1. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States, receiving over 97% of the vote in Connecticut. This election set the stage for the Civil War and the eventual abolition of slavery.

2. On November 6, 1888, Connecticut native Ernest Lawrence was born. Lawrence went on to win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron, an early type of particle accelerator.

3. In 1893, the Connecticut State Capitol building was completed after eight years of construction. This iconic structure houses the offices of the governor and state legislature, as well as the Connecticut State Museum.

4. On November 6, 1961, NASA launched the first operational weather satellite, TIROS-2, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The satellite was designed to observe cloud cover, atmospheric temperature, and precipitation from space, improving weather forecasting and disaster prediction.

5. In 2012, Connecticut became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage through a vote in the state legislature. The bill was signed into law by Governor Dannel Malloy on November 6, 2012, making Connecticut the seventh state in the United States to legalize same-sex marriage.