History of November

During the month of November the following events have happened in our world's history.

November 01, 1752 - All Saints' Day
November 01, 1863 - Fortifications built on Angel Island by troops
November 01, 1870 - US Weather Bureau begins operations
November 01, 1913 - Knute Rockne leads underdog Notre Dame to 35-13 win over Army
November 01, 1932 - Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program
November 01, 1940 - 1st US air raid shelter Fleetwood Pa
November 01, 1943 - Dimout ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area
November 01, 1947 - 1st Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii
November 01, 1950 - 1st negro player in National Basketball Association Fort Wayne In
November 01, 1951 - 1st atomic explosion witnessed by troops NM
November 01, 1952 - 1st hydrogen device exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific
November 01, 1972 - Germaoin Gagnon scores the 1st Islander hat trick
November 01, 1977 - Islander Goran Hogosta's only shut-out Flames 9-0 - Trottier 4 goals
November 01, 1981 - 1st Class Mail raised from 18 to 20 cents
November 01, 1984 - Despite Mike Bossy 4 goals Islanders lose 5-6 to Canadians making Islander record when scoring a hat trick - 77-3-4
November 02, 1854 - Cobblestone paving of Washington St between Dupont & Kearny starts
November 02, 1889 - North Dakota becomes 39th and South Dakota becomes the 40th state
November 02, 1917 - Lansing-Ishii Agreement
November 02, 1917 - The Balfour Declaration calls for a Jewish homeland
November 02, 1920 - KDKA (Pittsburgh) on the air as 1st commercial radio station
November 02, 1947 - Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose flies for 1st (& last) time
November 02, 1948 - Truman beats Dewey confounding pollsters and newspapers
November 02, 1954 - JS Thurmond 1st senator elected by write-in vote - SC
November 02, 1957 - 1st titanium mill opened Toronto Ohio
November 02, 1959 - Charles Van Doren confesses 21 was fixed
November 02, 1964 - CBS purchases NY Yanks
November 02, 1975 - Ed Giacomin return to Mad Sq Garden as a Red Wing beats Rangers 6-4
November 02, 1978 - Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31
November 02, 1980 - Edith Bunker dies
November 03, 1620 - Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
November 03, 1903 - Columbia grants Panama independence
November 03, 1917 - 1st Class Mail now costs 3›
November 03, 1918 - Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I
November 03, 1930 - Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America
November 03, 1930 - Detroit-Windsor tunnel opens-1st vehicular tunnel to foreign country
November 03, 1952 - Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas
November 03, 1953 - 1st live color coast-to-coast telecast (NYC)
November 03, 1955 - 1st virus crystallized (announced)
November 03, 1956 - Wizard of Oz 1st televised
November 03, 1957 - USSR launches Laika 1st animal in orbit
November 03, 1973 - Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics 1st mission to Mercury
November 03, 1978 - UK grants Dominica independence (Natl Day)
November 03, 1979 - 63 Americans taken hostage at American Embassy (Teheran Iran)
November 03, 1986 - Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran
November 04, 1854 - Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island
November 04, 1866 - Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia
November 04, 1867 - 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall
November 04, 1880 - 1st cash register patented (James & John Ritty)
November 04, 1922 - Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen
November 04, 1924 - Nellie Tayloe Ross elected 1st US female gov (Wyoming)
November 04, 1939 - 1st air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited Chicago Il
November 04, 1945 - World Community Day
November 04, 1946 - UN Educational Scientific & Cultural Org formed
November 04, 1951 - NY Giants & NY Yanks score back-to-back TDs on kickoff returns
November 04, 1956 - Israeli troops reach Suez Canal
November 04, 1972 - Kings score 3 goals within 45 seconds against Islanders
November 04, 1978 - Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3)
November 04, 1979 - 500 Iranian "students" seize US embassy take 90 hostages
November 04, 1980 - Islanders started 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2)
November 04, 1984 - Nicaragua holds 1st free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63%
November 05, 1605 - Plot to blow up British parliment fails - 1st Guy Fawkes day
November 05, 1752 - Guy Fawkes Day
November 05, 1781 - John Hanson elected 1st 'Pres of the US in Congress assembled'
November 05, 1875 - Susan B Anthony arrested for attempting to vote
November 05, 1895 - 1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden)
November 05, 1911 - 1st coast-to-coast airplane flight (NY-Pasadena with many stops)
November 05, 1967 - ATS-3 launched by US to take 1st pictures of full Earth disc
November 05, 1973 - BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service
November 05, 1974 - Ella Grasso Ct elected 1st woman US gov not related to previous gov
