November11/11952 - The U.S. exploded the 1st hydrogen bomb

1512 - Sistine Chapel ceiling paintings were first exhibited to the public.

1936 - Italy / Germany partnership described as "axis"

1765 - The Stamp Act went into effect

1604 - Shakespeare's "Othello" was first performed

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11/21783 - Gen. George Washington issued his farewell address to the Army

1983 - Reagan established a federal holiday for Martin Luther King Jr.

1947 - Howard Hughes piloted his huge airplane, the Spruce Goose

1889 - North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states.

1976 - Carter became the 1st U.S. president from the Deep South since the Civil War.

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11/31493 - Christopher Columbus discovers island of Dominica

1900 - First U.S. auto show opens at Madison Square Garden

1956 - "Wizard of Oz" 1st televised (CBS-TV)

1911 - The Chevrolet Motor Car Co. was founded

1992 - Carol Moseley-Braun became the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Senate.

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11/42008 - Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States

2001 - The movie "Harry Potter" has its world premiere in London.

1955 - Baseball Hall of Famer Cy Young died at age 88.

1939 - The U.S started its "cash and carry" program

1922 - The entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered

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11/51872 - Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote

1935 - Parker Brothers began marketing the board game "Monopoly."

2006 - Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced

1999 - A federal judge declared Microsoft Corp. a monopoly.

1994 - Former President Reagan disclosed he had Alzheimer's disease.

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11/62001 - Billionaire Michael Bloomberg was elected New York City mayor.

1995 - Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell announced plans to move the team to Baltimore.

1861 - James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, was born

1861 - Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederacy.

1854 - John Philip Sousa, the king of American march music, was born

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11/71917 - Russia's Bolshevik Revolution began

1893 - Colorado became the first state to grant women the right to vote.

1911 - Marie Curie became the first multiple Nobel Prize winner. (chemistry and physics)

2009 – Affordable Care Act passed the House of Representatives

2000 – Hillary Clinton was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first lady to win public office.

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11/81960 - John F. Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency.

2000 - A statewide recount of presidential election ballots began in Florida.

1972 - HBO made its debut with a showing of the movie "Sometimes a Great Notion."

1971 - The album Led Zeppelin IV was released.

1847 - Bram Stoker, author of Dracula was born

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11/91938 - The "night of broken glass."

2011 - Penn State fired longtime head football coach Joe Paterno

2004 - Roger Clemens won his record seventh Cy Young award.

1918 - Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II announced that he would abdicate.

1976 - The United Nations General Assembly condemned apartheid in South Africa.

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11/10 1969 - "Sesame Street" debuted on PBS.

1951 - Direct-dial, coast-to-coast telephone service began

1938 - Kate Smith first sang "God Bless America" on the radio.

1928 - Hirohito became Emperor of Japan.

1483 - Martin Luther was born

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11/111885 - George Patton was born.

1620 – 41 Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, anchored off Massachusetts, signed a compact calling for a "body politick."

2008 - Country singer Taylor Swift's album "Fearless" was released.

1992 - The Church of England voted to ordain women as priests.

1831 - Former slave Nat Turner was executed

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11/121920 - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected baseball's first commissioner.

1997 - Ramzi Yousef was found guilty of masterminding the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

1954 - Ellis Island closed

1948 - Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo was sentenced to death

2014 – 1st time a spacecraft has landed on a comet

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11/13 1997 - The Disney musical "The Lion King" opened on Broadway.

1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated

1927 - The Holland Tunnel opened to the public.

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

1969 – Actor Gerard Butler was born

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11/141851 - Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick" was published.

1904 - King Camp Gillette patents Gillette razor blade

1881 - Charles J. Guiteau went on trial for assassinating President Garfield.

1935 – FDR proclaimed the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth.

1964 – Rev. Run, Rapper (Run-DMC), was born

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11/151777 – The Articles of Confederation are approved

1926 –The NBC radio network made its debut

1939 - The cornerstone for the Jefferson Memorial was put in place.

2007 - Barry Bonds was indicted for lying to a grand jury

2013 - Sony launches the Playstation 4

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11/161939 - Al Capone freed from Alcatraz

2012 - Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 grosses $500 million in 24 hours. A record

1973 – Nixon authorizes construction of Alaskan pipeline

1966 – Dr. Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail

1965 - Walt Disney launches Epcot Center

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11/172008 - "Twilight" premiered in Los Angeles.

2003 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as governor of California.

1869 - The Suez Canal opened in Egypt

1800 - Congress held its first session in Washington, D.C.

1928 - Notre Dame finally lost a football game after nearly 25 years

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11/181883 - The U.S. and Canada adopted standard time zones.

1926 - "Steamboat Willie" premiered

1969 - Financier and diplomat Joseph P. Kennedy

2009 - Sen. Byrd became the longest-serving senator in history, at 56 years, 320 days.

1966 – U.S. Catholic bishops did away with the rule against eating meat on Fridays.

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11/191863 - President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address

2007 - Amazon.com Inc. introduced the Kindle

2006 - The Wii first went on sale.

2001 - Barry Bonds became the first baseball player to win four MVP awards.

1990 - Milli Vanilli was stripped of its Grammy Award.

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11/201945 – The Nuremberg trials began

1985 - Microsoft's Windows operating system, Windows 1.0, was released.

1947 - Princess Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh

1943 - Vice President Joe Biden was born

1910 - Revolution broke out in Mexico

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11/212004 - NBA star Ron Artest suspended for the season

1989 - Britain's House of Commons were televised live for the first time.

1980 - A fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas killed 87 people.

1922 - Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia was sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.

1973 - Nixon's attorney revealed the existence of an 18 1/2-minute gap

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11/221963 - President John F. Kennedy was assassinated

1718 - English pirate "Blackbeard" was killed

1968 - The Beatles' "White Album" was released.

1906 - The SOS distress signal was adopted

2005 - The Microsoft video game console Xbox 360 went on sale.

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1889 - The jukebox made its debut

1936 - First issue of Life is published

1981 - Reagan gives CIA authority to establish the Contras

1859 - Billy the Kid born

2012 – Larry Hagman died

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11/241963 - Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald

1971 - D.B. Cooper parachuted from a 727 over Washington State with $200,000 in ransom.

1991 - Freddie Mercury, of the rock band Queen, died

1871 - The National Rifle Association was incorporated.

1969 - Apollo 12 returned to Earth

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11/252008 - Football player Michael Vick pleaded guilty to a dogfighting charge

2002 - President George W. Bush creating the Department of Homeland Security

1999 - Six-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez was rescued off the coast of Florida

1986 - The Iran-Contra affair erupted

1947 - Movie studio executives agreed to blacklist the Hollywood 10

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11/261975 - Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme found guilty of trying to assassinate President Ford.

1942 - "Casablanca," made its world premiere

1940 - The half million Jews of Warsaw, Poland, were forced by the Nazis to live within a walled ghetto.

1825 - The first college social fraternity was formed at Union College

43 BC - The Second Triumvirate is formed. (We will study this in February)

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11/271973 - the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who'd resigned.

1901 - The Army War College was established in Washington, D.C.

1910 - New York's Pennsylvania Station opened.

1942 - The French navy at Toulon scuttled its ships and submarines to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis

1978 - Jimmy Rollins, Baseball player, was born

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