Today is the 311th day of the year, with only 54 days remaining until the new year.
1665 - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
1775 - John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters in order to fight with him and the British government.
1811 - The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought, near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana.
1874 - A cartoon by Tomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
1908 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
1910 - The first air freight shipment from Dayton, Ohio to Columbus, Ohio, is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
1916 - Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
1918 - An influenza epidemic, spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 people by the end of the year, almost 20% of the population.
1933 - Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
1941 - The Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people perish.
1944 - President Franklin Roosevelt is elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States.
1967 - Carl B. Stokes, is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. He becomes the first African-American major of a major American city.
1991 - Basketball player Magic Johnson, announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the National Basketball Association.
2000 - The Drug Enforcement Administration, discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs, inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Sunday, November 6, 2011
6th of November
It is the 310th day of the year, with 55 days remaining until the end of the year.
1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas.
1860 - Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th President of the United States.
1861 - Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1913 - Mohandas Gandhi, is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1935 - Parker Brothers, acquire the forerunner patents for the Monopoly board game, from Elizabeth Magie.
1944 - Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility, and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1963 - After the coup, General Duong Van Minh, takes over leadership of South Vietnam.
1971 - The United States Atomic Energy Commission, tests the largest underground hydrogen bomb, codenamed Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas.
1860 - Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th President of the United States.
1861 - Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1913 - Mohandas Gandhi, is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1935 - Parker Brothers, acquire the forerunner patents for the Monopoly board game, from Elizabeth Magie.
1944 - Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility, and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1963 - After the coup, General Duong Van Minh, takes over leadership of South Vietnam.
1971 - The United States Atomic Energy Commission, tests the largest underground hydrogen bomb, codenamed Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
Saturday, November 5, 2011
5th of November
It is the 309th day of the year and there are only 56 days remaining.
1138 - Ly Anh Tong is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, starting a 37-year reign.
1605 - A conspiracy led by Robert Catesby to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is thwarted when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a just of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the House of Lords.
1831 - Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
1862 - Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Union Army for the second and final time.
1862 - In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites, and are sentenced to hang. 38 are executed and the rest are reprieved.
1872 - In defiance of the law, Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is fined $100.
1895 - George B. Seldon is granted the first patent for an automobile.
1937 - Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "lebensraum" for the German people.
1970 - The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years. A total of twenty-four men.
2006 - Saddam Hussein, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti , and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of 148 Shi'as in 1982.
1138 - Ly Anh Tong is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, starting a 37-year reign.
1605 - A conspiracy led by Robert Catesby to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is thwarted when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a just of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the House of Lords.
1831 - Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
1862 - Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Union Army for the second and final time.
1862 - In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites, and are sentenced to hang. 38 are executed and the rest are reprieved.
1872 - In defiance of the law, Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is fined $100.
1895 - George B. Seldon is granted the first patent for an automobile.
1937 - Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "lebensraum" for the German people.
1970 - The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years. A total of twenty-four men.
2006 - Saddam Hussein, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti , and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of 148 Shi'as in 1982.
Friday, November 4, 2011
4th of November
It is the 308th day of the year, with only 57 days remaining until the new year.
1864 - Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material at the Battle of Johnsonville.
1921 - the Sturmabteilung or the SA a paramilitary group is formed by Adolf Hitler.
1922 - In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
1942 - Disobeying a direct order from Adolf Hitler, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
1952 - The United States government establishes the National Security Agency.
1960 - At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall, observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first ever observation in non-human animals.
1970 - The United States turns control o the Binh Thu Ar Base in the Mekong Delta, over to South Vietnam.
1994 - First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
2008 - Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States.
1864 - Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material at the Battle of Johnsonville.
1921 - the Sturmabteilung or the SA a paramilitary group is formed by Adolf Hitler.
1922 - In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
1942 - Disobeying a direct order from Adolf Hitler, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
1952 - The United States government establishes the National Security Agency.
1960 - At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall, observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first ever observation in non-human animals.
1970 - The United States turns control o the Binh Thu Ar Base in the Mekong Delta, over to South Vietnam.
1994 - First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
2008 - Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
3rd of November
It is the 307th day of the year, with 58 days remaining.
1783 - The American Continental Army is disbanded.
1883 - Self-described Black Bart the poet, gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that eventually leads to his capture.
1911 - Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with Ford.
1913 - The United States introduces an income tax.
1918 - Austria-Hungary enters into an armistice with the Allies, and the Habsburg-ruled empire dissolves.
1943 - A total of 500 aircraft of the United States Air Force, devastate Wilhelmshafen harbor in Germany.
1957 - The Russians launch Sputnik 2, and on board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
1964 - Washington, D.C. residents are allowed to vote in a presidential election for the first time.