November 05, 1982 - Cleve Cavs lose 24th consecutive game (NBA record)
November 06, 1814 - Adolphe Sax invents saxophone
November 06, 1844 - Spain grants Dominican Rep independence
November 06, 1850 - 1st Hawaiian fire engine
November 06, 1850 - Yerba Buena & Angel Islands reserved for military use
November 06, 1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th pres
November 06, 1862 - NY-SF direct telegraphic link established
November 06, 1869 - 1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6 Princeton 4)
November 06, 1917 - Bolshevik revolution begins
November 06, 1939 - WGY-TV (Schenectady NY) 1st coml TV station
November 06, 1952 - US explodes world's 1st hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok Atoll
November 06, 1962 - BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote
November 06, 1962 - Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more
November 06, 1968 - Nixon elected 37th pres of US defeating Hubert Humphrey
November 06, 1984 - Pres Reagan was elected to a second term winning 49 states
November 06, 1985 - 22nd Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 9 returns to Earth
November 06, 1986 - Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill
November 07, 1805 - Lewis & Clark 1st sights Pacific Ocean
November 07, 1811 - Battle of Tippecanoe gave Harrison a presial slogan
November 07, 1837 - Abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy murdered by mob at Alton Ill
November 07, 1865 - London Gazette oldest surviving journal is founded
November 07, 1872 - Mary Celeste sails from NY to Genoa; found abandoned 4 weeks later
November 07, 1874 - 1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol
November 07, 1875 - Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa
November 07, 1885 - Canada completes its own transcontinental railway
November 07, 1914 - Bolsheviks overthrew Russian govt in St Petersburg;
November 07, 1916 - Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana 1st women Representative
November 07, 1917 - October Revolution overthrows Russian Provisional Govt
November 07, 1918 - Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets
November 07, 1918 - USSR Natl Day
November 07, 1940 - Galloping Gertie bridge collapses Tacoma Wash
November 07, 1943 - Detroit Lions 0 NY Giants 0 -- last scoreless tie in NFL
November 07, 1962 - Richard Nixon quits politics - You won't have Nixon to kick around
November 07, 1972 - Republican Nixon re-elected to 2nd term defeating George McGovern
November 07, 1976 - Gone With the Wind televised
November 07, 1983 - Bomb explodes in US Capitol causing heavy damage but no injuries
November 07, 1985 - Colombian troops ends 27-hour siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice
November 08, 1793 - Louvre in Paris opens
November 08, 1837 - Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st US college founded for women
November 08, 1861 - US removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent
November 08, 1864 - Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as pres
November 08, 1889 - Montana admitted as 41st state
November 08, 1895 - Wilhelm R”ntgen discovers x-rays
November 08, 1923 - Hitler's "Beer Hall Putsch" failed In jail writes "Mein Kampf"
November 08, 1932 - FDR elected pres Lehman NY governor & O'Brien NY mayor
November 08, 1939 - Life with Father longest running Brdway drama opens (closes 1947)
November 08, 1942 - Allied forces invade North Africa
November 08, 1970 - Tom Dempsey of New Orleans kicks NFL-record 63-yard field goal
November 08, 1972 - Blackhawk's Pit Martin failed on 1st penalty shot against Islanders Blackhawks score 2 goals within 9 seconds against Islanders
November 08, 1973 - Walt Disney's "Robin Hood" is released
November 08, 1980 - Islander's Mike Bossy's 10th career hat trick
November 08, 1982 - Smoky fire set by a prisoner in a Biloxi Miss 28 killed
November 08, 1984 - 14th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 2 is launched
November 08, 1985 - Judge overturned Rubin ``Hurricane'' Carter's conviction
November 09, 1799 - Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France
November 09, 1848 - PO at Clay & Pike opens
November 09, 1861 - Battle of Piketon Ky
November 09, 1865 - Conf Gen Lee surrenders to Union Gen Grant at Appomattox
November 09, 1918 - Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I
November 09, 1924 - Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas)
November 09, 1935 - Congress of Industrial Org formed (CIO)
November 09, 1940 - Germany invaded Norway & Denmark in WW II
November 09, 1953 - Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union
November 09, 1965 - 5:16PM massive power failure in New Engl & Ontario (NY blackout)
November 09, 1967 - 1st unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module
November 09, 1984 - Most shots in a Islander game - 88 - Isles 45 Rangers 43
November 10, 1775 - US Marine Corps established by Congress
November 10, 1801 - Kentucky outlaws dueling
November 10, 1836 - Louis Napoleon banished to America
November 10, 1864 - Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico
