TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 11
1620 The Mayflower Compact was signed by Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower. It would provide the basis for all governments of the American colonies.
1675 German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function
1778 Indians, led by William Butler, massacre the inhabitants of Cherry Valley, N.Y.
1831 Nat Turner, a slave who led a revolt against slave owners, is hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia.
1851 The telescope was patented by Alvan Clark.
1865 Mary Edward Walker, 1st Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor
1887 Labor Activists were hanged in Illinois after being convicted of being connected to a bombing that killed eight police officers.
1889 Washington becomes the 42nd state of the Union.
1918 WWI armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect and World War I hostilities end at 11am, “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month”
1921 The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery is dedicated.
1922 Canada’s Vernon McKenzie urges to fight U.S. propaganda with taxes on U.S. magazines.
1933 “Great Black Blizzard” 1st great dust storm in the Great Plains
1938 Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” is performed for the first time by singer Kate Smith.
1944 Private Eddie Slovik is convicted of desertion and sentenced to death for refusing to join his unit in the European Theater of Operations.
1953 The polio virus is identified and photographed for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1965 The government of Rhodesia declared its independence from Britain. The country later became known as Zimbabwe.
1983 President Reagan became 1st US President to address Japan’s legislature
1984 U.S. President Ronald Reagan accepted the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a gift to the nation from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.
1987 Judge Anthony M Kennedy nominated to the Supreme Court
1988 Police in Sacramento, CA, found the first of seven bodies buried on the grounds of a boardinghouse. Dorothea Puente was later charged in the deaths of nine people, convicted of three murders and sentenced to life in prison.
1992 The Church of England approves the ordination of female priests1993 Sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.
1998 Israel’s Cabinet ratified a land-for-peace agreement with the Palestinians.
1999 House of Lords Act reforming Britain’s House of Lords, given Royal Assent; the act removed the right to hereditary seats (sitting members were permitted to remain).
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