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  1. Sym
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    Welcome to the THIS DAY IN HISTORY daily email from History.com

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    November 3: General Interest
    1964 : D.C. residents cast first presidential votes

    On this day in 1964, residents of the District of Columbia cast their ballots in a presidential election for the first time. The passage of the 23rd Amendment in 1961 gave citizens of the nation's capital the right to vote for a commander in chief and vice president. They went on to help Democrat Lyndon Johnson defeat Republican Barry Goldwater in 1964, the next presidential election.

    Between 1776 and 1800, New York and then Philadelphia served as the temporary center of government for the newly formed United States. The capital's location was a source of much controversy and debate, especially for Southern politicians, who didn't want it located too far north. In 1790, Congress passed a law allowing President George Washington to choose the permanent site. As a compromise, he selected a tract of undeveloped swampland on the Potomac River, between Maryland and Virginia, and began to refer to it as Federal City. The commissioners overseeing the development of the new city picked its permanent name—Washington—to honor the president. Congress met for the first time in Washington, D.C., on November 17, 1800.

    The District was put under the jurisdiction of Congress, which terminated D.C. residents' voting rights in 1801. In 1961, the 23rd Amendment restored these rights, allowing D.C. voters to choose electors for the Electoral College based on population, with a maximum of as many electors as the least populated state. With a current population of over 550,000 residents, 61-square-mile D.C. has three electoral votes, just like Wyoming, America's smallest state, population-wise. The majority of D.C.'s residents are African Americans and they have voted overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates in past presidential elections.

    In 1970, Congress gave Washington, D.C., one non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives and with the passage of 1973's Home Rule Act, Washingtonians got their first elected mayor and city council. In 1978, a proposed amendment would have given D.C. the right to select electors, representatives and senators, just like a state, but it failed to pass, as have subsequent calls for D.C. statehood.

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    American Revolution
    1777 : Washington learns of Conway cabal
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...of-conway-cabal

    Automotive
    1930 : Detroit-Windsor Tunnel opens to traffic
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...pens-to-traffic

    Civil War
    1816 : Jubal Early born
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jubal-early-born

    Cold War
    1964 : Johnson defeats Goldwater for presidency
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-for-presidency

    Crime
    1984 : A serial killer abducts and rapes his teenage victim
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-teenage-victim

    Disaster
    1974 : Hotel fire ends in disaster in South Korea
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-in-south-korea

    General Interest
    1903 : Panama declares independence
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...es-independence
    1957 : The Soviet space dog
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-soviet-space-dog
    1979 : Communists and Klansmen clash in Greensboro
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...h-in-greensboro
    1986 : Iran arms sales revealed
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/iran-arms-sales-revealed

    Hollywood
    1976 : Carrie creeps out audiences
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...s-out-audiences

    Literary
    1844 : Thackeray completes Barry Lyndon
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...es-barry-lyndon

    Music
    1962 : The Crystals earn a #1 hit with "He's A Rebel"—or do they?
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...t8212or-do-they

    Old West
    1883 : Black Bart makes his last stagecoach robbery
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...gecoach-robbery

    Presidential
    1948 : Newspaper mistakenly declares Dewey president
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...dewey-president

    Sports
    1998 : The Body is elected governor of Minnesota
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...or-of-minnesota

    Vietnam War
    1967 : Battle of Dak To begins
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-dak-to-begins
    1969 : Nixon calls on the "silent majority"
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...silent-majority

    World War I
    1918 : Central Powers face rebellion on the home front
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-the-home-front

    World War II
    1941 : The order is given: Bomb Pearl Harbor
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...mb-pearl-harbor
     
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  2. Sym
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    November 5: General Interest
    1994 : George Foreman becomes oldest heavyweight champ

    On this day in 1994, George Foreman, age 45, becomes boxing's oldest heavyweight champion when he defeats 26-year-old Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas. More than 12,000 spectators at the MGM Grand Hotel watched Foreman dethrone Moorer, who went into the fight with a 35-0 record. Foreman dedicated his upset win to "all my buddies in the nursing home and all the guys in jail."

    Born in 1949 in Marshal, Texas, Foreman had a troubled childhood and dropped out of high school. Eventually, he joined President Lyndon Johnson's Jobs Corps work program and discovered a talent for boxing. "Big George," as he was nicknamed, took home a gold medal for the U.S. at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. In 1973 in Kingston, Jamaica, after winning his first 37 professional matches, 34 by knockout, Foreman KO'd "Smokin'" Joe Frazier after two rounds and was crowned heavyweight champ. At 1974's "Rumble in the Jungle" in Kinshasha, Zaire, the younger, stronger Foreman suffered a surprising loss to underdog Muhammad Ali and was forced to relinquish his championship title. Three years later, Big George morphed from pugilist into preacher, when he had a religious experience in his dressing room after losing a fight. He retired from boxing, became an ordained minister in Houston and founded a youth center.

    A decade later, the millions he'd made as a boxer gone, Foreman returned to the ring at age 38 and staged a successful comeback. When he won his second heavyweight title in his 1994 fight against Moorer, becoming the WBA and IBF champ, Foreman was wearing the same red trunks he'd had on the night he lost to Ali.

    Foreman didn't hang onto the heavyweight mantle for long. In March 1995, he was stripped of his WBA title after refusing to fight No. 1 contender Tony Tucker, and he gave up his IBF title in June 1995 rather than fight a rematch with Axel Schulz, whom he'd narrowly beat in a controversial judges' decision in April of that same year. Foreman's last fight was in 1997; he lost to Shannon Biggs. He retired with a lifetime record of 76-5.

    Outside of the boxing ring, Foreman, who has five sons, all named George, and five daughters, has become enormously wealthy as an entrepreneur and genial TV pitchman for a variety of products, including the hugely popular George Foreman Grill.

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    American Revolution
    1775 : Washington condemns Guy Fawkes festivities
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...kes-festivities

    Automotive
    1895 : George Selden patents gas-powered car
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...gas-powered-car

    Civil War
    1862 : Lincoln removes McClellan
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...moves-mcclellan

    Cold War
    1968 : Richard Nixon elected president
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ected-president

    Crime
    1961 : A bag of bones helps solve a decades-old mystery
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...des-old-mystery

    Disaster
    1991 : Philippines struggles with severe flooding
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...severe-flooding

    General Interest
    1556 : Mughal victory assures Akbar's ascension
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...kbars-ascension
    1605 : King James learns of gunpowder plot
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-gunpowder-plot
    1912 : Wilson wins landslide victory
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ndslide-victory
    1930 : An American Nobel Prize in Literature
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...e-in-literature
    1990 : Jewish extremist assassinated in New York
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ted-in-new-york

    Hollywood
    2007 : Writers strike stalls production of TV shows, movies
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...tv-shows-movies

    Literary
    1893 : Willa Cather starts writing for the Nebraska State Journal
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...a-state-journal

    Music
    1938 : Samuel Barber's Adagio For Strings receives its world premiere on NBC radio
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...re-on-nbc-radio

    Old West
    1862 : 300 Santee Sioux sentenced to hang in Minnesota
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ng-in-minnesota

    Presidential
    1977 : George W. Bush marries Laura Welch in Midland, Texas
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...n-midland-texas

    Sports
    1994 : George Foreman becomes oldest heavyweight champ in history
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...hamp-in-history

    Vietnam War
    1968 : Nixon wins presidential election
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ential-election
    1970 : U.S. combat deaths down
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/us-combat-deaths-down

    World War I
    1914 : Battle of Tanga ends in defeat for British colonial troops
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...colonial-troops

    World War II
    1940 : FDR re-elected president
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-re-elected-president
     
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  3. Sym
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    November 6: General Interest
    1962 : U.N. condemns apartheid

    On this day in 1962, the United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and calling on all its members to end economic and military relations with the country.

