📜 November 6: On This Day in History |  | The OG College GameDay |  Image: Rutgers University Archives | Each of the following events happened on November 6. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) Rutgers beats Princeton by a score of 6-4 in the first-ever college football game. The game, played with a soccer ball before ~100 fans in New Brunswick, New Jersey, more closely resembles rugby instead of today's football.
- B) Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th President of the United States, becoming the first Republican to ever win the presidency.
- C) The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution condemning South Africa’s racist apartheid policies, and calling on all its members to end economic and military relations with the country.
- D) Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin and his revolutionaries launch a nearly bloodless coup against Russia’s existing Provisional Government.
Hint: Football has lots of second downs |
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🔗 Conjoiner: A DONUT Original Word Game | | Cultural rebrand | Today’s conjoiner is having a revival or glow-up of sorts. Look to the past and complete the challenge: The first clue of today’s sequence is: “The age of Michelangelo and Raphael”... |
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🧩 Puzzle Corner | | MiniToday’s mini is barreling down the tracks. Hop onboard and get to solving below. SudokuIt’s not about the math, it’s about the path. Fit the digits and do the craft. |
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🐐 GOATWars: A Data-Driven Process to Determine the Best | | Which US national park is the greatest of all time? | 
| From towering peaks to red-rock canyons, these are the places that define America’s wild side. Now, they’re going trail-to-trail on GoatWars in the Greatest US National Parks of All Time league—and it’s time to crown nature’s true GOAT. Every vote builds your personal GOAT List, ranking the parks you’d visit again and again. Showdowns include: ...and much more. |
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🏆 Tuesday's GOATWars Results: The Data Is Now In | | 📆 THE GREATEST HOLIDAY TRADITION OF ALL TIME - Thanksgiving dinner
- Opening presents (a close second, then a big gap)
- Holiday movie marathon
- Christmas tree decorating
- Fourth of July fireworks
Explore the full list. Note: Results are as of the published time; these lists are dynamic and may change. |
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📜 Answers | | B, A, D, C - B) 1860 – Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th president of the United States. Lincoln ran on a political platform opposed to the expansion of slavery.
- A) 1869 – Rutgers beats Princeton, 6-4, in the first college football game. Under the rules of the day, carrying or throwing the ball is not permitted.
- D) 1917 – Vladimir Lenin launches a nearly bloodless coup in Russia.
- C) 1962 – South Africa’s racist apartheid is condemned by the UN, which calls for imposing sanctions on the country.
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