Today in History: December 6

Today in History
Today is Tuesday, Dec. 6, the 341st day of 2016. There are 25 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlights in History:
On Dec. 6, 1889, Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, died in New Orleans. The Mark Twain novel “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” was first published in England under the title “A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur” (it was published in the U.S. under its more familiar na