November 10, 1871 - Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji Central Africa
November 10, 1891 - 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
November 10, 1945 - Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald liberated by US
November 10, 1950 - Jacobo Arbenz Guzm n elected pres of Guatemala
November 10, 1951 - 1st Long Distance telephone call without operator assistance
November 10, 1960 - Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
November 10, 1963 - Nuclear sub Thresher went down 220 miles east of Boston
November 10, 1968 - USSR launches Zond 6 to moon
November 10, 1969 - Sesame Street premiers
November 10, 1970 - Luna 17 with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1 is launched
November 10, 1971 - US table tennis team arrived in China
November 10, 1975 - Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald lost in a storm on Lake Superior
November 10, 1975 - PLO leader Yasser Arafat speaks at UN
November 10, 1978 - Yanks trade Lyle Rajsich McCall Heath & Ramos to Texas for Righetti Mirabella Beniquez Jemison & Griffin
November 10, 1980 - Voyager I flies past Saturn
November 11, 1620 - 41 Pilgrims signed a compact aboard Mayflower
November 11, 1648 - Dutch & French agree to divide St Maarten Leeward Islands
November 11, 1778 - Iroquois Indians in NY killed 40 people in Cherry Valley Mass
November 11, 1831 - Former slave Nat Turner who led a violent insurrection executed
November 11, 1889 - Washington admitted as 42nd state
November 11, 1918 - Armistice Day -- WW I ends (at 11AM on Western Front)
November 11, 1921 - Pres Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier
November 11, 1924 - Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated (SF)
November 11, 1931 - Cornerstones laid for Opera House & Veteran's Building
November 11, 1939 - Kate Smith 1st sang Irving Berlin's `God Bless America'
November 11, 1942 - During WWII Germany completed their occupation of France
November 11, 1946 - NY Knicks 1st game at Madison Sq Garden Lose 78-68 to Chic Stags
November 11, 1957 - Demolition begins on cable car barn at Calif & Hyde
November 11, 1959 - Seals Stadium demolished
November 11, 1963 - Gordie Howe ties Rocket Richard's lifetime 544 goal record
November 11, 1965 - Rhodesia proclaimed independence from Britain by PM Ian D Smith
November 11, 1966 - Gemini 12 launched on 4-day flight
November 11, 1968 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of "Two Virgins" album
November 11, 1972 - US Army turned over Long Bihn base to S Vietnamese army
November 11, 1975 - Portugal grants Angola independence (Natl Day)
November 11, 1980 - Crew of Soyuz 35 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 37
November 11, 1980 - Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against North Stars
November 11, 1982 - 30th time Islanders shut-out - 2-0 vs North Stars
November 11, 1982 - 5th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 5 is launched 1st coml flight
November 11, 1984 - Rev Martin Luther King Sr dies in Atlanta at 84
November 11, 1987 - Van Gogh's "Irises" sells for record $53.6 million at auction
November 12, 1873 - Bay District Race Track opens
November 12, 1892 - Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500 becomes 1st pro football player
November 12, 1918 - Austria becomes a republic
November 12, 1920 - Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner
November 12, 1921 - Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments
November 12, 1927 - Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator
November 12, 1933 - 1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal)
November 12, 1933 - 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken
November 12, 1936 - Oakland Bay Bridge opens
November 12, 1936 - 1st TV Gardening show
November 12, 1944 - German battleship Tirpitz was sunk off Norway
November 12, 1946 - Walt Disney's "Song Of The South" released
November 12, 1946 - 1st "autobank" (banking by car) established (Chic)
November 12, 1948 - Japanese premier Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
November 12, 1954 - Ellis Island immigration station in NY Harbor closed
November 12, 1965 - Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
November 12, 1975 - Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas retired after 36 years
November 12, 1977 - New Orleans elects 1st black mayor Ernest `Dutch' Morial
November 12, 1980 - US space probe Voyager I approaches 77 000 miles of Saturn
November 12, 1981 - 1st time a spacecraft is launched twice (space shuttle Columbia)
November 12, 1981 - 1st balloon crossing of Pacific completed (Double Eagle V)
November 12, 1981 - Billy Martin named AL Manager of the Year (Oakland A's)
November 12, 1981 - 2nd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 2 is launched
November 12, 1982 - Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev
November 12, 1983 - NJ Devils' 1st overtime game lose 4-3 to Flames
November 12, 1984 - Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite 1st space salvage
November 12, 1987 - Van Gogh's `Irises' sells for $53 900 000 - Rec amount for a painting
November 13, 0867 - St Nicholas I (the Great) pope (858-67) dies
