This day in history.....

Nov 9 2346

Romulans commit an atrocity now known as the Khitomer Massacre, slaughtering over 4,000 Klingons on an agricultural colony. Worf and Kahlest are the only two to survive.
 
A.B.Normal said:
Nov 9 2346

Romulans commit an atrocity now known as the Khitomer Massacre, slaughtering over 4,000 Klingons on an agricultural colony. Worf and Kahlest are the only two to survive.
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someone reads their daily rotten news
 
November 10th


1775: The U.S. Marine Corps is established.


1801: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to legislate against dueling.


1871: Anglo-American journalist and African explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley finds Scottish missionary David Livingstone in Central Africa.


1951: Direct-dial transcontinental telephone service becomes available.


1994: Iraq recognizes the independence of Kuwait.
 
November 11th


1620: Pilgrim emigrants sign the Mayflower Compact, giving themselves the power to govern their planned settlement in New England.


1887: Four labor activists accused of murdering eight Chicago police officers at the Haymarket Square Riot are executed by hanging in Illinois.


1917: Liliuokalani, first Hawaiian queen and last reigning sovereign of Hawaii (1891-1895), dies in Honolulu, Hawaii, at age 79.


1918: World War I ends.


1921: Exactly three years after the end of World War I, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated at Arlington Cemetery in Virginia, during a ceremony presided over by President Warren G. Harding.
:usa: God Bless all those and their families-We will never forget what they did for us! :crying4:

1965: Rhodesia, the African country later known as Zimbabwe, declares its independence from Britain.
 
November 12th


1799: American astronomer Andrew Ellicott Douglass witnesses the first meteor shower on record, the Leonids meteor shower, from a ship off the Florida Keys.

1948: An international war crimes tribunal in Tokyo passes death sentences on seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Tojo Hideki, who served as premier of Japan from 1941 to 1944.


1971: U.S. President Richard Nixon proclaims the end of the U.S. offensive role in the Vietnam War and withdraws 45,000 troops.


1980: Voyager I comes within 78,000 miles of Saturn.
 
Amazing how 78,000 miles is "close" to Saturn, yet if your Saturn is at 78,000 miles it's an oil change interval past when Valvoline says you should switch to its "high mileage" oil.
 
November 14th


1832: The first streetcar goes into operation.

1851: Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick.


1935: The Commonwealth of the Philippines is officially proclaimed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1832: The first streetcar goes into operation.

1851: Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick.
Learn more about Herman Melville.

1935: The Commonwealth of the Philippines is officially proclaimed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Learn more about the Philippines.

1969: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second lunar landing mission and the first mission to make a pinpoint landing on the moon.

1972: The Dow Jones industrial average closes above 1,000 for the first time.


1969: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second lunar landing mission and the first mission to make a pinpoint landing on the moon.
Learn more about the Apollo program.

1972: The Dow Jones industrial average closes above 1,000 for the first time.
 
November 15th


1777: The American Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation of the United States of America and sends them to the states for ratification.


1889: A military coup forces Brazilian emperor Pedro II from the throne and a democratic republic is proclaimed.


1965: Craig Breedlove reaches a speed of over 600 miles per hour in his jet-powered Spirit of America, setting a new land speed record.

1969: A Vietnam War moratorium rally at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., draws a crowd of 600,000 protestors.
 
Mare said:
November 15th



1965: Craig Breedlove reaches a speed of over 600 miles per hour in his jet-powered Spirit of America, setting a new land speed record.
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giving rise to the idea of 30 minute pizza delivery
 
1676: On Nantucket Island, located in the English colony of Massachusetts, local authorities hire William Bunker to establish the first prison in the America colonies.


1907: Oklahoma becomes the 46th of the United States.


1933: The United States and USSR establish diplomatic ties.


1946: The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), headquartered in Paris, France, comes into operation.
 
November 17th


1558: Queen Mary I, the reigning monarch of England and Ireland since 1553, dies at the age of forty-two; Elizabeth I succeeds to the throne.


1800: The U.S. Congress convenes for the first time in the partially completed Capitol building.


1869: French diplomat and engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps completes the 168 km (105 mi) long Suez Canal in Egypt that links the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.


1970: Lunokhod 1, a self-propelled vehicle controlled by Soviet mission control on earth, rolled out of the Luna 17 landing probe, and became the first wheeled vehicle to travel on the moon.
 
November 17th



1477: William Caxton publishes Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, the first book to be printed in England.


1820: Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to sight the continent of Antarctica.


1883: To facilitate railroad timetables, the United States and Canada adopt Standard time.


1963: The first push-button telephone goes into service.
 
November 18th


1620: The Mayflower arrives off of the coast of Cape Cod.


1863: American president Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Civil War cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.


1954: The first automatic toll collection machine is placed in service at the Union Toll Plaza on New Jersey's Garden State Parkway.

1969: American astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan LaVern Bean are the third and fourth humans to walk on the surface of the moon.
 
Mare said:
1954: The first automatic toll collection machine is placed in service at the Union Toll Plaza on New Jersey's Garden State Parkway.
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That's right, it costs money to get out of New Jersey. :lol2:
 
November 20th


1620: Peregrine White is born aboard the Mayflower, anchored near the tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts. She is the first child ever born of English parents in New England.


1866: Howard University, the first university for African-American students, is founded in Washington, D.C., as the Howard Theological Seminary.


1917: British military tanks penetrate German lines in the Battle of Cambrai in northeastern France. It is the first large-scale use of tanks.


1945: The International Military Tribunal opens trial in Nürnberg, Germany. Twenty-four individuals are charged with a variety of crimes and atrocities.


1967: U.S. President Lyndon Johnson announces the formation of the National Commission on Product Safety.
 
November 21st



1783: French physicist Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier makes the first manned flight in a hot air balloon.


1942: The Alcan Highway in Alaska is completed.


1945: The United Auto Workers staged the first postwar strike at the General Motors plant in Detroit, Michigan.
 
November 22nd


1906: "S-O-S" is adopted as the international distress signal.


1927: Carl Eliason of Wisconsin patents the snowmobile.


1935: The first transpacific air-mail flight leaves San Francisco.


1963: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.


1969: The lunar module of Apollo 12 (launched November 14) lands on the southeastern Oceanus Procellarum region of the moon.
 
November 23rd


1863: Fighting begins in the Battle of Chattanooga.


1945: With the end of WWII all rationing stops in the United States, with the exception of sugar. Food remains scarce everywhere else and the black market continues to exist throughout Europe.

1973: Representative Yvonne Burke gives birth to a daughter, Autumn Roxanne Burke, becoming the first member of Congress to become a mother while in office.
 
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