"Today in History" Thread

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Today in History
November 19
1620 The Pilgrims reach Cape Cod.

1828 In Vienna, Composer Franz Schubert dies of syphilis at age 31.

1861 Julia Ward Howe writes "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" while visiting Union troops near Washington.

1863 Lincoln delivers the "*****sburg Address" at the dedication of the National Cemetery at the site of the Battle of *****sburg.

1885 Bulgarians, led by Stefan Stambolov, repulse a larger Serbian invasion force at Slivinitza.

1873 James Reed and two accomplices rob the Watt Grayson family of $30,000 in the Choctaw Nation.

1897 The Great "City Fire" in London.

1905 100 people drown in the English Channel as the steamer Hilda sinks.

1911 New York receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy.

1915 The Allies ask China to join the entente against the Central Powers.

1923 The Oklahoma State Senate ousts Governor Walton for anti-Ku Klux Klan measures.

1926 Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Politburo in the Soviet Union.

1942 Soviet forces take the offensive at Stalingrad.

1949 Prince Ranier III is crowned 30th Monarch of Monaco.

1952 Scandinavian Airlines opens a commercial route from Canada to Europe.

1969 Apollo 12 touches down on the moon.

1973 New York stock market takes sharpest drop in 19 years.

1976 Patty Hearst is released from prison on $1.5 million bail.

1981 U.S. Steel agrees to pay $6.3 million for Marathon Oil.

[11:55]

Wasn't the great London fire in 1666 :oops: ?

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Today in History
November 19

1863 Lincoln delivers the "*****sburg Address" at the dedication of the National Cemetery at the site of the Battle of *****sburg.

Exactly 100 years from that day, I was born.

[Saranof]

Wasn't the great London fire in 1666 :oops: ?

I think tihs is a different fire, though I' ve never heard of another one..

[fuzzyramirez]

Pretty cool thread, know where I can find more lists like that?

[Bryson C]

Pretty cool thread, know where I can find more lists like that?

wait till tomorrow. :) Or go to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_20

[STIG]

Wasn't the great London fire in 1666 :oops: ?


yes you are right. but it was in september. :)

[STIG]

Today in History
November 20

269 Diocletian is proclaimed emperor of Numerian in Asia Minor by his soldiers. He had been the commander of the emperor's bodyguard.

1695 Zumbi dos Palmares, the Brazilian leader of a 100-year-old rebel slave group, is killed in an ambush.

1700 Sweden's 17-year-old King Charles XII defeats the Russians at Narva.
1903 In Cheyenne, Wyoming, 42-year-old hired gunman Tom Horn is hanged for the murder of 14-year-old Willie Nickell.

1914 Bulgaria proclaims its neutrality in the First World War.

1928 Mrs. Glen Hyde becomes the first woman to dare the Grand Canyon rapids in a scow (a flat-bottomed boat that is pushed along with a pole).

1931 Japan and China reject the League of Council terms for Manchuria at Geneva.

1943 U.S. Army and Marine soldiers attack the Japanese-held islands of Makin and Tarawa, respectively, in the Central Pacific.

1945 The Nazi war crime trials begin at Nuremberg.

1947 Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) marries Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey.

1950 U.S. troops push to the Yalu River, within five miles of Manchuria.

1955 The Maryland National Guard is ordered desegregated.

1962 President John F. Kennedy bars religious or racial discrimination in federally funded housing.

1967 U.S. census reports the population at 200 million.

1971 The United States announces it will give Turkey $35 million for farmers who agree to stop growing opium poppies.

1974 The United States files an antitrust suit to break up ATT.

1978 In Jonestown, Guyana, American Rev. Jim Jones leads his followers in a mass suicide.

1982 South Africa backs down on a plan to install black rule in neighboring Namibia.

[Switek]

I'd add:


762 - Bögü, Khan of the Uighurs, conquers Lo-Yang, capital of the Chinese Empire.

1194 - Palermo is conquered by Emperor Henry VI.

1407 - A solemn truce between John, Duke of Burgundy and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans is agreed under the auspices of John, Duke of Berry. Orléans would be assassinated three days later by Burgundy.

1789 - New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

1820 - An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this story).

1917 - World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins - British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.

1917 - Ukraine is declared a republic.

1940 - World War II: Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join the Axis Powers.

1943 - World War II: Battle of Tarawa begins - United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.

1952 - Slánský trials - a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.

1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union's agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.

1968 - Vietnam War: Eleven men comprising a Long Range Patrol team from F Company, 58th Infantry, 101st Airborne are surrounded and nearly wiped out by North Vietnamese army regulars from the 4th and 5th Regiment. The seven wounded survivors are rescued after several hours by an impromptu force made of other men from their unit.