November 13, 1002 - English king Ethelred II launches massacre of Danish settlers
November 13, 1775 - American Revolutionary forces captured Montreal
November 13, 1849 - Peter Burnett elected 1st gov of Calif
November 13, 1875 - Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms
November 13, 1895 - 1st shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii
November 13, 1909 - 250 miners die in a fire at St Paul Mine at Cherry Ill
November 13, 1921 - Sheik starring Rudolph Valentino released
November 13, 1927 - NY-NJ Holland Tunnel 1st underwater vehicular tunnel opens
November 13, 1937 - NBC forms 1st full sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio
November 13, 1940 - Walt Disney's "Fantasia" is released
November 13, 1941 - British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sank in Mediterranean
November 13, 1942 - Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18
November 13, 1955 - 1st live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country - Havana Cuba
November 13, 1956 - Supreme Court struck down segregation of races on public buses
November 13, 1969 - VP Spiro T Agnew accused network TV news depts of bias & distortion
November 13, 1970 - Vice Pres Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs"
November 13, 1970 - Cyclone kills estimated 300 000 in Bangladesh
November 13, 1971 - Mariner 9 1st orbit of another planet (Mars)
November 13, 1974 - Karen Silkwood killed in a car crash
November 13, 1977 - 25th Islander shut-out Resch 6-0 Gilles scores on 5th penalty shot
November 13, 1981 - 1st manned balloon flight across Pacific Ocean ended
November 13, 1982 - Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim fatally injured when KOed by Ray Mancini
November 13, 1982 - Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC
November 13, 1985 - Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia kills 25 000
November 14, 1666 - Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs)
November 14, 1792 - Capt George Vancouver is 1st Englishman to enter SF Bay
November 14, 1832 - 1st streetcar-horsedrawn vehicle called John Mason debuts in NYC
November 14, 1851 - Moby Dick by Herman Melville published
November 14, 1881 - Charles J Guiteau went on trial for Pres Garfield's assassination
November 14, 1889 - NY World's Nellie Bly (Liz Cochrane) begins 72 day world trip
November 14, 1896 - Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation
November 14, 1910 - 1st airplane flight from deck of a ship
November 14, 1922 - BBC began domestic radio service
November 14, 1935 - FDR proclaimed Philippine Is a free commonwealth
November 14, 1940 - During WW II German planes destroyed most of Coventry England
November 14, 1943 - Bears' Sid Luckman throws 7 TD passes (NFL record)
November 14, 1959 - Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii)
November 14, 1969 - Apollo 12 launched
November 14, 1972 - Dow Jones closes above 1 000 for 1st time (1003.16)
November 14, 1973 - Britain's Princess Anne marries commoner Capt Mark Phillips
November 14, 1977 - Egypt Pres Sadat repeats willingness to visit Israel to Cronkite
November 14, 1981 - 2nd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 2 returns to Earth
November 14, 1981 - Old Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park repaired & working again
November 14, 1986 - Sec & Exch Comm impose a record $100 million penalty against Boesky
November 15, 1630 - Johannes Kepler dies
November 15, 1777 - Continental Congress approves Articles of Conf
November 15, 1806 - Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak
November 15, 1869 - Free Postal Delivery formally inaugurated
November 15, 1881 - American Federation of Labor founded in Pitts (AFL)
November 15, 1889 - Dom Pedro II Emperor of Brazil deposed; republic proclaimed
November 15, 1920 - League of Nations holds 1st meeting in Geneva
November 15, 1926 - NBC on-air debut with a radio network of 24 stations
November 15, 1932 - Walt Disney Art School created
November 15, 1937 - 1st congressional session in air-conditioned chambers
November 15, 1939 - Social Security Adm approves 1st unemployment check
November 15, 1940 - 1st 75 000 men were called to armed forces duty during peacetime
November 15, 1941 - Cow Palace opens in SF
November 15, 1948 - William Lyon Mackenzie King retired as prime minister of Canada
November 15, 1949 - KRON (Channel 4 SF) signs on from 7 to 10 PM
November 15, 1950 - 1st Negro player in organized hockey - Arthur Dorrington signed
November 15, 1954 - Flight over North Pole on regularly scheduled commercial route began
November 15, 1958 - Actor Tyrone Power dies of a heart attack at 44
November 15, 1964 - Mickey Wright shoots a 62 lowest golf score for a woman pro
November 15, 1966 - Gemini XII returns to Earth
November 15, 1967 - Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km
November 15, 1969 - 250 000 protesters peacefully demonstrate against Vietnam War
November 15, 1977 - Pres Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran
November 15, 1980 - Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany
November 15, 1982 - Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I Brezhnev
