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November 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 
1

Day of the Dead

Family Literacy Day

Stamp Act in Effect (1765)

2

Daylight Savings Time Ends

Harry Truman Elected President (1948)

Jimmy Carter Elected President (1976)

North & South Dakota Admission Day (1889)

Nov. 2-8
World Kindness Week

3

First Black Female Senator Elected (1992)

First Dog Orbited Earth (1957)

Nat'l Sandwich Day

4

Election Day

90 Americans Taken Hostage in Iran(1979)

First Cash Register Patented (1880)

King Tut's Tomb Discovered (1922)

5

First Automobile Patented (1885)

Pres. Franklin Roosevelt Won Third Term (1940)

6

Abraham Lincoln Elected President (1860)

First Intercollegiate Soccer Match (1869)

Jefferson Davis Elected President of Confederacy (1861)

7

Eleanor Roosevelt Died (1962)

FDR Won Fourth Presidential Term (1944)

First Black Governor Elected (1989)

Marie Curie's Birthday (1867)

8

Alleged Yeti Tracks Discovered (1951)

Grover Cleveland Elected President (1892)

John F. Kennedy Elected President (1960)

Montana Admission Day (1889)

9

Benjamin Banneker's Birthday (1731)

Berlin Wall Opened (1989)

Kristallnacht Began (1938)

Nov. 9-15
American Education Week

Geography Awareness Week

10

Great Wall of China Opened for World Tourism (1970)

Sesame Street Premiered on PBS (1969)

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Opened in Washington, DC (1982)

11

Veterans Day

First Supernova Discovered (1572)

Pilgrims Signed Mayflower Compact (1620)

Washington Admission Day (1889)

WWI Armistice Signed (1918)

12

Elizabeth C. Stanton's Birthday (1815)

Joseph Stalin Became Ruler of Soviet Union (1927)

World War II Battle of Guadalcanal Began (1942)

13

Holland Tunnel Opened (1927)

Laws for Segregation on Buses Ended (1956)

14

American Teddy Bear Day

Claude Monet's Birthday (1840)

First Woman Elected to Speaker of the House (2002)

15

America Recycles Day

Articles of Confederation Approved (1777)

Largest War Protest Ever (1969)

16

Int'l Day of Tolerance

Oklahoma Statehood Day (1889)

Oodaaq Island Discovered (1978)

Nov. 16-22
Games & Puzzles Week

17

Homemade Bread Day

Queen Elizabeth I Ascended Throne (1558)

Suez Canal Opened in Egypt (1869)

18

Same-sex Marriage Guaranteed in Mass. (2004)

William Tell Shot the Apple (1307)

19

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1863)

20

Edwin Hubble's Birthday (1889)

New Jersey First to Ratify Bill of Rights (1789)

21

First Hot-Air Balloon Flight (1763)

North Carolina Statehood Day (1789)

Voltaire's Birthday (1694)

22

JFK Assassinated (1963)

Mount St. Helens Erupted (1842)

23

Nat'l Cashew Day

Zoom Lens Patented (1948)

24

Darwin's Origin of the Species Published (1859)

Jack Ruby Shot Lee Harvey Oswald (1963)

Zachary Taylor's Birthday (1784)

25

Joe DiMaggio's Birthday (1914)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Founded (1758)

Wind-Up Car Patented (1881)

26

Charles Schulz's Birthday (1922)

First Thanksgiving Day (1789)

27

Thanksgiving

Anders Celsius's Birthday (1701)

Nobel Prize Established (1895)

28

Ferdinand Magellan Passed through Magellan Strait (1520)

Ka Lahui (Independence Day, Hawaii) (1843)

 
29

Jewish Homeland Established in Palestine (1947)

Louisa May Alcott's Birthday (1832)

 
30

Mark Twain's Birthday (1835)

Oscar Wilde Died (1930)

Winston Churchill's Birthday (1874)

 

 

 

 

 

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