November 6
Today in America's Present Past
1528 | Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas.
1639 | First post office in the U.S. is opened in Massachusetts.
1746 | Cleric and abolitionist Absalom Jones was born.
1789 | Civil Rights: Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the U.S.
1790 | Revolutionary War hero James Bowdoin died.
1816 | Founder Gouverneur Morris died.
1869 | Admiral Charles Stewart died.
1822 | General Gordon Granger was born.
1836 | Cleric Francis Ellingwood Abbot was born.
1851 | Journalist and entrepreneur Charles Dow was born.
1854 | Composer John Philip Sousa was born.
1860 | POTUS: Republican Lincoln was elected President.
1863 | Civil War: The Battle of Rogersville, Tennessee.
1864 | Civil War: The Battle of Droop Mountain, West Virginia.
1865 | Civil War: CSS Shenandoah was the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe.
1871 | Journalist and politician Allan Louis Benson was born in Plainwell, Michigan.
1872 | Activist Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting the previous day.
1888 | POTUS: Republican Harrison was elected President.
1900 | POTUS: Republican President McKinley was re-elected.
1906 | POTUS: Republican President Roosevelt became the first sitting president to depart the continental US while in office.
1928 | Colonel Jacob Schick patented a “shaving implement” now known as the electric razor.
1928 | POTUS: Republican Hoover was elected President.
1928 | Outlaw Arnold Rothstein died.
1935 | Cleric Billy Sunday died.
1939 | Activist Michael Schwerner was born.
1940 | POTUS: Democrat President Roosevelt was re-elected.
1945 | The first landing of a jet on a carrier takes place on USS Wake Island when an FR-1 Fireball touches down.
1946 | Actress Sally Field was born.
1947 | TV: “Meet the Press” debuted.
1948 | Entertainer Glenn Frey was born in Detroit, Michigan.
1951 | Cold War: A U.S. Navy plane was shot down by the Soviets.
1952 | Author Michael Cunningham was born.
1954 | Journalist Catherine Crier was born.
1955 | Journalist Maria Shriver was born.
1956 | POTUS: Republican President Eisenhower was re-elected.
1968 | Admiral Charles B. McVay III died.
1969 | Author Colson Whitehead was born.
1970 | Actor and author Ethan Hawke was born.
1973 | Film: “Man With the Golden Gun” debuted.
1984 | POTUS: Republican President Reagan was re-elected.
1986 | POTUS: Republican President Reagan signed Immigration Reform.
1988 | Actress Emma Stone was born.
1996 | Film: ”The English Patient” debuted.
2001 | TV: “24” debuted.
2007 | Country singer Hank Thompson died.
2009 | POTUS: Democrat President Obama signed resolution conferring honorary U.S. citizenship to Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski.
2012 | POTUS: Democrat President Obama was re-elected.
2022 | Economist Edward C. Prescott died.