On this day in history (nov. 6)... 355 – Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with the government of the Prefecture of the Gauls. 1528 – Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in the area that would become Texas. 1844 – The first constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted. 1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America. 1861 – James Naismith, Canadian-American inventor of basketball (d. 1939), is born. 1865 – American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 unarmed merchant vessels. 1869 – In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6–4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game. 1913 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa. 1917 – World War I: Third Battle of Ypres ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium. 1935 – Edwin Armstrong presents 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. 1935 – First flight of the Hawker Hurricane, with its K5083 first prototype. 1935 – Parker Brothers acquires the forerunner patents for MONOPOLY from Elizabeth Magie. 1941 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his 27-year rule. He falsely states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, the Germans had lost 4.5 million soldiers and that Soviet victory was near. 1942 – World War II: Carlsons patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign begins. 1943 – World War II: the Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the citys ancient buildings. 1944 – Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. 1946 – Sally Field, American actress, is born. 1947 – Meet the Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948). 1962 – Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africas racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation. 1963 – Vietnam War: Following the November 1 coup and execution of President Ngo Dinh Diem, coup leader General Duong Van Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam. 1965 – Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans had made use of this program. 1971 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. 1976 – Pat Tillman, American football player (d. 2004), is born. Died in combat under controversial circumstances. 1985 – In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices. 1986 – Sumburgh disaster – A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 21⁄2 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record. 1995 – Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore to become the Baltimore Ravens, the first time the city had a football team since 1983 when they were the Baltimore Colts. 2004 – An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing seven and injuring 150.
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