    In effect from 1948 to 1993, apartheid, which comes from the Afrikaans word for "apartness," was government-sanctioned racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against South Africa's non-white majority. Among many injustices, blacks were forced to live in segregated areas and couldn’t enter whites-only neighborhoods unless they had a special pass. Although whites represented only a small fraction of the population, they held the vast majority of the country's land and wealth.

    Following the 1960 massacre of unarmed demonstrators at Sharpeville near Johannesburg, South Africa, in which 69 blacks were killed and over 180 were injured, the international movement to end apartheid gained wide support. However, few Western powers or South Africa's other main trading partners favored a full economic or military embargo against the country. Nonetheless, opposition to apartheid within the U.N. grew, and in 1973 a U.N. resolution labeled apartheid a "crime against humanity." In 1974, South Africa was suspended from the General Assembly.

    After decades of strikes, sanctions and increasingly violent demonstrations, many apartheid laws were repealed by 1990. Finally, in 1991, under President F.W. de Klerk, the South African government repealed all remaining apartheid laws and committed to writing a new constitution. In 1993, a multi-racial, multi-party transitional government was approved and, the next year, South Africa held its first fully free elections. Political activist Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison along with other anti-apartheid leaders after being convicted of treason, became South Africa's new president.

    In 1996, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), established by the new government, began an investigation into the violence and human rights violations that took place under the apartheid system between 1960 and May 10, 1994 (the day Mandela was sworn in as president). The commission's objective was not to punish people but to heal South Africa by dealing with its past in an open manner. People who committed crimes were allowed to confess and apply for amnesty. Headed by 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the TRC listened to testimony from over 20,000 witnesses from all sides of the issue—victims and their families as well as perpetrators of violence. It released its report in 1998 and condemned all major political organizations—the apartheid government in addition to anti-apartheid forces such as the African National Congress—for contributing to the violence. Based on the TRC's recommendations, the government began making reparation payments of approximately $4,000 (U.S.) to individual victims of violence in 2003.

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    American Revolution
    1789 : John Carroll named first Catholic bishop in U.S.
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ic-bishop-in-us

    Automotive
    1998 : President Clinton designates "Automobile National Heritage Area" in Detroit
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...area-in-detroit

    Civil War
    1861 : Jefferson Davis elected
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jefferson-davis-elected

    Cold War
    1988 : Renowned Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov visits United States
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...s-united-states

    Crime
    1982 : A woman ices her husband with anti-freeze
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ith-anti-freeze

    Disaster
    1977 : Dam gives way in Georgia
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dam-gives-way-in-georgia

    General Interest
    1860 : Abraham Lincoln elected president
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ected-president
    1917 : Canadians take Passchendaele
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...e-passchendaele
    1917 : Bolsheviks revolt in Russia
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...evolt-in-russia

    Hollywood
    1987 : Downey stars in Less Than Zero
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-less-than-zero

    Literary
    1558 : Playwright Thomas Kyd is baptized
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...kyd-is-baptized

    Music
    1854 : John Philip Sousa is born
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...p-sousa-is-born

    Old West
    1528 : Cabeza de Vaca discovers Texas
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...discovers-texas

    Presidential
    1906 : Teddy Roosevelt travels to Panama
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...avels-to-panama

    Sports
    1995 : Art Modell announces Browns are moving to Baltimore
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ng-to-baltimore

    Vietnam War
    1963 : General Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...f-south-vietnam
    1970 : South Vietnamese forces attack into Cambodia
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...k-into-cambodia

    World War I
    1917 : British victory at Passchendaele
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...t-passchendaele

    World War II
    1941 : Stalin celebrates the Revolution's anniversary
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ons-anniversary

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  4. Sym
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    November 9: General Interest
    1965: The Great Northeast Blackout

    At dusk, the biggest power failure in U.S. history occurs as all of New York state, portions of seven neighboring states, and parts of eastern Canada are plunged into darkness. The Great Northeast Blackout began at the height of rush hour, delaying millions of commuters, trapping 800,000 people in New York's subways, and stranding thousands more in office buildings, elevators, and trains. Ten thousand National Guardsmen and 5,000 off-duty policemen were called into service to prevent looting.

    The blackout was caused by the tripping of a 230-kilovolt transmission line near Ontario, Canada, at 5:16 p.m., which caused several other heavily loaded lines also to fail. This precipitated a surge of power that overwhelmed the transmission lines in western New York, causing a "cascading" tripping of additional lines, resulting in the eventual breakup of the entire Northeastern transmission network. All together, 30 million people in eight U.S. states and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec were affected by the blackout. During the night, power was gradually restored to the blacked-out areas, and by morning power had been restored throughout the Northeast.

    On August 14, 2003 another major blackout occurred which affected most of Eastern Canada as well as most of the Eastern United States.

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    American Revolution
    1780 : Sumter evades Wemyss in South Carolina
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-south-carolina

    Automotive
    1960 : Robert McNamara becomes president of Ford Motor Company
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...d-motor-company

    Civil War
    1862 : Burnside assumes command
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/burnside-assumes-command

    Cold War
    1989 : East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...the-berlin-wall

    Crime
    1971 : A Sunday school teacher murders his family and goes undercover for 18 years
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...er-for-18-years

    Disaster
    1872 : Fire rips through Boston
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fire-rips-through-boston

    General Interest
    1906 : Roosevelt travels to Panama
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...avels-to-panama
    1923 : Nazis suppressed in Munich
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...essed-in-munich
    1938:Nazis launch Kristallnacht
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...h-kristallnacht
    1956 : Sartre renounces communists
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...nces-communists

    Hollywood
    2001 : Kodak Theatre, new home of Oscars, opens
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...of-oscars-opens

    Literary
    1928 : Poet Anne Sexton is born
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/poet-anne-sexton-is-born

    Music
    1990 : Willie Nelson's assets are seized by the IRS
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ized-by-the-irs

    Old West
    1875 : Followers of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse identified as hostile
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...fied-as-hostile

    Presidential
    1901 : Teddy Roosevelt establishes a naval base in the Philippines
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...the-philippines

    Sports
    1946 : Army and Notre Dame fight to a draw
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...fight-to-a-draw

    Vietnam War
    1965 : Antiwar protestor sets himself afire
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...s-himself-afire
    1967 : Captain Lance Sijan shot down over North Vietnam
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...r-north-vietnam
    1970 : Supreme Court refuses to rule on legality of Vietnam War
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-of-vietnam-war

    World War I
    1914 : Australian warship Sydney sinks German Emden
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ks-german-emden

    World War II 1938 : "The Night of Broken Glass"
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...of-broken-glass
     
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  5. Sym
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    November 10: General Interest
    1969 : Sesame Street debuts

    On this day in 1969, Sesame Street, a pioneering TV show that would teach generations of young children the alphabet and how to count, makes its broadcast debut. Sesame Street, with its memorable theme song (Can you tell me how to get/How to get to Sesame Street), went on to become the most widely viewed children's program in the world. It has aired in more than 120 countries.

    The show was the brainchild of Joan Ganz Cooney, a former documentary producer for public television. Cooney's goal was to create programming for preschoolers that was both entertaining and educational. She also wanted to use TV as a way to help underprivileged 3- to 5- year-olds prepare for kindergarten. Sesame Street was set in a fictional New York neighborhood and included ethnically diverse characters and positive social messages.

    Taking a cue from Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, a popular 1960s variety show, Sesame Street was built around short, often funny segments featuring puppets, animation and live actors. This format was hugely successful, although over the years some critics have blamed the show and its use of brief segments for shrinking children's attention spans.

    From the show's inception, one of its most-loved aspects has been a family of puppets known as Muppets. Joan Ganz Cooney hired puppeteer Jim Henson (1936-1990) to create a cast of characters that became Sesame Street institutions, including Bert and Ernie, Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch, Grover and Big Bird.

