11-15-2008, 06:10 AM | #721 (permalink) |
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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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11-16-2008, 02:44 AM | #722 (permalink) |
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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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11-16-2008, 04:30 AM | #723 (permalink) |
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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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11-17-2008, 02:23 AM | #724 (permalink) |
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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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11-17-2008, 02:58 AM | #725 (permalink) |
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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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11-18-2008, 04:28 AM | #726 (permalink) |
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On November 18, 1883, the U.S. and Canada adopted a system of standard time zones...
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11-19-2008, 02:52 AM | #727 (permalink) |
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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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11-19-2008, 05:33 AM | #728 (permalink) |
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Also on November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.
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11-20-2008, 03:00 AM | #729 (permalink) |
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On November 20, 1910, Revolution broke out in Mexico.
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11-20-2008, 03:55 AM | #730 (permalink) |
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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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11-20-2008, 03:02 PM | #731 (permalink) |
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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.
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11-21-2008, 03:06 AM | #732 (permalink) |
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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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11-21-2008, 08:06 AM | #733 (permalink) |
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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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11-22-2008, 02:55 AM | #734 (permalink) |
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On November 22, 1906, the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin adopted the SOS distress signal...
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11-22-2008, 06:24 AM | #735 (permalink) |
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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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11-23-2008, 03:00 AM | #736 (permalink) |
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On November 23, 1835, Henry Burden patented the horseshoe manufacturing machine...
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11-23-2008, 06:45 AM | #737 (permalink) |
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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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11-24-2008, 02:50 AM | #738 (permalink) |
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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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11-24-2008, 04:17 AM | #739 (permalink) |
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Also on November 24, 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald.
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11-25-2008, 02:51 AM | #740 (permalink) |
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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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11-25-2008, 03:18 AM | #741 (permalink) |
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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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11-25-2008, 02:33 PM | #742 (permalink) |
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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.
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11-26-2008, 02:25 AM | #743 (permalink) |
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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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11-26-2008, 03:42 AM | #744 (permalink) |
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Also on November 26, 1832, public streetcar service began in New York City...
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11-27-2008, 03:32 AM | #745 (permalink) |
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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.
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Well unless UCLA beats USC then... Yep! Go Joe!
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11-30-2008, 11:57 AM | #755 (permalink) |
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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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