South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Sunday)
TODAY IN HISTORY
On Nov. 6, 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln of the Republican Party was elected President.
In 1947, “Meet the Press” made its debut on NBC;
the host was the show’s co-creator, Martha Rountree.
In 1977, 39 people were killed when the Kelly Barnes Dam in Georgia burst, sending a wall of water through Toccoa Falls College.
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan won reelection over former Vice President Walter Mondale.
In 1990, about one-fifth of the Universal Studios backlot in southern California was destroyed in an arson fire.
In 2015, President Barack Obama rejected the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, declaring it would undercut U.S. efforts to clinch a global climate change deal at the center of his environmental legacy.