NOVEMBER 6
1860:Abraham Lincoln is elected president of the United States, becoming the first Republican to assume the presidency, having defeated a heavily divided Democratic Party. Lincoln would not have an easy start to his new job, as seven southern states will have seceded by the time he is inaugurated on March 4, 1861.
1962:UN ends economic & military relations w/ South Africa because of racist apartheid
1861: Jefferson Davis, former U.S. Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce, is elected without opposition to a six-year term as the first and only president of the short-lived Confederate States of America. Davis, a Kentucky native just like Lincoln, would remain in office until the dissolution of the Confederacy on May 5, 1865.
1913:Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1984: President Ronald Reagan wins reelection over Democratic challenger and former vice president Walter Mondale, securing the highest number of electoral votes (525) of any presidential candidate in U.S. history. Reagan carries 49 states, while Mondale wins only his home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia.
1528:Spanish conquistador de Vaca first known European to set foot in Texas.
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