• Today is Wednesday, Nov. 6, the 310th day of 2013. There are 55 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Nov. 6, 1888, Republican Benjamin Harrison won the presidential election, defeating Democratic incumbent Grover Cleveland with an electoral vote count of 233-168, even though Cleveland led in the popular vote.
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• On this date:
• In 1632, King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden was killed in battle.
• In 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates for the presidency: John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas.
• In 1861, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was elected to a six-year term of office.
• In 1893, composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia, at age 53.
• In 1928, in a first, the results of Republican Herbert Hoover's election victory over Democrat Alfred E. Smith were flashed onto an electric wraparound sign on the New York Times building.
• In 1934, Nebraska voters approved dissolving their two-chamber legislature in favor of a nonpartisan, single (or "unicameral") legislative body, which was implemented in 1937.
• In 1944, British official Lord Moyne was assassinated in Cairo, Egypt, by members of the Zionist Stern gang.
• In 1947, "Meet the Press" made its debut on NBC; the first guest was James A. Farley, former postmaster general and former Democratic National Committee Chair; the host was the show's co-creator, Martha Rountree.
• In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower won re-election, defeating Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson.

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