Immediately is Thursday, Nov. 6, the 310th day of 2025. There are 55 days left within the 12 months.
Immediately in historical past:
On Nov. 6, 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln of the Republican Social gathering was elected president of the US as he defeated John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas.
Additionally on this date:
In 1861, an unopposed Jefferson Davis was elected to a six-year time period as president of the Accomplice States of America, after serving a lot of the 12 months as its provisional president.
In 1888, Republican presidential candidate Benjamin Harrison received the electoral vote over incumbent Democrat Grover Cleveland, regardless of Cleveland gaining 90,000 extra complete votes; it could be the final time the favored vote winner would lose the election till 2000.
In 1947, “Meet the Press,” the longest-running tv present in America, made its debut on NBC; the host was the present’s co-creator, Martha Rountree.
In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower received reelection, defeating Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson II for the second time.
In 1977, 39 individuals, largely college students, had been killed when the Kelly Barnes Dam in Georgia burst, sending a wall of water by means of Toccoa Falls School.
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan received reelection by a landslide over former Vice President Walter Mondale. The Democratic challenger received only one state, his native Minnesota.
In 2012, President Barack Obama received reelection, vanquishing Republican former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney with 332 electoral votes to Romney’s 206.
In 2022, a passenger airplane crashed into Lake Victoria because it approached an airport in Tanzania, killing 19 individuals aboard.
Immediately’s Birthdays:
- Actor Sally Discipline is 79.
- Jazz musician Arturo Sandoval is 76.
- Creator Michael Cunningham is 73.
- Journalist-author Maria Shriver is 70.
- Creator Colson Whitehead is 56.
- Actor Ethan Hawke is 55.
- Actor Thandiwe (tan-DEE’-way) Newton is 53.
- Mannequin-actor Rebecca Romijn (roh-MAYN’) is 53.
- Actor Taryn Manning is 47.
- Actor Emma Stone is 37.
- Comic-actor Bowen Yang is 35.
- Olympic swimming gold medalist Bobby Finke is 26.