November 15, 1983 - 75th hat trick in Islander history - Mike Bossy
November 15, 1984 - Baby Fae who received a baboon's heart dies at Calif medical center
November 16, 1532 - Pizarro seizes Incan emperor Atahualpa
November 16, 1864 - Sherman begins his march to sea thru Georgia
November 16, 1894 - 6 000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan
November 16, 1907 - Okla becomes 46th state
November 16, 1924 - Cleveland Bulldogs lose to Frankford Yellowjackets ending a 31-game undefeated streak (NFL & major-league football record)
November 16, 1926 - NY Rangers play their 1st game
November 16, 1933 - Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR
November 16, 1950 - UN gets US govt approval to issing postage stamps
November 16, 1955 - 1st speed-boat to exceed 200 mph (DM Campbell)
November 16, 1965 - Venera 3 launched 1st land on another planet (Crashed into Venus)
November 16, 1965 - 1st public announcement about Walt Disney World
November 16, 1966 - Dr Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail by a jury
November 16, 1973 - Skylab 4 launched into earth orbit
November 16, 1982 - 5th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 5 returns to Earth
November 16, 1984 - 14th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 2 returns to Earth
November 17, 1558 - Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary
November 17, 1734 - John Peter Zenger newspaper editor arrested for libel against NY colonial governor; later acquitted
November 17, 1800 - Congress held 1st session in Washington
November 17, 1853 - Street signs authorized at SF intersections
November 17, 1869 - Suez Canal opens
November 17, 1884 - Cops arrest John L Sullivan in 2nd round for being "cruel"
November 17, 1913 - Panama Canal opens
November 17, 1917 - Sculptor August Rodin died in Meudon France
November 17, 1934 - Lyndon B Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor
November 17, 1940 - Green Bay Packers become 1st NFL team to travel by plane
November 17, 1948 - Britain's House of Commons voted to nationalize steel industry
November 17, 1956 - fullback Jim Brown Syracuse scores 43 pts (NCAA rec) vs. Colgate
November 17, 1962 - Dulles Intl Airport outside Wash DC dedicated by Pres Kennedy
November 17, 1968 - Heidi bowl-NBC misses Oakland rally to beat Jets 43-32
November 17, 1970 - Russia lands unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon
November 17, 1973 - Pres Nixon told AP "...people have got to know whether or not their pres is a crook. Well I'm not a crook."
November 17, 1977 - Egyptian Pres Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel
November 17, 1982 - S Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim was legally declared dead
November 17, 1984 - Islanders scored 20 assists against Rangers
November 18, 1497 - Bartolomeu Dias discovers Cape of Good Hope
November 18, 1803 - Battle of Vertieres in which Haitians defeat French
November 18, 1820 - Antarctica discovered by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B Palmer
November 18, 1883 - Standard time zones established by railroads in US Canada
November 18, 1889 - Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii
November 18, 1903 - Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama
November 18, 1909 - US invades Nicaragua later overthrows Pres Zelaya
November 18, 1913 - Lincoln Deachey performs 1st airplane loop-the-loop
November 18, 1918 - Latvia declares independence from Russia
November 18, 1928 - Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in NY in "Steamboat Willie"
November 18, 1932 - Flowers & Trees awarded 1st Academy Award for a cartoon
November 18, 1936 - Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined
November 18, 1943 - 1st ambassador to Canada Ray Atherton nominated
November 18, 1954 - Yanks trade Woodling Byrd McDonald Triandos Miranada & Smith to Orioles for Turley Larsen & Hunter as part of an 18 player deal
November 18, 1976 - Yanks sign free agent Don Gullett
November 18, 1984 - Devils shutout Rangers 6-0
November 18, 1984 - Flyers' Ron Sutter failed on 11th penalty shot against Islanders
November 19, 1493 - Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico
November 19, 1582 - Puerto Rico Discovery Day
November 19, 1620 - Mayflower pgrims reach Cape Cod
November 19, 1644 - 1st protestant ministry society in New England
November 19, 1863 - Lincoln delivers Gettysburg address
November 19, 1895 - Pencil invented
November 19, 1919 - Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations rejected by US Senate
November 19, 1959 - Ford cancels Edsel
November 19, 1970 - Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a Cal State Historical Landmark
November 19, 1971 - Ft Wilderness opens
November 19, 1977 - Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel
November 19, 1977 - Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer failed on 3rd penalty shot against Islanders
November 19, 1978 - Rev Jim Jones leads 911 people in suicide in Jonestown Guyana
November 20, 1780 - Britain declares war against Holland
November 20, 1789 - NJ became 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights.
