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11/01/1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were 1^st exhibited to the public.

11/01/1952 - The US exploded the 1^st hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands.

11/01/2013 - Beltane / Samhain - Wicca, Celtic

11/01/2013 - Dhanteras - Hinduism

11/01/2013 - All Saints’ Day

11/02/1783 - George Washington issued his Farewell Address to the Army near Princeton NJ.

11/02/1917 - British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour expressed support for a "national Home" for the Jews of Palestine in "The Balfour Declaration."

11/02/1930 - Haile Selassie was crowned emperor of Ethiopia.

11/02/1948 - President Truman surprised the experts by being re-elected in a narrow upset over Republican challenger Thomas Dewey.

11/02/1963 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a military coup.

11/02/1976 - Jimmy Carter became the 1^st candidate from the Deep South since the Civil War to become president.

11/02/2013 - Anniversary of the Crowning of Haile Selassie - Rastafarian

11/02/2013 - All Souls' Day

11/03/1903 - Panama declared its independence from Colombia.

11/03/1957 - The Soviets launched Sputnik II, the second manmade satellite, into orbit carrying a dog named Laika who died in the experiment.

11/03/1970 - Salvador Allende became president of Chile.

11/03/1991 - Israeli and Palestinian representatives held their 1^st ever face-to-face talks in Madrid, Spain.

11/03/2013 - Daylight Saving time ends. Clocks fall back from 1:59 am to 1:00 am.

11/03/2013 - Bandi Chhor Divas - Sikhism

11/03/2013 - Diwali - Hinduism, Sikhism

11/04/1922 - The entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered in Egypt.

11/04/1979 - The Iranian hostage crisis began as militants stormed the US Embassy in Tehran. For some of the hostages it was the start of 444 days of captivity.

11/04/1995 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a right-wing Israeli minutes after attending a peace rally.

11/04/2008 - The US elected Barak Obama, its 1^st black president.

11/04/2013 - Govardhan Puja - Hinduism

11/04/2013 - Al-Hijra / Muharram - Muslim

11/05/1940 - FDR won an unprecedented third term in office.

11/05/1946 - Republicans captured control of both the Senate and the House in midterm elections.

11/05/2013 - Election Day

11/05/2013 - Bhai Duj - Hinduism

11/06/1860 - Former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates for the presidency.

11/06/1861 - The Confederacy elected Jefferson Davis to a six-year term as president.

11/07/1916 - Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the 1^st woman elected to Congress.

11/07/1917 - Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.

11/07/1944 - FDR won an unprecedented fourth term in office.

11/07/1973 - Congress overrode President Nixon's veto of the War Powers Act, which limits a chief executive's power to wage war without congressional approval.

11/07/1989 - L. Douglas Wilder won the governor's race in Virginia, becoming the 1^st elected black governor in US history.

11/08/1933 - President Franklin Roosevelt created the Civil Works Administration, designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed.

11/08/1994 - Midterm elections resulted in Republicans winning control of the House for the 1^st time in forty years.

11/08/2002 - The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution giving UN weapons inspectors the muscle they needed to hunt for illicit weapons in Iraq. President Bush said the new resolution presented the Iraqi regime "with a final test."

11/09/1938 - Nazis looted and burned synagogues as well as Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in what became known as "Kristallnacht."

11/09/1989 - Communist East Germany threw open its borders allowing citizens to travel freely to the West. Joyous Germans danced on top of the Berlin Wall.

11/10/1775 - The US Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress.

11/10/1871 - Journalist-explorer Henry Stanley found missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone in central Africa.

11/10/1928 - Emperor Hirohito was enthroned in Japan.

11/10/1954 - The Iwo Jima Memorial was dedicated in Arlington VA.

11/10/1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial opened to its 1^st visitors in Washington DC.

11/10/2013 - The US Marine Corps Birthday

11/11/1620 - Forty-one Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, anchored off Massachusetts, signed a compact calling for a "body politick."

11/11/1831 - Former slave Nat Turner, who had led a violent insurrection, was executed in Jerusalem VA.

11/11/1921 - President Harding dedicated the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.

11/11/2013 - Veterans Day

11/11/2013 - Martinmas - Christian

11/12/1942 - The WWII naval Battle of Guadalcanal began. The Americans won a major victory over the Japanese.

11/12/2013 - Birthday of Baha'u'llah - Baha'i

11/13/1789 - Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter to a fried, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

11/13/1927 - The Holland Tunnel opened to the public, providing access between New York City and New Jersey beneath the Hudson River.

11/13/1940 - The Walt Disney animated movie Fantasia had its world premiere in New York.

11/13/1942 - The minimum draft age was lowered from 21 to 18.

11/13/1956 - The Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses.

11/13/1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington DC.

11/13/2013 - Sandwich Day

11/13/2013 - Ashura - Muslim

11/14/1851 - Herman Melville's Moby Dick was 1^st published.

