World History

This Day In History

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…

Cemeteries

African American Cemeteries Iin New Jersey Pennsylvania and New York (1600-1800’s)

November 30, 2011

Photographic & Historical Guide to African American Cemeteries In New Jersey, Pennsylvania & New York…

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Gethsmane Cemetery (1860) Hackensack, NJ

November 30, 2011

Purchased in 1860 for the Colored Population of Hackensack,…

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Cesar’s Story, Scotch Plains Baptist Church, Scotch Plains, NJ (1747)

November 30, 2011

The moss-covered gravestone of Cesar leans on a wall outside Scotch Plains Baptist Church, which…

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