November 6 is:
National Nachos Day
Today we can celebrate the re-election of President Donald J. Trump as the 47th President of the United States. Celebrate freedom and liberty and the American dream. Long live America!
Birthday of John Philip Sousa, (November 6, 1854), the American band conductor and composer primarily of American military and patriotic marches. Wrote “The Stars and Stripes Forever”, and “Semper Fidelis” .
Nov 6, 1860 – 
Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th American President;
Nov 6, 1860 – 
Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederacy.
Birthday of James Naismith (November 6, 1861), Canadian-American educator who invented the game of basketball. Looking for a way to keep young athletes active indoors during the long New England winters, Naismith developed a game then called “Basket Ball”.
1865-11-06 – CSS Shenandoah was the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels. CSS Shenandoah had remained at sea for 12 months and 17 days, traversed 58,000 miles (carrying the Confederate flag around the globe for the only time) and sank or captured 38 ships, mostly whalers, all of them American civilian merchant vessels.
Bolshevik Revolution, also known as the October Revolution and commonly referred to as Red October begins with capture of Winter Palace on November 6, 1917. Bolsheviks led their forces in the uprising in Petrograd (modern day Saint Petersburg), the capital of Russia, against the Kerensky Provisional Government. For the most part, the revolt in Petrograd was bloodless, with the Red Guards led by Bolsheviks taking over major government facilities with little opposition before finally launching an assault on the poorly defended Winter Palace.
Reagan signed landmark immigration reform bill in 1986. The law aimed to secure the U.S.-Mexico border against illegal crossings with new surveillance technology and a bigger staff. The bill also, for the first time in history, imposed penalties on businesses that knowingly hired or employed unauthorized immigrants. It provided amnesty for immigrants who could prove they had been living in the country without legal approval continuously since January 1, 1982. The final version of the bill was approved in the House of Representatives by a vote of 238 to 173, and in the Senate by a vote of 63 to 24. Representative Charles E. Schumer, a Brooklyn Democrat emerged as one of the bill’s staunchest supporters in Congress.
The number of unauthorized immigrants living in the USA in 1986 was an estimated 5 million; in 2020 it was estimated to be 11.1 million. Also called illegal immigrants, undocumented, illegal aliens. No telling what it is now.
Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the presidential election of 1872. She tried to vote for Ulysses S Grant.
Birthday of Will Penn Adair Rogers (1879), American humorist, cowboy, vaudeville performer, and author. In 1926 he said:
Birthday of former First Lady, Laura Bush (November 4, 1946), wife of 
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Birthday of Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793), American pioneer and colonizer of Texas, known as the “Father of Texas”
Birthday of William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794), American poet and newspaper editor of the New York Evening Post. His poetry has been described as being “of a thoughtful, meditative character, and makes but slight appeal to the mass of readers. Here’s the second verse of The Death of the Flowers:
The Soviet Union sent the dog Laika into space in 1957. She does not survive.
Birthday of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, (November 2, 1699), was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities. Carefully balanced composition, soft diffusion of light, and granular impasto characterize his work. Influenced Manet and Cézanne. Examples of his work can be found at 
Birthday of Daniel Boone (November 2, 1734), American pioneer, explorer, frontiersman. 
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The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, was first discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage of 1520.
American photographer Ansel Adams took a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico on November 1, 1941. It would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
Former First Lady, Mamie Eisenhower, wife of 
October 31, 1517 – Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther is believed to have nailed his 95 theses to Wittenberg Castle Church in Germany on this date.
Birthday of John Keats (October 31, 1795), English Romantic poet trained as a surgeon. John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his works having been in publication for only four years before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25.
National Magic Day, honoring the skills of magicians and commemorating the death of the great Harry Houdini in 1926.
1941 After nearly 15 years of work, the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota was completed; the colossal sculpture features the heads of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
National Candy Corn Day
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In 1938 – Orson Welles broadcast his radio play of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1945, breaking the baseball color barrier.
The portrait of the Quaker man on the Quaker® Oats package has been updated just three times since its creation in 1877, once in 1946, again in 1957 and, most recently, in 1972.
Anniversary of the death of Sir Walter Raleigh (October 29, 1618), English military and naval commander of expeditions to North America. He led two expeditions in search of El Dorado or “City of Gold” in South America. The men under his command ransacked a Spanish outpost. Upon his return to England, to appease the Spanish, Raleigh was arrested and executed.