11/14/1922 - The BBC began its domestic radio service.

11/15/1777 - The Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation.

11/15/1889 - Brazil's monarchy was overthrown.

11/15/1926 - NBC debuted with a radio network of 24 stations.

11/15/1998 - Civil Rights activist Kwame Tume (Stokely Carmichael) died in Guinea at the age of 57.

11/15/2013 - Shichi - Go - San (Seven - Five - Three) - Shinto

11/16/1849 - A Russian court sentenced novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for his alleged antigovernment activities. At the last minute, his execution was stayed.

11/16/1864 - Killer and arsonist William T. Sherman and his troops began their March to the Sea.

11/17/1800 - Congress held its 1^st session in Washington in the partially completed Capitol building.

11/17/1868 - The Suez Canal opened in Egypt.

11/17/2013 - Anapanasati Day - Buddhism

11/18/1820 - Navy Captain Nathaniel Palmer discovered the frozen continent of Antarctica.

11/18/1883 - The US and Canada adopted a system of Standard Time zones.

11/18/1928 - The 1^st successful sound-synchronized animated cartoon, Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie, premiered in New York.

11/18/1966 - US Roman Catholic bishops did away with the rule against eating meat on Fridays.

11/18/1987 - The congressional Iran-Contra committees issued their final report saying President Reagan bore "ultimate responsibility" for wrong-doing by his aides.

11/18/1999 - Twelve people died when a bonfire under construction at Texas A&M University collapsed.

11/18/2013- Mickey Mouse’s Birthday

11/19/1863 - President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.

11/19/1919 - The US Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles.

11/19/1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the 1^st Arab leader to visit Israel.

11/20/1789 - New Jersey became the 1^st state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

11/20/1945 - The Nuremberg Trials began as Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal.

11/20/1967 - The US Census Clock ticked past 200 million.

11/21/1877 - Thomas Edison announced he had invented the phonograph.

11/21/1922 - Rebecca Felton (Georgia) became the 1^st woman to serve in the US Senate. (She filled the vacancy caused by the death of the state's senator and served one day.)

11/21/1963 - President John Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, began a two-day tour of Texas.

11/21/1969 - The Senate voted down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth, the 1^st such rejection since 1930.

11/22/1718 - English pirate Edward Teach - better known as Blackbeard - died during a battle off the Virginia coast.

11/22/1906 - The International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin adopted the SOS distress signal.

11/22/1928 - Maurice Ravel's Bolero made its debut in Paris.

11/22/1963 - President John Kennedy was shot to death while riding in a motorcade in Dallas.

11/22/1975 - Juan Carlos became King of Spain.

11/23/1889 - The 1^st jukebox debuted in San Francisco's Palais Royale Saloon.

11/23/1936 - Life was 1^st published.

11/23/1971 - The People's Republic of China became a member of the UN Security Council.

11/24/1859 - Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. It immediately sold out.

11/24/1871 - The National Rifle Association was incorporated.

11/24/1963 - Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald.

11/24/2013 - Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji (Bikarami) - Sikhism

11/24/2013 - Lhabab Duchen - Buddhism

11/24/2013 - Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji (Nanakshahi) - Sikhism

11/24/2013 - Christ the King Sunday

11/25/1783 - The British evacuated NY, their last military position in the US during the Revolutionary War.

11/25/1986 - The Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels.

11/25/2002 - President George W. Bush signed legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security.

11/25/2013 - Mangé Yam (fête de la moisson) - Voudon

11/26/1942 - Casablanca had its world premiere in NY.

11/26/1950 - China entered the Korean conflict by launching a counteroffensive against soldiers from the UN, the US, and South Korea.

11/26/1997 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said he would allow visits to presidential palaces where UN weapons experts suspected he had hidden chemical and biological weapons.

11/26/2013 - Day of the Covenant - Baha'i

11/27/1901 - The US Army War College opened in Washington DC.

11/27/1973 - The Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro Agnew.

11/27/2013 - Hanukkah begins at sundown (through 12/05) - Judaism

11/28/1520 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name.

11/28/1925 - The Grand Ole Opry made its radio debut on station WSM.

11/28/1975 - President Ford nominated federal Judge John Paul Stevens to the US Supreme Court.

11/28/2013 - Thanksgiving Day

11/28/2013 - Ascension of Abdul-Baha - Baha'i

11/29/1864 - The Colorado militia killed at least 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians in the Sand Creek Massacre.

11/29/1947 - The UN passed a resolution calling for the partitioning of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.

11/29/1963 - President Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.

11/29/2013 - Black Friday

11/30/1782 - The US and Britain signed preliminary peace articles in Paris, which ended the Revolutionary War.

11/30/1966 - The former British colony of Barbados became independent.

11/30/1981 - The US and the Soviet Union opened negotiations in Geneva aimed at reducing nuclear weapons in Europe.

11/30/2013 - St. Andrew's Day