What happened on 6 November?

5 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 the Bengal countryside, the 77-year-old Gandhi goes to Noakhali on foot — four months, village to village, barefoot where the ground
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