Today is Friday, Nov. 6, the 310th day of 2009. There are 55 days left in the year.
On this date:
* In 1860, Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates for the presidency: John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas.
* In 1888, Benjamin Harrison won the presidential election, defeating incumbent Grover Cleveland with enough electoral votes, even though Cleveland led in the popular vote.
* In 1893, composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia, at age 53.
* In 1906, Republican Charles Evans Hughes was elected governor of New York, defeating newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst.
* In 1944, British official Lord Moyne was assassinated in Cairo, Egypt, by members of the Zionist Stern gang.
* In 1977, 39 people were killed when the Kelly Barnes Dam burst, sending a wall of water through Toccoa Falls College in Georgia.
Today's Birthdays: Director Mike Nichols is 78. Country singer Stonewall Jackson is 77. Singer Eugene Pitt (The Jive Five) is 72. Singer P.J. Proby is 71. Country singer Guy Clark is 68. Actress Sally Field is 63. Pop singer-musician Glenn Frey (The Eagles) is 61. Singer Rory Block is 60. Jazz musician Arturo Sandoval is 60. TV host Catherine Crier is 55. California's first lady Maria Shriver is 54. Actress Lori Singer is 52. Actor Lance Kerwin is 49. Rock musician Paul Brindley (The Sundays) is 46. Education Secretary Arne Duncan is 45. Rock singer Corey Glover is 45. Actor Peter DeLuise is 43. Actress Kelly Rutherford is 41. Actor Ethan Hawke is 39. Actress Thandie Newton is 37. Model-actress Rebecca Romijn is 37. Actress Zoe McLellan is 35. Actress Nicole Dubuc is 31. Actress Taryn Manning 31. Actress Emma Stone is 21. Actress Mercedes Kastner is 20.
Thought for Today: "When writers come, I find I'm talking all the time, exchanging thoughts I haven't exchanged for some time. I get stupid in solitude." -- Mary McCarthy, American author (1912-1989).