    The subjects tackled by Sesame Street have evolved with the times. In 2002, the South African version of the program, Takalani Sesame, introduced a 5-year-old Muppet character named Kami who is HIV-positive, in order to help children living with the stigma of a disease that has reached epidemic proportions. In 2006, a new Muppet, Abby Cadabby, made her debut and was positioned as the show's first female star character, in an effort to encourage diversity and provide a strong role model for girls.

    Since its inception, over 74 million Americans have watched Sesame Street. Today, an estimated 8 million people tune in to the show each week in the U.S. alone.

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    American Revolution
    1775 : Birth of the U.S. Marine Corps
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...us-marine-corps

    Automotive
    1903 : Mary Anderson patents windshield wiper
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...indshield-wiper

    Civil War
    1865 : Henry Wirz hanged
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/henry-wirz-hanged

    Cold War
    1982 : Leonid Brezhnev dies
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/leonid-brezhnev-dies

    Crime
    1997 : Judge reduces sentence in nanny murder case
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...nny-murder-case

    Disaster
    1975 : Cargo ship suddenly sinks in Lake Superior
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...n-lake-superior

    General Interest
    1928 : Hirohito crowned in Japan
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...rowned-in-japan
    1975 : Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in Lake Superior
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...n-lake-superior
    1995 : Playwright and activist hanged in Nigeria
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...nged-in-nigeria

    Hollywood
    1932 : Roy Scheider, star of Jaws, is born
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...of-jaws-is-born

    Literary
    1973 : Slaughterhouse-Five is burned in North Dakota
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...in-north-dakota

    Music
    1958 : Future country legend Conway Twitty earns a #1 hit as a rock-and-roll idol
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...k-and-roll-idol

    Old West
    1808 : Osage Indians cede Missouri and Arkansas lands
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-arkansas-lands

    Presidential
    2001 : Bush addresses the United Nations regarding terrorism
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...rding-terrorism

    Sports
    1984 : Maryland gets a miracle in Miami
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...iracle-in-miami

    Vietnam War
    1964 : McNamara says that U.S. has no plans to send combat troops to Vietnam
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...oops-to-vietnam
    1970 : No U.S. combat fatalities reported
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...lities-reported
    1971 : Khmer Rouge forces attack Phnom Penh airport
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...om-penh-airport

    World War I
    1928 : Remarque publishes All Quiet on the Western Front
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...e-western-front

    World War II
    1942 : Germans take Vichy France
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ke-vichy-france
     
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    • Coming soon! The Real Story of Thanksgiving, Wednesday, November 24th at 8/7c
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    • WWII in HD: The Air War, Wednesday, November 10th at 9/8c
    • History 360: Black Blizzard, Saturday, November 13th at 8/7c
    The Real Story of Thanksgiving
    Wednesday, November 24th at 8/7c

    Turkey dinners, footballs and parades--these are the modern-day trappings of the holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November each year. But Thanksgiving is more than just a day of food and festivity. This new 1-hour special traces the history of the holiday, from its origins in the early American colonies through the family feasts Americans enjoy today. The Real Story of Thanksgiving features interviews with expert historians who give viewers a new understanding of how this much-loved holiday has changed over time.

    How did Americans start to associate Thanksgiving with cooperation between Native Americans and European settlers? What role did this day play during the Civil War, and why was Thanksgiving finally declared a national holiday in 1941? This program untangles fact from fiction, dispelling some myths about the holiday and sharing new stories about how Thanksgiving traditions have developed. Viewers will also learn about the role it plays in popular culture, from the Macy's Thanksgiving parade through the ever-present turkey dinner. After watching this program, students will have an opportunity to discuss the meaning and significance of Thanksgiving in our society today.

    Curriculum Links:
    The Real Story of Thanksgiving would be useful for U.S. History, American Culture, and Social Studies courses. It is appropriate for 6th grade and above. Families may want to watch this program together and discuss the history of the Thanksgiving holiday.

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    WWII in HD: The Air War
    Wednesday, November 10th at 9/8c

    Following in the footsteps of last year's acclaimed series WWII in HD: The Air War, the 2-hour HISTORY special WWII in HD: The Air War travels with three American air men and reporter Andy Rooney as they experience and witness some of the most daring and visually stunning aerial missions of the war. This 2-hour special is narrated by Rob Lowe, and the main characters are voiced by popular actors including Elijah Wood, Casey Affleck, and others.Viewers peer inside the world of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, learning how the missions transpired from the men who lived through them.

    Extraordinary archival footage -- in color and never before seen in HD -- brings the historic fight for control of the skies to life -- from the devastation of the Blitz in Britain to the final aerial battles over Europe. WWII in HD: The Air War presents an opportunity for students to learn about the war from those who experienced it first-hand. Teachers may want to recommend this program for their upper level high school or college courses with units on World War II.

    Curriculum Links:
    WWII in HD: The Air War would be useful for classes on U.S. History, World History, American Culture, Social Studies and Geography. It is appropriate for high school and college students.

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    History 360: Black Blizzard
    Saturday, November 13th 8/7c

    Many Americans may have heard of the Dust Bowl but may know little about how and why it happened. This 2-hour special examines the dramatic era from 1930-1940 when America's heartland was ravaged by a weather phenomenon that became known as a black blizzard. After years of drought and poor farming techniques, ferocious dust storms furiously blew throughout the U.S., creating enough static electricity to power New York City. Days became as dark as nights; towns, homes, people and equipment were literally buried. Throughout the Great Plains, every day people clung to the land, refusing to move away even as their homes and belongings were swept up in the path of destruction.

    Environmental scientists and special effects experts recreate the black blizzards in realistic detail in this documentary, and historians and first-person accounts help explain what it was like to live through this cataclysmic era. Throughout Black Blizzard some experts arrive at the surprising conclusion that human actions and farming practices may have prompted the Dust Bowl. Educators and students will be able to explore this era in new ways, learning how these weather patterns formed, and how government experts and scientists found solutions to these devastating developments.

    Curriculum Links:
    Black Blizzard is appropriate for high school students. It would be useful for History, Science, American Studies, and Environmental Science courses.

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    November 11: General Interest
    1918 : World War I ends

    At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, bereft of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France. The First World War left nine million soldiers dead and 21 million wounded, with Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, France, and Great Britain each losing nearly a million or more lives. In addition, at least five million civilians died from disease, starvation, or exposure.

    On June 28, 1914, in an event that is widely regarded as sparking the outbreak of World War I, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, was shot to death with his wife by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Ferdinand had been inspecting his uncle's imperial armed forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina, despite the threat of Serbian nationalists who wanted these Austro-Hungarian possessions to join newly independent Serbia. Austria-Hungary blamed the Serbian government for the attack and hoped to use the incident as justification for settling the problem of Slavic nationalism once and for all. However, as Russia supported Serbia, an Austro-Hungarian declaration of war was delayed until its leaders received assurances from German leader Kaiser Wilhelm II that Germany would support their cause in the event of a Russian intervention.

    On July 28, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, and the tenuous peace between Europe's great powers collapsed. On July 29, Austro-Hungarian forces began to shell the Serbian capital, Belgrade, and Russia, Serbia's ally, ordered a troop mobilization against Austria-Hungary. France, allied with Russia, began to mobilize on August 1. France and Germany declared war against each other on August 3. After crossing through neutral Luxembourg, the German army invaded Belgium on the night of August 3-4, prompting Great Britain, Belgium's ally, to declare war against Germany.

    For the most part, the people of Europe greeted the outbreak of war with jubilation. Most patriotically assumed that their country would be victorious within months. Of the initial belligerents, Germany was most prepared for the outbreak of hostilities, and its military leaders had formatted a sophisticated military strategy known as the "Schlieffen Plan," which envisioned the conquest of France through a great arcing offensive through Belgium and into northern France. Russia, slow to mobilize, was to be kept occupied by Austro-Hungarian forces while Germany attacked France.

