Major Mike | Today in History 11/06 (Abraham Lincoln)

President Abraham Lincoln in 1860 (© Alexander Helser/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

(1860) Abraham Lincoln elected president of a divided nation

Lincoln becomes the first Republican to win the White House at a time when the Democratic Party, and the country as a whole, are deeply divided over the issue of slavery. The Civil War will break out a few months after Lincoln’s inauguration.

The United States Presidential Election of 1860 was the nineteenth quadrennial presidential election to select the President and Vice President of the United States. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin emerged triumphant. The election of Lincoln served as the primary catalyst of the American Civil War.

Election year: Nov 06, 1860

Presidential Election 1860. Red shows states won by Lincoln/Hamlin, green by Breckinridge/Lane, orange by Bell/Everett, and blue by Douglas/Johnson Numbers are Electoral College votes in each state by the 1850 Census.
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(1860) Abraham Lincoln elected president of a divided nation.
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A sign in Johannesburg, South Africa, circa 1956, reading 'Caution Beware Of Natives' (© Ejor/Getty Images)

(1962) United Nations condemns South Africa over apartheid

The UN passes a resolution calling on members to cut ties with South Africa to force the nation to end its racial segregation of black Africans. Change will be slow: The country will not repeal its last apartheid laws until 1991.

United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1761 was passed on 6 November 1962 in response to the racist policies of apartheid established by the South African Government.

The resolution also established the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid. The committee was originally boycotted by the Western nations, because of their disagreement with the aspects of the resolution calling for the boycott of South Africa. Even so, the committee found allies in the West, such as the British-based Anti-Apartheid Movement, through which it could work and lay the ground roots for the eventual acceptance by the Western powers of the need to impose economic sanctions on South Africa to pressure for political changes.

wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_1761

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