On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th President of The United States. The voter turnout that day was over 81% which ranks the presidential election of 1860 #2 in the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election among all presidential elections in American History. Image: Lincoln in 1860 via Wikimedia Commons, public domain
Exceptional Veterans in American History John Philip Sousa “The March King” was born on November 6, 1854 in Washington D.C. Sousa’s composition “The Stars and Stripes Forever” is the national march of the United States of America. Image: Bandmaster Sousa in 1890 via Library of Congress, no known restrictions
Harlon Block, the United States Marine Corps Corporal who was identified as the person at the base of the flagstaff in Joe Rosenthal’s photo “Raising The Flag on Iwo Jima” was born on November 6, 1924 in Yorktown, Texas. Harlon was killed in action less than a week after the photo was taken.
Real photo postcard sent from Harmon, Illinois on November 6, 1908 via Wikimedia Commons, public domain
Born November 6, 1851 business journalist Charles Henry Dow partnered with reporter Edward Davis Jones to produce a two-page “Customers’ Afternoon Letter” in 1883. In six years it grew into the Wall Street Journal and by 1896 the paper was featuring the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Image via Wikimedia Commons, public domain in the US
On November 6, 1928 the animated news ticker known as “the zipper” was installed at Times Square in New York City. Image: New York, New York. People watching the electrical news sign on the Times building at Times Square in 1944 via Library of Congress, no known restrictions
The inventor of Basketball, James Naismith, was born on November 6, 1861 in Ontario, Canada. He became an American Citizen in 1925. He served with the 1st Kansas Infantry Division during the Pancho Villa Expedition and was a volunteer chaplain in France during WWI. Image via Wikimedia Commons, public domain
Some of the members of the Rutgers Football team which defeated Princeton on November 6, 1869. The game, considered to be the first intercollegiate football game, was played with a soccer ball. Image via NYPL Digital Collections, no known restrictions
American actress Sally Field was born on November 6, 1946 in Pasadena, California. Image of Sally as Sister Bertrille in The Flying Nun in 1968 via Wikimedia Commons, public domain
On November 6, 1865, Commander James Waddell of the Confederate Navy surrendered the CSS Shenandoah in Liverpool, almost 7 months after the Civil War ended. In the year the warship was at sea it sailed 58,000 miles, circumnavigated the globe, and sank or captured 38 US-flagged merchant ships, most of them whalers. Image from USNHC via Wikimedia Commons, public domain in the US. {PD-US}.
