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Joseph S. Clark, Jr.

The municipal election of November 6, 1951, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, produced the first Democratic victory in the city in more than a half-century. In the 1940s, Philadelphia had been the last major American city with nearly all of its political offices occupied by Republicans. The election was the first held under a reform charter that had been overwhelmingly approved by voters the previous April. Joseph S. Clark Jr. (pictured) and his running mate, Richardson Dilworth, were elected mayor and district attorney; they had been two of the main movers for the reform. Led by local party chairman James A. Finnegan, the Democrats also took fourteen of seventeen city council seats and all of the citywide offices on the ballot. A referendum on consolidating the city and county governments passed by a wide margin. The election marked the beginning of Democratic dominance of Philadelphia city politics, which continues today. (Full article...)

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In a referendum, New Caledonia votes against independence from France.
In baseball, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks defeat the Hiroshima Toyo Carp to win the Japan Series (MVP Takuya Kai pictured).
Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy, is acquitted by the Supreme Court of Pakistan, sparking widespread protests by Islamists.
India unveils the Statue of Unity, the tallest statue in the world at 182 m (597 ft), depicting its first deputy prime minister, Vallabhbhai Patel.
Typhoon Yutu, also known as Typhoon Rosita, makes a second landfall in the Philippines, killing 6 people and leaving at least 23 others missing.

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November 6: Gustavus Adolphus Day in Estonia, Finland, and Sweden (1632); Finnish Swedish Heritage Day in Finland; Diwali in South India (2018)

Red Cloud

447 – A powerful earthquake destroyed large portions of the Walls of Constantinople, including 57 towers.
1868 – Red Cloud (pictured), a leader of the Oglala Lakota Native American tribe, signed the second Treaty of Fort Laramie, ending his war and establishing the Great Sioux Reservation.
1935 – The Hawker Hurricane, the aircraft responsible for 60% of the Royal Air Force's air victories in the Battle of Britain, made its first flight.
1939 – As part of their plan to eradicate the Polish intellectual elite, the Gestapo arrested 184 professors, students and employees of Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
1995 – Madagascar's Rova of Antananarivo, which served as the royal palace from the 17th to 19th centuries, was destroyed by fire.

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