1969 - Vietnam War: The Cleveland Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.

1979 - About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgramage and take about 6000 hostages in the Kaaba. The Saudi government received help from French special forces to put down the uprising.


1983 - In the U.S., an estimated 100 million people watch the controversial made-for-television movie The Day After, depicting a nuclear war and its effects on the United States.

1985 - Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.

1989 - Velvet Revolution: The number of protestors assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.

1994 - The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war (in 1995 localized fighting resumed).

1998 - A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

2001 - In Washington, D.C., U.S. President George W. Bush dedicates the United States Department of Justice headquarters building as the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building, honoring the late Robert F. Kennedy on what would have been his 76th birthday.

2003 - After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.

[STIG]

Thanks Switek :)

[shocker1]

1945: Nuremberg trial of Nazis begins
Twenty of Germany's Nazi leaders have gone on trial in the German city of Nuremberg charged with war crimes. The four judges who make up the International Military Tribunal took their seats at 1000 hours to hear the charges read out.
The offences included waging a war of aggression, violating the customs of warfare and committing crimes against humanity.
The three major wartime powers, the United States, Soviet Union and Britain will sit on the tribunal, and France has also been awarded a place.
The British president of the tribunal, Justice Geoffrey Lawrence, opened the trial, calling it "unique in the history of the jurisprudence of the world and of supreme importance to millions of people all over the globe.
War crimes
"For this reason there is laid upon everybody who takes any part in this trial the solemn responsibility to discharge his duties without fear or favour in accordance with the sacred principles of law and justice," he said.
The accused include Hermann Goring, Commander of the Luftwaffe, Admiral Karl Donitz, who became German president following Hitler's death, Albert Speer, a close friend of Hitler's, and Martin Bormann, successor to Hess as Nazi Party Secretary, is being tried in his absence.
They were seated in two rows in the dock, which has been specially adapted to contain all 20 of them. American military police in their trademark steel white helmets were seated behind and at either end of the dock.
The whole day's sitting was then taken up with the simultaneous reading of the 24,000-word indictment in four different languages.
Everyone in the court was issued with headphones to allow them to hear the charges being read in their native languague, but the accused showed little interest.
They are represented by counsel and the prosecution has made available all its documents to allow a just defence.
Talks about how to punish the Nazi leadership once the war ended began months ago.
The British Government wanted to shoot the leaders once they were caught and formally identified - but the Soviet Union and US favoured a legal process.
The International Military Tribunal was finally set up on 8 August by which time the main parties had agreed a compromise on a set of internationally recognised offences.
They had also accepted Soviet insistence that only Axis aggression was covered by the new court - otherwise the Soviet authorities would have been in the dock as well for carving up Poland in 1939 and attacking Finland three months later.

The defendants are expected to enter their pleas in the morning - most are expected to plead not guilty.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/20/newsid_4356000/4356166.stm

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Today in History
November 21