November 20, 1888 - William Bundy invents 1st timecard clock
November 20, 1894 - US intervenes in Bluefields Nicaragua
November 20, 1910 - Revolution broke out in Mexico led by Francisco I. Madero.
November 20, 1914 - US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
November 20, 1931 - Commercial teletype service began
November 20, 1942 - NHL abolishes regular season overtime
November 20, 1943 - American forces land on Tarawa & Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Is.
November 20, 1945 - 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg Germany.
November 20, 1947 - Meet the Press makes network TV debut on NBC.
November 20, 1947 - UN General assembly looks into printing their own stamps
November 20, 1947 - Britain's Princess Elizabeth marries Duke Philip Mountbatten
November 20, 1953 - 1st airplane to exceed 1300 mph - Scott Crossfield
November 20, 1967 - At 11 AM Census Clock at Dept of Commerce ticks past 200 million.
November 20, 1975 - Spain's Gen. Francisco Franco dies in Madrid at 82
November 20, 1977 - Walter Payton of Bears rushes for NFL-record 275 yards
November 20, 1977 - Egyptian Pres Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israel Knesset
November 20, 1980 - Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes 1st solar-powered flight
November 20, 1980 - Billy Martin named AL Manager of the Year (Oakland A's)
November 20, 1980 - UA withdraws $44 million movie `Heaven's Gate' for reediting.
November 20, 1981 - Anatoly Karpov USSR retains world chess championship
November 20, 1983 - 100 million watch ABC-TV movie `The Day After'
November 20, 1985 - Yankee Don Mattingly named AL MVP
November 20, 1986 - UN's WHO announces 1st global effort to combat AIDS
November 21, 1620 - Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims in Providencetown MA harbor
November 21, 1624 - Jakob B”hme German philosophical mystic dies (birth date unknown)
November 21, 1783 - Pilƒtre de Rozier & Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight
November 21, 1789 - NC becomes 12th state
November 21, 1794 - Honolulu Harbor discovered
November 21, 1847 - Phoenix is lost on Lake Michigan
November 21, 1933 - 1st US ambassador to USSR - WC Bullitt
November 21, 1934 - Yanks buy Joe DiMaggio from SF Seals
November 21, 1952 - 1st US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced
November 21, 1959 - Jack Benny (Violin) & Richard Nixon (Piano) play their famed duet
November 21, 1964 - World's longest suspension bridge Verrazano Narrows Bridge opened
November 21, 1980 - Gene Michaels replaces Dick Howser as Yankee's 25th manager
November 21, 1980 - Who Shot JR episode of Dallas
November 22, 1906 - Intl Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS" as new call for help
November 22, 1925 - Red Grange signs with Chicago Bears directly out of college
November 22, 1943 - Lebanon gains independence from France (Natl Day)
November 22, 1944 - Arthur S Eddington dies
November 22, 1945 - end Jim Benton of Cleveland gains 303 yards (NFL record)
November 22, 1957 - Mickey Mantle beats Ted Williams by 1 vote for MVP
November 22, 1963 - JFK assasinated in Dallas
November 22, 1967 - UN Security council passes resol 242 - Israel must give back land
November 22, 1968 - Beatles release "The Beatles" there only double album
November 22, 1972 - Flyers start Islanders on 15 game winless streak
November 22, 1974 - Lake Buena Vista Club opens
November 23, 1852 - just past midnight a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30 feet
November 23, 1863 - Patent granted for a process of making color photographs
November 23, 1911 - Post Hospital at Presidio SF renamed Letterman General Hospital
November 23, 1948 - Lens to provide zoom effects patented - FG Back
November 23, 1979 - Merle Oberon dies at 68
November 23, 1980 - Mae West dies at 88
November 24, 1759 - Destructive eruption of Vesuvius
November 24, 1832 - SC passes Ordinance of Nullification
November 24, 1874 - Patent granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire
November 24, 1954 - 1st US Presial airplane christened
November 24, 1960 - Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record)
November 24, 1963 - 1st live murder on TV - Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
November 24, 1969 - Apollo 12 returns to Earth
