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November 7th
1665 ~ The London Gazette, the oldest surviving English language journal, was first published.
1867 ~ Birthday of Marie Curie, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1903, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911.
1874 ~ The Republican Party was symbolized as an elephant for the first time, in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly magazine.
1886 ~ Birthday of Aron Nimzowitsch, chess grandmaster.
1913 ~ Birthday of Albert Camus, writer, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1957.
1917 ~ Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky.
1922 ~ Birthday of Al Hirt, Musician.
1926 ~ Birthday of Dame Joan Sutherland, Opera singer.
1934 ~ Premiere of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini at Baltimore, Maryland.
1940 ~ The middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in a windstorm.
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November 8th
1674 ~ Death of John Milton, English poet.
1847 ~ Birthday of Bram Stoker, Irish novelist.
1884 ~ Birthday of Hermann Rorschach, psychiatrist.
1895 ~ Wilhelm Röntgen discovered x-rays.
1942 ~ World War II: Operation Torch – U.S. and UK forces landed in French North Africa.
1950 ~ Korean War: The first dog fight between jet aircraft.
1986 ~ Death of Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician.
1994 ~ The U.S. Republican Party took control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
2002 ~ Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Iraq, requiring Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences". (requires Adobe Acrobat)
2006 ~ The U.S. Democrtic Party took control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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November 9th
1731 ~ Birthday of Benjamin Banneker, American scientist.
1888 ~ Jack the Ripper killed Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
1918 ~ As a result of the German Revolution, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicated and went into exile in the Netherlands.
1934 ~ Birthday of Carl Sagan, American Astronomer & Writer.
1936 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Tal, World Chess Champion.
1938 ~ Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, Kristallnacht, began.
1953 ~ Death of Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet.
1965 ~ Several U.S. states and parts of Canada were hit by blackouts.
1970 ~ Death of Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician.
1989 ~ East Germany allowed its citizens to travel freely to West Germany for the first time since 1961.
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November 10th
1483 ~ Birthday of Martin Luther, a leader of the Protestant Reformation.
1775 ~ The Continental Congress passed a resolution creating the Continental Marines, later renamed the United States Marine Corps.
1871 ~ Henry Morton Stanley located missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
1919 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Kalashnikov, Soviet inventor, AK-47.
1925 ~ Birthday of Richard Burton, Actor.
1938 ~ Death of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of Turkey.
1951 ~ Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service began in the United States.
1975 ~ The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm on Lake Superior. Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a song about the tragedy.
1982 ~ The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. opened to public.
1995 ~ Execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, writer and human rights activist.
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November 11th
1821 ~ Birthday of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist.
1855 ~ Death of Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher.
1880 ~ Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly was hung in Melbourne.
1885 ~ Birthday of George Patton, American general.
1904 ~ Birthday of Alger Hiss, Spy.
1918 ~ The end of World War I: Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies.
1965 ~ Rhodesia proclaimed its independence from Britain.
1992 ~ The Church of England voted to allow women to become priests.
2000 ~ A cable car full of skiers and snowboarders, many of them children, caught fire in Austria, killing 155 people.
2004 ~ Death of Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian Authority.
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November 16th
1849 ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky sentenced to death; his execution was canceled at the last minute.
1885 ~ Louis Riel, Canadian rebel leader and "Father of Manitoba", executed for high treason.
1895 ~ Birthday of Paul Hindemith, Composer.
1922 ~ Birthday of Gene Amdahl, computer scientist.
1933 ~ The U.S. and the USSR established diplomatic relations.
1959 ~ The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ''The Sound of Music'' opened on Broadway.
1960 ~ Death of Clark Gable, Actor.
1965 ~ The Soviet Union launched the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
1979 ~ Sir Anthony Blunt, a former security service officer, identified as the "fourth man" in the Philby affair.
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November 18th
1786 ~ Birthday of Carl Maria von Weber, Composer.
1836 ~ Birthday of Sir William S. Gilbert, Dramatist.
1883 ~ American and Canadian railroads instituted four standard continental time zones.
1916 ~ World War I: First Battle of the Somme, which started on July 1, ended in stalemate – Approx. 1,120,000 casualties, 310,000 killed or missing.
1928 ~ Release of Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, featuring the Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
1945 ~ Operation Paperclip: The first of more than 700 German scientists arrived in the U.S. to help the development of rocket technology.
1976 ~ Spain's parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after the dictatorship of General Franco.
1978 ~ Jonestown, Guyana mass suicide: 914 die, including 276 children.
2002 ~ UN weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.
2004 ~ The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled 4-3 that the state constitution guarantees gay couples the right to marry.
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November 19th
1493 ~ Christopher Columbus became the first European to go ashore on what would become Puerto Rico.
1805 ~ Birthday of Ferdinand de Lesseps, Suez Canal engineer.
1828 ~ Death of Franz Schubert, Austrian Composer.
1863 ~ U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
1884 ~ Birthday of José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban Chess Grand Master.
1917 ~ Birthday of Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India.
1941 ~ World War II: The Royal Australian Navy cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran sank each other off the coast of Western Australia.
1969 ~ The second Apollo mission, Apollo 12, landed on the Moon – in “the Ocean of Storms”.
1977 ~ Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel and spoke before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
1998 ~ Lewinsky scandal: The U.S. House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee began impeachment hearings against US President Bill Clinton.
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November 21st
1695 ~ Death of Henry Purcell, Composer.
1787 ~ Birthday of Samuel Cunard, Shipping Magnate.
1877 ~ Thomas Edison announced his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.
1898 ~ Birthday of René Magritte, Belgian painter.
1953 ~ Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announced that the skull of the "Piltdown Man" was a hoax.
1964 ~ Verrazano Narrows Bridge opened.
1969 ~ The first ARPANET link was established.
1980 ~ Lake Peigneur drained into an underlying salt deposit.
1985 ~ U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard was arrested for giving Israel classified information on Arab nations and was eventually sentenced to life in prison.
1995 ~ Toy Story was released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
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