Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Today is Nov. 6. Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th president of the United States on this date in 1860. The lawyer from Illinois was opposed to slavery, and this belief --- along with others --- helped prompt the Southern states to secede from the Union. Advertisement Lincoln wasn't the only president elected on this date. In 1968, Richard Nixon's second bid for the White House was successful when he was elected 37th president of the United States, defeating Democrat Hubert Humphrey. And on this date in 1984, President Reagan was elected to a second term, winning 49 states and soundly defeating Democratic challenger and former Vice President Walter Mondale. World leaders gathered in Jerusalem on this date in 1995 for the funeral of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Rabin had been killed two days earlier by a man who opposed the prime minster's peace overtures to the Palestinians. The Bolshevik revolution began in Russia on this date in 1917. Because it took place under the old czarist calendar, which listed the month as "October," it is known as the October Revolution. Advertisement At the age of 45, George Foreman became the oldest boxer to win a championship fight in any weight class on this date in 1994 when he knocked out Michael Moore in Las Vegas to claim the International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Association heavyweight titles. And it was on this date in 1869, in the first formal intercollegiate football game, that Rutgers beat Princeton, 6-4. We now return you to the present, already in progress.
