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# Notable events in history (Nov-Dec)
# Today in History dates provided by Robert Heckendorn at
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# Additional dates provided from ProLine's today file
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# Some duplicates may exist where I haven't been able to verify which
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** 11 01 99 99 00 Algeria began its rebellion against French rule (1954)
** 11 01 99 99 00 An earthquake hits Spain, Portugal and Morocco killing 60000 in Lisbon alone (1755)
** 11 01 99 99 00 Austria-Hungary become two seperate nations (1918)
** 11 01 99 99 00 Barbed wire is first made allowing the ranges to be fenced (1873)
** 11 01 99 99 00 Benito Mussolini described the alliance between Italy and Nazi Germany as an "axis" running between Rome and Berlin (1936)
** 11 01 99 99 00 First Class Mail raised from 18 to 20 cents. (1981)
** 11 01 99 99 00 General George B. McClellan was made general in chief of the Union armies (1861)
** 11 01 99 99 00 Michelangelo's paintings on the Sistine Chapel ceiling were first exhibited to the public (1512)
** 11 01 99 99 00 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Truman at Blair House (1950)
** 11 01 99 99 00 The first hydrogen bomb is exploded at Eniwetak Island in the Pacific (1952)
** 11 01 99 99 00 The stamp act goes into effect in the British colonies. Colonists reacted strongly with flags at half mast and burning of stamps (1765)
** 11 01 99 99 00 US Government loans Chrysler Corporation $1.5 billion after it had lost $460M in 3rd Quarter (1979)
** 11 01 99 99 00 US Weather Bureau begins operations. (1870)
** 11 01 99 99 00 first women report for sea duty on US Navy non-combat ships (1978)
** 11 02 99 99 00 All church land is nationalized in France and later used as collateral for paper money (1789)
** 11 02 99 99 00 Jimmy Carter defeated incumbent Gerald Ford; the first Deep South presidential candidate to be elected since the Civil War (1976)
** 11 02 99 99 00 Lansing-Ishii Agreement (1917)
** 11 02 99 99 00 Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive nights of bombing of London (1940)
** 11 02 99 99 00 North Dakota becomes the 39th state (1889)
** 11 02 99 99 00 South Dakota becomes the 40th state (1889)
** 11 02 99 99 00 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers. (1948)
** 11 03 99 99 00 Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America. (1930)
** 11 03 99 99 00 Beef rises to 3 cents a pound in Illinois (1837)
** 11 03 99 99 00 Charles Birdseye markets frozen peas. (1952)
** 11 03 99 99 00 First Class Mail now costs 3 cents. (1917)
** 11 03 99 99 00 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize (1954)
** 11 03 99 99 00 Panama gains it's independence from Columbia. (1903)
** 11 03 99 99 00 Rev. Jesse Jackson began his first campaign for the Democratic nomination for president (1983)
** 11 03 99 99 00 The Automobile Club of America sponsored the first automobile show in the United States at Madison Square Garden (1900)
** 11 03 99 99 00 first automatic switchboard (1892)
** 11 04 99 99 00 90 people taken hostage when Iranians overrun US embassy in Teheran (1979)
** 11 04 99 99 00 Death to America day in Iran (1987)
** 11 04 99 99 00 First wagon train reaches California (1841)
** 11 04 99 99 00 Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Tutankhamen. (1922)
** 11 04 99 99 00 Nellie T. Ross becomes governor of Wyoming and the first woman governor ever (1924)
** 11 04 99 99 00 Ronald Reagan elected president, a sad day for environmentalists everywhere (1980)
** 11 04 99 99 00 Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt in Hungary (1956)
** 11 04 99 99 00 The first cash register was patented. (1880)
** 11 05 99 99 00 Guy Fawkes caught preparing to blow up the parliament and king James I (1605)
** 11 05 99 99 00 John Hanson elected 1st 'President of the United States in Congress assembled' (8 years before Washington was elected) (1781)
** 11 05 99 99 00 Last Seth Thomas tower clock installed (1942)
** 11 05 99 99 00 Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for trying to vote in the presidential election (1872)
** 11 06 99 99 00 Abraham Lincoln elected president (1860)
** 11 06 99 99 00 Bolsheviks overthrow moderate provisional government making Lenin dictator (1917)
** 11 06 99 99 00 Col. Jacob Schick was issued a patent for the electric razor (1923)
** 11 06 99 99 00 Direct Telegraphic link between New York and San Francisco established (1862)
** 11 06 99 99 00 The stock market hits 1400 on its way up (1985)
** 11 07 99 99 00 Battle of Tippecanoe, gave Harrison a presidential slogan. (1811)
** 11 07 99 99 00 Canada completes its own transcontinental railway. (1885)
** 11 07 99 99 00 Congress overrides