November is...

American Diabetes Month
American Indian Heritage Month
COPD Awareness Month
Lung Cancer Awareness Month
National Adoption Month
National Epilepsy Awareness Month
National Family Caregivers Month
National Healthy Skin Month
National Marrow Awareness Month
Pulmonary Hypertension Awareness Month
TMJ Awareness Month

- Day of the Dead Celebration (Mexico)

- All Saints' Day (Roman Catholic)

- National Family Literacy Day

- Pompeii was buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. (79 C.E.)

- The first medical school for women opened in Boston. (1848)

- Suffragist Susan B. Anthony registered to vote in Rochester, New York. (1872)

- Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom . (1981)

- Comic book character Robin the Boy Wonder was killed in November's edition of DC Comics' Batman, after 48 years as Batman's sidekick. (1988)

- Foam packaging use discontinued by McDonald's. (1990)

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- National French Week November 5-11, 2008

- Peter the Great was proclaimed Emperor of all Russia . (1721)

- Daniel Boone, frontiersman, was born in Pennsylvania. (1734)

- Marie Antoinette, queen who said, “If they have no bread, let them eat cake,” and whose extravagant behavior helped fuel the unrest that led to the French Revolution, was born. (1755)

- James K. Polk, 11th U.S. President, was born in North Carolina. (1795)

- Warren G. Harding, 29th U.S. President, whose administration was blighted with corruption, was born. (1865)

- North and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states. (1889)

- Haile Selassie was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia. (1930)

- Howard Hughes's "Spruce Goose," a flying boat, made its first and only flight. (1947)

- Peace Corps proposed by John F Kennedy, while campaigning for President of the United States . (1960)

- Jimmy Carter was elected 38th U.S. President. (1976)

- George W. Bush was elected to his second term as U.S. President. (2004)

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- King Henry VIII became head of the Church of England. (1534)

- Stephen Austin, "Father of Texas," was born. (1793)

- The first Opium War broke out between China and Britain . (1839)

- Panama declared itself independent of Colombia . (1903)

- Dewey Defeats Truman headline appeared. In reality, Truman defeated Dewey for President. (1948)

- Sputnik II carried a dog named Laika into space. (1957)

- Two French agents in New Zealand pleaded guilty to sinking the Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior. (1985)

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- Election Day 2008

- Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois. (1842)

- Richard Gatling patented his first rapid-fire machine gun. (1862)

- The first cash register was patented in Dayton, Ohio. (1879)

- Will Rogers was born in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). (1879)

- King Tut's tomb was discovered in Egypt . (1922)

- Dwight David Eisenhower was elected 34th U.S. President. (1952)

- Uprising in Hungary was crushed by Soviets. (1956)

- Ronald Reagan was elected 40th U.S. President. (1980)

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- Guy Fawkes Day ( Britain and New Zealand )

- George B. Selden received the first U.S. patent for a gasoline-driven automobile (1895)

- Aviator Calbraith P. Rodgers completed the first transcontinental flight from New York to California. It took him 49 days! (1911)

- Monopoly game went on sale. (1935)

- Franklin D. Roosevelt won a record third term as U.S. President. He won his fourth term four years later on November 7, 1944. (1940)

- Archaeologists found Viking ruins in Newfoundland. (1963)

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- Tobacco was first encountered by Christopher Columbus. (1492)

- James Gregory, Scottish mathematician and astronomer, was born. (1638)

- Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone, was born. (1814)

- John Philip Sousa was born in Washington, D.C. (1854)

- Abraham Lincoln was elected as 16th U.S. President. (1860)

- Jefferson Davis was elected President of the Confederacy. (1861)

- Basketball inventor James Naismith was born. (1861)

- First college football game was held. (1869)

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- Loy Krathong, Festival of Floating Lights, November 7 - 12, 2008

- Lewis and Clark reached the Pacific Coast. (1805)

- Battle of Tippecanoe Creek occurred near Lafayette, Indiana. (1811)

- Zachary Taylor was elected 12th U.S. President. (1846)

- Chemist Marie Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland . (1867)

- The Marie Celeste sailed from New York to be found mysteriously abandoned some time later. (1872)

- Rutherford B. Hayes was elected 19th U.S. President(1876)

- Jeanette Rankin of Montana became the first female member of the U.S. Congress. (1916)

- Radio show Buck Rogers was first broadcast on CBS Radio. (1932)

- Bill Nye the Science Guy was born. (1955)

- Galloping Gertie, Washington's Tacoma Narrows Bridge, collapsed. (1940)

- President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to an unprecedented fourth term. (1944)

- Richard Nixon told reporters, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore" after he lost the California governor's race. (1962)

- Carl B. Stokes was elected first African American mayor of a major city ( Cleveland). (1967)

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- Edmund Halley, astronomer, was born. (1656)

