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November 7, 1916: Jeannette Rankin becomes the first female...
November 7, 1916: Jeannette Rankin becomes the first female member of Congress.Four years before the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, Jeannette Rankin, a Republican, pacifist, and suffragist...
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November 9, 1934: Carl Sagan is born. In the last few millennia...
November 9, 1934: Carl Sagan is born.In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it, explorations that are exhilarating...
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Kristallnacht came…and everything was changed. November...
Kristallnacht came…and everything was changed.November 9, 1938: Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass) takes place.The event that set off this violent series of pogroms, which flared up across...
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Favorite Artists - Vasily Vereshchagin (October 26, 1842 – April...
Favorite Artists - Vasily Vereshchagin (October 26, 1842 – April 13, 1904)
View Articlewhat i do is i write post in a word document so that tumblr doesnt eat it, i...
Haha, it’s not that big a deal. I’m pretty sure I saved it as a draft, though….. c’mon, tumblr.
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November 11, 1918: The Allies sign an armistice with the German...
November 11, 1918: The Allies sign an armistice with the German Empire near Compiègne.After over four years of brutal trench warfare and nearly ten million dead, the Great War came to an unofficial end...
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I’m not sure what tumblr etiquette says about how often...
I’m not sure what tumblr etiquette says about how often you should thank your followers, but I caught the flat 30,000, so I’m saying thank you!!
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November 12, 1969: An American journalist breaks the story of...
November 12, 1969: An American journalist breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre.When it took place in March of 1968, the My Lai massacre, which resulted in the death of at least 400 civilians, went...
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sistersleep: unhistorical: November 12, 1969: An American...
sistersleep:unhistorical:November 12, 1969: An American journalist breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre.When it took place in March of 1968, the My Lai massacre, which resulted in the death of at...
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November 14, 1889: Nellie Bly sets sail on what will become a...
November 14, 1889: Nellie Bly sets sail on what will become a record-breaking circumnavigation of the globe.American journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, who worked as a journalist under the pen name...
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Favorite Artists - Jacek Malczewski (15 July 1854 – 8 October...
Favorite Artists - Jacek Malczewski (15 July 1854 – 8 October 1929)
View ArticleHi guys!! So I was wondering… has anyone taken the SAT II for European...
Hi guys!! So I was wondering… has anyone taken the SAT II for European history/World history? I’m thinking of signing up for one or the other, but I have < 2 weeks to study for it, and I’ve never...
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November 16, 1938: LSD is synthesized for the first time. LSD...
November 16, 1938: LSD is synthesized for the first time.LSD was first synthesized by Albert Hofmann, a Swiss chemist who had been conducting research on ergot, a potentially poisonous fungus, in order...
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Favorite Artists - Gustave Doré (January 6, 1832 – January 23,...
Favorite Artists - Gustave Doré (January 6, 1832 – January 23, 1883)
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November 17, 1989: The Velvet Revolution begins. In reaction to...
November 17, 1989: The Velvet Revolution begins.In reaction to the stagnant political and social landscape of the country, discontent simmered in Czechoslovakia and finally erupted on November 17,...
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Die with a degree of dignity. Lay down your life with dignity;...
Die with a degree of dignity. Lay down your life with dignity; don’t lay down with tears and agony.November 18, 1978: 909 Peoples Temple members die at Jonestown.Jim Jones’s notorious religious...
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November 19, 1863: Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg...
November 19, 1863: Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address.At Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fought in July of 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered a...
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unhistorical: November 19, 1863: Abraham Lincoln delivers the...
unhistorical:November 19, 1863: Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address.At Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fought in July of 1863, Abraham Lincoln...
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November 20, 1969: The Occupation of Alcatraz begins. On this...
November 20, 1969: The Occupation of Alcatraz begins.On this day in 1969, seventy-nine Native Americans, mostly student protesters, set out in a boat to occupy the San Francisco Bay’s famous island...
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