164 BC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/164_BC) - Judas Maccabaeus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_Maccabaeus), son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasmonean) family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_in_Jerusalem). Events commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah).
235 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/235) - Anterus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Anterus) is elected Pope (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope).
1272 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1272) - Following Henry III of England (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_III_of_England)'s death on November 16 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_16), his son Prince Edward (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_I_of_England) becomes King of England (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_England).
1783 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1783) - In Paris (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris), Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Pil%C3%A2tre_de_Rozier) and François Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Laurent%2C_Marquis_d%27Arlandes), make the first untethered hot air balloon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_air_balloon) flight.
1789 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1789) - North Carolina (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina) ratifies the United States Constitution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution) and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state).
1791 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1791) - Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napol%C3%A9on_Bonaparte) is promoted to full general and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France).
1861 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1861) - American Civil War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War): Confederate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America) President Jefferson Davis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis) appoints Judah Benjamin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_Benjamin) secretary of war.
1877 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1877) - Thomas Edison (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison) announces his invention of the phonograph (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph), a machine that can record sound.
1905 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905) - Albert Einstein (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein)'s paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", is published in the journal "Annalen der Physik". This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the famous equation e=mc² (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%3Dmc%C2%B2).
1916 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916) - The HMHS Britannic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMHS_Britannic) sinks in the Aegean Sea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegean_Sea) after an explosion from an unknown object, killing 30 people.
1920 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920) - Bloody Sunday (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_%281920%29) during the Anglo-Irish War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Irish_War)
1922 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922) - Rebecca Latimer Felton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Latimer_Felton) of Georgia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_%28U.S._state%29) takes the oath of office, becoming the first woman United States Senator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate).
1927 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1927) - Columbine Mine Massacre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_Mine_Massacre): Striking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_action) coal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal) miners (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miner) were allegedly attacked with machine guns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_gun) by a detachment of state police (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police) dressed in civilian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian) clothes.
1934 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934) - Ella Fitzgerald (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Fitzgerald) makes her singing debut at age 16 at the Apollo Theater (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Theater) in Harlem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem), New York (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York).
1941 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941) - The radio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio) program King Biscuit Time (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Biscuit_Time) is broadcast for the first time (it would later become the longest running daily radio broadcast in history and the most famous live blues (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues) radio program).
1942 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942) - The completion of the Alaska Highway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Highway) (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (the highway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway) was not usable by general vehicles until 1943 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943), however).
1953 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953) - Authorities at the British Natural History Museum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Natural_History_Museum) announce that the "Piltdown Man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man)" skull (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull), held to be one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, was a hoax.
1962 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962) - The Chinese (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China) People's Liberation Army (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army) declares a unilateral cease-fire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cease-fire) in the Sino-Indian War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War).
1964 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964) - The Verrazano Narrows Bridge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verrazano_Narrows_Bridge) opens to traffic (at the time it was the world's longest suspension bridge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_bridge)).
1964 - Second Vatican Council (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Vatican_Council): The third session of the Roman Catholic Church (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church)'s ecumenical council (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical_council) closes.
1967 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967) - Vietnam War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War): American (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) General William Westmoreland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Westmoreland) tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
1969 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969) - The first ARPANET (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET) link is established.
1969 - US President Richard Nixon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon) and Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisaku_Sato) agree in Washington, DC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%2C_DC) on the return of Okinawa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa) to Japanese (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan) control in 1972 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972). Under terms of the agreement, the US is to retain its rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free.
1970 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970) - Vietnam War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War): Operation Ivory Coast (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivory_Coast) - A joint Air Force (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force) and Army team raids the Son Tay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_Tay) prison camp in an attempt to free American POWs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_of_war) thought to be held there.