    The Schlieffen Plan was nearly successful, but in early September the French rallied and halted the German advance at the bloody Battle of the Marne near Paris. By the end of 1914, well over a million soldiers of various nationalities had been killed on the battlefields of Europe, and neither for the Allies nor the Central Powers was a final victory in sight. On the western front-the battle line that stretched across northern France and Belgium-the combatants settled down in the trenches for a terrible war of attrition.

    In 1915, the Allies attempted to break the stalemate with an amphibious invasion of Turkey, which had joined the Central Powers in October 1914, but after heavy bloodshed the Allies were forced to retreat in early 1916. The year 1916 saw great offensives by Germany and Britain along the western front, but neither side accomplished a decisive victory. In the east, Germany was more successful, and the disorganized Russian army suffered terrible losses, spurring the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in 1917. By the end of 1917, the Bolsheviks had seized power in Russia and immediately set about negotiating peace with Germany. In 1918, the infusion of American troops and resources into the western front finally tipped the scale in the Allies' favor. Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies on November 11, 1918.

    World War I was known as the "war to end all wars" because of the great slaughter and destruction it caused. Unfortunately, the peace treaty that officially ended the conflict-the Treaty of Versailles of 1919-forced punitive terms on Germany that destabilized Europe and laid the groundwork for World War II.

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    American Revolution
    1778 : Poor leadership leads to Cherry Valley Massacre
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...valley-massacre

    Automotive
    1978 : The General Lee jumps into history
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ps-into-history

    Civil War
    1811 : Ben McCulloch born
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ben-mcculloch-born

    Cold War
    1973 : Soviet Union refuses to play Chile in World Cup Soccer
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...orld-cup-soccer

    Crime
    1988 : Police make a grisly discovery in Dorothea Puente's lawn
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ea-puentes-lawn

    Disaster
    2000 : Skiers die in cable-car fire
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-cable-car-fire

    General Interest
    1831 : Nat Turner executed in Virginia
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ted-in-virginia
    1885 : George Patton born
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/george-patton-born
    1921 : Dedication of the Tomb of the Unknowns
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...of-the-unknowns

    Hollywood
    1994 : Interview with the Vampire debuts
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-vampire-debuts

    Literary
    1852 : Louisa May Alcott publishes her first story
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...her-first-story

    Music
    1978 : Donna Summer earns her first #1 pop hit with "MacArthur Park"
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...arthur-parkquot

    Old West
    1933 : Massive dust storm sweeps South Dakota
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ps-south-dakota

    Presidential
    1834 : Franklin Pierce marries Jane Appleton
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...s-jane-appleton
    1858 : James Garfield marries Lucretia Rudolph
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ucretia-rudolph

    Sports
    1981 : Fernando Valenzuela wins Cy Young Award
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-cy-young-award

    Vietnam War
    1967 : Viet Cong release U.S. prisoners of war
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...risoners-of-war
    1968 : Operation Commando Hunt commences
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-hunt-commences
    1972 : Long Binh base turned over to South Vietnam
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...o-south-vietnam

    World War I
    1918 : World War I ends
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...comes-to-an-end

    World War II
    1942 : Draft age is lowered to 18
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...s-lowered-to-18






    American Revolution
    1775 : Patriots take Montreal
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/patriots-take-montreal

    Automotive
    1974 : Karen Silkwood dies in mysterious one-car crash
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...s-one-car-crash

    Civil War
    1861 : McClellan snubs Lincoln
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mcclellan-snubs-lincoln

    Cold War
    1953 : Indiana Textbook Commission member charges that Robin Hood is communistic
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-is-communistic

    Crime
    1955 : Police search John Graham's home and find bomb-making materials
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...aking-materials

    Disaster
    1970 : Tidal wave ravages East Pakistan
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...s-east-pakistan

    General Interest
    1789 : First presidential tour concludes
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-tour-concludes
    1970 : East Pakistan devastated by cylcone
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ated-by-cylcone
    1985 : The eruption of Nevado del Ruiz
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...nevado-del-ruiz

    Hollywood
    1955 : Whoopi Goldberg born
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/whoopi-goldberg-born

    Literary
    1850 : Robert Louis Stevenson is born
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...evenson-is-born

    Music
    1999 :Chris Gaines; Garth Brooks' rock alter ego, performs on Saturday Night Live
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...rday-night-live

    Old West
    1909 : Ballinger-Pinchot scandal erupts
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-scandal-erupts

    Presidential
    1945 : Truman announces inquiry into Jewish settlement in Palestine
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...nt-in-palestine

    Sports
    1979 : Darryl Dawkins breaks his first backboard
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...first-backboard

    Vietnam War
    1967 : President receives optimistic reports
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...imistic-reports
    1969 : March Against Death commences in Washington, D.C.
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...n-washington-dc

    World War I
    1916 : British statesman expresses criticism of war effort
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...m-of-war-effort

    World War II
    1941 : Congress revises the Neutrality Act
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-neutrality-act




    November 14: General Interest
    1851 : Moby-Dick published

    On this day in 1851, Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville about the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod, is published by Harper Brothers in New York. Moby-Dick is now considered a great classic of American literature and contains one of the most famous opening lines in fiction: Call me Ishmael. Initially, though, the book about Captain Ahab and his quest for a giant white whale was a flop.

    Herman Melville was born in New York City in 1819 and as a young man spent time in the merchant marines, the U.S. Navy and on a whaling ship in the South Seas. In 1846, he published his first novel, Typee, a romantic adventure based on his experiences in Polynesia. The book was a success and a sequel, Omoo, was published in 1847. Three more novels followed, with mixed critical and commercial results. Melville's sixth book, Moby-Dick, was first published in October 1951 in London, in three volumes titled The Whale, and then in the U.S. a month later. Melville had promised his publisher an adventure story similar to his popular earlier works, but instead, Moby-Dick was a tragic epic, influenced in part by Melville's friend and Pittsfield, Massachusetts, neighbor, Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose novels include The Scarlet Letter.

    After Moby-Dick's disappointing reception, Melville continued to produce novels, short stories (Bartleby) and poetry, but writing wasn't paying the bills so in 1865 he returned to New York to work as a customs inspector, a job he held for 20 years.

    Melville died in 1891, largely forgotten by the literary world. By the 1920s, scholars had rediscovered his work, particularly Moby-Dick, which would eventually become a staple of high school reading lists across the United States. Billy Budd, Melville's final novel, was published in 1924, 33 years after his death.

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    American Revolution
    1776 : Benjamin Franklin takes sides
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...lin-takes-sides

    Automotive
    2006 : Last day for Texas' celebrated drive-in Pig Stands
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...e-in-pig-stands

    Civil War
    1862 : Lincoln approves Burnside's plan
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-burnsides-plan

    Cold War
    1951 : United States gives military and economic aid to communist Yugoslavia
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...nist-yugoslavia

    Crime
    1986 : Ivan Boesky confesses to illegal stock trading activity
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...rading-activity

    Disaster
    1985 : Volcano erupts in Colombia and buries nearby towns
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...es-nearby-towns

    General Interest
    1969 : Apollo 12 lifts off
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/iapollo-12i-lifts-off
    1982 : Walesa released from jail
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...eased-from-jail

    Hollywood
    1941 : Cary Grant stars in Hitchcock's Suspicion
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...cocks-suspicion

    Literary
    1851 : Moby-Dick is published
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/moby-dick-is-published

    Music
    1900 : American classical composer Aaron Copland is born in Brooklyn, New York
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ooklyn-new-york

    Old West
    1882 : Franklin Leslie kills Billy "The Kid" Claiborne
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...e-kid-claiborne

    Presidential
    1959 : Kennedy publishes article on television and American politics
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...erican-politics

    Sports
    1970 : Plane crash devastates Marshall University
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...hall-university

    Vietnam War
    1965 : Major battle erupts in the Ia Drang Valley
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ia-drang-valley
    1967 : Marine general killed in Vietnam
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...lled-in-vietnam
    1972 : Nixon promises Thieu that U.S. will continue to support South Vietnam
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...t-south-vietnam

    World War I
    1914 : Ottoman Empire declares a holy war
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ares-a-holy-war

    World War II
    1940 : Germans bomb Coventry
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-bomb-coventry


    November 15: General Interest
    1867 : First stock ticker debuts

    On this day in 1867, the first stock ticker is unveiled in New York City. The advent of the ticker ultimately revolutionized the stock market by making up-to-the-minute prices available to investors around the country. Prior to this development, information from the New York Stock Exchange, which has been around since 1792, traveled by mail or messenger.

