Edited by Bonnie K. Goodman
Ms. Goodman is the Editor / Features Editor at HNN. She has a Masters in Library and Information Studies from McGill University, and has done graduate work in history at Concordia University. Her blog is History Musings
Monday, February 1, 2010
- 01/02/1587 - English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuarts death sentence
- 01/02/1790 - Supreme Court convenes for 1st time (NYC)
- 01/02/1810 - US Population: 7,239,881, Black population: 1,377,808 (19%)
- 01/02/1860 - 1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of NYC
- 01/02/1861 - Texas becomes 7th state to secede
- 01/02/1862 - Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of Republic"
- 01/02/1865 - 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
- 01/02/1865 - General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins
- 01/02/1871 - Jefferson Long of Georgia is 1st black to make an official speech in House of Reps (opposing leniency to former Confederates)
- 01/02/1887 - Harvey Wilcox of Ks subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern Calif and starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood)
- 01/02/1892 - Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning use of "400" to describe socially elite
- 01/02/1893 - Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ)
- 01/02/1951 - 1st telecast of atomic explosion
- 01/02/1953 - "General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts
- 01/02/1953 - "You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premieres on CBS television
- 01/02/1960 - 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth
- 01/02/1965 - Martin Luther King Jr and 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma Ala
- 01/02/1965 - Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news
- 01/02/1968 - Former VP Richard Nixon announces candidacy for president
- 01/02/1968 - Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to head
- 01/02/1978 - Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a US postage stamp
- 01/02/1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 yrs in exile
- 02/02/1536 - Pedro de Mendoza finds Argentine city of Buenos Aires
- 02/02/1550 - English Edward Seymour duke of Somerset, freed
- 02/02/1843 - US and British settlers in Oregon Country choose govt committee
- 02/02/1848 - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; US acquires Texas California, New Mexico and Arizona for $15 million
- 02/02/1848 - 1st ship load of Chinese arrive in SF
- 02/02/1863 - Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for 1st time
- 02/02/1876 - Baseball's National League forms with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, St Louis
- 02/02/1913 - NYC's Grand Central Terminal opens
- 02/02/1942 - LA Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans
- 02/02/1948 - President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program
- 02/02/1954 - Pres Eisenhower reports detonation of 1st H-bomb (done in 1952)
- 02/02/1955 - 1st presidential news conference on network TV-Eisenhower on ABC
- 03/02/1690 - 1st paper money in America issued (colony of Mass)
- 03/02/1740 - Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily
- 03/02/1783 - Spain recognizes US independence
- 03/02/1836 - Whig Party holds its 1st national convention (Albany NY)
- 03/02/1855 - Wisconsin Supreme Ct declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional
- 03/02/1860 - Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st US superintendent of agriculture
- 03/02/1864 - Sherman's march through Mississippi
- 03/02/1865 - Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln and Stephens reach an impasse
- 03/02/1870 - 15th Amendment (Black suffrage) passed
- 03/02/1908 - Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act
- 03/02/1916 - Canada's original Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, burns down
- 03/02/1917 - US liner Housatonic sunk by German sub and diplomatic relations severed
- 03/02/1919 - League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris)
- 03/02/1930 - William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons
- 03/02/1947 - 1st black reporter in Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis)
- 03/02/1962 - Pres Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food and drugs
- 03/02/1994 - Pres Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam
- 04/02/1586 - Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, becomes governor of Neth
- 04/02/1787 - Shays' Rebellion (of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers) fails
- 04/02/1789 - 1st electoral college chooses Washington and Adams as Pres and VP
- 04/02/1822 - Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa
- 04/02/1847 - 1st US telegraph co established in Maryland
- 04/02/1854 - Alvan Bovay proposes name "Republican Party," Ripon, Wisc
- 04/02/1855 - Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela
- 04/02/1861 - Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time, Montgomery Ala, Ga, Fla, La, Miss and SC elect Jefferson Davis pres of Confederacy
- 04/02/1864 - 24th Amendment abolishes Poll tax
- 04/02/1887 - Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads
- 04/02/1914 - US Congress approves Burnett-anti-immigration law
- 04/02/1942 - Clinton Pierce becomes 1st US general wounded in action in WW II
- 04/02/1945 - FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta
- 04/02/1997 - Sec of State Margaret Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish
- 04/02/1586 - Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, becomes governor of Neth
- 04/02/1787 - Shays' Rebellion (of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers) fails
- 04/02/1789 - 1st electoral college chooses Washington and Adams as Pres and VP
- 04/02/1822 - Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa
- 04/02/1847 - 1st US telegraph co established in Maryland
- 04/02/1854 - Alvan Bovay proposes name "Republican Party," Ripon, Wisc
- 04/02/1855 - Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela
- 04/02/1861 - Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time, Montgomery Ala, Ga, Fla, La, Miss and SC elect Jefferson Davis pres of Confederacy
- 04/02/1864 - 24th Amendment abolishes Poll tax
- 04/02/1887 - Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads
- 04/02/1914 - US Congress approves Burnett-anti-immigration law
- 04/02/1942 - Clinton Pierce becomes 1st US general wounded in action in WW II
- 04/02/1945 - FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta
- 04/02/1997 - Sec of State Margaret Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish
- 05/02/1649 - Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II
- 05/02/1778 - Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina
- 05/02/1861 - Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress
- 05/02/1865 - Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)
- 05/02/1930 - 5th Aliyah to Israel begins
- 05/02/1937 - FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court, "court packing" plan failed
- 05/02/1969 - US population reaches 200 million
- 06/02/1862 - Gen Ulysses S Grant captures Fort Henry in Tennessee
- 06/02/1862 - Ulysses S Grant begins military campaign in Mississippi
- 06/02/1865 - Robert E Lee appointed Confederate General in Chief
- 06/02/1899 - Spanish-American War ends, peace treaty ratified by Senate
- 06/02/1918 - Britain grants women (30 and over) vote
- 06/02/1933 - 20th Amendment goes into effect: Pres term begins in Jan not March
- 06/02/1956 - U of Alabama refuses admission to Autherine Lucy (because he's black)
- 06/02/1974 - US House of Reps begins determining grounds for impeachment of Nixon
- 06/02/1978 - Muriel, wife of late Hubert Humphrey (Sen-D-Minn) takes his office
- 07/02/1569 - King Philip II forms inquistion in South America
- 07/02/1795 - 11th Amendment to US Constitution ratified, affirms power of states
- 07/02/1839 - Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president"
- 07/02/1862 - Federal fleet attack on Roanoke Island NC
- 07/02/1864 - Federal troops occupy Jacksonville, Florida
- 07/02/1950 - Sen Joe McCarthy finds "communists" in US Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- 07/02/1956 - Autherine Lucy, 1st black admitted to U of Alabama, is expelled
- 07/02/1962 - President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba
- 07/02/1964 - Beatles land at NY's JFK airport, for 1st US tour
- 07/02/1973 - Senate creates Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities
- 07/02/1983 - 1st female secretary of transportation sworn-in (Elizabeth Dole)
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Sunday, January 17, 2010
This Week in History... January 3-10 2010
- 01-01-1863 - Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
- 01-01-1908 - The ball signifying the New Year was dropped for the first time at Times Square in New York City.
- 01-01-1914 - The world's first airline, St. Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, starts operation in St. Petersburg, Florida.
- 01-01-1959 - Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries took over Cuba and toppled Fulgencio Batista's regime.
- 01-01-1975 - John Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman, and John Ehrlichman were convicted of obstruction of justice in the Watergate affair.
- 01-02-1492 - Muhammad XI, the leader of the last Arab stronghold in Spain, surrendered to King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I.