- The Louvre was opened to the public by the French revolutionary government. (1793)

- Sir Benjamin Hall, from whom the famous clock Big Ben got its name, was born. (1802)

- Dracula author, Bram Stoker, was born in Dublin, Ireland . (1847)

- The Trent Affair, a diplomatic incident between Great Britain and the United States during the Civil War, occurred. (1861)

- Montana became the 41st state. (1889)

- X-rays were discovered by Wilhelm Roentgen. (1895)

- Heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard was born. (1923)

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt won a massive victory over Herbert Hoover. (1932)

- An eruption, which eventually created Surtsey Island, began 130 meters below sea level in the North Atlantic Ocean near Iceland . (1963)

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- Scientist Benjamin Banneker was born. (1731)

- The Great Boston Fire began. (1872)

- German Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated his throne. (1918)

- Spiro Agnew, Nixon's first vice-president, was born. (1918)

- Kristallnacht (the night of broken glass) occurred in Germany . (1938)

- The Berlin Wall was opened to travel by the East German government. (1989)

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- National Young Readers Day November 10 – 14, 2008

- Martin Luther, father of the Lutheran Church, was born. (1483)

- The U.S. Marine Corps was established. (1775)

- Explorer Henry M. Stanley found missionary David Livingstone and spoke the famous words, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” (1871)

- Actor Richard Burton was born. (1925)

- Hirohito was crowned Emperor of Japan. (1928)

- The wreck of the U.S. brig Somers, the ship on which Herman Melville based his novella Billy Budd, was reported found off the coast of Mexico . (1987)

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- Veterans' Day

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian author, was born in Moscow. (1821)

- WW II General George S. Patton was born. (1885)

- Washington became the 42nd state. (1889)

- WWI armistice was signed between the Allies and Germany in a guarded railway carriage in the forest of Compiègne. (1918)

- Irving Berlin's re-written "God Bless America" first performed (by Kate Smith). (1938)

- Vietnam War: the U.S. turned over its military base at Long Binh to the South Vietnamese. (1972)

- Van Gogh painting fetched record price. (1987)

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- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, suffragist, was born in Johnstown, New York. (1815)

- French sculptor Auguste Rodin was born in Paris. (1840)

- Trapeze inventor Leotard made his debut in Paris. (1859)

- Sun Yat-sen, first president of the Republic of China, was born. (1866)

- Princess Grace Kelly of Monaco was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (1929)

- Oakland Bay Bridge opened. (1936)

- Emperor Akihito of Japan ceremonial enthronement took place. (1990)

- World Wide Web was proposed by Tim Berners-Lee. (1990)

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- Full “Beaver Moon” 2008

- World Kindness Day

- General Richard Montgomery led American troops in the capture of Montreal. (1775)

- Treasure Island author Robert Louis Stevenson was born. (1850)

- Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice, was born. (1856)

- The Holland Tunnel was opened to traffic. (1927)

- Polyurethane was patented in Germany by Otto Bayer. (1937)

- Walt Disney's movie Fantasia opened in New York. (1940)

- General Charles de Gaulle became President of the provisional French government. (1945)

- The Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation on public buses was unconstitutional. (1956)

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- The first experimental blood transfusion, between two dogs, took place in England . (1665)

- Steamboat developer Robert Fulton was born in Pennsylvania. (1765)

- Blue Nile source was discovered by explorer James Bruce. (1770)

- French Impressionist painter Claude Monet was born in Paris. (1840)

- Moby-Dick, Herman Melville's classic novel, was first published in America . (1851)

- Newspaper reporter Nellie Bly set out from New York to beat the fictional Around the World in 80 Days time. (1889)

- Leader of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, born. (1899)

- American composer Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York. (1900)

- Leftist-baiting U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy was born. (1908)

- Eugene Ely made the first takeoff in an aircraft from the deck of a warship. (1910)

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- Sadie Hawkins Day 2008 (first Saturday after November 9^th)

- America Recycles Day (2008)

- Shichigosan, Japan 's day of prayer for healthy children

- The Articles of Confederation were adopted by Continental Congress. (1777)

- Isaac Pitman published details of his shorthand system, Stenographic Sound-Hand. (1837)

- During the U.S. Civil War, Union troops burned Atlanta. (1864)

- Georgia O'Keeffe, artist, was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. (1887)

- Brazil became a republic. (1889)

- Rampant inflation in Germany reached a peak when the mark rose to 4,200,000,000 to $1. (1923)

- The jet-powered Spirit of America set a world speed record of over 613 mph on Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. (1965)

- The largest antiwar rally in U.S. history occurred to protest the Vietnam War. (1969)

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- American Education Week November 16 - 22, 2008

- National Geography Awareness Week November 16 - 22, 2008

- International Day of Tolerance 2008

- Frédéric Chopin gave his last public performance at London's Guildhall. (1848)

