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unhistorical: November 20, 1969: The Occupation of Alcatraz...
unhistorical: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...
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November 21, 1922: Rebecca Latimer Felton becomes the first...
November 21, 1922: Rebecca Latimer Felton becomes the first female member of the U.S. Senate.Felton was not only the first woman to serve in the Senate but also the oldest freshman senator (appointed...
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American presidents and their Thanksgiving turkeys. Happy...
American presidents and their Thanksgiving turkeys.Happy Thanksgiving!
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November 22, 1963: John F. Kennedy is assassinated. Sixty-two...
November 22, 1963: John F. Kennedy is assassinated.Sixty-two years after the assassination of William McKinley, President John F. Kennedy became, at the age of forty-six, the fourth president to be...
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John F. Kennedy’s body lies in repose in the East Room of...
John F. Kennedy’s body lies in repose in the East Room of the White House - November 23, 1963. (source)
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…from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most...
Darwin's first evolutionary "tree of life", from around 1837…from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the...
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November 24, 1963: Jack Ruby kills Lee Harvey Oswald. Two days...
November 24, 1963: Jack Ruby kills Lee Harvey Oswald.Two days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the assassin himself was shot down as he was being transported from the basement of the Dallas...
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November 25, 1963: John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington...
November 25, 1963: John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.Following his assassination in Dallas on November 22, John F. Kennedy’s body lay in repose in the East Room of the White...
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November 26, 1922: Howard Carter discovers Tutankhamun’s...
November 26, 1922: Howard Carter discovers Tutankhamun’s tomb.In 1915, George Hebert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (Lord Carnarvon), acquired the concession to excavate the Valley of the Kings, an...
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A member of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force demonstrates...
A member of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force demonstrates self-defense techniques on a man at an RAF police school - January 1942.
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November 27, 1978: Harvey Milk and George Moscone are...
November 27, 1978: Harvey Milk and George Moscone are assassinated.When he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, Harvey Milk became the first openly gay male ever to be elected...
View ArticleI love history and words can not describe how thankful i am that you created...
What a lovely message; thank you very much!
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November 28, 1757: William Blake is born. Although several...
November 28, 1757: William Blake is born.Although several decades older than many of the individuals who are traditionally regarded as the leading figures of the English Romantic movement, William...
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November 29, 1972: Pong is released. Atari’s simple...
November 29, 1972: Pong is released.Atari’s simple two-dimensional tennis game was one of the earliest arcade video games ever created. Although the oldest video games were developed decades earlier,...
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November 30, 1835: Mark Twain is born. Mark Twain, whose real...
November 30, 1835: Mark Twain is born.Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was born in Missouri precisely two weeks before the perihelion of Halley’s Comet (coincidentally, he died...
View Articlesad i don't usually get to see posts from here on dash--but i just wanted to...
Oh, haha, probably because they’re queued to post at 7:30 AM! Maybe I should change that… But thanks!
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December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks is arrested. Rosa Parks’...
December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks is arrested.Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man and her subsequent arrest marked the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which eventually led to...
View Articleooh, what painting is your banner?
It’s by Viktor Vasnetsov, and it’s of Sleeping Beauty. Hmm… I’m not sure if there’s an actual title, or if it’s just called Sleeping Beauty…
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December 2, 1823: James Monroe issues the Monroe Doctrine. Since...
December 2, 1823: James Monroe issues the Monroe Doctrine.Since its introduction during the so-called “Era of Good Feelings”, the Monroe Doctrine has remained an essentially unchanging part of the...
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