1971 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971) - Indian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India) troops partly aided by Mukti Bahini (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukti_Bahini) (Bengali (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal) guerrillas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_warfare)) defeated the Pakistan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan) army in the Battle of Garibpur (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Garibpur).
1974 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974) - The Birmingham Pub Bombings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Pub_Bombings) by the IRA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army) killed 21 people. The Birmingham Six (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Six) were sentenced to life in prison for this and subsequently acquitted.
1974 - George W. Bush (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush) is honourably discharged from the US Air Force Reserve.
1977 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977) - Minister of Internal Affairs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_of_Internal_Affairs) Hon Allan Highet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Highet) announced that 'the national anthems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_anthem) of New Zealand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand) shall be the traditional anthem 'God Save The Queen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Save_The_Queen)' and the poem 'God Defend New Zealand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Defend_New_Zealand)', written by Thomas Bracken (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bracken), as set to music by John Joseph Woods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Joseph_Woods), both being of equal status as national anthems appropriate to the occasion'.
1979 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979) - The United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) Embassy in Islamabad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamabad), Pakistan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan) is attacked by a mob and set alight, killing four. (see: Foreign relations of Pakistan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Pakistan))
1980 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980) - A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM_Grand_Hotel_Las_Vegas_hotel_fire) in Las Vegas, Nevada (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas%2C_Nevada) (now Bally's Las Vegas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally%27s_Las_Vegas)). 87 people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history.
1980 - Lake Peigneur (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur) drained into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe drilled into the Diamond crystal salt mine; water flowing down into the mine eroded the edges of the hole. The whirlpool created sucked the drilling platform, several barges, houses and trees thousands of feet, to the bottom of the dissolving salt deposit.
1980 - Who Shot JR? - The Dallas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_%28TV_series%29) Episode "Who Done It?" aired on US television. It was one of the highest-rated episodes of a TV show ever aired.
1985 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985) - United States Navy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy) intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard) is arrested for spying (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage) (he was caught giving Israel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel) classified information on Arab (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab) nations and was eventually sentenced to life in prison).
1986 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986) - Iran-Contra Affair (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_Affair): National Security Council member Oliver North (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_North) and his secretary start to shred documents implicating them in the sale of weapons to Iran (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran) and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_%28guerrillas%29) rebels in Nicaragua (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua).
1990 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990) - Charter of Paris for a New Europe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_Paris_for_a_New_Europe) refocusses the efforts of the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europeon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_for_Security_and_Co-operation_in_Europe) post-Cold War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War) issues.
1990 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990) - Nintendo's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo) successor to the Famicom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NES); the Super Famicom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNES) was released in Japan.
1991 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991) - "The Apple of God's Eye", an undercover investigative journalism piece exposing the fundraising practices of American televangelist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Televangelist) Robert Tilton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tilton), airs on ABC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company)'s Primetime Live (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primetime_Live) newsmagazine show for the first time.
1995 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995) - The Dayton Peace Agreement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton_Peace_Agreement) was initialled in the Wright Patterson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Patterson) Air Force Base, near Dayton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton), Ohio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio), ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina). The agreement was formally ratified in Paris (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris), on December 14 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_14) that same year.
1995 - Toy Story (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Story) is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-generated_imagery).
1995 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average) closes above 5,000 (5,023.55) for the first time.
2002 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002) - NATO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO) invites Bulgaria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria), Estonia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia), Latvia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia), Lithuania (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuania), Romania (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania), Slovakia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovakia) and Slovenia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia) to become members.
2004 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004) - The second round of the Ukrainian presidential election (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_presidential_election%2C_2004) is held, unleashing massive protests and controversy with regards to the election's integrity.
2004 - The island of Dominica (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominica) is hit by its most destructive earthquake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake) in history; the northern half of the island receives the most damage, especially in the town of Portsmouth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth%2C_Dominica). It is also felt in neighbouring Guadeloupe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadeloupe), where one person is killed as a result.
2004 - The Paris Club (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Club) agrees to write off 80% (up to $100 billion) of Iraq (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq)'s external debt.

