Today in History November 6th

in #history • 6 years ago

404347ab-ac69-4ee2-9fd1-2e83763e17d3.png

220px-Abraham_Lincoln_O-77_matte_collodion_print.jpg

Today in 1860, Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency.

121178-004-945062DD.jpg

Led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin, leftist revolutionaries launch a nearly bloodless coup d’État against Russia’s ineffectual Provisional Government in 1917.

Shirley-Allen.png

Lastly, this day in 1982, Shirley Allen is arrested for poisoning her husband, Lloyd Allen, with ethylene glycol, also known as anti-freeze. After witnessing her mother spike Lloyd’s drinks with the deadly substance, Shirley’s own daughter turned her in to the authorities.

Sources:
History.com
Images found through google

#news #politics #revolution
6 years ago in #history by
$0.00
    Reply 0

    Coin Marketplace

    STEEM 0.19
    TRX 0.15
    JST 0.029
    BTC 63402.76
    ETH 2554.52
    USDT 1.00
    SBD 2.66