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On November 2, 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour expressed support for a "national home" for the Jews of Palestine...
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On November 3, 1507, Leonardo DaVinci was commissioned by the husband of Lisa Gherardini to paint her. The work is known as the Mona Lisa...
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On November 4, 1939, at the 40th National Automobile Show the first air-conditioned car was put on display...
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On November 5, 1605, the "Gunpowder Plot" attempted by Guy Fawkes failed when he was captured before he could blow up the English Parliament. Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated every November 5th in Britain to celebrate his failure to blow up all the members of Parliament and King James I...
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On November 6, 1851, Charles Henry Dow was born. He was the founder of Dow Jones & Company....
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On November 7, 1811, the Shawnee Indians of chief Tecumseh were defeated by William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Wabash (or (Tippecanoe)...
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On November 8, 1966 Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts became the first African-American to be elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote.
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Also on November 8, 1910, William H. Frost patented the insect exterminator...
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On November 9, 1906, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt left for Panama to see the progress on the new canal. It was the first foreign trip by a U.S. president...
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Also on the 9th November 1989:
After several weeks of civil unrest and amid amazing scenes of celebration the Berlin Wall is officially opened after 28 years and 1 day. Berlin Wall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...linermauer.jpg |
On November 10, 1917, 41 suffragists were arrested in front of the White House...
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Nov. 10th, 1775 saw the founding of the United States Marine Corps.
oorah, semper fi :thumbsup: happy birthday to all my fellow marines. |
On November 11, 1887, labor activists were hanged in Illinois after being convicted of being connected to a bombing that killed eight police officers...
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On November 12, 1954, Ellis Island closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants since opening in New York Harbor in 1892.
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Also on November 12, 1815, American suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, NY...
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On November 13, 1805, Johann George Lehner, a Viennese butcher, invented a recipe and called it the "frankfurter..."
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On November, 13, 1956, the Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses.
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On November 14, 1889, New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began an attempt to surpass the fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around the world in less than 80 days. Bly succeeded by finishing the journey the following January in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes...
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Also on November 14, 1972, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 1,000 for the first time, ending the day at 1,003.16
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On November 15, 1902, anarchist Gennaro Rubin failed in his attempt to murder King Leopold II of Belgium...
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Also on November 15, 1832The first streetcar - a horse-drawn vehicle called the John Mason - went into operation in New York City.
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On November 16, 1940 The first 75,000 men were called to armed forces duty under peacetime conscription.
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Also on November 16, 1952, in the Peanuts comic strip, Lucy first held a football for Charlie Brown...
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On November 17, 1968 NBC outraged football fans by cutting away from the final minutes of a game to air a TV special, "Heidi," on schedule. Viewers were deprived of seeing the Oakland Raiders come from behind to beat the New York Jets 43-32.
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Also on November 17, 1798, Irish nationalist leader Wolfe Tone committed suicide while in jail awaiting execution...
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On November 18, 1883, the U.S. and Canada adopted a system of standard time zones...
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On November 19, 1893, the first newspaper color supplement was published in the Sunday New York World...
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Also on November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.
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On November 20, 1910, Revolution broke out in Mexico.
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Also on November 20, 1873, Budapest was formed when the rival cities of Buda and Pest were united to form the capital of Hungary...
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20th November 1820: A whale attacks the American whaling ship the Essex. It sinks 2000 miles off the western coast of South America.
Essex (whaleship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) |
On November 21, 1620, the Mayflower reached Provincetown, MA. The ship discharged the Pilgrims at Plymouth, MA, on December 26, 1620...
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Also on November 21st, 1980, A fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas killed 87 people.
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On November 22, 1906, the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin adopted the SOS distress signal...
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Also on November 22, 1718 English pirate Edward Teach - better known as "Blackbeard" - was killed during a battle off the Virginia coast.
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On November 23, 1835, Henry Burden patented the horseshoe manufacturing machine...
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Also on November 23rd, 1889- The jukebox made its debut, at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
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On November 24, 1903, Clyde J. Coleman received the patent for an electric self-starter for an automobile...
