This day in history.....

October 29th


1618: Sir Walter Raleigh, English adventurer, writer, and favorite courtier of Queen Elizabeth I, is beheaded in England under a sentence brought against him fifteen years earlier by King James I.


1923: The Turkish nationalist leader Mustafa Kemal Pasha (later known as Atatürk) is elected president of Turkey.


1929: The stock market crashes, heralding the onset of the Great Depression.


1991: The American space probe Galileo takes the first close-up photograph of an asteroid in space.
 
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1517: German theologian and religious reformer Martin Luther publishes his Ninety-Five Theses, denouncing the sale of indulgences (pardons for sins) and stressing salvation through the grace of God alone.


1941: While escorting a convoy of war material to Britain, the destroyer Reuben James is torpedoed and becomes the first U.S. warship to be sunk by hostile action during World War II.


1956: American rear admiral George John Dufek is the first person to land an airplane at the South Pole.


1984: Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards.
 
November 3rd


1900: The first automobile show opens in Madison Square Garden in New York.


1903: Panama issues a declaration of independence from Colombia.


1953: The first coast-to-coast live color telecast airs.


1957: The dog Laika becomes the first living creature to travel in space, on board Sputnik 2.


867: Byzantine emperor Basil I deposes Photius as patriarch of Constantinople, ending the schism between Greek and Roman churches.
Learn more about Photius.
 
November 5th


1370: Kazimierz III the Great, king of Poland (1333-1370) and last of the Piast dynasty, dies at age 60.


1605: English conspirator Guy Fawkes is arrested in an attempt to blow up the British Parliament.


1895: American inventor George B. Selden patents the gasoline-powered automobile.


1912: Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th president of the United States.


1940: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to a third term in office.
 
November 7th


1307: The legendary Swiss archer William Tell is said to have shot Hermann Gessler, the Austrian governor of Tyrol, on this day.


1837: In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot to death by a mob while trying to protect his printing shop.

1917: The Bolshevik-led Congress of Soviets comes to power in Russia.


1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected to a record fourth term as president of the United States.


1989: In New York, former Manhattan borough president David Dinkins becomes the city's first African-American mayor.


1989: In Virginia, Lieutenant Governor Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African-American state governor in American history.
 
November 8th


1918: German Kaiser Wilhelm is deposed.


1923: In Munich, armed policeman and troops loyal to Germany's democratic government crush the Beer Hall putsch (revolt), Hitler's first attempt at seizing control of the German government.


1938: In Germany, Nazis set synagogues on fire, smash the windows of Jewish shops, and arrest thousands of Jews in a single night that comes to be known as Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass.

1965: New York and much of the northeast coast of North America suffer the largest power failure in history, leaving thirty million people in the dark.


1989: German citizens begin to demolish the Berlin Wall, which has separated East Germany from West Germany since 1961.
 
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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.


1965: Rhodesia, the African country later known as Zimbabwe, declares its independence from Britain.
 
November 13th


1789: U.S. President George Washington returns to Washington at the end of his first presidential tour.


1933: In Austin, Minnesota, workers at the packing plant of George A. Hormel and Company hold the first sit-down strike in American labor history.


1969: War moratorium demonstrations occur across the nation.


1982: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. The names of more than 58,000 lost soldiers are inscribed on a long wall of polished black granite.
 
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.
 
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 19th






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.
 
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. :crap: :crying6:


1969: The lunar module of Apollo 12 (launched November 14) lands on the southeastern Oceanus Procellarum region of the moon.
Learn more about the Apollo program.
 
November 24th


1642: Dutch navigator Abel Tasman discovers Tasmania.


1874: Joseph Glidden of Illinois patents barbed wire.


1922: English writer Erskine Childers is shot by an Irish Free State firing squad after being convicted of carrying a small pistol.

1963: Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald.


1987: Li Peng succeeds Zhao Ziyang as premier of China.
 
November 26th


1906: Theodore Roosevelt visits Panama, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to travel abroad.


1965: France successfully launches the Diamant-A rocket into space, becoming the world's third space power after the Soviet Union and the United States.
 
November 27th


1095: At the council of Clermont, France, Pope Urban II proclaims the First Crusade.


1779: The Pennsylvania state government converts the College of Philadelphia into the University of the State of Pennsylvania, thus creating both America's first state school and America's first official university.


1901: The Army War College is authorized by the U.S. Department of War.


1924: New York City's Macy's department store held its first Thanksgiving Day parade down a two-mile stretch of Broadway from Central Park West to Herald Square.


1942: A French Navy fleet stationed in Toulon sinks 10 of their own cruisers, 28 destroyers, and 14 submarines to avoid their falling into Nazi hands.
 
November 28th


1520: Portuguese-born Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic.


1895: The first American (gasoline-powered) automobile race takes place in Chicago.


1919: American-born Nancy Astor is the first woman in British history elected to a seat in Parliament.


1929: American explorer Richard Byrd begins his flight over the South Pole.


1943: The first conference between the leaders of the three major Allied powers—Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin—begins in Teheran, Iran.
 
November 29th


1864: U.S. military forces attack a Cheyenne encampment at Sand Creek, massacring over four hundred men, women, and children.


1890: The first Army-Navy football game is played between the U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Naval Academy.

1929: American explorer Richard Byrd passes over the South Pole, becoming the first man to fly over both poles.


1945: Yugoslavia becomes a federated republic.


1947: The United Nations (U.N.) adopts a plan for the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab zones with Jerusalem under U.N. trusteeship, sparking fights between Jews and Arabs in Palestine.


1963: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission, headed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
 
1947: The United Nations (U.N.) adopts a plan for the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab zones with Jerusalem under U.N. trusteeship, sparking fights between Jews and Arabs in Palestine.
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