November 24, 1971 - D B Cooper parachutes from a Northwest AL 727 with $200 000
November 24, 1979 - Kings' Charley Simmer failed on 8th penalty shot against Islanders
November 25, 1867 - Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
November 25, 1758 - Britain captures Ft Duquesne (Pittsburgh)
November 25, 1783 - Britain evacuated NY their last military position in US
November 25, 1884 - John B Meyenberg of St Louis patented evaporated milk
November 25, 1885 - VP Thomas A Hendricks died at 66 8 months after taking office
November 25, 1920 - WTAW of College Station Tx broadcast 1st football play-by-play
November 25, 1933 - 1st Soviet liquid rocket attains altitude of 261 ft
November 25, 1948 - Ft Funston's 16-inch coastal guns removed
November 25, 1952 - Agatha Christie's "Mouse Trap" opens in London
November 25, 1957 - Pres Eisenhower suffered a slight stroke
November 25, 1960 - 1st atomic reactor for research & development Richland Wa
November 25, 1973 - Greek Pres George Papadopoulos ousted in a bloodless military coup
November 25, 1974 - UN Secretary-General U Thant dies in NY of cancer at 65
November 25, 1975 - Netherlands grants Surinam independence (Natl Day)
November 25, 1976 - O.J. Simpson gains 273 yards for Buffalo vs. Det
November 25, 1980 - Sugar Ray Leonard regains WBC welterweight championship
November 25, 1983 - Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth 149 days after take-off
November 25, 1984 - William Schroeder becomes 2nd to receive Jarvik-7 artificial heart
November 26, 1716 - 1st lion to be exhibited in America (Boston)
November 26, 1778 - Capt Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands)
November 26, 1789 - 1st natl celebration of Thanksgiving
November 26, 1793 - Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
November 26, 1825 - 1st fraternity Kappa Alpha formed at Union College (Schenectady)
November 26, 1832 - 1st horse drawn American street car -NYC- fare: 12›
November 26, 1865 - Alice in Wonderland published
November 26, 1868 - 1st baseball game played in enclosed field in SF at 25th & Folsom
November 26, 1883 - Sojourner Truth abolitionist women's rights advocate dies
November 26, 1885 - 1st Meteor photograph
November 26, 1895 - Hawaiian Sugar Planters Assn formed
November 26, 1940 - Nazis force 4.5 mil Warsaw Jews to live in walled ghetto
November 26, 1949 - India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic
November 26, 1950 - China enters Korean conflict
November 26, 1962 - 1st recording session under the name Beatles
November 26, 1965 - France launches 1st satellite a 92-pound A1 capsule
November 26, 1966 - 1st major tidal power plant opened at Rance estuary France
November 26, 1973 - Nixon's personal sec Rose Mary Woods told a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape
November 26, 1975 - Fed jury found Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination
November 26, 1980 - Rachael Roberts dies at age 53
November 26, 1982 - Yasuhiro Nakasone elected PM of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki
November 26, 1982 - Clyde King named Yankee manager
November 26, 1985 - 23rd Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 2 is launched
November 27, 1095 - Pope Urban II preaches 1st Crusade
November 27, 1582 - Advent Sunday
November 27, 1815 - Cracow declared a free republic
November 27, 1890 - 1st signal box for SF Police Department goes into operation
November 27, 1901 - Army War College was established in Wash DC
November 27, 1910 - NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal
November 27, 1937 - Pro-labor musical revue `Pins & Needles'opens produced by ILGWU
November 27, 1942 - French navy at Toulon scuttled its ships & submarines to prevent them from falling into hands of Nazis
November 27, 1945 - Gen George C Marshall named special US envoy to China
November 27, 1947 - Joe DiMaggio wins his 3rd MVP beating Ted Williams by 1 vote
November 27, 1951 - 1st rocket to intercept an airplane White Sands NM
November 27, 1953 - Playwright Eugene O'Neill dies in Boston at 65
November 27, 1966 - in highest-scoring NFL game Wash Redskins defeat NY Giants 72-41
November 27, 1967 - Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour"
November 27, 1970 - Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest
November 27, 1970 - George Harrison releases 3 album set "All Things Must Pass"