1967 - The Battle of Dak To begins, during the conflict in Vietnam.
1783 - The American Continental Army is disbanded.
1883 - Self-described Black Bart the poet, gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that eventually leads to his capture.
1911 - Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with Ford.
1913 - The United States introduces an income tax.
1918 - Austria-Hungary enters into an armistice with the Allies, and the Habsburg-ruled empire dissolves.
1943 - A total of 500 aircraft of the United States Air Force, devastate Wilhelmshafen harbor in Germany.
1957 - The Russians launch Sputnik 2, and on board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
1964 - Washington, D.C. residents are allowed to vote in a presidential election for the first time.
1967 - The Battle of Dak To begins, during the conflict in Vietnam.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
2nd of November
Today is the 306th day of the year, with 59 days remaining until the new year.
1783 - In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, General George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army."
1889 - North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th states in the United States.
1920 - KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station, stating the results of the presidential election.
1947 - In California, designer Howard Hughes, performs the only flight of the Spruce Goose of H-4 The Hercules, the largest fixed wing aircraft ever built.
1963 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinated following a military coup.
1965 - Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon, to protect the use o napalm in the Vietnam war.
1984 - Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
1783 - In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, General George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army."
1889 - North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th states in the United States.
1920 - KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station, stating the results of the presidential election.
1947 - In California, designer Howard Hughes, performs the only flight of the Spruce Goose of H-4 The Hercules, the largest fixed wing aircraft ever built.
1963 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinated following a military coup.
1965 - Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon, to protect the use o napalm in the Vietnam war.
1984 - Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
1st of November
Today is the 305th day of the year and there are only 60 days remaining.
1512 - The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
1520 - The Strait of Magellan is discovered, the passage immediately south of mainland South America, connecting the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, is first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan during the first global circumnavigation voyage.
1604 - William Shakespeare's tragedy, Othello, is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1755 - Lisbon, Portugal is destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between sixty and ninety thousand people.
1765 - The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the thirteen colonies, in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
1800 - John Adams, becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion.
1859 - The current Cape lookout, North Carolina lighthouse, is lit for the first time. Its first order Fresnel lens cane be seen for about 19 miles in good conditions.
1861 - Abraham Lincoln replaces General Winfield Scott, with George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army.
1870 - The Weather Bureau, later renamed the National Weather Service, makes its first official meteorological forecast.
1897 - The first Library of Congress building opened its doors to the public.
1911 - The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.
1915 - Parris Island is officially designated a United States Marine Corp Recruit Depot.
1943 - In support of the landings on Bougainville by the 3rd Marine Division, United States carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base on Rabaul.
1951 - Operation Buster-Jangle occurs. 6,500 American soldiers are exposed to "desert rock" atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary.
1952 - The U.S. successfully detonates the first large hydrogen bomb, codenamed Mike in the Eniwetok atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The explosion had a yield of 10 megatons. It is called Operation Ivy.
1959 - Montreal Canadiens goaltender, Jacques Plante, wears a protective mask for the first time in NHL history.
1968 - The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, and originating with the ratings of G, M, R, and X.
1981 - Antigua and Barbuda, gain independence from the United Kingdom.
1982 - Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
1993 - The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
1512 - The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
1520 - The Strait of Magellan is discovered, the passage immediately south of mainland South America, connecting the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, is first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan during the first global circumnavigation voyage.
1604 - William Shakespeare's tragedy, Othello, is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1755 - Lisbon, Portugal is destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between sixty and ninety thousand people.
1765 - The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the thirteen colonies, in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
1800 - John Adams, becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion.
1859 - The current Cape lookout, North Carolina lighthouse, is lit for the first time. Its first order Fresnel lens cane be seen for about 19 miles in good conditions.
1861 - Abraham Lincoln replaces General Winfield Scott, with George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army.
1870 - The Weather Bureau, later renamed the National Weather Service, makes its first official meteorological forecast.
1897 - The first Library of Congress building opened its doors to the public.
1911 - The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.
1915 - Parris Island is officially designated a United States Marine Corp Recruit Depot.
1943 - In support of the landings on Bougainville by the 3rd Marine Division, United States carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base on Rabaul.
1951 - Operation Buster-Jangle occurs. 6,500 American soldiers are exposed to "desert rock" atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary.
1952 - The U.S. successfully detonates the first large hydrogen bomb, codenamed Mike in the Eniwetok atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The explosion had a yield of 10 megatons. It is called Operation Ivy.
1959 - Montreal Canadiens goaltender, Jacques Plante, wears a protective mask for the first time in NHL history.
1968 - The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, and originating with the ratings of G, M, R, and X.
1981 - Antigua and Barbuda, gain independence from the United Kingdom.
1982 - Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
1993 - The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
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