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Also on November 24, 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald.
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On November 25, 1715, Sybilla Thomas Masters became the first American to be granted an English patent for cleaning and curing Indian corn...
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Also on November 25, 1783 The British evacuated New York, their last military position in the United States, during the Revolutionary War.
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1863 Union ends the siege of Chattanooga with the Battle of Missionary Ridge. 1876 Colonel Ronald MacKenzie destroys Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife’s village, in the Bighorn Mountains near the Red Fork of the Powder River, during the so-called Great Sioux War. 1901 Japanese Prince Ito arrives in Russia to seek concessions in Korea. 1914 German Field Marshal Fredrich von Hindenburg calls off the Lodz offensive 40 miles from Warsaw, Poland. The Russians lose 90,000 to the Germans’ 35,000 in two weeks of fighting. 1918 Chile and Peru sever relations. 1921 Hirohito becomes regent of Japan. 1923 Transatlantic broadcasting from England to America commences for the first time. 1930 An earthquake in Shizouka, Japan kills 187 people. 1939 Germany reports four British ships sunk in the North Sea, but London denies the claim. 1946 The U.S. Supreme Court grants the Oregon Indians land payment rights from the U.S. government. 1947 The Big Four meet to discuss the German and European economy. 1951 A truce line between U.N. troops and North Korea is mapped out at the peace talks in Panmunjom, Korea. 1955 The Interstate Commerce Commission bans segregation in interstate travel. 1963 The body of assassinated President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. 1964 Eleven nations give a total of $3 billion to rescue the value of the British currency. 1986 As President Ronald Reagan announces the Justice Department’s findings concerning the Iran-Contra affair; secretary Fawn Hall smuggles important documents out of Lt. Col. Oliver North’s office. |
On a November 26th, 1789, A day of thanksgiving was set aside by President George Washington to observe the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.
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Also on November 26, 1832, public streetcar service began in New York City...
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On November 27, 1839, the American Statistical Association was founded in Boston...
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Also on November 27th, 1942 The French navy at Toulon scuttled its ships and submarines to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.
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On November 28th, 1520- Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name.
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Also on November 28, 1922, Capt. Cyril Turner of the Royal Air Force gave the first public exhibition of skywriting. He spelled out, "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200" over New York's Times Square...
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On November 29, 1945, the monarchy was abolished in Yugoslavia and a republic proclaimed...
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Also on November 29th, 1929 Navy Lt. Cmdr. Richard E. Byrd radioed that he'd made the first airplane flight over the South Pole.
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On November 30, 1804, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase went on trial accused of political bias. He was later acquitted by the U.S. Senate...
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Also on November 30th, 1890- The first Army-Navy football game was played, with Navy winning 24-0 at West Point, N.Y.
And this morning Tully woke up totally bummed having watched his Oregon State Beavers get their ass handed to them by the Oregon Ducks. Had the Beavers won it would have been their first Rose Bowl berth since 1965. Putting rum in my coffee this morning then I think I'll go duck hunting. Ducks, damned Ducks. |
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On December 1st, 1824- The House of Representatives convened to decide the presidential election because no candidate had received a majority in the Electoral College. John Quincy Adams was eventually chosen the winner over Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay.
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Also on December 1, 1835, Hans Christian Andersen published his first book of fairy tales...
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On December 2nd, 1969-The Boeing 747 jumbo jet debuted in Seattle Washington at Boeing field.
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Also on December 2, 1816, the first savings bank in the U.S., the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, opened for business...
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December 2, 1804 - At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years. Also, somewhat relevant today: December 2, 1930 - Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before the United States Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy. |
On December 3, 1835, in Rhode Island, the Manufacturer Mutual Fire Insurance Company issued the first fire insurance policy...
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Also on December 3rd, 1979- Eleven people were killed in a crush of fans at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum before a rock concert by The Who.
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On December 3rd, 1948 Ozzy Osbourne was born.
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On December 4, 1812, Peter Gaillard patented the power mower...