November 27, 1971 - Mars 2 1st crash land on Mars
November 27, 1972 - Yanks trade Ellis Torres & Spikes to Indians for Nettles & Moses
November 27, 1973 - Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R Ford as VP
November 27, 1978 - SF Mayor George Moscone & City Sup Harvey Milk shot by Dan White
November 27, 1980 - Soyuz T-3 is launched
November 27, 1981 - Singer-actress Lotte Lenya dies in NY at 83
November 27, 1982 - 5th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 3-0
November 27, 1985 - Republic of Ireland gains consultative role in Northern Ireland
November 27, 1985 - Space shuttle Atlantis makes 2nd flight carries 7 (1 Mexican)
November 28, 1520 - Magellan begins crossing Pacific Ocean
November 28, 1853 - Olympia established as capital of Washington Territory
November 28, 1895 - America's auto race starts; 6 cars 55 miles winner avg 7 MPH
November 28, 1912 - Albania declares independence from Turkey
November 28, 1929 - Adm RE Byrd makes 1st South Pole flight
November 28, 1929 - Ernie Nevers scores 40 points for Cardinals vs Bears (NFL record)
November 28, 1943 - Roosevelt Churchill & Stalin met at Tehran
November 28, 1960 - Mauritania gains independence from France (Natl Day)
November 28, 1964 - Mariner 4 launched; 1st probe to fly by Mars
November 28, 1974 - Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years
November 28, 1976 - Rosalind Russell dies at age 68
November 28, 1983 - 9th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 is launched
November 28, 1986 - Reagan adm exceeds SALT II arms limitations for 1st time
November 29, 1530 - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey adviser to England's King Henry VIII died.
November 29, 1847 - Indians kill Marcus & Narcissa Whitman 11 settle in Walla Walla Ore
November 29, 1864 - Colorado militia kills 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians
November 29, 1887 - US receives rights to Pearl Harbor on Oahu Hawaii
November 29, 1890 - 1st Army-Navy football game Score: Navy 24 Army 0
November 29, 1916 - US declares martial law in Dominican Republic
November 29, 1924 - Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels
November 29, 1929 - Richard Byrd & crew flies over South Pole
November 29, 1934 - Chicago Bears beat Detroit in 1st NFL game broadcast nationally
November 29, 1944 - Albania liberated from Nazi control (Natl Day)
November 29, 1945 - Yugoslav Republic Day
November 29, 1947 - UN Gen Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
November 29, 1951 - 1st underground atomic explosion Frenchman Flat Nevada
November 29, 1952 - Pres-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess the war.
November 29, 1961 - Mercury 5 launches a chimp (Ham/Enos)
November 29, 1963 - Beatles release "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
November 29, 1963 - LBJ sets up Warren comm to investigate assassination of JFK
November 29, 1967 - US Sec of Def McNamara becomes president of the World Bank.
November 29, 1971 - 1st Prof Golf Championship at Walt Disney World
November 29, 1975 - Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii
November 29, 1976 - Free agent Reggie Jackson signs 5 year pact with Yankees
November 29, 1981 - Actress Natalie Wood drowns off Santa Catalina Calif. at 43
November 29, 1986 - Cary Grant dies in Davenport Iowa at 82
November 29, 1987 - It was later ruled that he should not be credited with the goal
November 29, 1987 - Ranger's Bob Frosse becomes 2nd goalie to score a goal (vs Isles)
November 30, 0030 - BC Cleopatra died
November 30, 1752 - St Andrew's Day
November 30, 1907 - Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle
November 30, 1939 - USSR invades Finland over a border dispute
November 30, 1940 - 1st game of only 2-game Grey Cup (Ottawa 8 Toronto Balmy Beach 2)
November 30, 1947 - Day after UN decree for Israel Jewish settlements are attacked
November 30, 1954 - 1st meteorite known to have struck a woman - Sylacauga Ala
November 30, 1958 - 1st guided missile destroyer launched Dewey Bath Me
November 30, 1964 - USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars
November 30, 1966 - Barbados gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)
November 30, 1967 - South Yemen (then Aden) gains independence from Britain
November 30, 1974 - 20th time Islanders shut-out (3-0 vs Canucks)