- 01-02-1788 - Georgia was admitted to the Union as the 4th state.
- 01-02-1905 - The Russo-Japanese war ended.
- 01-02-1923 - The African-American town of Rosewood, Fla., was burned by a white mob./li>
- 01-02-1935 - The Bruno R. Hauptmann trial began for the kidnap and murder of the Lindbergh baby.
- 01-02-1959 - The first spacecraft to fly by the Moon and also to orbit the Sun, Mechta (Luna 1) was launched by the USSR.
- 01-02-1994 - Rudolph Giuliani is inaugurated as New York City's mayor.
- 01-03-1521 - Martin Luther excommunicated by Pope Leo X.
- 01-03-1777 - George Washington defeated Cornwallis's forces at the Battle of Princeton.
- 01-03-1833 - Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands.
- 01-03-1870 - Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge began.
- 01-03-1920 - The New York Yankees acquired Babe Ruth and so began the "curse of the Bambino" that haunted the Boston Red Sox until 2004.
- 01-03-1947 - Congressional proceedings were televised for the first time.
- 01-03-1959 - Alaska became the 49th state in the United States.
- 01-03-1967 - Jack Ruby, the man who shot John Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, died.
- 01-04-1885 - Dr. William W. Grant of Davenport, Iowa, performed what is thought to be the first appendectomy.
- 01-04-1896 - Utah was admitted as 45th state in the United States.
- 01-04-1904 - In Gonzales v. Williams, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that citizens of Puerto Rico are not aliens and can enter the U.S. freely.
- 01-04-1951 - During the Korean War, North Korean and Communist Chinese forces captured the city of Seoul.
- 01-04-1965 - President Johnson outlined his "Great Society" in his State of the Union address.
- 01-05-1914 - Henry Ford introduced the $5-a-day minimum wage.
- 01-05-1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman governor of a state (Wyoming).
- 01-05-1972 - President Nixon ordered the development of the space shuttle.
- 01-06-1540 - King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves.
- 01-06-1759 - George Washington married Martha Custis.
- 01-06-1838 - Samuel Morse gave the first public demonstration of the telegraph.
- 01-06-1912 - New Mexico became the 47th state in the United States.
- 01-06-1919 - Former president Theodore Roosevelt died in Oyster Bay, N.Y.
- 07/01/1927 - Transatlantic commercial telephone service began between New York and London.
- 07/01/1953 - Harry Truman announced that the U.S. had developed the hydrogen bomb.
- 07/01/1979 - Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge government.
- 07/01/1999 - The impeachment trial of President William Clinton began in the Senate.
- 08/01/1790 - George Washington delivers 1st state of union address (or Jan 4)
- 08/01/1815 - Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew
- 08/01/1853 - 1st US bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Wash
- 08/01/1867 - Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite Pres Johnson's veto
- 08/01/1918 - Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition)
- 08/01/1918 - Pres Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after WW I
- 08/01/1925 - 1st all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas
- 08/01/1958 - Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana
- 08/01/1964 - President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty"
- 08/01/1975 - Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach and Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison
- 09/01/1349 - 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses
- 09/01/1570 - Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod
- 09/01/1839 - Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science
- 09/01/1861 - Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede
- 09/01/1861 - 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, SC
- 09/01/1905 - Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops (1/22 NS)
- 09/01/1945 - US soldiers led by Gen Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines
- 10/01/1776 - "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published
- 10/01/1811 - Louisiana slaves rebell in 2 parishes
- 10/01/1861 - Florida becomes 3rd state to secede from US
- 10/01/1863 - 1st underground railway opens in London
- 10/01/1878 - US Senate proposes female suffrage
- 10/01/1920 - League of Nations established
- 10/01/1928 - Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky
- 10/01/1943 - 1st US pres to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco
- 10/01/1946 - UN General Assembly meets for 1st time (London)
- 10/01/1966 - Julian Bond denied seat in Ga legislature for opposing Vietnam War
- 10/01/1967 - PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network
This Week in History... January 11-17, 2010
- 11/01/1785 - Continental Congress convenes in NYC
- 11/01/1803 - Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to buy New Orleans; they buy La
- 11/01/1861 - Alabama becomes 4th state to secede
- 11/01/1897 - M H Cannon becomes 1st woman state senator in US (Utah)
- 11/01/1986 - 1st black gov since reconstruction sworn in (Douglas Wilder of Va)
- 11/01/1991 - Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq
- 12/01/1863 - President Davis delivers his "State of Confederacy" address
- 12/01/1915 - House of Reps rejects proposal to give women right to vote
- 12/01/1944 - Churchill and de Gaulle begin a 2-day wartime conference in Marrakesh
- 13/01/1559 - Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey
- 13/01/1630 - Patent to Plymouth Colony issued
- 13/01/1733 - James Oglethorpe and 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, SC
- 13/01/1794 - Congress changes US flag to 15 stars and 15 stripes
- 13/01/1869 - Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention
- 13/01/1888 - National Geographic Society founded (Washington, DC)
- 13/01/1898 - Emile Zola publishes his open letter (J'accuse) in defense of Dreyfus
- 14/01/1601 - Church authorities burn Hebrew books in Rome
- 14/01/1699 - Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting "witches"
- 14/01/1784 - Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris
- 14/01/1864 - General Sherman begins his march to the South
- 14/01/1878 - US Supreme court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional
- 14/01/1943 - FDR and Winston Churchill confer in Casablanca concerning WW II
- 15/01/1535 - Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church
- 15/01/1777 - People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England
- 15/01/1780 - Continental Congress establishes court of appeals
- 15/01/1870 - Donkey 1st used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly
- 15/01/1942 - FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II
- 15/01/1943 - World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed
- 15/01/1950 - 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Wash DC
- 15/01/1973 - 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court
- 15/01/1976 - Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot Pres Ford
- 16/01/1581 - English parliament passes laws against Catholicism
- 16/01/1776 - Continental Congress approves enlistment of free blacks
- 16/01/1777 - Vermont declares independence from NY
- 16/01/1865 - Gen Wm Sherman issues Field Order #15 (land for blacks)
- 16/01/1870 - Virginia becomes 8th state readmitted to US after Civil War
- 16/01/1883 - Pendleton Act creates basis of US Civil Service system
- 16/01/1920 - 1st assembly of League of Nations (Paris)
- 16/01/1920 - 18th Amendment, prohibition, goes into effect; repealed in 1933
- 16/01/1938 - Benny Goodman refuses to play Carnegie Hall when black members of his band were barred from performing
- 16/01/1944 - Gen Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London
- 17/01/1821 - Mexico permits Moses Austin and 300 US families to settle in Texas
- 17/01/1874 - Armed Democrats seize Texas govt ending Radical Reconstruction
- 17/01/1893 - Queen Liliuokalani deposed, Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic
- 17/01/1911 - Failed assassination attempt on premier Briand in French Assembly
- 17/01/1945 - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary
- 17/01/1945 - Liberation of Warsaw by Soviet troops (end of Nazi occupation)
- 17/01/1945 - Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation
- 17/01/1946 - United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting
- 17/01/1948 - Trial of 11 US Communist party members begins in NYC
