11-06-2004, 06:14 AM
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November 6th
1528 ~ Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca became the first known European to set foot on Texas.
1789 ~ Pope Pius VI appointed Father John Carroll as the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.
1854 ~ Birthday of John Philip Sousa, Composer.
1861 ~ Birthday of James Naismith, inventor of basketball.
1861 ~ Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1893 ~ Death of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer.
1913 ~ Mahatma Gandhi was arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1962 ~ The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and called for all member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.
1999 ~ Australians voted to keep the British queen as their head of state.
2000 ~ Death of L. Sprague De Camp, Science Fiction writer.
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