YEARS AGO FOR NOV. 6

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 6, the 310th day of 2018. There are 55 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1860: Former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln of the Republican Party is elected president of the United States as he defeats John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas.

1861: Confederate President Jefferson Davis is elected to a six-year term.

1893: Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky dies in St. Petersburg, Russia, at age 53.

1906: Republican Charles Evans Hughes is elected governor of New York, defeating newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst.

1956: President Dwight D. Eisenhower wins re-election, defeating Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson.

1962: Democrat Edward M. Kennedy was elected senator from Massachusetts.

1995: The funeral takes place in Jerusalem for assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

2001: Billionaire Republican Michael Bloomberg wins New York City’s mayoral race, defeating Democrat Mark Green.

2017: President Donald Trump tells reporters in Tokyo that North Korea is “a threat to the civilized world.”

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1993: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. takes officials from the General Services Administration on a tour of South High School, which is being pitched as the site of a Pentagon finance center.

Ray Moore of Leetonia, part Mohawk Indian, tells students at Orchard Hill Elementary School in Leetonia about Native American culture.

Dorothy Ruth Hoover, chairwoman of the board of Plakie Inc., formerly Plakie Toy Co., dies at Shepherd’s Woods at age 86. She had been company president after the death of her husband, Frank.

1978: Fire engulfs a mobile home on Spruceville Road near Clarkson in Columbiana County, claiming six lives: Betty Watts, 42; her twin sons, Bill and Bob Watts, 7, and three grandchildren, Shawn Catalano, 5, Christine Eason, 4, and Beth Ann Eason, 3.

Vincent M. Doria, a former basketball player at Boardman High School and 1970 graduate of Ohio State University, is named sports editor of the Boston Globe.

NBC News will cover Youngstown-area election results, with Tom Pettit reporting from the Golden Dawn restaurant on Logan Avenue on local reactions to the close 19th Congressional District race and statewide contests.

1968: Mahoning County gave Hubert Humphrey 68,130 votes, more than Richard Nixon and George Wallace combined, but Nixon carried Ohio by a narrow margin.

A half-percent income tax on the ballot in Struthers loses by two votes, the unofficial count shows.

A new high school for Poland is assured with approval of a $2.1 million bond issue. Voters also approved renewal of a 5.9-mill operating levy.

An early closure of Youngstown schools is virtually assured when voters turn down a 12-mill levy. It was the sixth time a school operating levy was defeated.

1943: “The only thing that brought me back from Schweinfurt must have been my mother’s prayers,” says Major Thomas Kenny Jr. as he describes his miraculous escape during a raid over Germany.

Two men are sentenced to 10 days in county jail by Judge Robert Nevin for insulting passengers on a Youngstown Municipal Railway bus, tearing the coat off a man and hitting and kicking a woman.

South High topples Rayen, 13-6, in the 31st meeting of the football rivals before 6,500 fans at Rayen Stadium.