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| Captain James I. Waddell |
Nov. 6, 1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the
sixteenth president of the United States.
Nov. 6, 1861 - Jefferson Davis was elected president of the
Confederate States of America. He was elected to a six-year term as established
by the Confederate Constitution, and he remained president until May 5, 1865,
when the Confederate government was officially dissolved.
Nov. 6, 1865 - Captain James I. Waddell arrived in
Liverpool, England, and surrendered the C.S.S. Shenandoah to British officials.
The CSS Shenandoah was the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after
circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 unarmed
merchant vessels.
Nov. 6, 1869 - In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College
defeated Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6–4,
in the first official intercollegiate football game.
Nov. 6, 1887 – Hall of Fame baseball pitcher and manager
Walter Perry Johnson was born in Humboldt, Kansas.
Nov. 6, 1935 - Edwin H. Armstrong announced his development
of FM broadcasting when he presented his paper "A Method of Reducing
Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" to
the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers.
Nov. 6, 1958 - The American League announced that Kansas
City would play a record 52 night games in 1959.
Nov. 6, 1966 - Tim Brown of the Philadelphia Eagles ran back
two kick-offs for touchdowns in the same game against the Dallas Cowboys.
Nov. 6, 1969 - A tie for the Cy Young Award occurred for the
first time. Detroit's Denny McLain and Baltimore's Mike Cuellar both won the
award for best pitcher in the American League.
Nov. 6, 1974 - Mike Marshall became the first relief pitcher
to win the Cy Young Award.
Nov. 6, 1976 – NFL player and Army Ranger Pat Tillman was
born in Fremont, Calif.
Nov. 6, 1981 - A black-footed ferret, a creature previously
thought extinct, was found in Wyoming.
Nov. 6, 1982 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the
National Football League (NFL) could not dictate the hometown of a team. The
case resulted from the Oakland Raiders wanting to move to Los Angeles.
Nov. 6, 1986 – The City of Monroeville held a cookout to
raise money for a scholarship in Ronda Morrison’s name at Patrick Henry State
Junior College. The organizers’ goal was to raise $23,000, the equivalent of $1
from every Monroe County resident. The cookout was held in a park near the
Vanity Fair outlet store.
Nov. 6, 1989 - NFL Charities donated $1 million through the
United Way to benefit the victims of the Bay Area earthquake.
Nov. 6, 1993 - The world's largest
peanut butter and jelly sandwich was created in the town of Peanut, Pa. A
whopping 40 feet long, it contained 150 pounds of peanut butter and 50 pounds
of jelly.
Nov. 6, 1995 - ESPN announced a five-year contract extension
with Major League Baseball. The contract represented the first time that
baseball's post season would be on cable.
Nov. 6, 1995 - Art Modell, the owner of the Cleveland
Browns, announced plans to move his team to Baltimore, where they became the
Baltimore Ravens.
Nov. 6, 1998 – Frisco City’s John Tucker scored eight
touchdowns and 51 total points in a 51-20 playoff road win over Sweet Water.
Nov. 6, 1999 – Robert Gaston Bozeman Jr. was inducted into
the Alabama Newspaper Hall of Honor.
Nov. 6, 2002 - Emmitt Smith of the Dallas Cowboys dropped
the puck at a game between the Dallas Stars and the Vancouver Canucks.
Nov. 6, 2005 – The Wilcox County Veterans Monument was
erected in downtown Camden.
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