THIS DAY IN HISTORY (GENERAL HISTORY)

November 20 Events

1986 UN's WHO announces 1st global effort to combat AIDS
1984 McDonald's made its 50 billionth hamburger
1975 Ronald Reagan announced candidacy for Republican nomination for president
1967 U.S. population reaches 200 million
1914 U.S. State Department starts requiring photographs for passports

Birthdays 20 November

1955 - Bo Derek
1947 - Joe Walsh
1932 - Richard Dawson
1917 - Robert Byrd
1908 - Alistair Cooke
 
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Nivember 21st Events

1995 Dow Jones closes above 5,000 for 1st time
1990 Michael Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations
1989 Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by President Bush
1977 1st flight of Concorde, London to New York
1922 Rebecca L. Felton sworn in as 1st female U.S. Senator

November 21st Birthdays

1957 - Jim Brown
1945 - Goldie Hawn
1944 - Harold Ramis
1941 - Juliet Mills
1694 - Voltaire
 
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November 22nd ............
MY BIRTHDAY 1944 ........

[From the History Channel]


Lead story:
1963: John F. Kennedy assassinated

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible.

First lady Jacqueline Kennedy rarely accompanied her husband on political outings, but she was beside him, along with Texas Governor John Connally and his wife, for a 10-mile motorcade through the streets of downtown Dallas on November 22. Sitting in a Lincoln convertible, the Kennedys and Connallys waved at the large and enthusiastic crowds gathered along the parade route. As their vehicle passed the Texas School Book Depository Building at 12:30 p.m., Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly fired three shots from the sixth floor, fatally wounding President Kennedy and seriously injuring Governor Connally. Kennedy was pronounced dead 30 minutes later at Dallas' Parkland Hospital. He was 46.

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A few more happenings for November 22nd:

American Revolution
1783 : John Hanson, so-called first president, dies
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-hanson-so-called-first-president-dies

Automotive
1900 : First Mercedes goes for a test drive
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-mercedes-goes-for-a-test-drive

Civil War
1864 : Hood enters Tennessee
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/-hood-enters-tennessee

Cold War
1963 : Kennedy assassinated
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/kennedy-assassinated

Crime
1963 : President Kennedy is assassinated
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-kennedy-is-assassinated

Disaster
1950 : Commuter trains collide in New York City
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/commuter-trains-collide-in-new-york-city

General Interest
1718 : Blackbeard killed off North Carolina
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/blackbeard-killed-off-north-carolina
1988 : Stealth bomber unveiled
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/stealth-bomber-unveiled
1990 : Margaret Thatcher resigns
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/margaret-thatcher-resigns

Hollywood
2002 : Die Another Day released 40 years after first Bond film
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/die-another-day-released-40-years-after-first-bond-film
 
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A few more happenings for November 22nd: (Cont)

Literary
1819 : George Eliot is born
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/george-eliot-is-born

Music
1975 : KC and the Sunshine band top the U.S. pop charts with That's The Way (I Like It)
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-...charts-with-quotthat39s-the-way-i-like-itquot

Old West
1916 : Jack London dies of kidney disease
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jack-london-dies-of-kidney-disease

Presidential
1963 : Kennedy becomes fourth president to be assassinated
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/kennedy-becomes-fourth-president-to-be-assassinated

Sports
1986 : Mike Tyson becomes the youngest heavyweight champ in history
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-...mes-the-youngest-heavyweight-champ-in-history

Vietnam War
1963 : JFK assassinated in Dallas
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jfk-assassinated-in-dallas
1967 : Westmoreland claims U.S. victory at Dak To
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/westmoreland-claims-us-victory-at-dak-to
1972 : First B-52 shot down over North Vietnam
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-b-52-shot-down-over-north-vietnam

World War I
1914 : Fighting suspended in Ypres Salient
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fighting-suspended-in-ypres-salient

World War II
1942 : Soviets encircle Germans at Stalingrad
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviets-encircle-germans-at-stalingrad
 
November 22nd Events

1990 George Bush visits U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia.
Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister.
1981 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1977 Regular Concorde passenger service between New York and Europe begins.
1975 Juan Carlos proclaimed king of Spain.
1972 U.S. ends 22 year travel ban to China.
1968 Beatles release "Beatles," (White Album) their only double album.
1967 BBC unofficially bans "I Am the Walrus" by Beatles.
1956 16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne
1943 FDR, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
1906 International Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help. ...---...
1842 Mount St. Helens in Washington, erupts.
 
Nov 24
1835 Republic of Texas creates the Texas Rangers
1859 Darwin publishes Origins of the Species
1963 Jack Ruby murders Lee Harvey Oswald
 
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November 24Th Events

1996 Mashonaland defeat Matabeleland to win the Logan Cricket Cup
1995 Ireland votes to end 70-year-old ban on divorce (50.28% to 49.72%)
1991 U.S. 75th manned space mission "STS-44" Atlantis 10 launched
1974 Gerald Ford and Leonid Brezhnev signs SALT-2-treaty
1971 Dan "DB" Cooper parachutes from a Northwest AL 727 with $200,000
1966 The Beatles began recording sessions for "Sgt Pepper"
1936 Pacifist/anti fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky sent to concentration camp, award Nobel Peace Prize
1922 Italian parliament gives Mussolini dictatorial powers "for 1 year"
1871 National Rifle Association organized in New York City

