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Infoplease - This Day in History

Nov 21, 1789: North Carolina became the 12th state.

Nov 21, 1922: Georgia's Rebecca Felton was sworn into the U.S. Senate, becoming the first woman U.S. Senator.
Nov 21, 1934: Cole Porter's musical Anything Goes opened in New York City.
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Nov 20, 1789: New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
Nov 20, 1945: The war crimes trials of 24 German World War II leaders began in Nuremberg, Germany.
Nov 20, 1962: President John F. Kennedy agreed to lift the American blockade of Cuba, ending the Cuban missile crisis.
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Nov 19, 1703: A masked man held prisoner in the Bastille in Paris died. His true identity was the cause of much intrigue, and his story became the basis of literary works by François Voltaire and Alexandre Dumas.
Nov 19, 1863: Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the national cemetery on the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa.
Nov 19, 1977: Egyptian president Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to visit Israel.
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Nov 18, 1820: Captain Nathaniel Palmer discovered Antarctica.
Nov 18, 1883: Standard time began in the United States.
Nov 18, 1928: Mickey Mouse made his debut in Steamboat Willie.
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Nov 18, 1558: Queen Elizabeth I of England ascended to the throne upon the death of her half-sister Queen Mary.
Nov 18, 1800: Congress met in Washington, DC, for the first time.
Nov 18, 1869: The Suez Canal opened in Egypt.
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Nov 17, 1864: General Sherman and his troops began their "March to the sea" during the Civil War.
Nov 17, 1907: Oklahoma became the 46th state.
Nov 17, 1933: The United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations.
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Nov 16, 1763: Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon began surveying the Mason-Dixon line.
Nov 16, 1777: The Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, the precursor to the U.S. Constitution.
Nov 16, 1806: Explorer Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop now known as Pikes Peak.
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Nov 15, 1851: Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick was published.
Nov 15, 1889: Nellie Bly set out to beat Jules Verne's fictional Phileas Fogg's time of 80 days to travel around the world. She did it in 72.

Infoplease - Today's Birthday

Nov 21: Voltaire

1694—1778, French Philosopher and Author whose name was François Marie Arouet de Voltaire. See biography and links to other people born today...

The Calendar of Treasury Books is now complete. These calendars detail state income and expenditure from the Restoration up to 1718, in 32 volumes. This series complements two others on BHO: the Calendar of Treasury Papers and the Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers.

Etrusia (U.K.)

Medieval Articles

After a quiet period some new articles are now being worked upon. The first is one on the Knights Templar - or more properly, the Poor Knights of the Temple of Solomon on the Mount...

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IGCSE History: CIE Paper 2 (German Involvement in the Spanish Civil War)

An audio revision guide for CIE IGCSE History Paper 2 that provides an overview of German involvement in the Spanish Civil War.

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