Team Georgia Connection

That's the Way it Was in November

  

1st 0079 The city of Pompei is buried by an erupting Mt Vesuvius.

      1950 Puerto Rican nationalists, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola,try to kill President Truman while he is residing at the Blair House. The attempt resulted in the murder of one White House police officer and the death of one assassin while President Harry S Truman was not harmed.

              
Rosa & Oscar Collazo       Torresola                 Office Coffelt

2nd 1976 Former Georgia Gov Jimmy Carter (D) defeats incumbent Gerald R Ford (R) in race for Presidency.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      1983 President Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin L. King day.

3rd 1631 First Protestant Missionary arrives in America.
       1900 First national automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4th 1873 Dentist John Beers of San Francisco patents the gold crown.
      1979 500 Iranian "students" seize US embassy. 53 Americans are held hostage for 444 days.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5th 1935 Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      1987 Iceberg twice the size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic.

6th 1913 Mohandas K Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa.

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1956 Holland and Spain withdraw from Olympics, protesting Soviets in Hungary.

7th 1983 Bomb explodes in US Capitol Senate, causing heavy damage but no injuries. The self-described revolutionary organization formed by splintered-off members of the Weather Underground plants the bomb in retaliation for recent U.S. military involvement in Grenada and Lebanon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     1991 Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus and retires from Lakers.

8th 1519 Hernando Cortés, a Spanish explorer,landed on the coast of Mexico. Later Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztex empire, with a population of over 100,000 people was captured for Spain.

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      1864 Abraham Lincoln elected to his 2nd term as President.

9th 1862 Ulyssess Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him.
      1927 Giant Panda discovered in China.

 

 

 

 

 

 

10th 1793 France ends forced worship of God.
        1951 First long distance telephone call without operator assistance. This was first introduced into the Bell System in a trial in Englewood, New Jersey in 1951. Ten years passed before it became universal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11th 1864 Sherman's troops destroy Rome, Georgia.
        1865 Mary Edward Walker, 1st Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor.

 

 

 

 

 

12th 1892 Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        1910 First movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon.

13th 1789 In a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, Ben Franklin writes "Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        1956 Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses.

14th 1851 "Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, is published.
        1910 1st airplane flight from deck of a ship, Norfolk, Va.

 

 

 

 

 

15th 1827 Creek-Indians lose all their property in US.
        1904 King C Gillette patents Gillette razor blade.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

16th 1811 Earthquake in Missouri causes the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
        1955 Johnny Cash made his 1st chart appearance with "Cry Cry Cry"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17th 1800 Congress holds 1st session in Washington D.C. in incompleted Capitol building.
        1884 Cops arrest boxer John L Sullivan in 2nd round for being "cruel."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

18th 1820 Antarctica discovered by U.S. Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer.
        1874 National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland The purpose of the WCTU is to combat the influence of alcohol on families and society

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

19th 1928 1st issue of Time magazine, Japanese Emperor Hirohito on cover.
        1959 "Rocky (the flying squirrel)and His Friends" debuts on ABC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

20th 1947 "Meet the Press" makes network TV debut on NBC.

        1982 Drew Barrymore at age 7 hosts Saturday Night Live.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

21st 1871 The 1st human cannonball, Emilio Onra, is shot.
        1959 Jack Benny (violin) and Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

22nd 1934 "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" first heard on Eddie Cantor's show. Cantor was an American comedian, dancer, singer, actor, and songwriter.
        1957 Simon and Garfunkel appear on "American Bandstand" as "Tom and Jerry."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

23rd 1906 Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon Church, convicted of polygamy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        1921 President Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes.

24th 1954 Air Force One, 1st U.S. Presidential airplane, christened.
        1960 Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

25th 1834 Delmonico's, one of New York's finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak, coffee and half a pie for 12 cents.  
        1940 Woody Woodpecker debuts with release of Walter Lantz's "Knock Knock."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

26th 1861 West Virginia created as a result of dispute over succession with Virginia. The western regions of Virginia split with the eastern portion politically, and the two were never reconciled as a single state again. In 1863, the western region was admitted to the Union as a new separate state, initially planned to be called the State of Kanawha, but ultimately named West Virginia.
        1973 Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18 -minute gap in a key Watergate tape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

27th 1970 While visitin the Phillippines, Pope Paul VI is wounded in the chest by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Msgr. Pasquale Macci (C), private secretary to Pope Paul VI, pushes away a crew-cut, cassock-clad man (R) trying to attack the Pope with a knife at the airport in Manila, Philippines, shortly after the Pope’s arrival on November 27, 1970. Police identified the would-be assassin as Benjamin Mendoza Y Amor, 35, of La Paz, Bolivia. Mendoza is an artist who has been living the Philippines. Pope Paul VI is partially concealed at left, while the Philippines President, Ferdinand Marcos, is at the extreme left.

        1971 Soviet Mars 2 becomes 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars.

28th 1948 1st Polaroid camera is sold. Polaroid photography was invented by Edwin Land, an inventor and physicist whose one-step process for developing and printing photographs created a revolution in photography. Edwin Land founded the Polaroid Corporation, and the first Polaroid camera was sold to the public in November 1948.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        1821 Panama declares independence from Spain.

29th 1947 Despite strong Arab opposition, the United Nations votes for the partition of Palestine and the creation of an independent Jewish state.
        1961 Mercury-Atlas 5 carries a chimp (Enos) to orbit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

30th 1937 Reich court deprives parents of children, because they opposed Nazi Socialist ideology.
        2000 South and North Korean relatives who have been separated for half a century are reunited in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. The Red Cross-arranged reunions are highly emotional for Koreans, as most of those applying are elderly and are eager to see loved ones before they die.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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