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Subject: This Month in History ~ November Sat Nov 10, 2012 5:10 am
Sorry for the delay. My apologies.
November 1, 1889 - North & South Dakota entered the union as the 39th & 40th states of America
November 2, 1783 - General George Washington, later 1st American President, bids farewell to his army after the American Revolutionary War.
November 3, 1493 - Christopher Columbus discovers the island of Dominica.
November 4, 1783 - W.A. Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is premiered in Linz, Austria.
November 5, 1605 - Gunpowder Plot; Catholics try to blow up English Parliament. Plot uncovered & leader Guy Fawkes hanged.
November 6, 1865 - American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels.
November 7, 1941 - British air attack on Berlin, Mannheim & Ruhrgebied.
November 8, 1864 - Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as American President.
November 9, 1794 - Russian troops occupy Warsaw.
November 10, 1924 - Dion O'Banion, leader of the North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members of Johnny Torrio's gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in Chicago.
November 11, 1918 - World War I ends. At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends.
November 12, 1673 - Dutch troops under Willem III occupy Bonn.
November 13, 1909 - 259 miners die in a fire at St. Paul Mine located at Cherry, Ill.
November 14, 1792 - Capt George Vancouver is 1st Englishman to enter SF Bay.
November 15, 1348 - Rudolph of Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning the wells.
November 16, 1764 - Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac.
November 17, 1558 - Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of her half sister Mary "Bloody Mary", Queen of England (1553-58), aged 42.
November 18, 1421 - Southern sea floods 72 villages, killing estimated 10,000 in Netherlands.
November 19, 1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
November 20, 1917 - 1st tank battle (Britain breaks through German lines).
