On Nov. 6, 1854, John Philip Sousa, who became known as “the march king,” was born in Washington.
In 1860 former U.S. Rep. Abraham Lincoln (R-Ill.) defeated three candidates for the presidency.
In 1861 Jefferson Davis was elected to a six-year term as president of the Confederacy. Also in 1861 James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, was born in Almonte, Ontario.
In 1869 Rutgers beat Princeton 6-4 in the first official intercollegiate football game.
In 1893 composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia; he was 53.
In 1928, for the first time, presidential election results were flashed on an electronic sign on the New York Times Building, reporting the results of Herbert Hoover’s victory over Alfred Smith.
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In 1996 a cyclone struck southeastern India, claiming an estimated 1,000 lives.
In 2003 President George W. Bush signed an $87.5 billion package approved by Congress for Iraq and Afghanistan.
