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Post by Tamrin on Nov 21, 2008 5:31:08 GMT 10
21 November1837 - Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times 1877 - Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention 1953 - "Pitdown Man," discovered in 1912 proved to be a hoax 1977 - 1st flight of the Concorde (London to New York)
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 22, 2008 5:26:26 GMT 10
22 November1718 - Edward "Blackbeard" Teach English pirate, dies off Virginia coast 1956 - 16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne, Australia 1963 - John F Kennedy 35th U.S. President, shot dead in Dallas, Texas 1989 - Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn & the Moon
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 23, 2008 7:13:20 GMT 10
23 November1848 - Female Medical Educational Society founded in Boston 1971 - China People's Republic seated in UN Security Council 1980 - 4,800 die in series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 24, 2008 5:35:54 GMT 10
24 November1642 - Abel Janzoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) 1859 - Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species" 1930 - 1st woman pilot on a transcontinental air flight Miss Ruth Nichols (Mineola, NY to CA), in a Lockheed-Vega, took 7 days 1947 - Un-American Activities Committee finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether they were communists
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 25, 2008 6:05:29 GMT 10
25 November1817 - 1st sword swallower in US performs (NYC) 1841 - 35 Amistad survivors return to Africa 1867 - Alfred Nobel invents dynamite 1947 - New Zealand accedes to Statute of Westminster, becomes a dominion 1969 - John Lennon returns his MBE 1983 - World's greatest robbery-œ25,000,000 of gold, Heathrow, England
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 26, 2008 5:29:35 GMT 10
26 November1789 - 1st national thanksgiving (USA) 1825 - 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY)) 1865 - Alice in Wonderland published 1883 - Sojourner Truth abolitionist, women's rights advocate, dies
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 27, 2008 5:42:26 GMT 10
27 November1593 - Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno 1756 - Birthday of Bro. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1832 - Birthday of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) 1964 - Margaret Chase Smith (Senator-R-ME) tries for Republican Presidential bid 1982 - "Joseph & the Amazing Dreamcoat" opens at Royale New York City NY for 747 performances 1996 - Catherine Roskam becomes the 1st New York female Episcopal bishop
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 28, 2008 5:44:37 GMT 10
28 November1757 - Birthday of William Blake English poet/painter 1919 - US-born Lady Astor elected 1st female member of British Parliament 1979 - Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes in Antarctica killing 257 1984 - Pope John Paul II completed the last of 133 homilies in St. Peter's Square on the theme, "Theology of the Body." It was the first time in public catechesis that a pope made use of higher criticism of the Old Testament and freely cited a number of Protestant theologians.
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 29, 2008 6:23:25 GMT 10
29 November1811 - Birthday of Wendell Phillips women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer 1944 - John Hopkins hospital performs 1st open heart surgery 1961 - Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Mississippi
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 30, 2008 7:07:49 GMT 10
30 November30BC - Cleopatra Egyptian queen commits suicide 1554 - Roman Catholicism was (briefly) restored to England, under the reign of Mary Tudor, the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. In the process, "Bloody Mary" had Thomas Cranmer, Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and nearly 300 other Protestant leaders burned at the stake. 1874 - Birthday of Sir Winston Churchill, British PM 1924 - Birthday of Shirley Chisholm (D-Rep-NY), 1st black congresswoman/presidential candidate  Cleopatra VII
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