Nixon's veto of bill to curb president's ability to commit armed forces to hostile action (1973)
** 11 07 99 99 00 First state penitentiary for women is opened (1877)
** 11 07 99 99 00 Franklin Roosevelt wins a fourth term against Thomas E. Dewey (1944)
** 11 07 99 99 00 Lewis and Clark first sighted the Pacific Ocean. (1805)
** 11 07 99 99 00 October revolution takes place in Russia, Lenin overthrows Kerensky (1917)
** 11 07 99 99 00 The Mary Celeste sets sail for Genoa. She will be found 4 weeks later abandoned at sea, the whereabouts of her crew unknown. (1872)
** 11 07 99 99 00 Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa from sea to sea (1875)
** 11 07 99 99 00 an elephant is first used to represent the Republican party in a cartoon by Thomas Nast (1874)
** 11 07 99 99 00 an erroneous United Press report of armistice sets off celebrations (1918)
** 11 08 99 99 00 Adolph Hitler and General Ludendorff seize the Munich government (1923)
** 11 08 99 99 00 During the Korean War, the first jet to jet combat occurs as Lieutenant Russell J. Brown shoots down a North Korean MIG-15 (1950)
** 11 08 99 99 00 Edwrd W. Brooke of Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. senator elected by popular vote (1966)
** 11 08 99 99 00 George Bush elected as 41st President (1988)
** 11 08 99 99 00 John Kennedy narrowly beat Richard Nixon for the Presidency (1960)
** 11 08 99 99 00 Montana becomes the 41st state (1889)
** 11 08 99 99 00 Operation Torch begins as U.S. and British forces invade North Africa (1942)
** 11 08 99 99 00 the Louvre, in Paris, was opened to the public. (1793)
** 11 09 99 99 00 Blackout of New York, New England, & Eastern Canada (1965)
** 11 09 99 99 00 Fire destroyed nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston. (1872)
** 11 09 99 99 00 Giant panda discovered (?!), China (1927)
** 11 09 99 99 00 Kristallnacht, a night of antisemitic rioting in Germany (1938)
** 11 09 99 99 00 Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control League (1921)
** 11 09 99 99 00 Roosevelt establishes the Civil Works Administration (1933)
** 11 09 99 99 00 The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) starts freely issuing visas for travel to West Germany for its citizens (1989)
** 11 09 99 99 00 The U.N. General Assembly passed 10 resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa (1976)
** 11 09 99 99 00 last victim of Jack the Ripper dies (1888)
** 11 10 99 99 00 1st Long Distance telephone call without operator assistance. (1951)
** 11 10 99 99 00 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston) (1891)
** 11 10 99 99 00 41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstrations near White House (1917)
** 11 10 99 99 00 Badlands National Park approved by Congress (1978)
** 11 10 99 99 00 Captain Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged (1865)
** 11 10 99 99 00 Henry Stanley finds David Livingstone at Ujiji, Zanzibar and says "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" To which Livingstone replies, "Yes, and I feel thankful that I am here to welcome you." (1871)
** 11 10 99 99 00 Hirohito takes the throne as Emperor of Japan (1928)
** 11 10 99 99 00 The Iwo Jima Memorial is dedicated in Arlington, Va. (1954)
** 11 10 99 99 00 The Mayflower compact is signed (1620)
** 11 10 99 99 00 The U.S. Marines organized to protect ships (1775)
** 11 10 99 99 00 The ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald and its crew of 29 vanish during a storm on Lake Superior (1975)
** 11 11 99 99 00 Angola gains independence from Portugal (1975)
** 11 11 99 99 00 Haymarket rioters hanged (1887)
** 11 11 99 99 00 Indians led by William Butler massacre the inhabitants of Cherry Valley in New York (1778)
** 11 11 99 99 00 Israel and Egypt sign a cease-fire (1972)
** 11 11 99 99 00 Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated. (1924)
** 11 11 99 99 00 The Allies and the Germans sign Armistice ending World War I (1918)
** 11 11 99 99 00 Washington admitted as the 42nd state. (1889)
** 11 12 99 99 00 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster is taken. (1933)
** 11 12 99 99 00 Arches National Park approved by Congress (1971)
** 11 12 99 99 00 Ellis Island closes after more than 20M immigrants were processed since 1892 (1954)
** 11 12 99 99 00 Josef Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party (1927)
** 11 12 99 99 00 The bodies of Captain Scott and his companions are found after their tragic attempt to return from the South Pole (1912)
** 11 12 99 99 00 The first salmon is caught in the Thames river since the 1840's (1974)
** 11 12 99 99 00 U.S. first exports oil to Europe (1861)
** 11 12 99 99 00 the 1st "autobank" (banking by car) was established, in Chicago (1946)
** 11 13 99 99 00 Benjamin Franklin wrote to a