November:
Today in History, Holidays, and Fun Facts
| 1 | 1512 - Public Admitted to View
Michelangelo's Work on the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel 1765 - Start of the Stamp Act 1993 - Maastricht Treaty Established the European Union |
| 2 | 1889 - North Dakota and South Dakota Became States |
| 3 | 1839 - Start of the
First Opium War 1903 - Panama Independent of Colombia |
| 4 | 1842 -
Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln Married 1922 - Pharaoh Tutankhamen's Tomb Discovered by Howard Carter 1956 - Hungarian Revolt Put Down by Soviet Troops 1995 - Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin |
| 5 | 1605 - Failure of the
Gunpowder Plot in
England 1968 - Election of Shirley Chisholm, the First African-American Woman to Serve in the United States Congress |
| 6 | 1893 - Death of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg, Russia |
| 7 | 1917 - Russian Bolsheviks under Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Overthrew the Government of Alexander Kerensky |
| 8 | 1889 -
Montana Became a State 1923 - Beer Hall Putsch in Germany |
| 9 | 1938 - Kristallnacht in Germany |
| 10 | 1871 - "Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?" Spoken
by Henry Stanley to the Found
David Livingstone 1928 - Coronation of Hirohito in Japan |
| 11 | 1620 - Signing of the
Mayflower Compact 1831 - Execution of Nat Turner 1965 - Rhodesia (Now Zimbabwe) Independent |
| 12 | 1927 - Soviet Communist Party Expelled
Leon
Trotsky 1954 - Ellis Island Closed 1990 - Ascension of Akihito to the Japanese Throne |
| 13 | 1942 -
Draft Age Lowered from 21 to 18 1982 - Dedication of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. |
| 14 | 1851 - Publication of Moby Dick by Herman Melville |
| 15 | 1777 - Articles of Confederation Approved by the Continental Congress |
| 16 | 1907 - Oklahoma Became a State |
| 17 | 1558 -
Elizabeth I Ascended to the English
Throne 1800 - First Meeting of the United States Congress in Washington, D.C. 1869 - Opening of Egypt's Suez Canal 1973 - "I Am Not a Crook" Stated by Richard Nixon |
| 18 | 1820 - Antarctica Reached by Captain Nathaniel Palmer |
| 19 | 1794 - Signing of Jay's Treaty 1990 - Milli Vanilli's Grammy Award Rescinded |
| 20 | 1945 - Start of the War Crimes Trials in
Nuremberg, Germany 1962 - End of the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| 21 | 1789 - North Carolina Became a State |
| 22 | 1497 - Vasco de Gama Sailed around the Cape
of Good Hope 1963 - Assassination of United States President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Dallas, Texas |
| 23 | 1945 - End of Wartime Food Rationing in the United States |
| 24 | 1642 - Abel Tasman Reached Tasmania 1859 - Publication of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin 1871 - Incorporation of the National Rifle Association (NRA) 1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald Fatally Shot by Jack Ruby |
| 25 | 1986 - Breaking of the Iran-Contra Scandal 1999 - Florida Rescue of Cuban Refugee Elian Gonzalez |
| 26 | 1940 - Jewish Population of Warsaw, Poland, Forced to Relocate to an Enclosed Ghetto by the Nazis |
| 27 | 1910 - Pennsylvania Station Opened in New York City |
| 28 | 1520 - Ferdinand Magellan Passed through
What Was Later Named the Strait of Magellan in His Honor 1942 - Boston's Coconut Grove Nightclub Fire 1943 - Tehran Conference between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin (World War II) |
| 29 | 1929 - Commander Richard E. Byrd and His Crew Flew over the South Pole |
| 30 | 1940 - Marriage of Lucille Ball and Desi
Arnaz 1974 - Discovery of the Lucy Skeleton by Donald Johanson in Ethiopia |
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