    The ticker was the brainchild of Edward Calahan, who configured a telegraph machine to print stock quotes on streams of paper tape (the same paper tape later used in ticker-tape parades). The ticker, which caught on quickly with investors, got its name from the sound its type wheel made.

    Calahan worked for the Gold Stock Telegraph Company, which rented its tickers to brokerage houses and regional exchanges for a fee and then transmitted the latest gold and stock prices to all its machines at the same time. In 1869, Thomas Edison, a former telegraph operator, patented an improved, easier-to-use version of Calahan's ticker. Edison's ticker was his first lucrative invention and, through the manufacture and sale of stock tickers and other telegraphic devices, he made enough money to open his own lab in Menlo Park, New Jersey, where he developed the light bulb and phonograph, among other transformative inventions.

    The last mechanical stock ticker debuted in 1960 and was eventually replaced by computerized tickers with electronic displays. A ticker shows a stock's symbol, how many shares have traded that day and the price per share. It also tells how much the price has changed from the previous day's closing price and whether it's an up or down change. A common misconception is that there is one ticker used by everyone. In fact, private data companies run a variety of tickers; each provides information about a select mix of stocks.

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    American Revolution
    1777 : Articles of Confederation adopted
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...eration-adopted

    Automotive
    1965 : Craig Breedlove sets new land-speed record
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...nd-speed-record

    Civil War
    1864 : The March to the Sea begins
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-the-sea-begins

    Cold War
    1957 : Nikita Khrushchev challenges United States to a missile "shooting match"
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-shooting-match

    Crime
    1923 : Accused of rape, James Montgomery's struggle for justice begins
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-justice-begins

    Disaster
    1978 : Plane crashes into Sri Lankan plantation
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...nkan-plantation

    General Interest
    1889 : Brazil's last emperor deposed
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...emperor-deposed
    1891 : Erwin Rommel is born
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/erwin-rommel-is-born
    1984 : Baby Fae dies
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/baby-fae-dies

    Hollywood
    1956 : Elvis makes movie debut in Love Me Tender
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-love-me-tender

    Literary
    1859 : Final installment of A Tale of Two Cities is published
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...es-is-published

    Music
    1943 : Leonard Bernstein's Philharmonic debut makes front-page news
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...front-page-news

    Old West
    1806 : Zebulon Pike spots an imposing mountain
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...posing-mountain

    Presidential
    1977 : President Carter hosts shah of Iran
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ts-shah-of-iran

    Sports
    1965 : Craig Breedlove sets new land-speed record
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...nd-speed-record

    Vietnam War
    1966 : Chairman of the Joint Chiefs heckled at university
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...d-at-university
    1969 : Second moratorium against the war held
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...st-the-war-held

    World War I
    1917 : Georges Clemenceau named French prime minister
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-prime-minister

    World War II
    1943 : Himmler orders Gypsies to concentration camps
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...entration-camps
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    November 16: General Interest
    1532 : Pizarro traps Incan emperor Atahualpa

    On November 16, 1532, Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish explorer and conquistador, springs a trap on the Incan emperor, Atahualpa. With fewer than 200 men against several thousand, Pizarro lures Atahualpa to a feast in the emperor's honor and then opens fire on the unarmed Incans. Pizarro's men massacre the Incans and capture Atahualpa, forcing him to convert to Christianity before eventually killing him.

    Pizarro's timing for conquest was perfect. By 1532, the Inca Empire was embroiled in a civil war that had decimated the population and divided the people's loyalties. Atahualpa, the younger son of former Incan ruler Huayna Capac, had just deposed his half-brother Huascar and was in the midst of reuniting his kingdom when Pizarro arrived in 1531, with the endorsement of Spain's King Charles V. On his way to the Incan capital, Pizarro learned of the war and began recruiting soldiers still loyal to Huascar.

    Pizarro met Atahualpa just outside Cajamarca, a small Incan town tucked into a valley of the Andes. Sending his brother Hernan as an envoy, Pizarro invited Atahualpa back to Cajamarca for a feast in honor of Atahualpa's ascendance to the throne. Though he had nearly 80,000 soldiers with him in the mountains, Atahualpa consented to attend the feast with only 5,000 unarmed men. He was met by Vicente de Valverde, a friar traveling with Pizarro. While Pizarro's men lay in wait, Valverde urged Atahualpa to convert and accept Charles V as sovereign. Atahualpa angrily refused, prompting Valverde to give the signal for Pizarro to open fire. Trapped in tight quarters, the panicking Incan soldiers made easy prey for the Spanish. Pizarro's men slaughtered the 5,000 Incans in just an hour. Pizarro himself suffered the only Spanish injury: a cut on his hand sustained as he saved Atahualpa from death.

    Realizing Atahualpa was initially more valuable alive than dead, Pizarro kept the emperor in captivity while he made plans to take over his empire. In response, Atahualpa appealed to his captors' greed, offering them a room full of gold and silver in exchange for his liberation. Pizarro consented, but after receiving the ransom, Pizarro brought Atahualpa up on charges of stirring up rebellion. By that time, Atahualpa had played his part in pacifying the Incans while Pizarro secured his power, and Pizarro considered him disposable. Atahualpa was to be burned at the stakethe Spanish believed this to be a fitting death for a heathenbut at the last moment, Valverde offered the emperor clemency if he would convert. Atahualpa submitted, only to be executed by strangulation. The day was August 29, 1533.

    Fighting between the Spanish and the Incas would continue well after Atahualpa's death as Spain consolidated its conquests. Pizarro's bold victory at Cajamarca, however, effectively marked the end of the Inca Empire and the beginning of the European colonization of South America.
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    American Revolution
    1776 : Fort Washington Is Captured
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ton-is-captured

    Automotive
    1901 : Riker Torpedo Racer sets the world speed record for electric cars
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...r-electric-cars

    Civil War
    1863 : Battle of Campbell Station, Tennessee
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ation-tennessee

    Cold War
    1945 : German scientists brought to United States to work on rocket technology
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...cket-technology

    Crime
    1957 : Ed Gein kills final victim Bernice Worden
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-bernice-worden

    Disaster
    1999 : Construction begins on deadly bonfire
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-deadly-bonfire

    General Interest
    1776 : Hessians capture Fort Washington
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...fort-washington
    1907 : Oklahoma enters the Union
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...nters-the-union
    1988 : Benazir Bhutto elected leader of Pakistan
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...der-of-pakistan

    Hollywood
    2001 : First Harry Potter film opens
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...tter-film-opens

    Literary
    1849 : Fyodor Dostoevsky is sentenced to death
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...tenced-to-death

    Music
    1959 : The Sound of Music premieres on Broadway
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...res-on-broadway

    Old West
    1821 : Becknell opens trade on the Santa Fe Trail
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-santa-fe-trail

    Presidential
    1973 : Nixon supports construction of the Alaskan oil pipeline
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...an-oil-pipeline

    Sports
    1957 : Notre Dame ends Oklahoma record winning streak
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-winning-streak

    Vietnam War
    1961 : Kennedy decides to increase military aid to Saigon
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...y-aid-to-saigon
    1970 : Ky defends South Vietnamese operations in Cambodia
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ons-in-cambodia
    1971 : U.S. provides support to beleaguered Cambodians
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ered-cambodians

    World War I
    1914 : New Fatherland League launched in Germany
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ched-in-germany

    World War II
    1941 : Goebbels publishes his screed of hate
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-screed-of-hate
     
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    January 3: General Interest
    1990 : Noriega surrenders to U.S.

