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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Today is Monday, November 14, the 318th day of 2011. There are 47 days left in the year. 1666 ― Samuel Pepys reports on first blood transfusion (between dogs) 1851 ― ``Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, published 1918 ― Republic of Czechoslovakia created with T.G. Masaryk as President 1935 ― FDR proclaims the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth 1969 ― Apollo 12 launched for second manned Moon landing 1972 ― Dow Jones closes above 1,000 for first time (1003.16) 1973 ― Britain's Princess Anne marries commoner, Capt. Mark Phillips 1977 ― Egypt President Sadat repeats willingness to visit Israel to Cronkite 1981 ― Second Space Shuttle Mission, Columbia 2, returns to Earth 1991 ― Michael Jackson's ``Black or White" video premiers on Fox TV

Nov 13, 2011

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2011

Today is Saturday, November 12, the 316th day of 2011. There are 49 days left in the year. 324 B.C. ― Origin of Era of Alexander 1892 ― Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes first pro football player 1910 ― First movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon 1927 ― Trotsky expelled from Soviet Communist Party; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator 1933 ― First known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken 1933 ― Nazis receive 92 percent of vote in Germany 1941 ― Germany's drive to take Moscow halted 1948 ― Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal 1956 ― Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, first sighted 1979 ― U.S. halts Iranian oil imports and freezes Iranian assets

Nov 11, 2011

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Today is Friday, November 11, the 315th day of 2011. There are 50 days left in the year. 1620 ― 41 pilgrims land in Massachusetts, sign Mayflower Compact (just and equal laws) 1790 ― Chrysanthemums are introduced into England from China 1862 ― The opera ``La Forza Del Destino" is produced (St. Petersburg Russia) 1918 ― Armistice Day-WW I ends (at 11 a.m. on Western Front) 1925 ― Louis Armstrong records first of Hot Five & Hot Seven recordings crowd-18,499 1968 ― John Lennon & Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of ``2 Virgins" album 1975 ― Australian P.M. removed by crown (first elected P.M. removed in 200 years) 1983 ― President Reagan became first U.S. President to address Japan's legislature 1987 ― Van Gogh's ``Irises" sells for record $53.6 million at auction 1988 ― Oldest known insect fossils (390 million years) reported in Science

Nov 10, 2011

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Today is Thursday, November 10, the 314th day of 2011. There are 51 days left in the year. 1674 ― Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (N.Y.) to English 1775 ― U.S. Marine Corps established by Congress 1871 ― Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa 1928 ― Hirohito enthroned as Emperor of Japan 1951 ― First long-distance telephone call without operator assistance 1960 ― Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill 1975 ― U.N. General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism 1989 ― Germans begin punching holes in the Berlin Wall 1989 ― Word Perfect 5.1 is shipped 2084 ― Transit of Earth as seen from Mars

Nov 9, 2011

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Today is Wednesday, November 9, the 313th of 2011. There are 52 days left in the year. 1799 ― Napoleon becomes dictator (first consul) of France 1904 ― First airplane flight to last more than five minutes 1918 ― Bavaria proclaims itself a republic 1918 ― Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I 1927 ― Giant Panda discovered, China 1938 ― ``Kristallnacht" (Crystal Night); Nazi storm troopers attacked Jews 1963 ― 450 die in a coal-dust explosion and 160 die in train crash (Japan) 1976 ― U. N. General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa 1984 ― Vietnam Veterans Memorial (``3 Servicemen") completed 1989 ― East Berlin opens its borders

Nov 8, 2011

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Today is Tuesday, November 8, the 312th day of 2011. There are 53 days left in the year. 1789 ― Bourbon Whiskey, first distilled from corn (by Elijah Craig, Bourbon, Ky.) 1793 ― Louvre in Paris, opens 1864 ― Abraham Lincoln elected to his second term as President 1895 ― Wilhelm Rontgen discovers x-rays 1932 ― Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) elected President for first time 1950 ― First jet-plane battle of Korean War 1960 ― JFK (Mass., D beats V.P. Richard Nixon (R) for President 1979 ― ABC broadcasts ``Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage” with Frank Reynolds (the forerunner to ``Nightline") 1980 ― Voyager 1 space probe discovers 15th moon of Saturn 1990 ― Saddam fires his army chief and threatens to destroy Arabian Peninsula

Nov 7, 2011

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Today is Monday, November 7, the 311th day of 2011. There are 54 days left in the year. 1631 ― Pierre Gassendi observes transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler 1805 ― Lewis & Clark first sight Pacific Ocean 1865 ― London Gazette, oldest surviving journal, is founded 1917 ― British capture Gaza Palestine from the Turks 1917 ― October Revolution in Russia, Lenin seizes power 1918 ― United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed 1944 ― FDR wins fourth term in office, defeating Thomas E. Dewey (R) 1962 ― Richard Nixon quits politics; You won't have Nixon to kick around 1982 ― Liz Taylor's seventh divorce (John Warner) 1991 ― Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus and retires from Lakers

Nov 6, 2011

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2011

Today is Saturday, November 5, the 209th day of 2011. There are 56 days left in the year. 1414 _ Council of Constance (16th ecumenical council) opens 1492 _ Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from the Indians of Cuba 1605 _ Gunpowder Plot; Catholics try to blow up English Parliament. Plot uncovered and leader Guy Fawkes hanged 1875 _ Susan B. Anthony arrested for attempting to vote 1895 _ First U.S. patent granted for auto (George B. Selden) 1940 _ President FDR (D) wins unprecedented third term beating Wendell Willkie (R) 1956 _ Britain and France land forces in Egypt 1971 _ NBA's Los Angeles Lakers starts a 33-game consecutive winning streak 1987 _ Iceberg twice the size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic 1988 _ Japan beats MLB all stars 2-1 in Tokyo (Game 1 of 7)

Nov 4, 2011

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Today is Friday, November 4, the 308th day of 2011. There are 57 days left in the year. 1866 ― Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia 1879 ― James & John Ritty patent first cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in their Dayton, Ohio, saloon 1939 ― First air-conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Ill 1946 ― U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization formed 1956 ― 200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Stalinist revolt in Budapest 1956 ― Israeli troops reach Suez Canal 1979 ― 500 Iranian ``students" seize U.S. embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days) 1980 ― Ronald Reagan (R) beats President Jimmy Carter (D) by a landslide 1990 ― Iraq says it is preparing for a ``dangerous war" 1991 ― Middle East peace conference ends in Madrid, Spain

Nov 3, 2011

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Today is Thursday, November 3, the 307th day of 2011. There are 58 days left in the year. 1679 ― Great panic occurs in Europe over the close approach of a comet 1839 ― First Opium War; two British frigates engage several Chinese junks 1888 ― Jack the Ripper kills last victim 1918 ― Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolves 1931 ― First commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured 1936 ― FDR wins landslide victory over Alfred M. Landon (R) 1956 ― ``Wizard of Oz" first televised (CBS-TV) 1957 ― USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), first animal in orbit 1970 ― Salvador Allende inaugurated as President of Chile 1979 ― 63 Americans taken hostage at U.S. Embassy (Teheran, Iran)

Nov 2, 2011

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