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Nov. 25 – In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese…
Nov. 26 – In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered…
Nov. 27 – In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.
Nov. 28 – In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II…
Nov. 18 – In 1976, Spain’s parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
Nov. 19 – In 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
Nov. 20 – In 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany….
Nov. 21 – n 1995, the presidents of three rival Balkan states agreed to make peace in Bosnia, ending nearly four years of terror and ethnic bloodletting that have left a quarter of a million people dead in the worst war in Europe since World War II…
Nov. 22 – In 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas…
Nov. 24 – In 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded…

State Holidays

Education, Kid's Corner K-12

November 22, 2011

By: Pure History

NOTE: 2011 New Year’sHoliday will be observed on December 31, 2010
Martin Luther King Jr. Day	01/17/2011	Monday
Presidents Day	02/21/2011	Monday
Good Friday	04/22/2011	Friday
Memorial Day	05/30/2011	Monday
Independence Day	07/04/2011	Monday
Labor Day	09/05/2011	Monday
Columbus Day	10/10/2011	Monday
Election Day	11/08/2011	Tuesday
Veteran’s Day	11/11/2011	Friday
Thanksgiving Day	11/24/2011	Thursday
Christmas Day (observed)	12/26/2011	Monday