- 17/01/1961 - Eisenhower allegedly orders assassination of Congo's Lumumba
- 17/01/1966 - Martin Luther King Jr opens campaign in Chicago
- 17/01/1983 - Alabama Gov George C Wallace, becomes governor for record 4th time
- 17/01/1987 - Pres Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran
- 17/01/1991 - Operation Desert Storm begins-US led allies vs Iraq
- 17/01/1991 - Operation Desert Storm: 1st US pilot shot down (Jeffrey Zahn)
- 17/01/1998 - Pres Clinton faces sexual harrament charges from Paula Jones
This Week in History... January 18-24, 2010
- 18/01/1486 - King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV
- 18/01/1671 - Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panam
- 18/01/1778 - Capt James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands)
- 18/01/1817 - San Martˇn leads a revolutionary army over Andes
- 18/01/1854 - Filibuster William Walker proclaims Republic of Sonora in NW Mexico
- 18/01/1862 - Confederate Territory of Arizona forms
- 18/01/1871 - 2nd German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I and Bismarck
- 18/01/1919 - WW I Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France
- 18/01/1943 - Jews in Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis
- 18/01/1944 - 1st Chinese naturalized US citizen since repeal of exclusion acts
- 18/01/1945 - Warsaw freed by Soviet army
- 18/01/1991 - Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel
- 18/01/1993 - Martin Luther King Jr holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time
- 19/01/1419 - French city of Rouen surrenders to Henry V in Hundred Years War
- 19/01/1793 - French King Louis XVI sentenced to death
- 19/01/1840 - Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (US claim)
- 19/01/1861 - Georgia becomes 5th state to secede
- 19/01/1861 - MS troops take Ft Massachusetts an Ship Island
- 19/01/1865 - Union occupies Fort Anderson, NC
- 19/01/1871 - 1st Negro lodge of US Masons approved, New Jersey
- 19/01/1920 - US Senate votes against membership in League of Nations
- 19/01/1955 - 1st presidential news conference filmed for TV (Eisenhower)
- 19/01/1981 - US and Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages
- 19/01/1987 - Guy Hunt becomes Alabama's 1st Republican governor since 1874
- 19/01/1989 - Pres Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon
- 20/01/1778 - 1st American military court martial trial begins, Cambridge, Mass
- 20/01/1785 - Samuel Ellis advertises to sell Oyster Island (Ellis Is), no takers
- 20/01/1788 - Pioneer African Baptist church organizes in Savannah, Ga
- 20/01/1801 - John Marshall appointed US chief justice
- 20/01/1807 - Napoleon convenes great Sanhedrin, Paris
- 20/01/1868 - Florida constitutional convention meets in Tallahassee
- 20/01/1869 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st woman to testify before Congress
- 20/01/1937 - 1st Inauguration day on Jan 20th, (held every 4th years there-after)
- 20/01/1939 - Hitler proclaims to German parliament to exterminate all European Jews
- 20/01/1945 - FDR sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as president
- 20/01/1949 - Pres Truman announces his point 4 program
- 20/01/1953 - 1st live coast-to-coast inauguration address (Eisenhower)
- 20/01/1961 - Robert Frost recites "Gift Outright" at JFK's inauguration
- 20/01/1969 - Richard M Nixon inaugurated as president
- 20/01/1981 - 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days freed
- 20/01/1981 - Ronald Reagan inaugurated as president
- 20/01/1989 - Bush inaugurated as 41st president and Quayle becomes 44th vice pres --
Reagan becomes 1st pres elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive
- 20/01/1993 - Bill Clinton inaugurated as 42nd president
- 21/01/1789 - 1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy," is published
- 21/01/1861 - Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and 4 other southern senators resign
- 21/01/1950 - NY jury finds former State Dept official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury
- 21/01/1953 - John Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State
- 21/01/1977 - Pres Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders
- 22/01/1371 - King Robert II Stuart of Scotland crowned
- 22/01/1814 - 1st Knights Templar grand encampment in US held, NYC
- 22/01/1863 - Union Gen Burnside's "Mud March"
- 22/01/1905 - Bloody Sunday: Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
- 22/01/1944 - During World War II, Allied forces begin landing at Anzio Italy
- 22/01/1945 - Heavy US air raid on Okinawa
- 22/01/1946 - US president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
- 22/01/1973 - Roe vs Wade: US Supreme Court legalizes some abortions
- 22/01/1973 - US, North and South Vietnam and Vietcong sign boundary accord
- 23/01/1492 - "Pentateuch" (Jewish holy book) 1st printed
- 23/01/1552 - 2nd version of Book of Common Prayer becomes manditory in England
- 23/01/1556 - Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shensi Province, China
- 23/01/1571 - Queen Elizabeth I opens Royal Exchange in London
- 23/01/1793 - Humane Society of Philadelphia (1st aid society) organized
- 23/01/1845 - Uniform US election day for president and VP authorized
- 23/01/1849 - Mrs Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman physician in US
- 23/01/1907 - Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native American US senator
- 23/01/1933 - 20th amendment changes date of presidential inaugurations to 1/20
- 23/01/1950 - Israeli Knesset resolves Jerusalem is capital of Israel
- 23/01/1961 - Supreme Court rules cities and states have right to censor films
- 23/01/1964 - 24th Amendment ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections
- 23/01/1973 - Pres Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War
- 24/01/1656 - 1st Jewish doctor in US, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland
- 24/01/1847 - 1,500 New Mexican Indians and Mexicans defeated by US Col Price
- 24/01/1964 - 24th Amendment to US Constitution goes into effect and states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes
This Week in History... January 25-31, 2010
- 25/01/1327 - King Edward III accedes to British throne
- 25/01/1533 - England's King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn (approximate date)
- 25/01/1554 - Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary
- 25/01/1721 - Czar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy
- 25/01/1775 - Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx)
- 25/01/1787 - Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Capt Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass
- 25/01/1851 - Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron)
- 25/01/1858 - Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" 1st played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia
- 25/01/1863 - General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac
- 25/01/1877 - Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden
- 25/01/1882 - Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms
- 25/01/1890 - National Afro-American League forms in Chicago
- 25/01/1905 - Largest diamond, Cullinan (3106 carets), found in South Africa
- 25/01/1907 - Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to Natl Inst of Arts and Letters
- 25/01/1919 - Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later
- 25/01/1961 - 1st live, nationally televised presidential news conference (JFK)
- 25/01/1969 - US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris
- 25/01/1988 - VP Bush and Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts to question Bush about his role in Iran-Contra affair
- 26/01/1784 - Ben Franklin expresses unhappiness over eagle as America's symbol
- 26/01/1802 - Congress passes an act calling for a US Capitol library
- 26/01/1861 - Louisiana becomes 6th state to secede
- 26/01/1862 - Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive McClellan ignores order
- 26/01/1863 - 54th Regiment (Black) infantry forms -- War Dept authorizes Mass
governor to recruit black troops
- 26/01/1870 - Virginia rejoins US
- 26/01/1907 - 1st federal corrupt election practices law passed
- 26/01/1926 - Television 1st demonstrated (J L Baird, London)
- 26/01/1939 - Filming begins on "Gone With the Wind"
- 26/01/1942 - 1st US force in Europe during WW II go ashore in Northern Ireland
- 26/01/1948 - Executive Order 9981, end segregation in US Armed Forces signed
- 26/01/1980 - Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations
- 26/01/1998 - Pres Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people
I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"
- 27/01/1785 - 1st US state university chartered, Athens Georgia
- 27/01/1823 - Pres Monroe appoints 1st US ambassadors to South America
- 27/01/1870 - After accepting 15th amendment, VA is readmitted to Union
- 27/01/1880 - Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp
- 27/01/1888 - National Geographic Society organizes (Wash DC)
- 27/01/1926 - US Senate agrees to join World Court
- 27/01/1941 - Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreiber warns of Jap assault on Pearl Harbor
- 27/01/1944 - Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed
- 27/01/1945 - Russia liberates Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland)
- 27/01/1973 - US and Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest US war and milt draft --
William Rogers and Nguyen Duy Trinh sign US-N Vietnam treaty
- 27/01/1977 - Pres Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000)
- 27/01/1977 - 1st broadcast of "Roots" mini-series on ABC TV
- 27/01/1988 - Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M Kennedy to US Supreme Court
- 27/01/1992 - Pres candidate Bill Clinton (D) and Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair
- 28/01/1547 - 9-year-old Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII as king of England
- 28/01/1581 - James VI signs 2nd Confession of Faith in Scotland
- 28/01/1858 - John Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry
- 28/01/1865 - Pres Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners
- 28/01/1878 - Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper
- 28/01/1915 - 1st US ship lost in WW I, William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK)
- 28/01/1915 - US Pres Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates
- 28/01/1916 - 1st Jewish Supreme Court justice, Louis Brandeis, appointed by Wilson
- 29/01/1834 - Pres Jackson orders 1st use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute
- 29/01/1850 - Henry Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to US Senate
- 29/01/1861 - Kansas becomes 34th state
- 29/01/1863 - Battle at Bear River, Washington: US army vs indians
- 29/01/1864 - Battle of Moorefield, WV (Rosser's Raid)
- 29/01/1879 - Custer Battlefield National Monument, Mont established
- 29/01/1916 - 1st bombings of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place
- 29/01/1919 - Secretary of state proclaims 18th amendment (prohibition)
- 29/01/1944 - 285 German bombers attack London
- 29/01/1980 - 6 Iranian held US hostages escape with help of Canadians
- 29/01/1984 - Pres Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term
- 30/01/1349 - Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred
- 30/01/1487 - Bell chimes invented
- 30/01/1647 - King Charles I handed over to English parliament
- 30/01/1781 - Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland
- 30/01/1797 - Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks
- 30/01/1798 - Rep Matthew Lyon (Vt) spits in face of Rep Roger Griswold (Ct) in US House of Representatives, after an argument
- 30/01/1800 - US population: 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%)
- 30/01/1815 - Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 vols
- 30/01/1835 - Richard Lawrence misfires at Pres Andrew Jackson in Washington DC
- 30/01/1913 - House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill
- 30/01/1933 - Adolph Hitler named German Chancellor, forms govt with Von Papen
- 30/01/1939 - Hitler calls for extermination of European Jews
- 30/01/1956 - Martin Luther King Jr's home bombed
- 30/01/1957 - US Congress accepts "Eisenhower-doctrine"
- 30/01/1961 - JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress and Peace Corp
- 30/01/1972 - Bloody Sunday: Brit soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry, 13 die
- 30/01/1973 - Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy and McCord guilty on all counts
- 30/01/1976 - George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977)
- 30/01/1989 - 5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor
- 31/01/1863 - 1st black Civil War regiment, SC Volunteers, mustered into US army
- 31/01/1865 - Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (121-24)
- 31/01/1865 - Gen Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies
- 31/01/1871 - Millions of birds fly over western SF, darkens sky
- 31/01/1950 - Pres Truman OKs building of hydrogen bomb
- 31/01/1968 - Viet Cong's Tet offensive begins
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This Week in History... December 1-6, 2009
- 01/12/1641 - Mass becomes 1st colony to give statutory recognition to slavery
- 01/12/1824 - House of Reps begins to end election deadlock between JQ Adams
- 01/12/1864 - Raid at Stoneman: Knoxville, TN to Saltville, VA
- 01/12/1878 - 1st White House telephone installed
- 01/12/1909 - 1st Israeli kibbutz founded, Deganya Alef
- 01/12/1919 - Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament
- 01/12/1943 - FDR, Churchill and Stalin agree to Operation Overlord (D-Day)
- 01/12/1969 - US govt holds its 1st draft lottery since WW II
- 02/12/1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte crowned emperor of France in Paris by Pope Pius VII
- 02/12/1812 - James Madison re-elected president of US, E Gerry vice-pres
- 02/12/1823 - President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine"
- 02/12/1840 - William H Harrison elected president of US
- 02/12/1848 - Franz Josef I becomes emperor of Austria and King of Hungary
- 02/12/1852 - 2nd French empire established; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor
- 02/12/1961 - Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist, and will lead Cuba to Communism
- 02/12/1968 - Pres Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor
- 03/12/1828 - Andrew Jackson elected 7th president of US
- 03/12/1847 - Frederick Douglass publishes 1st issue of his newspaper "North Star"
- 03/12/1868 - Trial of Jefferson Davis starts; 1st blacks on US trial jury
- 03/12/1878 - Settlers arrive at Petach Tikvah Israel
- 03/12/1953 - Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in Rep party
- 04/12/1563 - Council of Trent holds last session, after 18 years
- 04/12/1619 - America's 1st Thanksgiving Day (Va)
- 04/12/1816 - James Monroe (VA), elected 5th pres, defeating Federalist Rufus King
- 04/12/1833 - American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Phila
- 04/12/1836 - Whig party holds its 1st national convention, Harrisburg, Pa
- 04/12/1844 - James K Polk elected 11th president of US
- 04/12/1851 - Pres Louis Napolean Boaparte forces crush a coup d'etat in France
- 04/12/1918 - Pres Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief executive to travel outside US while in office
- 04/12/1943 - -Dec 6] 2nd conference of Cairo: FDR, Churchill and Turkish President Inonu
- 05/12/1349 - 500 Jews of Nuremberg massacre during Black Death riots
- 05/12/1496 - Jews are expelled from Portugal by order of King Manuel I
- 05/12/1792 - George Washington re-elected US pres
- 05/12/1804 - Thomas Jefferson re-elected US pres/George Clinton vice-pres
- 05/12/1831 - Former Pres John Q Adams takes his seat as member of House of Reps
- 05/12/1832 - Andrew Jackson re-elected president of US
- 05/12/1837 - Uprising under William Lyon Mackenzie in Canada
- 05/12/1935 - National Council of Negro Women forms by Mary McLeod Bethune (NYC)
- 05/12/1955 - Historic bus boycott begins in Montgomery Alabama by Rosa Parks
- 06/12/1820 - US president James Monroe re-elected
- 06/12/1849 - Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland
- 06/12/1862 - Pres Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians
- 06/12/1865 - 13th Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery
- 06/12/1876 - US Electorial College picks Rep Hayes as pres (although Tilden won)
- 06/12/1904 - Theodore Roosevelt confirms Monroe-doctrine (Roosevelt Corollary)
- 06/12/1923 - 1st presidential address broadcast on radio (Pres Calvin Coolidge)
- 06/12/1973 - Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected VP, succeeds Spiro T Agnew
This Week in History... December 7-13, 2009
- 07/12/1787 - Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution
- 07/12/1808 - James Madison elected US pres/George Clinton vice-pres
- 07/12/1836 - Martin Van Buren elected 8th president
- 07/12/1877 - Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone
- 07/12/1917 - US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I
- 07/12/1941 - Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy)
- 07/12/1987 - Gorbachev arrives in US for a summit meeting
- 08/12/1776 - George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from NJ
- 08/12/1863 - Abraham Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of South
- 08/12/1863 - Pres Lincoln offers amnesty for confederate deserters
- 08/12/1886 - American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL president
- 08/12/1987 - President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles
- 09/12/1958 - Robert H W Welch Jr and 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch Society
- 09/12/1961 - SS Col Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel
- 10/12/1520 - Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant
- 10/12/1864 - General Sherman's armies reach Savannah and 12 day siege begins
- 10/12/1869 - Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
- 10/12/1898 - Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, PR and Guam
- 10/12/1906 - Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
- 10/12/1915 - Pres Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Galt
- 10/12/1919 - Nobel peace prize awarded to US president Wilson
- 10/12/1931 - Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
- 10/12/1936 - King Edward VIII abdicates throne to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson
- 10/12/1978 - In Oslo, Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
- 10/12/1520 - Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant
- 10/12/1864 - General Sherman's armies reach Savannah and 12 day siege begins
- 10/12/1869 - Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
- 10/12/1898 - Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, PR and Guam
- 10/12/1906 - Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
- 10/12/1915 - Pres Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Galt
- 10/12/1919 - Nobel peace prize awarded to US president Wilson
- 10/12/1931 - Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
- 10/12/1936 - King Edward VIII abdicates throne to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson
- 10/12/1978 - In Oslo, Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
- 11/12/1620 - 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12/21 NS)
- 11/12/1792 - France's King Louis XVI went on trial, accused of treason
- 11/12/1816 - Indiana becomes 19th state
- 11/12/1901 - Marconi sends 1st transatlantic radio signal, Cornwall to Nfld
- 11/12/1906 - US president Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo
- 11/12/1909 - Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC
- 11/12/1916 - David Lloyd George forms British war govt
- 11/12/1917 - 13 black soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot
- 11/12/1931 - Brit Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada,
Australia, NZ, South Africa, Ireland, Newfoundland
- 11/12/1936 - King Edward VIII marries Mrs Wallis Simpson; abdicates throne Duke of York becomes King George VI
- 11/12/1941 - Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing)
- 11/12/1961 - JFK provides US miltary helicopters and crews to South Vietnam
- 11/12/1961 - Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel
- 13/12/1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around world
- 13/12/1769 - Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter
- 13/12/1774 - 1st incident of Revolution-400 attack Ft William and Mary, NH
- 13/12/1843 - "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published, 6,000 copies sold
- 13/12/1862 - Battle of Fredericksburg, VA (Marye's Heights)
- 13/12/1903 - Wright Bros make 1st flight at Kittyhawk
- 13/12/1918 - Wilson, becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as president (France)
- 13/12/1920 - League of nations establishes Intl Court of Justice in The Hague
- 13/12/1949 - Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capital to Jerusalem
- 13/12/1966 - 1st US bombing of Hanoi
- 14/12/1774 - Mass militiamen successfully attacked arsenal of Ft William and Mary
- 14/12/1819 - Alabama admitted to Union as 22nd state
- 14/12/1863 - Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tenn
This Week in History... December 15-20, 2009
- 15/12/1791 - Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval
- 15/12/1791 - 1st US law school established at University of Pennsylvania
- 15/12/1874 - 1st reigning king to visit US (of Hawaii) received by Pres Grant
- 15/12/1877 - Thomas Edison patents phonograph
- 15/12/1916 - French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun
- 15/12/1938 - Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Wash DC
- 15/12/1939 - "Gone With the Wind" premieres in Atlanta
- 15/12/1948 - Former state dept official Alger Hiss indicted in NYC for perjury
- 15/12/1964 - Canada adopts maple leaf flag
- 16/12/1431 - King Henry VI of England crowned king of France
- 16/12/1631 - Mount Vesuvious, Italy erupts, destroys 6 villages and kills 4,000
- 16/12/1653 - Oliver Cromwell sworn in as English Lord Protector
- 16/12/1689 - English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution
- 16/12/1773 - Big tea party in Boston harbor-indians welcome (Boston Tea Party)
- 16/12/1864 - Battle of Nashville ends after 4400 casualities
- 16/12/1944 - Battle of Bulge begins in Belgium
- 16/12/1950 - Truman proclaims state of emergency against "Communist imperialism"
- 16/12/1980 - Pres-elect Reagan announces Alexander Haig as secretary of state
- 18/12/1777 - 1st national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender
- 18/12/1787 - New Jersey becomes 3rd state to ratify constitution
- 18/12/1799 - George Washington's body interred at Mount Vernon
- 18/12/1813 - British take Ft Niagara in War of 1812
- 18/12/1859 - South Carolina declared an "independent commonwealth"
- 18/12/1862 - Battle at Lexington, Tennessee (Forrest's Second Raid)
- 18/12/1865 - 13th Amendment ratified, slavery abolished
- 18/12/1892 - "Nutcracker Suite," Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet, premieres
- 18/12/1915 - Pres Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt
- 18/12/1966 - Dr Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" airs for 1st time on CBS
- 19/12/1732 - Benjamin Franklin under the name Richard Saunders begins
publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
- 19/12/1776 - Thomas Paine published his 1st "American Crisis" essay, in which he wrote,
"These are the times that try men's souls"
- 19/12/1777 - Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Pa for winter
- 19/12/1828 - South Carolina declares right of states to nullify federal laws
- 19/12/1843 - Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol," in England
- 19/12/1861 - Battle of Black Water
- 19/12/1930 - James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP
- 19/12/1946 - War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi
- 20/12/1606 - Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown Va
- 20/12/1669 - 1st jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for insurrection and sentenced to flogging, branding and slavery
- 20/12/1803 - Louisiana Purchase formally transferred from France to US for $27M
- 20/12/1860 - SC votes 169-0 for Ordinace of Secession, 1st state to secede
- 20/12/1862 - -Jan 3rd] Vicksburg campaign
- 20/12/1864 - -Dec 27th] Battle of Ft Fisher, NC
- 20/12/1893 - 1st state anti-lynching statue approved, in Georgia
- 20/12/1919 - US House of Representatives restricts immigration
- 20/12/1922 - 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (USSR)
- 20/12/1956 - Montgomery, Ala, removed race-based seat assignments on its buses
- 20/12/1989 - US troops invade Panama and oust Manuel Noriega, but don't catch him
This Week in History... December 21-27, 2009
- 21/12/1620 - 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock [OS=Dec 11]
- 21/12/1784 - John Jay becomes 1st US secretary of state (foreign affairs)
- 21/12/1864 - Gen Sherman conquers Savannah
- 21/12/1866 - Cheyennes, Arapho's, Sioux, Fetterman Massacre
- 21/12/1919 - J Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia
- 21/12/1946 - Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life," premieres
- 21/12/1954 - Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered (he is accused of crime)
- 21/12/1962 - US and Cuba accord, releases bay of pigs captive
- 22/12/1783 - Washington resigns his military commission [or 12-23?]
