TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

Nov. 6, 1984

President Ronald Reagan won re-election by a landslide over former Vice President Walter Mondale, the Democratic challenger.

ON THIS DATE

1977

39 people were killed when the Kelly Barnes Dam in Georgia burst, sending a wall of water through Toccoa Falls College.

1990

About one-fifth of the Universal Studios backlot in southern California was destroyed in an arson fire.