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Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th president of the United States on this date in 1860. The lawyer from Illinois was opposed to slavery, and this belief -- along with others -- helped prompt the Southern states to secede from the Union.

Lincoln wasn't the only president elected on this date. In 1968, Richard Nixon's second bid for the White House was successful when he was elected 37th president of the United States, defeating Democrat Hubert Humphrey. And on this date in 1984, President Reagan was elected to a second term, winning 49 states and soundly defeating Democratic challenger and former Vice President Walter Mondale.

World leaders gathered in Jerusalem on this date in 1995 for the funeral of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Rabin had been killed two days earlier by a man who opposed the prime minster's peace overtures to the Palestinians.

The Bolshevik revolution began in Russia on this date in 1917. Because it took place under the old czarist calendar, which listed the month as "October," it is known as the October Revolution.
At the age of 45, George Foreman became the oldest boxer to win a championship fight in any weight class on this date in 1994 when he knocked out Michael Moore in Las Vegas to claim the International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Association heavyweight titles.

And it was on this date in 1869, in the first formal intercollegiate football game, that Rutgers beat Princeton, 6-4.

tare * \TAIR\ * (noun)
*1 : a deduction from the gross weight of a substance and its container made in allowance for the weight of the container; also : the weight of the container 2 : counterweight
Example sentence:
Before charging us for the blueberries we'd picked, the attendant at Annie's Fields deducted the tare from the weight of the filled buckets.
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"Tare" came to English by way of Middle French from the Old Italian term "tara," which is itself from the Arabic word "tarha," meaning "that which is removed." The first known written record of the word "tare" in English is found in the 1489 naval inventories of Britain's King Henry VII. The records show two barrels of gunpowder weighing, "besides the tare," 500 pounds. When used of vehicles, "tare weight" refers to a vehicle's weight exclusive of any load and fuel. The term "tare" is closely tied to "net weight," which is defined as "weight excluding all tare."
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.
New Testament Verse for the Day:
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

Word of the Day for Tuesday November 6, 2001:
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sedition \sih-DISH-un\, noun:
Conduct or language inciting resistance to or rebellion against lawful authority.

[M]ost of us now accept as common sense what was once prosecuted as sedition, namely Tom Paine's proposition that "the idea of hereditary legislators is as absurd as a hereditary mathematician -- as absurd as a hereditary poet laureate".
--Geoffrey Robertson, "Dumping our Queen," The Guardian, November 6, 1999

At several points in his long career, Jinnah was threatened by the British with imprisonment on sedition charges for speaking in favour of Indian home rule or rights.
--Akbar S. Ahmed, Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity

Outspoken critics of the policy have until now faced the possibility of having a charge of sedition brought against them. --David Cohen, "Malaysian universities rejecting Chinese students," The Guardian, May 3, 2001

Sedition comes from Latin seditio, sedition-, "a going apart," hence "revolt, insurrection," from se-, "apart" + itio, ition-, "act of going," from ire, "to go."

Thought for Today:

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought and could be."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

On Nov. 6, 1888, Benjamin Harrison won the presidential election, defeating incumbent Grover Cleveland with enough electoral votes, even though Cleveland led in the popular vote.

On this date:
In 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates for the presidency.

In 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected to a six-year term as president of the Confederacy.

In 1893, composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia, at age 53.

In 1900, President McKinley was re-elected, beating Democrat William Jennings Bryan.

In 1906, Republican Charles Evans Hughes was elected governor of New York, defeating newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst.

In 1913, Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested as he led a march of Indian miners in South Africa.

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In 1928, in a first, the results of Herbert Hoover's election victory over Alfred E. Smith were flashed onto an electric sign outside the New York Times building.

In 1956, President Eisenhower won re-election, defeating Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson.

In 1976, Benjamin L. Hooks was chosen to be the new executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, succeeding Roy Wilkins.



In 1977, 39 people were killed when an earthen dam burst, sending a wall of water through Toccoa Falls Bible College in Georgia.

Ten years ago: Kuwait celebrated the dousing of the last oil fires ignited by Iraq during the Persian Gulf War. Actress Gene Tierney died in Houston at age 70.

Five years ago: A day after being re-elected, President Clinton threw a party on the White House lawn; that same day, he received resignations from secretaries of state, defense, energy and commerce. A cyclone struck southeastern India, claiming an estimated 1,000 lives.

One year ago: On Election Eve, George W. Bush and Al Gore campaigned through the final hours of their run for the White House, seeking last-minute momentum in a costly and exhausting race to become the nation's 43rd president.

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