- 22/12/1807 - Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain and France
- 22/12/1882 - 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison
- 22/12/1941 - Winston Churchill arrives in Washington for a wartime conference
- 22/12/1943 - WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, Natl Inst of Arts and Letters
- 22/12/1980 - Pres-elect Reagan appoints J Kirkpatrick (UN) and James Watt (Interior)
- 23/12/1776 - Thomas Paine writes "These are the times that try men's souls"
- 23/12/1779 - Benedict Arnold court-martialed for improper conduct
- 23/12/1788 - Maryland votes to cede a 10ý mile area for Dist of Columbia
- 23/12/1793 - Thomas Jefferson warned of slave revolts in West Indies
- 23/12/1862 - Union Gen Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw
and common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis
- 23/12/1888 - Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear
- 23/12/1913 - President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law
- 23/12/1943 - Gen Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day
- 23/12/1961 - Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs
Invasion for $62M worth of food and medical supplies
- 24/12/1818 - "Silent Night" composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; 1st sung next day
- 24/12/1851 - Fire devastates Library of Congress in Wash, destroys 35,000 volumes
- 24/12/1865 - Several Confederate veterans form Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tn
- 24/12/1935 - National Council of Negro Women forms
- 24/12/1943 - FDR appoints Gen Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces
- 24/12/1992 - Pres Bush pardons Caspar Weinberger of Iran-contra affair
- 24/12/1997 - 1st time a Channukah candle is officially lit in Vatican City
- 25/12/0001 - 1st Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus
- 25/12/0337 - Earliest possible date that Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th
- 25/12/0352 - 1st definite date Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th
- 25/12/1621 - Gov William Bradford of Plymouth forbids game playing on Christmas
- 25/12/1651 - Massachusetts General Court ordered a fine (five shillings) for "observing any such day as Christmas"
- 25/12/1776 - Washington crosses Delaware and surprises and defeats 1,400 Hessians
- 25/12/1818 - 1st known Christmas carol ("Silent Night, Holy Night") sung (Austria)
- 25/12/1837 - Battle of Okeechobee-US forces defeat Seminole Indians
- 25/12/1862 - 40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC
- 25/12/1868 - Despite bitter opposition, Pres A Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in Southern rebellion (Civil War)
- 25/12/1896 - "Stars and Stripes Forever" written by John Philip Sousa
- 25/12/1914 - Legendary/unofficial "Christmas Truce" takes place (Brits and Germans)
- 25/12/1938 - George Cukor announces Vivien Leigh will play Scarlett O'Hara
- 25/12/1939 - Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer
- 25/12/1977 - Israeli PM Menachem Begin meets Egyptian Pres Sadat in Egypt
- 25/12/1983 - 1st live telecast of Christmas Parade
- 25/12/1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev formally resigned as Pres of USSR
This Week in History... December 28-31, 2009
- 31/12/1879 - Thomas Edison gave the first public demonstration of an electric incandescent lamp.
- 31/12/1946 - President Truman officially proclaimed the end of hostilities in World War II.
- 31/12/1961 - The Marshall Plan expired after distributing more than $12 billion in foreign aid.
Posted on Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 9:05 AM | Top
Sunday, November 29, 2009
This Week in History... November 1-8, 2009
- 01/11/1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel, 1st exhibited
- 01/11/1765 - Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies
- 01/11/1783 - Continental Army dissolved; George Washington's "Farewell Address"
- 01/11/1800 - 1st president to live in white house (John Adams)
- 01/11/1861 - Gen George B McClellan made general in chief of Union armies
- 01/11/1866 - 1st Civil Rights Bill passes
- 01/11/1878 - Edward Scripps and John Sweeney found Penny Press (Cleveland Press)
- 01/11/1917 - In WW I, the 1st US soldiers are killed in combat
- 01/11/1954 - US Senate admonishes Joseph Mccarthy because of slander campaign
- 01/11/1962 - Cuban missile crisis ends, JFK says USSR is dismantling missile bases
- 01/11/1983 - Pres Reagan established Dr Martin Luther King Jr holiday
- 02/11/1772 - Boston: anti-English Committee of Correspondence forms
- 02/11/1811 - Battle of Tippecanoe: Gen Jackson vs indians
- 02/11/1824 - Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Jackson beats J Q Adams
- 02/11/1852 - Franklin Pierce elected as president of US
- 02/11/1917 - Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine
- 02/11/1948 - Pres Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas Dewey
- 02/11/1954 - JS Thurmond is 1st senator elected by write-in vote (SC)
- 02/11/1962 - JFK announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled
- 03/11/1394 - Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI
- 03/11/1529 - London] 1st sitting of the Reformation Parliament
- 03/11/1796 - John Adams elected president
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03/11/1868 - Ulysses Grant (R) wins presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)
- 03/11/1868 - 1st black elected to Congress (John W Menard, Louisiana)
- 03/11/1883 - US Supreme Court decides Native Americans can't be Americans
- 03/11/1883 - US Supreme Court decides Native Americans can't be Americans
- 03/11/1936 - President FDR (D) wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R)
- 03/11/1948 - Chicago Tribune reports: "Dewey beats Truman"
- 03/11/1964 - LBJ (D) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for pres
- 03/11/1970 - Pres Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam
- 03/11/1992 - Bill Clinton (D) wins US presidential election over Pres Bush (R)
- 04/11/1841 - 1st wagon train arrives in California
- 04/11/1864 - Confederate assault on Johnsonville, Tennessee
- 04/11/1939 - US allows "cash and carry" arms sales during WW II
- 04/11/1952 - Eisenhower (R) elected 34th pres beating Adlai Stevenson (D)
- 04/11/1956 - Israel captures Straits of Tiran and reach Suez Canal Egypt
- 04/11/1980 - Ronald Reagan (R) defeats Pres Jimmy Carter (D)
- 05/11/1639 - 1st post office in the colonies is set up in Massachusetts
- 05/11/1854 - Crimean War: British and French defeat Russian force of 50,000
- 05/11/1871 - Susan B Anthony arrested in Rochester NY and fined $100 for trying to vote for Ulysses S Grant
- 05/11/1872 - Ulysses S Grant re-elected US president
- 05/11/1895 - US state Utah accepts female suffrage
- 05/11/1912 - Woodrow Wilson (D) defeats Theodore Roosevelt (Prog) and Pres Taft (R)
- 05/11/1917 - Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v Warley) strikes down Lousiville Ky ordiance requiring blacks and whites to live in separate areas
- 05/11/1940 - Pres FDR (D) wins unprecedented 3rd term beating Wendell Willkie (R)
- 05/11/1946 - John F Kennedy (D-Mass) elected to House of Representatives
- 05/11/1968 - Nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) and George C Wallace for presidency
- 06/11/1860 - Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th pres
- 06/11/1861 - Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate pres
- 06/11/1864 - Battle of Droop Mountain, WV (Averell's Raid)
- 06/11/1871 - Pres Grant re-elected
- 06/11/1879 - Canada celebrates 1st Thanksgiving Day
- 06/11/1888 - Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) beats Pres Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more votes
- 06/11/1900 - Pres William McKinley (R) re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan
- 06/11/1917 - Bolshevik revolution begins with capture of Winter Palace
- 06/11/1928 - Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E Smith (D) for pres
- 06/11/1940 - Franklin D Roosevelt re-elected president
- 06/11/1941 - USA lends Soviet Union $1 million
- 06/11/1941 - Japanese fleet readies assault on Pearl Harbor
- 06/11/1956 - Pres Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (D)
- 06/11/1962 - Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more
- 06/11/1962 - Edward M Kennedy 1st elected (Sen-D-Mass)
- 06/11/1968 - Nixon elected 37th pres of US, defeating Hubert Humphrey
- 06/11/1973 - Abe Beame elected 1st Jewish mayor on NYC
- 06/11/1986 - Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill
- 07/11/1637 - Anne Hutchinson banished from Mass bay colony as a heretic
- 07/11/1805 - Lewis and Clark 1st sights Pacific Ocean
- 07/11/1811 - Battle of Tippecanoe, gave Harrison a presidential slogan
- 07/11/1820 - James Monroe elected 5th US president
