From Conquest to Survival: Cabeza de Vaca’s Texas Odyssey
On November 6, 1528, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and fellow survivors of the ill-fated Narváez expedition reached the Texas coast near present-day Galveston Island. Their makeshift boats had carried ...
From Weslaco to Iwo Jima: Remembering Harlon Block
On November 6, 1924, Harlon Henry Block was born in Yorktown, Texas. Raised in Weslaco in the Rio Grande Valley, he became a standout high school football player. After graduating ...
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The Final Standard: The Globe-Spanning Cruise of the CSS Shenandoah
On November 6, 1865, nearly seven months after General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, James Waddell (shown) surrendered the Confederate commerce raider CSS Shenandoah to British authorities at Liverpool, England. Originally ...
A Divided Nation: The Election of 1860
On November 6, 1860, former congressman Abraham Lincoln was elected the sixteenth president of the United States. His victory precipitated a secession crisis that would lead to the American Civil ...
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The Market Gets a Measure: Charles Dow and the Industrial Average
November 6, 1851, marks the birth of Charles Henry Dow in Sterling, Connecticut—a financial journalist whose work helped reshape how Americans followed business and understood the stock market. In 1882, ...
The Soccer-Ball Kickoff: The Birth of Intercollegiate Football
On November 6, 1869, twenty-five students from the College of New Jersey—now Princeton University—traveled to New Brunswick, New Jersey, to face twenty-five players from Rutgers College. Played on ground now ...
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The Rhythm of the Parade Ground: John Philip Sousa’s Martial Legacy
Born on November 6, 1854, in Washington, D.C., John Philip Sousa became one of the defining figures of American band music, earning international acclaim as “The March King.” The son ...
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