On This Day November 6th is the 310th day of 2013 with 55 days remaining of this year. 1861 - Jefferson Davis elected to six-year term as Confederate President. sports 1885 - US mint at Carson City, Nevada directed to close. 1935 - Before the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Edwin Armstrong presents his paper, A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation (i.e. FM radio). 1939 - WGY-TV (Schenectady, New York), first commercial TV station, begins service. 1944 - Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility in the USA, subsequently used in the Fat Man Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. 1945 - House Un-American Committee begins investigation of seven radio commentators. 1956 - US President Dwight Eisenhower (Republican) re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (Democrat). 1962 - Edward M Kennedy first elected (Senator-Democrat-Massachusetts). 1962 - Edward W Brooke (Republican) is elected attorney general of Massachusetts. 1966 - First entire lineup televised in color (NBC). 1967 - US launches Surveyor 6; makes soft landing on Moon November 9. 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 - Benjamin Hooks succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP. 1977 - 39 killed in an earthen dam burst at Toccoa Falls Bible College, Georgia. 1984 - In the USA, voters approve introduction of state lotteries in California, Oregon, Missouri, and West Virginia. Pari-mutuel racing betting is approved in Missouri. Colorado and Arkansas defeat proposed casino introductions. Oregon votes to amend constitution to prohibit casinos. 1984 - U.S. presidential election: Ronald Reagan defeats Walter F. Mondale with 59 percent of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixons 61 percent victory in 1972. Reagan carries 49 states in the electoral college; Mondale wins only his home state of Minnesota by a mere 3,761 vote margin, and the District of Columbia. 1985 - Exploratory well at Ranger, Texas, explodes spilling 6.3 million gallons of oil. 1986 - US President Ronald Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill. 2002 - The U.S. Federal Reserve System drops its primary discount rate by 50 basis points to 0.75 percent, putting the real interest rate solidly below the inflation rate. 2005 - A tornado hits western Kentucky and southwestern Indiana, killing at least 22. 2009 - A US Army major opens fire on fellow soldiers at the Fort Hood military base in Texas, killing 13 people and injuring 30.
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