- 07/11/1848 - General Zachary Taylor elected as president of US
- 07/11/1864 - 2nd session of congress of Confederate States of America reconvenes
- 07/11/1876 - Pres Rutherford B Hayes and Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D) wins election but Electoral college selects Hayes (R)
- 07/11/1916 - Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected president
- 07/11/1917 - October Revolution (Oct 26 OS) in Russia, Lenin seizes power
- 07/11/1928 - Herbert Hoover (R) elected president
- 07/11/1944 - FDR wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R)
- 07/11/1955 - Supreme Court of Balt bans segregation in public recreational areas
- 07/11/1967 - LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- 07/11/1972 - Pres Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D)
- 07/11/1989 - NYC elects it's 1st black mayor (Dinkins)
- 08/11/1701 - William Penn presents Charter of Priviliges
- 08/11/1731 - In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens 1st US library
- 08/11/1837 - Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st US college founded for women
- 08/11/1861 - US removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent
- 08/11/1864 - Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as president
- 08/11/1892 - Grover Cleveland (D) elected president
- 08/11/1904 - Pres Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D)
- 08/11/1910 - 1st Washington State election in which women could vote
- 08/11/1929 - NYC Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building
- 08/11/1938 - 1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Phila
- 08/11/1960 - JFK (Sen-D-Mass) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) for 35th US president
- 08/11/1966 - Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California
- 08/11/1988 - George Bush (R) beats Mike Dukakis (D) for presidency
This Week in History... November 9-15, 2009
- 09/11/1494 - Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence
- 09/11/1799 - Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France
- 09/11/1862 - US Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him
- 09/11/1864 - Sherman issues preliminary plans for his "March to the Sea"
- 09/11/1906 - T Roosevelt is 1st pres to visit other countries (P Rico and Panama)
- 09/11/1924 - Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas)
- 09/11/1938 - Kristallnacht, (Crystal Night) - Germans break windows owned by Jews,
Jews forced to wear Star of David
- 09/11/1984 - Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed
- 10/11/1891 - 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
- 10/11/1911 - Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corp (for scholarly and charitable works)
- 10/11/1933 - Black Blizzard snowstorm-duststorm rages from SD to Atlantic
- 10/11/1954 - Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising US flag) dedicated in Arlington
- 11/11/1620 - 41 pilgrims land in Mass, sign Mayflower Compact (just and equal laws)
- 11/11/1640 - John Pym, earl of Strafford locked in Tower of London
- 11/11/1647 - Massachusetts passes 1st US compulsory school attendance law
- 11/11/1778 - Iroquois Indians in NY kill 40 in Cherry Valley Massacre
- 11/11/1790 - Chrysanthemums are introduced into England from China
- 11/11/1860 - 1st Jewish wedding in Buenos Aires Argentina
- 11/11/1864 - Sherman's troops destroy Rome, Georgia
- 11/11/1865 - Mary Edward Walker, 1st Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor
- 11/11/1918 - Armistice Day-WW I ends (at 11 AM on Western Front)
- 11/11/1921 - Pres Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier (Arlington Cemetary)
- 11/11/1939 - Kate Smith 1st sings Irving Berlin's "God Bless America"
- 11/11/1987 - Judge Anthony M Kennedy nominated to Supreme Court
- 13/11/1553 - English Lady Jane Grey/bishop Cranmer accused of high treason
- 13/11/1775 - American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal
- 13/11/1789 - Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death and taxes"
- 13/11/1839 - 1st US anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY
- 13/11/1875 - Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms
- 13/11/1921 - US, France, Japan and British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty
- 13/11/1922 - Black Renaissance begins Harlem NY
- 13/11/1933 - 1st modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, Minn
- 13/11/1956 - Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses
- 13/11/1979 - Ronald Reagan in NY announces his candidacy for president
- 13/11/1986 - US president Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran
- 14/11/1732 - 1st US professional librarian, Louis Timothee, hired in Phila
- 14/11/1832 - 1st streetcar (horse-drawn) (John Mason) debuts in NYC; fare 12 cents
rode on 4th Avenue between Prince and 14th Sts
- 14/11/1906 - Roosevelt becomes 1st US pres to visit a foreign country (Panama)
- 14/11/1908 - Albert Einstein presents quantum theory of light
- 14/11/1935 - Nazi's deprive German Jews of their citizenship
- 14/11/1942 - -Nov 15th) Japanese/US sea battle at Savo-Island in Guadalcanal)
- 14/11/1960 - Riot due to school integration in New Orleans
- 14/11/1968 - Yale University announces it is going co-educational
- 14/11/1968 - "National Turn in Your Draft Card Day" features draft card burning
- 15/11/1532 - Pope Clemens VII tells Henry VIII to end relationship with Anna Boleyn
- 15/11/1660 - 1st kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in NYC (New Amsterdam)
- 15/11/1763 - Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon
Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland
- 15/11/1777 - Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress
- 15/11/1791 - 1st Catholic college in US, Georgetown, opens
- 15/11/1864 - Union Major General Sherman burns Atlanta
- 15/11/1881 - American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh)
- 15/11/1920 - League of Nations holds 1st meeting, in Geneva
- 15/11/1936 - Nazi-Germany and Japan sign Anti-Komintern pact
- 15/11/1939 - FDR lays cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial in Wash DC
- 15/11/1939 - Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews
- 15/11/1969 - 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Wash DC against Vietnam War
This Week in History... November 16-22, 2009
- 16/11/1764 - Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac
- 16/11/1776 - British troops captured Fort Washington during American Revolution
- 16/11/1798 - Kentucky becomes 1st state to nullify an act of Congress
- 16/11/1811 - Earthquake in Missouri caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards
- 16/11/1824 - NY City's Fifth Avenue opens for business
- 16/11/1864 - Union Gen William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War
- 16/11/1907 - Oklahoma becomes 46th state
- 16/11/1933 - Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR
- 16/11/1945 - Yeshiva College (Univesity), chartered in NY, 1st US Jewish College
- 16/11/1948 - Operation Magic Carpet - 1st plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel
- 16/11/1950 - US pres Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat
- 16/11/1973 - Pres Nixon authorizes construction of Alaskan pipeline
- 17/11/1558 - Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary
- 17/11/1798 - -21) Snow storms in New England, 100s die
- 17/11/1800 - John Adams is 1st pres to move into the White House
- 17/11/1800 - Congress held 1st session in Wash DC in incompleted Capitol building
- 17/11/1863 - Lincoln begins 1st draft of his Gettysburg Address
- 17/11/1863 - -Dec 4th) Battle of Knoxville, TN
- 17/11/1869 - Suez Canal (Egypt) opens, links Mediterranean and Red seas
- 17/11/1937 - Britains Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement
- 17/11/1938 - Italy passes their own version of anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws
- 17/11/1962 - Pres Kennedy dedicates Dulles Intl Airport outside Wash DC
- 17/11/1969 - SALT-discussions open in Helsinki Finland
- 17/11/1973 - Pres Nixon tells AP "...people have got to know whether or not their pres is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook"
- 17/11/1993 - US House of Representatives approve Nafta
- 18/11/1793 - Louvre officially opens in Paris
- 18/11/1805 - Lewis and Clark reach Pacific Ocean, 1st Americans to cross continent
- 18/11/1805 - Female Charitable Society, first woman's club in America
- 18/11/1961 - JFK sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam
- 19/11/1620 - Mayflower reaches Cape Cod and explores the coast
- 19/11/1794 - Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain
- 19/11/1861 - Julia Ward Howe committed "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to paper
- 19/11/1863 - Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg; "4 score and 7 years..."
