On This Day in History

1842 - Mary Ann Todd - shackles some nimrod

1918 - Arthur William Matthew Carney - birthday

1955 - Denton True Young - death

2010 - George Lee Anderson - death

2021 - jebe did not get vaccinated. The world is improved

Sprintcyclist wrote:2021 - jebe did not get vaccinated.  The world is improved

clean-up in isle five!

November 4

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Umar of Arabia is assassinated at Medina and is succeeded as caliph by Uthman.

1493
Christopher Columbus discovers Guadeloupe during his second expedition.

1791
General Arthur St. Clair, Governor of Northwest Territory, is badly defeated by a large Indian army near Fort Wayne.

1798
Congress agrees to pay a yearly tribute to Tripoli, considering it the only way to protect US shipping.

1841
The first wagon train arrives in California.

1842
Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois.

1845
The first nationally observed uniform election day in the Unites States, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

1854
Florence Nightingale and her nurses arrive in Crimea.

1862
American inventor Richard Jordan Gatling patents the hand cranked Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis.

1863
From the main Confederate Army at Chattanooga, Tennessee, Lt. General James Longstreet's troops are sent northeast to besiege Knoxville.

1879
African American inventor Thomas Elkins patents the Refrigerating Apparatus.

1889
The Players League begins, declaring independence from baseball's National League.

1918
Austria signs an armistice with the Allies.

1922
The entrance to King Tut's tomb is discovered.

1922
The US Postmaster General orders all homes to get mailboxes or relinquish delivery of mail.

1924
Nellie Tayloe Ross and Miriam Ferguson are elected first and second women Governors (Wyoming and Texas).

1924
California legalizes professional boxing, which has been illegal since 1914.

1924
Calvin Coolidge is elected 30th president of the United States.

1946
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is established.

1948
American humorist Will Rogers is commemorated by the US Postage Service on a 3 cent stamp.

1952
General Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected 34th president of the United States.

1952
The National Security Agency, NSA, is formed.

1953
A new baseball balk rule gives the batter the option of accepting the outcome of the pitch or the balk.

1956
Russian troops attack Budapest, Hungary.

1961
American folk singer songwriter Bob Dylan makes his Carnegie Hall (NYC) debut.  Tickets are priced at $2.00.

1979
At the American Embassy in Teheran, Iran, 90 people, including 63 Americans, are taken hostage by militant student followers of Ayatollah Khomeini.  The students demand the return of Shah Mohammad Reza Pablavi, who is undergoing medical treatment in New York City.

1980
Ronald Reagan is elected the 40th president of the United States.

1992
Carol Moseley Braun becomes the first African American woman to be elected to the US Senate.

1993
Elton John is awarded $518,700 from the Sunday Mirror for a false report on his diet.

1995
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.

2008
Senator Barack Obama of Illinois is elected 44th president of the United States, the first African American to hold that position.

2017
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri resigns in a shock TV broadcast from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, amid concerns he is being forcibly detained.

November 5

1219
The port of Damietta falls to the Crusaders after a siege.

1492
Christopher Columbus learns how to grow and harvest maize (corn) from Cuba's indigenous population.

1556
The Emperor Akbar defeats the Hindus at Panipat and secures control of the Mogul Empire.

1605
Catholic conspirator Guy Fawkes attempts to blow up King James I and the British Parliament. The plot is discovered and Guy Fawkes is caught, tortured and later executed along with seven others.  Celebrated ever since as Guy Fawkes Day, where his effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, accompanied by fireworks.

1768
William Johnson, the northern Indian Commissioner, signs a treaty with the Iroquois Indians to acquire much of the land between the Tennessee and Ohio rivers for future settlement.

1814
Having decided to abandon the Niagara frontier, the American army blows up Fort Erie.

1840
Afghanistan surrenders to the British army.

1854
The British and French defeat the Russians at Inkerman, Crimea.

1862
President Abraham Lincoln relieves General George McClellan of command of the Union armies and names Major General Ambrose Burnside commander of the Army of the Potomac.

1872
Susan B. Anthony is arrested for trying to vote.

1911
Calbraith P. Rodgers ends his first transcontinental flight which took 49 days from New York to Pasadena, California.