November 24Th Birthdays

1942 - Billy Connolly
1925 - William F. Buckley, Jr.
1888 - Dale Carnegie
1864 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1847 - Bram Stoker
 
November 25Th Events

2009 A Pakistan court charges seven suspects involved in the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai.
1990 Lech Walesa wins in Poland's 1st popular election.
1988 U.S. and Soviet chess grand masters Donaldson and Akhmilovskaya wed.
1983 World's greatest robbery 25,000,000 pounds of gold, Heathrow, England
1980 Sugar Ray Leonard defeats Duran regains WBC welterweight championship
1976 Viking 1 radio signal from Mars help prove general theory of relativity
1969 John Lennon returns OBE to protest UK's support for Vietnam War
1963 John F. Kennedy laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
1951 Commemoration of Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft forbidden
1867 Alfred Nobel patents dynamite
 
Nov 26
1476 Vlad III Dracula becomes ruler of Wallachia for the 3rd time.
1922 Howard Carter enters King Tut's tomb.
 
November 26Th Events
2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks kill over 195 people over four days
1991 Condoms are handed out to thousands of New York High School students
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait
1976 East Germany deprives singer/poet Wolf Biermann citizenship
1969 Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon
1950 China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River
1940 Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
1861 West Virginia created as a result of dispute over slavery with Virg
1688 French king Louis XIV declares war on Netherlands

November 26Th Birthdays

1972 Nicole Beach, born in Phoenix, Arizona, model, Wonderbra
1964 Vreni Schneider, Swiss alpine skier, Olympics-Gold-1988
1938 Tina Turner, Brownsville, Texas, singer, Proud Mary
1945 John McVie, British rock bassist, Fleetwood Mac-Rumours, Tusk
 
Nov 28
1814 The Times of London begins using steam press to print the newspaper, making it availalable cheaply to the masses
1895 1st auto race, Chicago to Evanston, winner covered 54 miles in 10 hours
 
November 28 Events

1997 Final episode of "Beavis and Butt-head," on MTV
1994 Norway votes against joining European Union
1986 Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for 1st time
1973 Arab League summit in Algiers recognizes Palestine
1960 Mauritania gains independence from France (National Day)
1948 1st Polaroid camera sold
1943 FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy
1932 Groucho Marx performed on radio for 1st time
1919 US-born Lady Astor elected 1st female member of British Parliament
1916 1st (German) air attack on London
 
November 29Th Events

1994 Seoul, Korea, celebrated the 600th anniversary of its founding
1990 U.N. Security Council sets Jan 15th military deadline against Iraq
1987 New Orleans Saints win, assuring their 1st winning NFL season
1963 Lyndon Baines Johnson sets up Warren Commission to investigate assassination of John F. Kennedy
1961 Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Mississippi
1951 Winston Churchill re-elected British premier
1942 U.S. rations coffee during WWII
1900 Lord Kitchener succeeds Lord Roberts as supreme commander in South Africa
 
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November 29:
1947 : U.N. votes for partition of Palestine

Despite strong Arab opposition, the United Nations votes for the partition of Palestine and the creation of an independent Jewish state.

The modern conflict between Jews and Arabs in Palestine dates back to the 1910s, when both groups laid claim to the British-controlled territory. The Jews were Zionists, recent emigrants from Europe and Russia who came to the ancient homeland of the Jews to establish a Jewish national state. The native Palestinian Arabs sought to stem Jewish immigration and set up a secular Palestinian state.

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Footnote/comment:
The partition of Palestine, was the signal for the modern and continuing war between Jews and Arabs .. that is characterized by suicide bombing and terrorism ................
 
Nov 30, 1954
A sleeping woman in Sylacauga, Al is hit my a meteorite that crashed through her roof. Only documented case of a person hit by a space rock.
1960 Last DeSoto made.
 
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November 30Th Events

2005 First human face transplant is performed in France
1991 1st world championship of women's soccer, U.S. defeats Norway 2-1
1988 Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; 1st time in 38 yrs
1983 Police free kidnapped beer magnate Alfred Heineken in Amsterdam:cheers:
1924 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC)
1886 1st commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo, New York
1872 1st International soccer game, Scotland-England 0-0 (Glasgow)

November 30Th Birthdays

1929 Dick Clark, Mount Vernon, New York, TV Host, American Bandstand
1874 Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, 1940 - 1945, 1951 - 1955, Nobel 1953
1835 Mark Twain, Samuel L Clemens, author, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn
1667 Jonathan Swift, England, satirist, Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal
 
December 1ST Events

2009 For the first time in 17 years, North Korea raises the value of its currency
1994 Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere announce they are separating
1991 U.S. 75th manned space mission "STS-44" Atlantis 10 lands
1990 British and French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel)
1987 Digging begins to link England and France under English Channel
1982 Michael Jackson releases 'Thriller'
1969 U.S. government holds its 1st draft lottery since WW II
1959 1st color photograph of Earth from outer space
1943 FDR, Churchill and Stalin agree to Operation Overlord (D-Day)
1941 Japanese emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war
1918 Yugoslavia declares independence; monarchy established
1913 1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pittsburgh)
 
December 3RD Events

2006 Hugo Chavez, leftist dictator, is re-elected President of Venezuela
1992 U.N. Security Council votes unanimous for U.S. led forces to enter Somalia
1983 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1971 President Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term
1956 England and France pull troops out of Egypt
1946 U.S. government asks United Nations to order dictator Franco out of Spain
1661 Galileo invents telescope
 
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