Today in history for Nov. 6, featuring the top events from throughout history that happened on this date.
Today in History
November 6
FEATURED EVENT • 1917
Bolsheviks revolt in Russia
Led by Vladimir Lenin, leftist revolutionaries launch a nearly bloodless coup d’état against Russia’s ineffectual Provisional Government. Bolshevik Russia, later renamed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was the world’s first Marxist state.
AFRICAN HISTORY • 1962
UN condemns apartheid in South Africa
CIVIL WAR • 1861
Jefferson Davis elected Confederate president
COLD WAR • 1988
Renowned Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov visits United States
EXPLORATION • 1528
Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca lands in Texas
NATURAL DISASTERS & ENVIRONMENT • 1977
Dam gives way in Georgia, killing 39
SPORTS • 1869
Rutgers beats Princeton in first college football game
U.S. PRESIDENTS • 1860
Abraham Lincoln elected president
WORLD WAR I • 1917
British victory at Passchendaele
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