November 6

1217 – A little over 2 years after Magna Carta was signed by King John, which dealt with rights for nobility, Carta Foresta, the Charter of the Forest is signed by King Henry III, which re-established for free men, rights of access to the royal forest and lands that had been increasingly restricted since William the Conqueror was king.

1816 – Gouverneur Morris, signer of the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution, Ambassador to France and Senator, dies at his family estate, Morrisania in the Bronx, New York City of an accidentally self inflicted injury.

1860 – Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th President of the United States with only 40% of the popular vote, defeating John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen A. Douglas in a 4 way race.

1869 – In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University, 6–4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.

1900 – President William McKinley is re-elected, along with his vice-presidential running mate, Governor Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt of New York

1906 – Teddy Roosevelt travels to Panama, the first President to make an official diplomatic tour outside of the Continental United States.

1947 – Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history,  debuts

1971 – The U.S. tests its largest underground hydrogen bomb, 5 megatons, code named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians because the expected yield was too large to be detonated in the Nevada testing site.

1977 – The Kelly Barnes Dam on Toccoa Creek, near Toccoa, Georgia, fails due to several days of heavy rains, killing 39 people

1985 – In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement assault and seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, killing 2 security guards and a building manager, to finally hold about 100 people, including the Columbian Supreme Court, hostage.

2012 – Barack Hussein Obama is reelected President of the United States