November 6 (A Triple)

1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected U.S. President.

Lincoln defeated three other candidates (John C. Breckenridge, John Bell and Steven Douglas), but it's important to note he received less than 40% of the total popular vote...Keep this in mind when you hear people complain about the Electoral College System.

The election result was unacceptable to the South, and led to the Civil War, which had to be fought, because the country would never have reached a political agreement to end slavery...Also, keep this in mind the next time you hear a Liberal idiot claim "war is never the answer."

Sometimes war is the only answer.

1917 - The October Revolution began in Russia, with the capture of the Winter Palace.

The dates for this event (all pre-Soviet dates) are confusing, and many ask why this event is called the October Revolution. It's because the Russians hadn't joined Western civilization in using the Gregorian Calendar...At the time of the event, it was October 25 in Russia, equating to November 6 on the Western calendar - even though it was November 7 most everywhere else on earth.

The October Revolution is also called the Bolshevik Revolution, because it was where Lenin and the Bolsheviks took power.  The Menshevik period came to an end, and the Leninist period began...Lenin was a political genius, and understood how to take advantage of the psyche of the masses, which allowed him to become the master of all of Russia. He also had nerves of steel, and brilliant instincts.

Oh, and he was also a ruthless son of a bitch.

The Soviet Hell State lasted over 70-years, and proved to be one of the most barbaric systems in world history. Unfortunately, it was at this event where the worm turned and the history of Communist Russia was settled...It would be a Leninist/Stalinist Communism, not a Menshevik Communism - not that a Menshevik state would have been great.

The reality of this event effected not only Russia, but the entire world for the rest of the 20th Century, and well beyond.

1991 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin banned the Communist Party.

It's hard to believe, but there are many Ruskies who long for the return of the Commies...And then there are the American Liberals who still hate Reagan for his part in the fall of the USSR.

Also, Yeltsin's timing wasn't by chance. He picked the day to kill off Russian Communism on the day of the October Revolution.

1861 - Jefferson Davis was elected President of the Confederate States of America.

Davis had an accomplished U.S. military and political career, but it was as President of the CSA where he made his mark on history.

In all fairness to the man's talents, it should be noted there were few leaders who could have held the CSA together as long as he did, even though it was eventually defeated.

2000 - The Reuters news agency reported a new decree in Afghanistan proclaimed that the state "will not provide any services to men without beards."

Nor the women “without beards.”