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[Switek]

1962 - The Chinese People's Liberation Army declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War.

and 44 years after:



New Delhi, INDIA: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (R) talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao during a joint statement in New Delhi, 21 November 2006. Chinese President Hu Jintao and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, holding the first summit-level talks in a decade, said ending the border dispute was a key priority amid growing trade links between the world's most populous countries. Hu started a landmark visit aimed at boosting trade and easing lingering tensions between the world's most populous nations. AFP PHOTO/RAVEENDRAN (Photo credit should read RAVEENDRAN/AFP/***** Images)

[Bryson C]

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1791)
1791 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1791) - Colonel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1791)Napoléon Bonaparte (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napol%C3%A9on_Bonaparte) is promoted to full general and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1791)French Republic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1791)

Promoted to Brigadier General 1793, Major General 1795 and given command of Army of Interior, made commander-in-Chief of Army in Italy 1796.

[sir-chimp]

great thread

[Labud]

Today, church and believers are celebrating st. Achangel Michael.

[STIG]

Today in History
November 22



498 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/498) - After the death of Anastasius II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Anastasius_II), Symmachus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Symmachus) is elected pope in the Lateran Palace (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateran_Palace), while Laurentius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_Laurentius) is elected pope in Santa Maria Maggiore (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_di_Santa_Maria_Maggiore).
1718 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1718) - Off the coast of North Carolina (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina), British (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain) pirate Edward Teach (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teach) (best known as "Blackbeard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbeard)") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maynard).
1830 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1830) - Charles Grey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Grey%2C_2nd_Earl_Grey), 2nd Earl Grey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Grey) became Prime Minister (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom) of the United Kingdom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland).
1864 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1864) - American Civil War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War): Sherman's March to the Sea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman%27s_March_to_the_Sea): Confederate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America) General John Bell Hood (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bell_Hood) invades Tennessee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee) in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) General William T. Sherman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_T._Sherman) from Georgia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_%28U.S._state%29).
1880 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1880) - Vaudeville (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaudeville) actress Lillian Russell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Russell) makes her debut at Tony Pastor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Pastor)'s Theatre in New York City (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City).
1917 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917) - In Montreal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal), Canada (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada), the National Hockey Association (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Hockey_Association) breaks up (on November 26 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_26) it was replaced with the National Hockey League (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Hockey_League)).
1922 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922) - Egyptology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptology): Howard Carter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Carter_%28archaeologist%29), assisted by Lord Carnarvon, opens the tomb of Tutankhamun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun).
1935 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935) - The China Clipper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Clipper) takes off from Alameda, California (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alameda%2C_California) in an attempt to deliver the first airmail (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airmail) cargo across the Pacific Ocean (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean) (the airplane later reached its destination, Manila (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila), and delivered over 110,000 pieces of mail (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail)).
1940 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940) - World War II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II): Following the Italian invasion, Greek troops advance into Albanian soil and liberate Korytsa (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Korytsa&action=edit).
1942 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942) - World War II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II): Battle of Stalingrad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad) - General Friedrich von Paulus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_von_Paulus) sends Adolf Hitler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler) a telegram (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram) saying that the German 6th army is surrounded.
1943 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943) - World War II: War in the Pacific (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_theatre_of_World_War_II) - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt), British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill), and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Kai-Shek) meet in Cairo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo), Egypt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt), to discuss ways to defeat Japan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan) (see Cairo Conference (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Conference))
1943 - Lebanese Independence Day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Independence_Day). Lebanon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon) gains independence from France (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France).
1963 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963) - John F. Kennedy assassination (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination): In Dallas, Texas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas%2C_Texas), US President John F. Kennedy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy) is assassinated and Texas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas) Governor John B. Connally (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Connally) is seriously wounded. Later the same day, US Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson) is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States).
1967 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967) - UN Security Council Resolution 242 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_Security_Council_Resolution_242) is adopted by the UN Security Council (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_Security_Council), establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab)-Israeli (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel) peace settlement.
1968 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968) - The Beatles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles) release the double album The Beatles, commonly known as The White Album (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Album).
1972 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972) - Vietnam War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War): The United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) loses its first B-52 Stratofortress (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-52_Stratofortress) of the war.
1974 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974) - The United Nations General Assembly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly) grants the Palestine Liberation Organization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization) observer status.
1975 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975) - Juan Carlos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_of_Spain) is declared King of Spain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Spanish_monarchs) following the death of Francisco Franco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Franco).
1977 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977) - British Airways (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways) inaugurates a regular London (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London) to New York City (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City) supersonic Concorde (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde) service.
1986 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986) - Boxing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing): Mike Tyson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Tyson) knocks out Trevor Berbick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Berbick) in the second round, becoming the youngest world heavyweight champion at the age of 20 years and 4 months.
1988 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988) - In Palmdale, California (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmdale%2C_California), the first prototype B-2 Spirit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-2_Spirit) stealth bomber is revealed.
1989 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989) - In West Beirut (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beirut), a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon) President Rene Moawad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rene_Moawad), killing him.
1990 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990) - Margaret Thatcher (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher) resigns as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom).
1999 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999) - Wayne Gretzky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Gretzky) is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_Hall_of_Fame), his number 99 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_%28number%29) permanently retired by the NHL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL).
2002 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002) - In Nigeria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria), more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_World) contest.
2003 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003) - In Tbilisi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tbilisi), Georgia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_%28country%29), opponents of President Eduard Shevardnadze (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Shevardnadze) seize the parliament building and demand the president's resignation.
2003 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003) - The Heritage Classic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_Classic), the first outdoor hockey game in the history of the NHL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL), is played in Edmonton, Alberta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton%2C_Alberta)
2003 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003) - England (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_Rugby) defeat Australia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Rugby_Union) to win England's first Rugby World Cup (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_World_Cup).
2004 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004) - The Orange Revolution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Revolution) begins in Ukraine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine), resulting from the presidential elections.
2005 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005) - Ted Koppel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Koppel) retires after hosting Nightline (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightline) for over 26 years.
2005 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005) - Angela Merkel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel) becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany).
2005 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005) - The Xbox 360 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360) is launched, the first entry in the seventh generation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_game_consoles_%28seventh_generation%29) on video game consoles.
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John F. Kennedy assassination




he assassination (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination) of John F. Kennedy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy), the thirty-fifth President of the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States), took place on Friday, November 22 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_22), 1963 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963), in Dallas, Texas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas%2C_Texas), USA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) at 12:30 p.m. CST (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Standard_Time_Zone) (18:30 UTC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC)). Kennedy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy) was fatally (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal) wounded (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wound) by gunshots (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunshot) while riding with his wife (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Kennedy_Onassis) in a presidential motorcade (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcade) through Dealey Plaza (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dealey_Plaza). He was the fourth U.S. President to be assassinated (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassinate) and the eighth to die while in office. An official investigation by the Warren Commission (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Commission) was conducted over a 10-month period, and its report was published in September 1964. The Commission concluded that the assassination was carried out solely by Lee Harvey Oswald (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald), an employee of the Texas School Book Depository (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_School_Book_Depository) in Dealey Plaza. This conclusion initially met with widespread support among the American public, but polling in recent years shows a majority of that public now hold beliefs contrary to the Commission's findings. [1] (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/20/national/main584668.shtml) A later official investigation by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Select_Committee_on_Assassinations) (HSCA) was conducted from 1976 to 1979, and it concluded that Kennedy was assassinated by Oswald "probably... as a result of a conspiracy". The assassination is still the subject of widespread speculation, and has spawned a number of Kennedy assassination theories (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_assassination_theories).