1912
Woodrow Wilson is elected 28th president of the United States.

1914
France and Great Britain declare war on Turkey.

1917
General John Pershing leads US troops into the first American action against German forces.

1930
Sinclair Lewis becomes the first American to win a Nobel Prize in Literature for his novel Babbit.

1935
Parker Brothers company launches Monopoly, a game of real estate and capitalism.

1937
Adolf Hitler informs his military leaders in a secret meeting of his intentions of going to war.

1940
President Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President for a third term.

1940
Walter Johnson, who had won 416 games for the Washington Senators, loses the Maryland congressional race (R).

1943
Vatican City was bombed by a fascist Italian aircraft breaching the neutrality of the Vatican during the second World War.

1956
Britain and France land airborne forces at Port Said in Egypt, escalating the Suez Crisis.

1956
The Nat King Cole Show debuts on NBC.  The first variety program to be hosted by an African American.

1967
The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. The survivors include Bee Gee Robin Gibb.

1968
Shirley Chisholm of Brooklyn, New York, becomes the first elected African American woman to serve in the House of Representatives.

1968
Richard Nixon is elected 37th President of the United States.

1979
Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Khomeini describes the United States as "The Great Satan" amid accusations of imperialism and the sponsoring of corruption.

1995
Andre Dallaire's attempt to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien is foiled when the minister's wife locks the door.

2003
Gary Ridgway, known as the Green River Killer, pleads guilty to 48 counts of murder.

2006
Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein, along with Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, is sentenced to death for the massacre of 148 Shi'a Muslims in 1982.

2007
Chang'e 1, China's first lunar satellite, begins its orbit of the moon.

2009
The deadliest mass shooting at a US military installation occurs at Fort Hood, Texas, when US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan kills 13 and wounds 29.

November 6

1429
Henry VI is crowned King of England.

1812
The first winter snow falls on the French Army as Napoleon Bonaparte retreats from Moscow.

1813
Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain.

1860
Abraham Lincoln is elected 16th president of the United States.

1861
Jefferson Davis is elected to a six year term as President of the Confederacy.

1863
A Union force surrounds and scatters defending Confederates at the Battle of Droop Mountain, in West Virginia.

1891
Comanche, the only 7th Cavalry horse to survive George Armstrong Custer's 'Last Stand' at the Little Bighorn, dies at Fort Riley, Kansas.

1911
Maine becomes a dry state.

1917
The Bolshevik 'October Revolution' (October 25 on the old Russian calendar), led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky, seizes power in Petrograd.

1923
As European inflation soars, one loaf of bread in Berlin is reported to be worth about 140 billion German marks.

1945
The first landing of a jet on a carrier takes place on USS Wake Island when an FR-1 Fireball touches down.

1947
Meet the Press makes its TV debut.

1961
The US government issues a stamp honoring the 100th birthday of James Naismith, who invented the game of basketball.

1962
The United Nations passes a resolution to condemn Apartheid in South Africa.

1973
Coleman Young becomes the first African American mayor of Detroit, Michigan.

1978
The Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, places the country under military rule.

1985
Guerrillas of the leftist 19th of April Movement seize Colombia's Palace of Justice in Bogata.  During the two day siege, and the military assault to retake the building, over 100 people are killed, including 11 of the 25 Supreme Court justices.

1986
A British International Helicopter Boeing 234LRR Chinook crashes 2.5 miles east of Sumburgh Airport.   45 people are killed, the deadliest civilian helicopter crash to date (2013).

1986
The Iran arms-for-hostages deal is revealed, damaging the Reagan administration.

1995
The Rova of Antananarivo, home of Madagascar's sovereigns from the 16th to the 19th centuries, is destroyed by fire.

1999
Australian voters reject a referendum to make the country a republic with a president appointed by Parliament.

Red......its november

jirqoadai wrote:Red......its november

Oooops Lol. Thanks. All fixed.

Its also daylight savings time

Daily Bread wrote:Its also daylight savings time

it cant be. ifn it is indeed, show us all the daylight youve saved so far.