    On this day in 1990, Panama's General Manuel Antonio Noriega, after holing up for 10 days at the Vatican embassy in Panama City, surrenders to U.S. military troops to face charges of drug trafficking. Noriega was flown to Miami the following day and crowds of citizens on the streets of Panama City rejoiced. On July 10, 1992, the former dictator was convicted of drug trafficking, money laundering and racketeering and sentenced to 40 years in prison.

    Noriega, who was born in Panama in 1938, was a loyal soldier to General Omar Torrijos, who seized power in a 1968 coup. Under Torrijos, Noriega headed up the notorious G-2 intelligence service, which harassed and terrorized people who criticized the Torrijos regime. Noriega also became a C.I.A. operative, while at the same time getting rich smuggling drugs.

    In 1981, Omar Torrijos died in a plane crash and after a two-year power struggle, Noriega emerged as general of Panama's military forces. He became the country's de facto leader, fixing presidential elections so he could install his own puppet officials. Noriega's rule was marked by corruption and violence. He also became a double agent, selling American intelligence secrets to Cuba and Eastern European governments. In 1987, when Panamanians organized protests against Noriega and demanded his ouster, he declared a national emergency, shut down radio stations and newspapers and forced his political enemies into exile.

    That year the United States cut off aid to Panama and tried to get Noriega to resign; in 1988, the U.S. began considering the use of military action to put an end to his drug trafficking. Noriega voided the May 1989 presidential election, which included a U.S.-backed candidate, and in December of that year he declared his country to be in a state of war with the United States. Shortly afterward, an American marine was killed by Panamanian soldiers. President George H.W. Bush authorized "Operation Just Cause," and on December 20, 1989, 13,000 U.S. troops were sent to occupy Panama City, along with the 12,000 already there, and seize Noriega. During the invasion, 23 U.S. troops were killed in action and over 300 were wounded. Approximately 450 Panamanian troops were killed; estimates for the number of civilians who died range from several hundred to several thousand, with thousands injured.

    Today, Noriega, derogatorily nicknamed "Pineapple Face" in reference to his pockmarked skin, is serving his sentence at a federal prison in Miami.
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    American Revolution
    1777 : The Battle of Princeton
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-battle-of-princeton

    Automotive
    1969 : All-time Formula One champ born
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-one-champ-born

    Civil War
    1861 : Delaware rejects secession
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...jects-secession

    Cold War
    1961 : United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...tions-with-cuba

    Crime
    1990 : The husband did it: The controversial Stuart case
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ial-stuart-case

    Disaster
    1999 : Great Lakes region digs out from record blizzard
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...record-blizzard

    General Interest
    1521 : Martin Luther excommunicated
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-excommunicated
    1868 : Meiji Restoration in Japan
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ration-in-japan
    1924 : King Tut's sarcophagus uncovered
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...hagus-uncovered
    1959 : Alaska admitted into Union
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...tted-into-union
    1967 : Jack Ruby dies before second trial
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...re-second-trial

    Hollywood
    1952 : Dragnet TV show debuts
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dragnet-tv-show-debuts

    Literary
    1841 : Herman Melville sails for the South Seas
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-the-south-seas

    Music
    1987 : Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts first woman
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...cts-first-woman

    Old West
    1834 : Stephen Austin imprisoned by Mexicans
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ned-by-mexicans

    Presidential
    1938 : Franklin Roosevelt founds March of Dimes
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-march-of-dimes

    Sports
    1993 : Buffalo Bills pull off greatest comeback in NFL history
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-in-nfl-history

    Vietnam War
    1965 : Antigovernment demonstrators clash with police
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ash-with-police
    1968 : McCarthy announces his presidential candidacy
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ntial-candidacy

    World War I
    1917 : British nurse Marion Rice writes from a hospital on the Western Front
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...e-western-front

    World War II
    1945 : MacArthur and Nimitz given new commands
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...en-new-commands

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    January 5: General Interest
    1933 : Golden Gate Bridge is born

    On January 5, 1933, construction begins on the Golden Gate Bridge, as workers began excavating 3.25 million cubic feet of dirt for the structure's huge anchorages.

    Following the Gold Rush boom that began in 1849, speculators realized the land north of San Francisco Bay would increase in value in direct proportion to its accessibility to the city. Soon, a plan was hatched to build a bridge that would span the Golden Gate, a narrow, 400-foot deep strait that serves as the mouth of the San Francisco Bay, connecting the San Francisco Peninsula with the southern end of Marin County.

    Although the idea went back as far as 1869, the proposal took root in 1916. A former engineering student, James Wilkins, working as a journalist with the San Francisco Bulletin, called for a suspension bridge with a center span of 3,000 feet, nearly twice the length of any in existence. Wilkins' idea was estimated to cost an astounding $100 million. So, San Francisco's city engineer, Michael M. O'Shaughnessy (he's also credited with coming up with the name Golden Gate Bridge), began asking bridge engineers whether they could do it for less.

    Engineer and poet Joseph Strauss, a 5-foot tall Cincinnati-born Chicagoan, said he could.

    Eventually, O'Shaughnessy and Strauss concluded they could build a pure suspension bridge within a practical range of $25-30 million with a main span at least 4,000 feet. The construction plan still faced opposition, including litigation, from many sources. By the time most of the obstacles were cleared, the Great Depression of 1929 had begun, limiting financing options, so officials convinced voters to support $35 million in bonded indebtedness, citing the jobs that would be created for the project. However, the bonds couldn't be sold until 1932, when San-Francisco based Bank of America agreed to buy the entire project in order to help the local economy.

    The Golden Gate Bridge officially opened on May 27, 1937, the longest bridge span in the world at the time. The first public crossing had taken place the day before, when 200,000 people walked, ran and even roller skated over the new bridge.

    With its tall towers and famous red paint job, the bridge quickly became a famous American landmark, and a symbol of San Francisco.
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    American Revolution
    1781 : Benedict Arnold captures and destroys Richmond
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...stroys-richmond

    Automotive
    1933 : Construction begins on Golden Gate Bridge
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...den-gate-bridge

    Civil War
    1861 : "Star of the West" leaves for Fort Sumter
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...for-fort-sumter

    Cold War
    1957 : Eisenhower proposes new Middle East policy
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...dle-east-policy

    Crime
    1970 : The United Mine Workers Killings
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...orkers-killings

    Disaster
    1982 : Landslides kill 33 in California
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...3-in-california

    General Interest
    1643 : First divorce in the colonies
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...in-the-colonies
    1895 : Dreyfus Affair in France
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dreyfus-affair-in-france
    1945 : Kamikaze pilots get first order
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...get-first-order
    1968 : Prague Spring begins in Czechoslovakia
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-czechoslovakia
    1976 : Pol Pot renames Cambodia
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pol-pot-renames-cambodia
    1994 : Former Speaker Thomas P. Tip O'Neill dies
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...tip-oneill-dies

    Hollywood
    1998 : Sonny Bono killed in skiing accident
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...skiing-accident

    Literary
    1825 : Alexandre Dumas pere fights a duel
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...e-fights-a-duel

    Music
    1980 : The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" becomes hip-hop's first Top 40 hit
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...irst-top-40-hit