- Oklahoma became the 46th state. (1907)

- National Park Service was established. (1916)

- Diplomatic relations, suspended since 1919, were resumed between the U.S. and Soviet Union. (1933)

- The Sound of Music was performed for the first time on Broadway. (1959)

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- International Education Week November 17 - 21, 2008

- Leonids meteor shower reaches its peak. 2008

- Queen Elizabeth I ascended the throne of England . (1558)

- Mathematician August Mobius was born. (1790)

- The U.S. Congress met for the first time in the new capital at Washington, D.C. (1800)

- The Suez Canal was formally opened. (1869)

- The last Sultan of Turkey was deposed by Kemal Atatürk. (1922)

- The unmanned Soviet Luna 17 landed on the moon. (1970)

- Franz Kafka's manuscript of his classic novel The Trial was sold at Sotheby's in London for £1 million, a world record for a modern literary text. (1988)

- NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, was approved by the U.S. House. (1993)

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- According to legend, William Tell shot an apple off his son's head. (1307)

- The first book was published in the English language. (1477)

- St Peter's in Rome was consecrated. (1626)

- Composer Carl Maria von Weber was born. (1786)

- Photography inventor Louis Daguerre was born. (1789)

- Nathaniel Palmer became the first American to see Antarctica. (1820)

- Sir William Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan born in London. (1836)

- Four time zones for the U.S. were introduced, an idea first advocated by school teacher Charles F. Dowd. (1883)

- Organizer of public opinion surveys, George Gallup, who devised the Gallup Poll, was born. (1901)

- Nicaragua was invaded by the United States . (1909)

- Mickey Mouse's Birthday: The first Mickey Mouse cartoon, Steamboat Willie, was screened in the U.S. (1928)

- Bell Telephone introduced push button telephones. (1963)

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- GERD Awareness Week (Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease) November 19 - 25, 2008

- World COPD Day 2008

- National Educational Support Professionals Day 2008

- Columbus reached Puerto Rico during his second voyage. (1493)

- Charles I, King of Scotland and England , was born. (1600)

- The Man in the Iron Mask, a prisoner of Louis XIV, died. (1703)

- Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and engineer who supervised the construction of the Suez Canal, was born. (1805)

- James A. Garfield, 20th U.S. President, was born. (1831)

- Julia Ward Howe sat down to write "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." (1861)

- The Gettysburg Address was delivered by President Lincoln. (1863)

- New Jersey suffragists attempted to vote in the presidential election to test the 14th amendment. (1868)

- Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi was born. (1917)

- Construction of the first presidential library began. (1939)

- Egyptian president Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to visit Israel . (1977)

- The Cold War came to an end during a summit in Paris. (1990)

- The U.S. House of Representatives began an impeachment inquiry of President Bill Clinton. (1998)

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- Great American Smokeout (third Thursday in November) 2008

- National Parental Involvement Day (third Thursday of November) 2008

- New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights. (1789)

- The first performance of Beethoven's Fidelio took place in Vienna. (1805)

- Simón Bolívar declared Venezuela independent from Spain . (1818)

- Astronomer Edwin Hubble was born. (1889)

- Mexican Francisco Madero launched a social revolution. (1910)

- Robert F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. (1925)

- Salvador Dalí's first one-man show was held in Paris. (1929)

- The Nuremberg War Crime Trials began. (1945)

- England's Princess Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten. (1947)

- Soccer star Pelé collected his 1,000th career goal in Brazil . (1969)

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- World Hello Day 2008

- Voltaire, French writer, was born in Paris. (1694)

- First untethered balloon flight took place in Paris. It was witnessed by Benjamin Franklin. (1783)

- North Carolina became the 12th state. (1789)

- The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, which spans New York City Harbor, opened. (1964)

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- National Family Volunteer Day 2008

- Vasco Da Gama, became the first person to sail round the Cape of Good Hope. (1497)

- Blackbeard the pirate (Edward Teach) was killed. (1718)

- French leader Charles De Gaulle was born. (1890)

- Barnstorming aviator Wiley Post was born in Grand Plain, Texas. (1898)

- Composer Benjamin Britten was born. (1913)

- Trans-Pacific airmail service began. (1935)

- President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. (1963)

- Spain crowned King Juan Carlos I. (1975)

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- National Family Week November 23 – 29, 2008

- Franklin Pierce, 14th U.S. President, was born. (1804)

- Wild West outlaw Billy the Kid was born. (1859)

- Horror film actor Boris Karloff was born in London. (1887)

- The first jukebox was installed by Louis Glass in San Francisco. (1889)

- Ten-year-old Princess Wilhelmina became Queen of the Netherlands . (1890)

- Sumo champion Chionofuji became only the fifth sumo wrestler in recorded history to win 50 matches in a row. (1988)