friend, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." (1789)
** 11 13 99 99 00 Bloody Sunday occurs in Trafalgar Square, London as Socialist and Irish demonstrators fought (1887)
** 11 13 99 99 00 Brothers and Sisters of Red Death attempt mass suicide before world ends (1900)
** 11 13 99 99 00 London-Paris Telegraph is opened (1851)
** 11 13 99 99 00 Peter Burnett is elected 1st governor of California. (1849)
** 11 13 99 99 00 The volcano, Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia, erupts sending a huge mud slide down to kill 25000 people (1985)
** 11 14 99 99 00 A new island, later called Surtsey boiled up through the ocean surface off the coast of Iceland (1963)
** 11 14 99 99 00 Capt. George Vancouver is 1st Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay. (1792)
** 11 14 99 99 00 Charles J. Guiteau went on trial for the assassination of President Garfield; he was convicted and hanged the next year (1881)
** 11 14 99 99 00 Coventry, England is heavily bombed by the Germans. Coventry Cathedral is destroyed (1940)
** 11 14 99 99 00 Nellie Bly beats Phineas Fogg's time for a trip around the world by 8 days (72 days) (1889)
** 11 14 99 99 00 President Carter freezes all Iranian assets in US Banks in response to Iranian hostage crisis (1979)
** 11 14 99 99 00 Quarter Pounder price raised from $0.53 to $0.55 in violation of Nixon price controls (but okayed by Price Commission after formal request from McDonald's) (1971)
** 11 14 99 99 00 The world's first street car runs in New York (1832)
** 11 15 99 99 00 Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon began running the Mason-Dixon line (1763)
** 11 15 99 99 00 Columbus makes first reference to the use of tobacco by New World Indians (1492)
** 11 15 99 99 00 Free Postal Delivery formally inaugurated. (1869)
** 11 15 99 99 00 Infant Baby Fae, who had received a baboon's heart, died almost three weeks after the transplant (1984)
** 11 15 99 99 00 Niagara Falls power plant startup (1896)
** 11 15 99 99 00 Pres. F.D.Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial. (1939)
** 11 15 99 99 00 Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check. (1939)
** 11 15 99 99 00 The last voyage of the Queen Elizabeth ends (1968)
** 11 16 99 99 00 Oklahoma becomes the 46th state (1907)
** 11 16 99 99 00 Opening of the Suez Canal (1869)
** 11 16 99 99 00 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. (1933)
** 11 17 99 99 00 0h on this day is the epoch for the Modified Julian Date (MJD) (1858)
** 11 17 99 99 00 Accession of Queen Elizabeth I of England (1558)
** 11 17 99 99 00 Ayatollah Khomeini orders release of thirteen female and black hostages from the U.S. embassy in Tehran (1979)
** 11 17 99 99 00 Church of England is reestablished (1558)
** 11 17 99 99 00 Colonel Nasser becomes Egyptian Premier (1954)
** 11 17 99 99 00 Congress convened for its 1st Washington, DC session. (1800)
** 11 17 99 99 00 Panama Canal opens for use. (1913)
** 11 18 99 99 00 Antarctica discovered by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer. (1820)
** 11 18 99 99 00 Cortez leaves Cuba for Mexico with 10 armed vessels (1518)
** 11 18 99 99 00 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, gave US exclusive canal rights thru Panama. (1903)
** 11 18 99 99 00 Local standard time zones established for US and Canada (1883)
** 11 18 99 99 00 St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated (1626)
** 11 18 99 99 00 The Jonestown, Guyana mass murder and suicide (1978)
** 11 18 99 99 00 U.S. Navy Captain Nathanial Palmer discovered Antartica (1820)
** 11 18 99 99 00 U.S. Roman Catholic bishops did away with the rule against eating meat on Fridays (1966)
** 11 18 99 99 00 William Tell is said to have shot the apple off of his son's head (1307)
** 11 18 99 99 00 the last boatload of British convicts land in Australia (1840)
** 11 18 99 99 00 ticker tape used for the first time in a parade as Prince of Wales visits the U.S. (1919)
** 11 19 99 99 00 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico. (1493)
** 11 19 99 99 00 Ford Motor Co. announced it was halting production of the Edsel. (1959)
** 11 19 99 99 00 Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg. (1863)
** 11 19 99 99 00 Liquified gas tanks explode in Mexico City killing 452 with 1000 missing (1984)
** 11 19 99 99 00 Zion National Park approved by Congress (1919)
** 11 19 99 99 00 more than 50000 gallons of radioactive waste water is accidentally released into the Mississippi River when waste storage overflows at Monticello, Minn. reactor (1971)
** 11 19 99 99 00 the pencil is invented. (1895)
** 11 20 99 99 00 Egypt and China announce their recognition of a Palestinian state (1988)
** 11 20 99 99 00 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first 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