    Old West
    1846 : House resolves to stop sharing Oregon
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-sharing-oregon

    Presidential
    1949 : Truman delivers his Fair Deal speech
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...air-deal-speech
    1972 : Nixon launches the space shuttle program
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...shuttle-program

    Sports
    1920 : New York Yankees announce purchase of Babe Ruth
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...se-of-babe-ruth

    Vietnam War
    1967 : Amphibious operations conducted in the Mekong Delta
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...he-mekong-delta
    1969 : Lodge succeeds Harriman as chief negotiator
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...hief-negotiator

    World War I
    1916 : First conscription bill is introduced in British parliament
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...tish-parliament

    World War II
    1945 : Soviets recognize pro-Soviet Polish Provisional Government
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...onal-government

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    January 4: General Interest
    1999 : The euro debuts

    On this day in 1999, for the first time since Charlemagne's reign in the ninth century, Europe is united with a common currency when the "euro" debuts as a financial unit in corporate and investment markets. Eleven European Union (EU) nations (Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain), representing some 290 million people, launched the currency in the hopes of increasing European integration and economic growth. Closing at a robust 1.17 U.S. dollars on its first day, the euro promised to give the dollar a run for its money in the new global economy. Euro cash, decorated with architectural images, symbols of European unity and member-state motifs, went into circulation on January 1, 2002, replacing the Austrian schilling, Belgian franc, Finnish markka, French franc, German mark, Italian lira, Irish punt, Luxembourg franc, Netherlands guilder, Portugal escudo and Spanish peseta. A number of territories and non-EU nations including Monaco and Vatican City also adopted the euro.

    Conversion to the euro wasn't without controversy. Despite the practical benefits of a common currency that would make it easier to do business and travel throughout Europe, there were concerns that the changeover process would be costly and chaotic, encourage counterfeiting, lead to inflation and cause individual nations to loose control over their economic policies. Great Britain, Sweden and Demark opted not to use the euro. Greece, after initially being excluded for failing to meet all the required conditions, adopted the euro in January 2001, becoming the 12th member of the so-called eurozone.

    The euro was established by the 1992 Maastricht Treaty on European Union, which spelled out specific economic requirements, including high degree of price stability and low inflation, which countries must meet before they can begin using the new money. The euro consists of 8 coins and 7 paper bills. The Frankfurt-based European Central Bank (ECB) manages the euro and sets interest rates and other monetary policies. In 2004, 10 more countries joined the EU--Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. Several of these countries plan to start using the euro in 2007, with the rest to follow in coming years.
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    American Revolution
    1796 : Congress accepts Colors of the French Republic
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...french-republic

    Automotive
    1996 : GM announces its electric car
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ts-electric-car

    Civil War
    1863 : Confederate General Roger Hanson dies
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ger-hanson-dies

    Cold War
    1950 : The God That Failed published
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ailed-published

    Crime
    1964 : Boston Strangler strikes again
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...r-strikes-again

    Disaster
    1990 : Trains collide in Pakistan
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ide-in-pakistan

    General Interest
    1896 : Utah enters the Union
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/utah-enters-the-union
    1974 : President Nixon refuses to hand over tapes
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...hand-over-tapes
    1987 : Segovia begins final U.S. tour
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...s-final-us-tour
    1995 : 104th Congress under Republican control
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ublican-control

    Hollywood
    2003 : National Society of Film Critics honors The Pianist
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ors-the-pianist

    Literary
    1785 : Jacob Grimm is born
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jacob-grimm-is-born
    1965 : Poet T.S. Eliot dies in London
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-dies-in-london

    Music
    1964 : Bobby Vinton tops the pop charts with the last #1 single of the pre-Beatles era
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...pre-beatles-era

    Old West
    1847 : Colt sells his first revolvers to the U.S. government
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...e-us-government

    Presidential
    1965 : L.B.J. envisions a Great Society in his State of the Union address
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...e-union-address

    Sports
    2006 : Vince Young leads Texas over USC in the Rose Bowl
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...n-the-rose-bowl

    Vietnam War
    1965 : Johnson reaffirms commitment to South Vietnam
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...o-south-vietnam
    1974 : Thieu announces war has resumed
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...war-has-resumed

    World War I
    1913 : Alfred von Schlieffen dies
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...schlieffen-dies

    World War II
    1944 : United States begins supplying guerrilla forces
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...uerrilla-forces

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    January 6: General Interest
    1838 : Morse demonstrates telegraph

    On this day in 1838, Samuel Morse's telegraph system is demonstrated for the first time at the Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, New Jersey. The telegraph, a device which used electric impulses to transmit encoded messages over a wire, would eventually revolutionize long-distance communication, reaching the height of its popularity in the 1920s and 1930s.

    Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born April 27, 1791, in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He attended Yale University, where he was interested in art, as well as electricity, still in its infancy at the time. After college, Morse became a painter. In 1832, while sailing home from Europe, he heard about the newly discovered electromagnet and came up with an idea for an electric telegraph. He had no idea that other inventors were already at work on the concept.

    Morse spent the next several years developing a prototype and took on two partners, Leonard Gale and Alfred Vail, to help him. In 1838, he demonstrated his invention using Morse code, in which dots and dashes represented letters and numbers.

    In 1843, Morse finally convinced a skeptical Congress to fund the construction of the first telegraph line in the United States, from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore. In May 1844, Morse sent the first official telegram over the line, with the message: "What hath God wrought!"

    Over the next few years, private companies, using Morse's patent, set up telegraph lines around the Northeast. In 1851, the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company was founded; it would later change its name to Western Union. In 1861, Western Union finished the first transcontinental line across the United States. Five years later, the first successful permanent line across the Atlantic Ocean was constructed and by the end of the century telegraph systems were in place in Africa, Asia and Australia.

    Because telegraph companies typically charged by the word, telegrams became known for their succinct prose--whether they contained happy or sad news. The word "stop," which was free, was used in place of a period, for which there was a charge. In 1933, Western Union introduced singing telegrams. During World War II, Americans came to dread the sight of Western Union couriers because the military used telegrams to inform families about soldiers' deaths.

    Over the course of the 20th century, telegraph messages were largely replaced by cheap long-distance phone service, faxes and email. Western Union delivered its final telegram in January 2006.

    Samuel Morse died wealthy and famous in New York City on April 2, 1872, at age 80.
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    American Revolution
    1777 : Washington sets up winter quarters in Morristown
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...s-in-morristown

    Automotive
    1925 : Auto industry maverick John DeLorean born
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...n-delorean-born

    Civil War
    1827 : Confederate General John Calvin Brown born
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...lvin-brown-born

    Cold War
    1958 : Soviet Union announces troop reduction
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...troop-reduction

    Crime
    1994 : Skater Nancy Kerrigan attacked
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...rrigan-attacked

    Disaster
    1996 : Blizzard of 1996 begins
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/blizzard-of-1996-begins

    General Interest
    1066 : Harold II crowned king of England
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...king-of-england
    1912 : New Mexico joins the Union
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...joins-the-union
    1925 : Nurmi breaks two world records
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...o-world-records
    2001 : Congress certifies Bush winner of 2000 elections
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-2000-elections

    Hollywood
    2008 : Disney-MGM Studios becomes Disney's Hollywood Studios
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...llywood-studios

    Literary
    1977 : John Gardner wins National Book Critics Circle Award
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...cs-circle-award

    Music
    1975 : Two thousand Led Zeppelin fans trash the Boston Garden
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...e-boston-garden

    Old West
    1798 : Mountain man Jedediah Smith is born
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...h-smith-is-born

    Presidential
    1759 : Two future presidents marry respective sweethearts
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ive-sweethearts
    1941 : Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks of Four Freedoms
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...f-four-freedoms

