What happened on 6 November?

6 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1860 Lincoln elected president Abraham Lincoln wins the 1860 US election; secession follows.
2. 1956 America pulls the plug on the pound Furious at being lied to, Eisenhower blocks IMF support while sterling haemorrhages reserves, and makes oil and money conditional on an unconditional ceasefire. Britain — militaril
3. 1948 Huaihai Campaign A decisive Communist victory over Nationalist forces in central China.
4. 1946 Gandhi walks through Noakhali As communal massacres spread from Calcutta into rural Bengal, the 77-year-old Gandhi goes to Noakhali and spends some four months touring its villages, much of it on foot, staying
5. 1217 The Charter of the Forest Issued alongside a revised Magna Carta — which now takes the name 'great' merely to tell the two apart — the Forest Charter rolls back the royal forest law that criminalised ordina
6. 1730 Execution of Hans Hermann von Katte After the 18-year-old crown prince's failed flight from his brutal father, Frederick William I makes him watch his friend and accomplice Katte beheaded beneath his window.