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Also on December 4th, 1942- President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the dismantling of the Works Progress Administration, which had been created to provide jobs during the Depression.
(now might be a good time to re-mantle it) |
On the 5th of December, 1933 the Prohibition in the United States ends:
On the 5th of December, W.A. Mozart & Claude Monet died On the 5th of December, Walt Disney and Dr. Dre were born. |
Also on Deceber 5, 1766, James Christie, founder of the famous auctioneers, held his first sale in London...
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Also on December 5th, 1848- President James K. Polk triggered the Gold Rush of '49 by confirming that gold had been discovered in California.
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On December 6th, 1969- A free concert by the Rolling Stones at Altamont Speedway in Livermore, Calif., was marred by the deaths of four people, including a man who was stabbed by a Hell's Angel.
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Also on December 6, 1876, the city of Anaheim was incorporated for a second time...
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On December 7th, 1941- Japanese warplanes attacked the home base of the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, drawing the United States into World War II. More than 2,300 Americans were killed.
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Also on December 7, 1889, the first of 554 performances of "The Gondoliers" took place...
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December 7, my little sister was born
(dec 4 I was born) (dec 1 my mother was born) |
On December 8, 1949, the Chinese Nationalist government moved from the Chinese mainland to Formosa due to Communists pressure...
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On December 8th, 1980- Rock musician John Lennon was shot to death outside his New York City apartment building by Mark David Chapman.
Lennon was 40, I was 17. I was driving my POS car on Lancaster Dr. from McKay High School to Wendy's Hamburger where I worked when the radio announced the shooting and death. |
On December 8, 1979, QW became Mrs. Grumpy Old Dude.
One lucky dude! |
On December 9th, 1975- President Gerald R. Ford signed a $2.3 billion seasonal loan authorization to prevent New York City from having to default.
And Congrats to the Dude. |
Also on December 9, 1783, the first executions at Newgate Prison took place...
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On December 10,1817, Mississippi was admitted to the Union as the 20th American state...
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Also on December 10th, 1958- The first domestic passenger jet flight took place in the United States as a National Airlines Boeing 707 flew 111 passengers from New York City to Miami.
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On December 11, 1719, the first recorded sighting of the Aurora Borealis was in New England...
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On December 11th, 1941- Germany and Italy declared war on the United States; the U.S. responded in kind.
(my guess is it wasn't that kind.) |
On December 12, 1805, Henry Wells was born in Thetford, VT. He was one of the founders of the American Express Company and he teamed up with William Fargo to form the Wells Fargo Company...
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Also on December 12th, 1914- The New York Stock Exchange re-opened for the first time since July 30. The market had shut down when World War I broke out.
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On December 13, 1636, the United States National Guard was created when militia regiments were organized by the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony...
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Also on December 13th, 1577- Sir Francis Drake of England set out with five ships on a nearly three-year journey that would take him around the world.
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Dec. 13th, 2003...Saddam Hussein captured
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December 13, 2000:
American Vice President Al Gore delivers his concession speech effectively ending his hopes of becoming the 43rd President of the United States. |
On December 14, 1798, David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patented the nut and bolt machine...
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Also on December 14th, 1799- George Washington, the first president of the United States, died at his Mount Vernon, Va., home at age 67.
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On December 15th, 1939- The movie "Gone With the Wind" had its world premiere in Atlanta.
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Also on December 15, 1654, a meteorological office established in Tuscany began recording daily temperature readings...
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On December 15th, 1809- Napoleon Bonaparte divorces Empress Josephine.
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On December 16, 1838, the Zulu chief Dingaan was defeated by a small force of Boers at Blood River celebrated in South Africa as 'Dingaan's Day...'
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I should have pointed this out yesterday, but Dec 15th, 1791 was the ratification date of the Bill of Rights to the US Constitution.
Happy Birthday Bill of Rights. Not you BoR. |
December 16, 1775: Writer Jane Austen is born (d. 1817). Today, she remains one of the most popular storytellers in the English language.
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