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11-03-2008, 08:41 PM
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November 3rd
1801 ~ Birthday of Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer.
1838 ~ The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper was founded.
1903 ~ Panama proclaimed itself independent from Colombia.
1936 ~ Incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected in a landslide over Republican Alfred M. ''Alf'' Landon.
1954 ~ Death of Henri Matisse, French artist.
1957 ~ Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter space - a dog named Laika.
1964 ~ Incumbent President Lyndon Johnson defeated challenger Barry Goldwater with over 60 percent of the popular vote.
1978 ~ Birthday of Julia Taylor, European Porn Star.
1986 ~ Iran-Contra Affair : The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reported that the United States had been selling weapons to Iran in secret in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
1992 ~ U.S. presidential election: Challenger Bill Clinton defeated incumbent Republican George H.W. Bush & independent candidate Ross Perot.
1993 ~ Death of Leon Theremin, Russian inventor.
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11-04-2008, 05:54 AM
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November 4th
1847 ~ Death of Felix Mendelssohn, German composer.
1869 ~ The first issue of scientific journal Nature was published.
1900 ~ Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams was published.
1922 ~ British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men found the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
1924 ~ Death of Gabriel Fauré, French composer.
1948 ~ T.S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1956 ~ Soviet troops invaded Hungary to crush the Hungarian revolution that started on October 23. Thousands were killed, more were wounded, and nearly a quarter million left the country.
1979 ~ Students storm the US embassy in Tehran and took 90 hostages.
1979 ~ Birthday of Audrey Hollander, Porn Star
1995 ~ The Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
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11-05-2008, 06:55 AM
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November 5th
1605 ~ A plot to blow up the English Houses of Parliament was foiled when Guy Fawkes was discovered in a cellar below the building.
1872 ~ Suffragist Susan B. Anthony voted for the first time. She was fined $100 for the privilege.
1892 ~ Birthday of J. B. S. Haldane, Geneticist.
1911 ~ Birthday of Roy Rogers, American actor.
1930 ~ Sinclair Lewis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1942 ~ The Second Battle of El Alamein was won by the British in El Alamein, Egypt.
1977 ~ Death of Guy Lombardo, Conductor.
1979 ~ Ayatollah Khomeini declares the USA to be "the great Satan".
1989 ~ Death of Vladimir Horowitz, Pianist.
1999 ~ Federal Judge Thomas Jackson declared Microsoft Corp. a monopoly, saying the software giant's aggressive actions were ''stifling innovation'' and hurting consumers.
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11-05-2008, 06:58 AM
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Remember, remember the fifth of November.
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11-06-2008, 07:33 AM
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November 6th
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11-07-2008, 07:30 AM
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November 7th
1665 ~ The London Gazette, the oldest surviving English language journal, was first published.
1867 ~ Birthday of Marie Curie, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1903, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911.
1886 ~ Birthday of Aron Nimzowitsch, chess grandmaster.
1913 ~ Birthday of Albert Camus, writer, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1957.
1917 ~ Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky.
1926 ~ Birthday of Dame Joan Sutherland, Opera singer.
1934 ~ Premiere of Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" at Baltimore, Maryland.
1940 ~ The middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in a windstorm.
1981 ~ Birthday of Lily Thai, Porn Star.
1989 ~ Protests force the resignation of East Germany’s Communist government.
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11-07-2008, 07:41 AM
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I remember doing L'Etranger in class. Wonderful stuff made mundane by the education system.
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11-07-2008, 08:34 AM
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It IS a small world! L’Étranger, was required reading in one of my French courses. 
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11-07-2008, 07:54 PM
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I read La Peste later on. We were better off with L'Etranger.
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11-08-2008, 07:42 AM
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11-09-2008, 06:50 AM
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November 9th
1888 ~ Jack the Ripper killed Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
1921 ~ Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
1934 ~ Birthday of Carl Sagan, American Astronomer & Writer.
1936 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Tal, World Chess Champion.
1938 ~ Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, Kristallnacht, began.
1953 ~ Death of Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet.
1953 ~ Death of Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, first King of Saudi Arabia.
1965 ~ Several U.S. states and parts of Canada were hit by blackouts.
1970 ~ Death of Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician.
1995 ~ Garry Kasparov beat Anatoly Karpov to become the world chess champion.
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November 10th
1775 ~ The Continental Congress passed a resolution creating the Continental Marines, later renamed the United States Marine Corps.
1871 ~ Henry Morton Stanley located missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
1919 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Kalashnikov, Soviet inventor, AK-47.
1925 ~ Birthday of Richard Burton, Actor.
1951 ~ Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service began in the United States.
1975 ~ The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm on Lake Superior. Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a song about the tragedy.
1982 ~ The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. opened to public.
1983 ~ Birthday of Sammie Rhodes, Porn Star.
1995 ~ Execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, writer and human rights activist.
2007 ~ Death of Norman Mailer, American author.
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