Shirley T. Parham
Shirley T. Parham
Historian for the Johnson House
Germantown, Philadelphia, Penn. Underground Railroad stop at the Historic Johnson House Germantown,
Philadelphia, Penn.
September 11, 2025
World History
This Day In History
- China to Stage a Show of Force with Grand Military Parade attended by Putin and Kim Jong Un by Jennifer Jett and Janis Mackey Frayer, NBC News
- 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…