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On This Day in History

Discussion in 'General Discussions' started by Tully Mars, Aug 1, 2011.

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  1. Tully Mars

    Tully Mars Very Tilted

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    Yucatan, Mexico
    On November 24th in 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy.
     
    Tully Mars, Nov 24, 2011
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  2. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    Also on November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, published "On the Origin of Species." It was the paper in which he explained his theory of evolution through the process of natural selection...
     
    uncle phil, Nov 24, 2011
    #262
  3. Tully Mars

    Tully Mars Very Tilted

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    Yucatan, Mexico
    On November 25th in 1942, President Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline rationing, beginning December 1.
     
    Tully Mars, Nov 25, 2011
    #263
  4. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

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    pasco county
    On November 25, 1947, movie studio executives meeting in New York agreed to blacklist the "Hollywood 10," who were cited a day earlier and jailed for contempt of Congress when they failed to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee...
     
    uncle phil, Nov 25, 2011
    #264
  5. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    On November 26, 1942, the motion picture "Casablanca" had its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York City...
     
    uncle phil, Nov 26, 2011
    #265
  6. Tully Mars

    Tully Mars Very Tilted

    Location:
    Yucatan, Mexico
    On November 27th in 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.
     
    Tully Mars, Nov 27, 2011
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  7. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    Also on November 27, 1779, the College of Pennsylvania became the University of Pennsylvania. It was the first legally recognized university in America...
     
    uncle phil, Nov 27, 2011
    #267
  8. Tully Mars

    Tully Mars Very Tilted

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    Yucatan, Mexico
    On November 28th in 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II.
     
    Tully Mars, Nov 28, 2011
    #268
  9. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    Also on November 28, 1942, 491 people died in a fire that destroyed the Coconut Grove in Boston...
     
    uncle phil, Nov 28, 2011
    #269
  10. CaptainBob

    CaptainBob Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Kingston, eh?
    November 28, 1956:
    Ottawa Ontario - Canada grants $1 million and free passage to Canada to refugees from Hungarian Revolution against Communist rule. Here is a Hungarian refugee family arriving on a liner in Montreal.

    [​IMG]
     
    CaptainBob, Nov 28, 2011
    #270
  11. Tully Mars

    Tully Mars Very Tilted

    Location:
    Yucatan, Mexico
    On November 29th in 1947, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the partitioning of Palestine between Arabs and Jews...
    and everyone lived happily ever after.
     
    Tully Mars, Nov 29, 2011
    #271
  12. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    Also on November 29, 1864, the Sand Creek Massacre occurred in Colorado when a militia led by Colonel John Chivington, killed at least 400 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians who had surrendered and had been given permission to camp...
     
    uncle phil, Nov 29, 2011
    #272
  13. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    On November 30, 1954, in Sylacauga, AL, Elizabeth Hodges was injured when a meteorite crashed through the roof of her house. The rock weighed 8½-pounds...
     
    uncle phil, Nov 30, 2011
    #273
  14. Tully Mars

    Tully Mars Very Tilted

    Location:
    Yucatan, Mexico
    On December 1st in 1959, representatives of 12 countries, including the United States, signed a treaty in Washington setting aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve, free from military activity.
     
    Tully Mars, Dec 1, 2011
    #274
  15. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

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    pasco county
    On December 1, 1913, Ford Motor Co. began using a new movable assembly line that ushered in the era of mass production...
     
    uncle phil, Dec 1, 2011
    #275
  16. CaptainBob

    CaptainBob Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Kingston, eh?
    December 1, 1926:

    ONTARIO SCRAPS PROHIBITION
    Ontario - Ontario goes wet as voters decide on government control of sale of liquor; rather than prohibition.
     
    CaptainBob, Dec 1, 2011
    #276
  17. aquafox

    aquafox Getting Tilted

    Location:
    Ibapah, UT
    This is a thread that I wouldn't mind being sent to me as an email every morning :) I'm going to keep on following this, thank you.
     
    aquafox, Dec 1, 2011
    #277
  18. Tully Mars

    Tully Mars Very Tilted

    Location:
    Yucatan, Mexico
    On December 2nd in 1954, the Senate voted to condemn Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R Wis., for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute.”
     
    Tully Mars, Dec 2, 2011
    #278
  19. uncle phil

    uncle phil Moderator Emeritus (and sorely missed) Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    pasco county
    Also on December 2, 1954, the U. S. Senate voted to condemn Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy for what it called "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." The censure was related to McCarthy's controversial investigation of suspected communists in the U.S. government, military and civilian society...
     
    uncle phil, Dec 2, 2011
    #279
  20. Tully Mars

    Tully Mars Very Tilted

    Location:
    Yucatan, Mexico
    On this day in 1984, more than 4,000 people died after a cloud of gas escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, India.
     
    Tully Mars, Dec 3, 2011
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