What to remember about November 6th…
- 1789 John Carroll is appointed the 1st Catholic Bishop in America; founder of Georgetown University
- 1854 American composed and conductor John Phillip Souza is born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1932)
- 1861 Jefferson Davis elected President of the Confederacy
- 1944 Plutonium is 1st produced at Hanford Atomic Facility; it will be used in the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan
- 1965 U.S. begins Freedom Flights program that brings 250,000 refugees from communist Cuba
- 1986 John A. Walker, Jr. is convicted of running spy ring for the Soviets; sentenced to life in prison
- 1985 Press accounts reveal that President Reagan authorized arms sales to Iran; Iran-Contra Affair expands
- 2003 President Bush signs Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act
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