1. The Only Third-Party U.S. President
November 6, 1860
Abraham Lincoln (Republican) is elected.
2. Inventor of Basketball
James Naismith
Born November 6, 1861 d. 1939
American gym instructor. He invented basketball while an instructor for the YMCA (1891). A few years later basketball was banned by the YMCA, which claimed not enough people could play at one time.
3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Killed
November 6, 1908
The notorious outlaws, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, are trapped by Bolivian officials and reportedly killed in the ensuing gun battle around 2 a.m. that night. Although, there are many claims that these were not them and that they survived.
4. Laura Bush
November 6, 1963
Laura Welch, the 17-year-old future first lady and wife of George W. Bush, runs a stop sign striking a car and killing its sole occupant, Michael Douglass, her 17-year-old friend and classmate.
5. The electric razor
November 6, 1923
The electric razor is patented, by Colonel Jacob Schick.