Maine becomes a dry state.
1913	Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested as he led a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
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	Republican Herbert Hoover was elected president over Democrat Alfred E. Smith.
1945	The first landing of a jet on a carrier takes place on USS Wake Island when an FR-1 Fireball touches down.
1956	President Dwight D. Eisenhower won a second term by besting Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson at the polls.
1973	Coleman Young becomes the first African-American mayor of Detroit, Michigan.
1986	The Iran arms-for-hostages deal is revealed, damaging the Reagan administration.
1995	Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell announced plans to move the team to Baltimore.
2001	Billionaire Republican Michael Bloomberg was elected New York City mayor.
2009	The government reported that unemployment rose to 10.2 percent in the U.S. in October, the first time the jobless rate had hit double digits since 1983.

Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.