November
11/1
1952 - The United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb
1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public.
1936 - Benito Mussolini described the alliance between his country and Nazi Germany as an "axis" running between Rome and Berlin.
1765 - The Stamp Act went into effect
1604 - William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" was first performed
11/2
1783 - Gen. George Washington issued his farewell address to the Army
1983 - Reagan established a federal holiday for Martin Luther King Jr.
1947 - Howard Hughes piloted his huge airplane, the Spruce Goose
1889 - North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states.
1976 - Carter became the 1st U.S. president from the Deep South since the Civil War.
11/3
1493 - Christopher Columbus discovers island of Dominica
1900 - First US automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden
1956 - "Wizard of Oz" 1st televised (CBS-TV)
1911 - The Chevrolet Motor Car Co. was founded
1992 - Carol Moseley-Braun became the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
11/4
2008 - Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States
2001 - The movie "Harry Potter" has its world premiere in London.
1955 - Baseball Hall of Famer Cy Young died at age 88.
1939 - The U.S started its "cash and carry" program
1922 - The entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered
11/5
1872 - Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote
1935 - Parker Brothers began marketing the board game "Monopoly."
2006 - Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced
1999 - A federal judge declared Microsoft Corp. a monopoly.
1994 - Former President Reagan disclosed he had Alzheimer's disease.
11/6
2001 - Billionaire Michael Bloomberg was elected New York City mayor.
1995 - Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell announced plans to move the team to Baltimore.
1861 - James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, was born
1861 - Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederacy.
1854 - John Philip Sousa, the king of American march music, was born
11/7
1917 - Russia's Bolshevik Revolution began
1893 - Colorado became the first state to grant women the right to vote.
1911 - Marie Curie became the first multiple Nobel Prize winner. She won for (chemistry and physics)
2009 – Affordable Care Act passed the House of Representatives
2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first lady to win public office.
11/8
1960 - John F. Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency.
2000 - A statewide recount of presidential election ballots began in Florida.
1972 - HBO made its debut with a showing of the movie "Sometimes a Great Notion."
1971 - The album Led Zeppelin IV was released.
1847 - Bram Stoker, author of Dracula was born
11/9
1938 - The "night of broken glass."
2011 - Penn State fired longtime head football coach Joe Paterno
2004 - Houston Astros pitcher Roger Clemens won his record seventh Cy Young award.
1918 - Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II announced that he would abdicate.
1976 - The United Nations General Assembly condemned apartheid in South Africa.
11/10
1969 - "Sesame Street" debuted on PBS.
1951 - Direct-dial, coast-to-coast telephone service began
1938 - Kate Smith first sang "God Bless America" on the radio.
1928 - Hirohito became Emperor of Japan.
1483 - Martin Luther was born
11/11
1885 - George Patton was born.
1620 – 41 Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, anchored off Massachusetts, signed a compact calling for a "body politick."
2008 - Country singer Taylor Swift's album "Fearless" was released.
1992 - The Church of England voted to ordain women as priests.
1831 - Former slave Nat Turner was executed
11/12
1920 - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected baseball's first commissioner.
1997 - Ramzi Yousef was found guilty of masterminding the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
1954 - Ellis Island closed
1948 - Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo was sentenced to death
2014 – 1st time a spacecraft has landed on a comet
11/13
1997 - The Disney musical "The Lion King" opened on Broadway.
1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated
1927 - The Holland Tunnel opened to the public.
1956 - The Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses.
1969 – Actor Gerard Butler was born
11/14
1851 - Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick" was published.
1904 - King C Gillette patents Gillette razor blade
1881 - Charles J. Guiteau went on trial for assassinating President James A. Garfield.
1935 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth.
1964 - Reverend Run, Rapper (Run-DMC), was born
11/15
1777 – The Articles of Confederation are approved
1926 –The NBC radio network made is debut
1939 - The cornerstone for the Jefferson Memorial was put in place.
2007 - Barry Bonds was indicted for lying to a grand jury
2013 - Sony launches the Playstation Four
11/16
1939 - Al Capone freed from Alcatraz jail
2012 - Call of Duty: Black Ops 2' grosses $500 million in 24 hours. A record
1973 – President Nixon authorizes construction of Alaskan pipeline
1966 - Dr Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail
1965 - Walt Disney launches Epcot Center
11/17
2008 - "Twilight" premiered in Los Angeles.
2003 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as governor of California.
1869 - The Suez Canal opened in Egypt
1800 - Congress held its first session in Washington, D.C.
1928 - Notre Dame finally lost a football game after nearly 25 years
11/18
1883 - The U.S. and Canada adopted a system of standard time zones.
1926 - "Steamboat Willie" premiered
1969 - Financier and diplomat Joseph P. Kennedy
2009 - Sen. Robert C. Byrd became the` longest-serving senator in history, at 56 years, 320 days.
1966 - U.S. Roman Catholic bishops did away with the rule against eating meat on Fridays.
11/19
1863 - President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address
2007 - Amazon.com Inc. introduced the Kindle
2006 - The Wii first went on sale.
2001 - Barry Bonds became the first baseball player to win four MVP awards.
1990 - Milli Vanilli was stripped of its Grammy Award.
11/20
1945 – The Nuremberg trials began
1985 - Microsoft's Windows operating system, Windows 1.0, was released.
1947 - Princess Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh
1943 - Vice President Joe Biden was born
1910 - Revolution broke out in Mexico
11/21
2004 - The NBA suspended Ron Artest for the rest of the season following a brawl in the stands during a game.
1989 - The proceedings of Britain's House of Commons were televised live for the first time.
1980 - A fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas killed 87 people.
1922 - Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia was sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.
1973 - Nixon's attorney revealed the existence of an 18 1/2-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.
11/22
1963 - President John F. Kennedy was assassinated
1718 - English pirate Edward Teach - better known as "Blackbeard" - was killed during a battle off the Virginia coast.
1968 - The Beatles' "White Album" was released.
1906 - The SOS distress signal was adopted
2005 - The Microsoft video game console Xbox 360 went on sale.
11/23
1889 - The jukebox made its debut
1936 - First issue of Life is published
1981 - Reagan gives CIA authority to establish the Contras
1859 - Billy the Kid born
2012 – Larry Hagman died
11/24
1963 - Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald
1971 - D.B. Cooper parachuted from a 727 over Washington State with $200,000 in ransom.
1991 - Freddie Mercury, of the rock band Queen, died
1871 - The National Rifle Association was incorporated.
1969 - Apollo 12 returned to Earth
11/25
2008 - Football player Michael Vick pleaded guilty to a dogfighting charge
2002 - President George W. Bush creating the Department of Homeland Security
1999 - Six-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez was rescued off the coast of Florida
1986 - The Iran-Contra affair erupted
1947 - Movie studio executives agreed to blacklist the Hollywood 10
11/26
1975 - Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme found guilty of trying to assassinate President Ford.
1942 - "Casablanca," made its world premiere
1940 - The half million Jews of Warsaw, Poland, were forced by the Nazis to live within a walled ghetto.
1825 - The first college social fraternity was formed at Union College
43 BC - The Second Triumvirate is formed. (We will study this in February)
11/27
1973 - the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who'd resigned.
1901 - The Army War College was established in Washington, D.C.
1910 - New York's Pennsylvania Station opened.
1942 - The French navy at Toulon scuttled its ships and submarines to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis
1978 - Jimmy Rollins, Baseball player, was born