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- Dutch navigator Abel Tasman sailed past the island he named Van Diemen's Land, but which was later renamed Tasmania. (1642)

- Zachary Taylor, 12th U.S. President, born. (1784)

- Charles Darwin's Origin of Species was published (1859)

- Scott Joplin, composer, was born in Texarkana, Texas. (1868)

- Barbed wire was patented. (1874)

- Motivational lecturer Dale Carnegie was born in Maryville, Missouri. (1888)

- Jack Ruby shot and killed President John F. Kennedy's accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. (1963)

- The U.S. military left the Philippines. (1992)

- Britain 's Queen Elizabeth II took Parliamentary membership and voting rights away from 759 dukes, earls, and other hereditary nobles. (1998)

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- After the revolution, the last British troops left New York City. (1783)

- Andrew Carnegie, entrepreneur, was born in Scotland . (1835)

- Temperance leader Carry Nation was born. (1846)

- Pope John XXIII was born in Italy . (1881)

- Joe DiMaggio born. (1914)

- Chilean military leader Augusto Pinochet born. (1915)

- Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap opened at Ambassador's Theatre, London. (1952)

- The parliament in Czechoslovakia voted to divide the country into separate Czech and Slovak republics. (1992)

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- A "Great Storm" lasting two days struck southern England . (1703)

- President George Washington proclaimed the first American Thanksgiving Day. (1789)

- English inventor of hydraulic equipment, William George Armstrong, was born. (1810)

- Medal of Honor winner Dr. Mary Edwards Walker was born. (1832)

- The first horse-drawn streetcar carried passengers in New York City. (1832)

- Archeologists entered the tomb of King Tut. (1922)

- During the Holocaust, Nazis began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw. (1940)

- The International Olympic Committee voted to re-admit China . (1979)

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- Thanksgiving Celebrated (U.S. & Puerto Rico) 2008

- On or about this day William Shakespeare, aged 18, married Anne Hathaway. (1582)

- Anders Celsius was born in Sweden . (1701)

- Wild West lawman Bat Masterson was born in Henryville, Quebec. (1853)

- Czech leader Alexander Dubcek was born in Uhrocev, Slovakia . (1921)

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- Ferdinand Magellan first passed through the strait (of Magellan) located at the southern tip of South America. (1520)

- Engraver, poet, and artist William Blake was born in London. (1757)

- English inventor of maritime lifesaving equipment, Captain George Manby, was born. (1765)

- German socialist Friedrich Engels was born. (1820)

- Panama declared itself independent from Spain and joined the fledgling nation of Gran Colombia . (1821)

- Inventor who discovered a process for making celluloid, John Wesley Hyatt, was born. (1837)

- The first American automobile race took place. (1895)

- Irish political party Sinn Fein was founded in Dublin by Arthur Griffith. (1905)

- Australopithecus africanus child's skull was found in Africa. Raymond Dart identified this infant skull as a new, intermediary genus and species of hominid. (1924)

- FBI agents killed bank robber George "Baby Face" Nelson. (1934)

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- John Harvard, who left one-half of his estate to the foundation of a college at Cambridge, Massachusetts (which subsequently became Harvard University), was baptized shortly after birth in London. (1607)

- Little Women author Louisa May Alcott was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (1832)

- Tz'u-hsi, dowager empress of China , who became one of the most powerful women in Chinese history, was born. (1834)

- Colonel John Chivington with 1,200 troops mounted a surprise attack on a camp of Native Americans who had surrendered and were awaiting peace terms. Despite Chief Black Kettle's hoisting aloft the U.S. flag and a white flag, the troops shot hundreds of men, women, and children and set off the Arapaho-Cheyenne war. (1864)

- Japan's first Imperial Diet was opened. (1890)

- Hollywood director Busby Berkeley was born in Los Angeles. (1895)

- Antarctic explorer Robert Scott set sail from New Zealand . (1910)

- South Pole fly-over by Admiral Byrd took place. (1929)

- Palestine was partitioned into Jewish and Arab sections by the U.N. General Assembly. (1947)

- Othello was the season opener as the Metropolitan Opera was televised for the first time. (1948)

- U.S. National Cancer Institute claimed definite link between cancer and cigarette smoking. (1954)

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- American author Samuel Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri. (1835)

- Winston Churchill, British statesman, journalist, historian, and Nobel prize winner for literature, was born in Oxfordshire, England . (1874)

- Gordon Parks, photographer, was born. (1912)

- Charlie Chaplin made his film debut (without moustache and cane) in Making a Living, a Mack Sennett one-reeler. (1913)

- Shirley Chisholm, first African American U.S. congresswoman, was born. (1924)

- 1960's political activist Abbie Hoffman was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. (1936)

- London's Crystal Palace, originally erected in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition in 1851, was destroyed by fire. (1936)

- Finland was invaded by the Soviet Union. (1939)

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