World History

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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…

Education

Arthur Hanse (story) Selling of Slaves (1764)

November 17, 2011

Arthur Hanse had sold a slave to Gershow Lee of Hunterdon County for the sum…

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A Pirate Life Ends

November 17, 2011

BETWEEN 1716 and 1718, the infamous pirate Blackbeard and his crew pillaged and plundered the…

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22nd United State Colored Infantry

November 17, 2011

Almost 2,900 Black Jersey-Men served as enlisted men in the ranks of United State Colored…

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List of Race Riots in the United States

November 16, 2011

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_race_riots" Main article: Mass racial violence in the United States Further information: List…

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