November 6 - Comparing Notes

Comparing Notes

This Day In History

1528

Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas.

1789

Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.

1869

In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.

1935

Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers.

1995

Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore to become the Baltimore Ravens, the first time that city had a football team since 1983 (the Baltimore Colts).

Famous Birthdays

1494

Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566)

1753

Jean-Baptiste Breval, French composer (d. 1823)

1814

Adolphe Sax, Belgian inventor (d. 1894)

1854

John Philip Sousa, American composer (d. 1932)

1916

Ray Conniff, American composer and conductor (d. 2002)

1931

Mike Nichols, American film director

1947

E. Lee Spence, pioneer underwater archaeologist

1948

Glenn Frey, American singer (Eagles)

1957

Lori Singer, American actress

1966

Peter DeLuise, American actor and director

1968

Kelly Rutherford, American actress

1972

Kelly Rutherford, American actress
1974
Zoe McLellan, American actress
1988
Emma Stone, American actress