- 19/11/1874 - William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of
defrauding city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment
- 19/11/1919 - US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations
- 19/11/1950 - US General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe
- 19/11/1985 - Pres Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for 1st time
- 20/11/1789 - New Jersey is 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights
- 20/11/1815 - Russia, Prussia, Austria and England signs Great Alliance
- 20/11/1862 - Armies of Mississippi/Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee
under Gen Braxton Bragg
- 20/11/1866 - Howard University founded (Wash, DC)
- 20/11/1866 - 1st natl convention of Grand Army of Republic (veterans' org)
- 20/11/1910 - Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero
- 20/11/1920 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US president W Wilson
- 20/11/1938 - 1st documented anti-semitic remarks over US radio (by Father Coughlin)
- 20/11/1945 - 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, German
- 20/11/1947 - Britain's Princess Elizabeth, marries Duke Philip Mountbatten
- 20/11/1949 - Jewish population of Israel reaches 1,000,000
- 20/11/1959 - UN adopts Universal Declaration of Children's Rights
- 20/11/1975 - Ronald Reagan announced candidacy for Rep nomination for president
- 21/11/1620 - Pilgrim Fathers reach America: Provincetown Harbor, Mass
- 21/11/1620 - Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims in Cape Cod
- 21/11/1789 - North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state
- 21/11/1824 - 1st Jewish Reform congregation forms, Charleston, SC
- 21/11/1852 - Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College
- 21/11/1877 - Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention (phonograph)
- 21/11/1946 - Harry Truman becomes 1st US president to travel in a submerged sub
- 21/11/1959 - Jack Benny (violin) and Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet
- 21/11/1963 - JFK flies to Texas
- 21/11/1973 - Pres Nixon's attorney, J Fred Buzhardt, reveals presence of 18
minute gap in a White House tape recording related to Watergate
- 21/11/1974 - Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over Pres Ford's veto
- 22/11/1864 - Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia, ends after 650 casualties
- 22/11/1930 - 1st US football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)
- 22/11/1930 - Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit
- 22/11/1943 - FDR, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan
- 22/11/1963 - John F. Kennedy is assassinated while travelling through Dallas, Texas
in an open-top convertible
- 22/11/1963 - Lyndon Baines Johnson sworn in as 36th US president
- 22/11/1990 - Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister
- 22/11/1992 - Wash Post reports Ore Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women
- 22/11/1996 - OJ Simpson takes stand as hostile witness in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him, saying it is "absolutely not true"
This Week in History... November 23-29, 2009
- 23/11/1765 - People of Frederick County Md refuse to pay England's Stamp tax
- 23/11/1783 - Annapolis Maryland, becomes US capital (until June 1784)
- 23/11/1863 - Battle of Chattanooga and Orchard Knob, TN begins
- 23/11/1864 - -25] Battle at Ball's Ferry Georgia (30 casualties)
- 23/11/1909 - Wright Brothers forms million dollar corp to manufacture airplanes
- 23/11/1921 - Pres Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding
doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes
- 23/11/1936 - 1st issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R Luce
- 23/11/1939 - Nazi Gov of Poland Hans Frank requires Jews to wear a blue star
- 23/11/1942 - German 4th and 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad
- 23/11/1963 - JFK's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House
- 23/11/1963 - LBJ proclaims Nov 25 a day of national mourning (for JFK)
- 24/11/1105 - Rabbi Nathan ben Yehiel of Rome completes Talmudic dictionary
- 24/11/1863 - Battle of Chattanooga, Columbia and Lookout Mt begins in Tennessee
- 24/11/1869 - American Woman's Suffrage Association forms (Cleveland)
- 24/11/1941 - "Life Certificates" issued to some Jews of Vilna, rest exterminated
- 24/11/1944 - US bombers based on Saipan, begin 1st attack on Tokyo
- 24/11/1948 - Ireland votes for independence from UK
- 24/11/1950 - UN troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas
- 24/11/1963 - 1st live murder on TV-Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
- 24/11/1974 - Gerald Ford and Leonid Brezhnev signs SALT-2-treaty
- 25/11/1783 - Britain evacuates NYC, their last military position in US
- 25/11/1792 - Farmer's Almanac 1st published
- 25/11/1864 - Confederate plot to burn NYC, fails
- 25/11/1864 - Confederate retreat at Sandersville, Georgia
- 25/11/1867 - US Congress commission looks into "impeachment" of Pres Andrew Johnson
- 25/11/1913 - Woodrow Wilson's daughter Jessie marries in White House
- 25/11/1920 - 1st Thanksgiving Parade (Phila)
- 25/11/1941 - German Jews in Netherlands declared stateless (lose of nationality)
- 25/11/1955 - Race segregation forbidden on trains and buses between US states
- 25/11/1957 - Pres Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech
- 25/11/1963 - JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
- 25/11/1986 - Oliver North's sect, Fawn Hill, smuggles documents out of his office
- 25/11/1986 - Iran-Contra affair erupts, Pres Reagan reveals secret arm deal
- 26/11/1789 - 1st national Thanksgiving
- 26/11/1861 - West Virginia created as a result of dispute over slavery with Virg
- 26/11/1863 - -Dec 2] Mine Run campaign, VA
- 26/11/1864 - Confederate troops vacate Sandersville Georgia
- 26/11/1898 - -27) Snow/ice storm over US; 455 die
- 26/11/1940 - Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
- 26/11/1969 - Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon
- 26/11/1973 - Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she
accidentally caused part of 18«-minute gap in a key Watergate tape
- 26/11/1985 - Random House buys Richard Nixons memoires for $3,000,000
- 27/11/1863 - -29] Battle at Fort Esperanza Texas
- 27/11/1868 - Battle at Washita-Gen Custer defeats Cheyennes
- 27/11/1972 - Pierre Trudeau forms Canadian government
- 27/11/1990 - Britain's conservatives chose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher
- 27/11/1863 - -29] Battle at Fort Esperanza Texas
- 27/11/1868 - Battle at Washita-Gen Custer defeats Cheyennes
- 27/11/1972 - Pierre Trudeau forms Canadian government
- 27/11/1990 - Britain's conservatives chose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher
- 28/11/1745 - -29] French troops attack indians of Saratoga, NY
- 28/11/1775 - 2nd Continental Congress formally establishes US Navy
- 28/11/1776 - Washington and his troops cross Delaware River
- 28/11/1795 - US pays $800,000 and a frigate as tribute to Algiers and Tunis
- 28/11/1861 - Confederate congress officially admits Missouri to Confederate Army
- 28/11/1862 - Battle at Cane Hill, Arkansas (475 casualties)
- 28/11/1864 - 3rd day of Battles at Waynesboro/Jones's Plantation, Georgia --
Battle of New Creek, WV (Rosser's Raid, Ft Kelly)
- 28/11/1871 - Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District Court in SC
- 28/11/1916 - 1st (German) air attack on London
- 28/11/1943 - FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy
- 28/11/1986 - Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for 1st time
- 28/11/1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigns as Britain's PM, replaced by John Majors
- 29/11/1349 - Jews of Augsburg Germany massacred
- 29/11/1803 - Dessalines and Christophe declare St Domingue (Haiti) independent
- 29/11/1812 - Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia
- 29/11/1847 - Indians kill Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, 11 settle in Walla Walla Ore
- 29/11/1863 - Battle of Ft Sanders, TN (Ft Loudon), 8-900 casualities
- 29/11/1864 - Battle of Spring Hill, TN (Thomason's Station)
- 29/11/1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrates hand-cranked phonograph
- 29/11/1887 - US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii
- 29/11/1916 - US declares martial law in Dominican Republic
- 29/11/1932 - France signs non-agression pact with Soviet Union
- 29/11/1933 - 1st state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania)
- 29/11/1963 - LBJ sets up Warren Comm to investigate assassination of JFK
- 30/11/1630 - 16,000 inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague
- 30/11/1678 - Roman Catholics banned from English parliament
- 30/11/1782 - Britain signs agreement recognizing US independence
- 30/11/1803 - Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France
- 30/11/1804 - Impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins
- 30/11/1864 - Battle of Franklin Tenn: Confederate attack fails, 7,700 casualities
- 30/11/1864 - Battle of Honey Hill SC (Broad River) 96 dead/665 wounded
- 30/11/1947 - Day after UN decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked
- 30/11/1967 - Sen Eugene McCarthy begins run for US presidency