    Sports
    1994 : Nancy Kerrigan attacked
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nancy-kerrigan-attacked

    Vietnam War
    1971 : Army drops charges of My Lai cover-up
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...my-lai-cover-up
    1975 : Phuoc Binh falls to the North Vietnamese
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...orth-vietnamese

    World War I
    1919 : Theodore Roosevelt dies
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/theodore-roosevelt-dies

    World War II
    1942 : Roosevelt commits to biggest arms buildup in U.S. history
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...p-in-us-history

     
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    October 30 : General Interest
    1938: Welles scares nation

    Orson Welles causes a nationwide panic with his broadcast of "War of the Worlds"-a realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth. read more


    American Revolution
    1775 : Naval committee established by Congress
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...hed-by-congress

    Automotive
    1893 : The World's Columbian Exposition closes in Chicago
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...oses-in-chicago

    Civil War
    1862 : Union General Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel dies
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...t-mitchell-dies

    Cold War
    1953 : Eisenhower approves NSC 162/2
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...proves-nsc-1622

    Crime
    1890 : Oakland, California, enacts anti-drug law
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...s-anti-drug-law

    Disaster
    1991 : Perfect storm hits North Atlantic
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-north-atlantic

    General Interest
    1908 : Queen of American high society dies
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...gh-society-dies
    1975 : Juan Carlos assumes power in Spain
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-power-in-spain
    1995 : Quebec separatists narrowly defeated
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...rrowly-defeated

    Hollywood
    1945 : Henry "The Fonz" Winkler is born
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...winkler-is-born

    Literary
    1811 : Sense and Sensibility is published
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ty-is-published

    Music
    1944 : Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring premieres at the Library of Congress
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ary-of-congress

    Old West
    1864 : The city of Helena, Montana, is founded after miners discover gold
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...s-discover-gold

    Presidential
    1735 : John Adams is born
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-adams-is-born

    Sports
    1974 : Muhammad Ali wins the Rumble in the Jungle
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...e-in-the-jungle

    Vietnam War
    1965 : Marines repel attack near Da Nang.
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ck-near-da-nang
    1970 : Heavy monsoon rains hit Vietnam
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ins-hit-vietnam

    World War I
    1918 : Ottoman Empire signs treaty with Allies
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...aty-with-allies

    World War II
    1941 : FDR approves Lend-Lease aid to the USSR
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...aid-to-the-ussr
     
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    October 31 : General Interest
    1517: Martin Luther posts 95 theses

    On this day in 1517, the priest and scholar Martin Luther approaches the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation... read more


    American Revolution
    1776 : King speaks for first time since independence declared
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ndence-declared

    Automotive
    1957 : Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. opens in Hollywood
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ns-in-hollywood

    Civil War
    1861 : Winfield Scott steps down
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...cott-steps-down

    Cold War
    1956 : British and French troops land in Suez Canal zone
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...suez-canal-zone

    Crime
    1984 : The prime minister of India is assassinated
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...is-assassinated

    Disaster
    1961 : Hurricane Hattie strikes Belize
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-strikes-belize

    General Interest
    1926 : Houdini is dead
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/houdini-is-dead
    1961 : Stalin's body removed from Lenin's tomb
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...rom-lenins-tomb

    Hollywood
    1993 : River Phoenix dies
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/river-phoenix-dies

    Literary
    1892 : The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes published
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...olmes-published

    Music
    1963 : Ed Sullivan witnesses Beatlemania firsthand, paving the way for the British Invasion
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ritish-invasion

    Old West
    1864 : The U.S. Congress admits Nevada as the 36th state
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-the-36th-state

    Presidential
    2000 : President Clinton stumps for his wife
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ps-for-his-wife

    Sports
    1950 : Earl Lloyd becomes first black player in the NBA
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ayer-in-the-nba

    Vietnam War
    1968 : President Johnson announces bombing halt
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...es-bombing-halt
    1970 : Thieu vows to never accept a coalition government
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...tion-government

    World War I
    1917 : Third Battle of Gaza
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/third-battle-of-gaza

    World War II
    1887 : Chiang Kai-Shek is born
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/chiang-kai-shek-is-born
     
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    November 1 : General Interest
    1512: Sistine Chapel ceiling opens to public

    The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, one of Italian artist Michelangelo's finest works, is exhibited to the public for the first time... read more


    American Revolution
    1765 : Parliament enacts the Stamp Act
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...s-the-stamp-act

    Automotive
    1930 : Detroit-Windsor Tunnel is dedicated
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...el-is-dedicated

    Civil War
    1861 : McClellan replaces Scott as Union army head
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mcclellan-replaces-scott

    Cold War
    1952 : United States tests first hydrogen bomb
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...t-hydrogen-bomb

    Crime
    1950 : An assassination attempt threatens President Harry S. Truman
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-harry-s-truman

    Disaster
    1755 : Earthquake takes heavy toll on Lisbon
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-toll-on-lisbon

    General Interest
    1993 : European Union goes into effect
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...oes-into-effect

    Hollywood
    1967 : Newman stars in Cool Hand Luke
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-cool-hand-luke

    Literary
    1871 : Stephen Crane is born
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/stephen-crane-is-born

    Music
    1986 : Boston's belated Third Stage hits #1
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...rd-stage-hits-1

    Old West
    1924 : Legendary western lawman is murdered
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...man-is-murdered

    Presidential
    1800 : John Adams moves into White House
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...nto-white-house

    Sports
    1959 : Jacques Plante is the first goalie to wear a facemask
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...wear-a-facemask

    Vietnam War
    1964 : Military and political situation in South Vietnam deteriorates
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...am-deteriorates
    1968 : Two new programs initiated in South Vietnam
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...n-south-vietnam

    World War I
    1914 : The Battle of Coronel
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-battle-of-coronel

    World War II
    1941 : FDR puts Coast Guard under control of the Navy
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...rol-of-the-navy
     
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    November 2 : General Interest
    1947: Spruce Goose flies

    The Hughes Flying Boat-the largest aircraft ever built-is piloted by designer Howard Hughes on its first and only flight... read more


    American Revolution
    1777 : John Paul Jones sets sail
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...jones-sets-sail

    Automotive
    1902 : First four-cylinder, gas-powered Locomobile hits the road
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...e-hits-the-road

    Civil War
    1861 : Union leader Fremont is removed from the Western Department
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...tern-department

    Cold War
    1963 : Ngo Dinh Diem assassinated in South Vietnam
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...n-south-vietnam

    Crime
    1989 : A nurse's aide gets life imprisonment
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...fe-imprisonment

    Disaster
    1982 : Truck explosion kills 3,000 in Afghanistan
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-in-afghanistan

    General Interest
    1917 : Britain supports creation of Jewish homeland
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...jewish-homeland
    1948 : Truman defeats Dewey
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/truman-defeats-dewey
    1983 : MLK federal holiday declared
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...oliday-declared

    Hollywood
    1966 : Friends star David Schwimmer born
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-schwimmer-born

    Literary
    1960 : Lady Chatterley's Lover obscenity trial ends
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...nity-trial-ends

    Music
    1985 : Miami Vice soundtrack begins an 11-week run at #1
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...1-week-run-at-1

    Old West
    1912 : XIT Ranch sells its last head of cattle
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...-head-of-cattle

    Presidential
    1795 : James Polk is born
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/james-polk-is-born
    1865 : Warren G. Harding is born
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/warren-g-harding-is-born

    Sports
    1986 : Grete Waitz wins her eighth NYC marathon
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...th-nyc-marathon

    Vietnam War
    1963 : Diem murdered during coup
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...red-during-coup
    1967 : Johnson meets with "the Wise Men"
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...th-the-wise-men

    World War I
    1917 : The Balfour Declaration
    www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-balfour-declaration

    World War II
    1942 : British launch Operation Supercharge
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history...ion-supercharge
     
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