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11.06.24

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FIRST COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAME PLAYED

November 6, 1869: College Students Become Obsessed With A New Game - This Day of History

On November 6, 1869, Rutgers beat Princeton, 6-4, in the first
college football game
. The game, played with a soccer ball
before roughly 100 fans in New Brunswick, New Jersey,
resembled rugby instead of today’s football.


The first college football game ever was New Jersey (later known as Princeton) versus Rutgers ...

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18 Panel Brown Leather Football. 6 Lace Hole Soccer Ball. c1940.

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PRESIDENT ELECTED ON THIS DAY IN 1860

Lincoln Elected President 1860

Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United
States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the
first Republican to win the presidency.

Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote but handily
defeated the three other candidates: Southern Democrat
John
C. Breckinridge
, Constitutional Union candidate John Bell, and
Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas, a U.S. senator for
Illinois.

The mystery of Abraham Lincoln's beard

The Election of 1860 - TOPIC #41: ELECTION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AS PRESIDENT IN 1860

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FROM THE PDX RETRO BLOG

9 competitive races to watch that could determine control of the Senate - Fox News

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THE RETURN OF RICHARD NIXON IN 1968

Who’s Country Is It Anyway? – Ramparts of Civilization

Winning one of the closest elections in U.S. history,
Republican challenger
Richard Nixon defeated Vice
President Hubert Humphrey. Because of the strong
showing of
third-party candidate George Wallace,
neither Nixon nor Humphrey received more than 50
percent of the popular vote;
Nixon beat Humphrey

Nixon campaigned on a platform designed to reach
the
“silent majority” of middle class and working
class Americans. He promised to “bring us together
again.”

The United States presidential election of 1968 was
the 46th quadrennial United States presidential
election.

The Operatic Life of Richard Nixon - The Atlantic

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