November 26th, 1950China, under its new communist leader Mao Zedong, enters the Korean War on the side of neighbor and communist ally North Korea. Chinese troops launch a counteroffensive against the American-led force, under the UN banner and troops
October 28th, 1886Oh she stands for liberty for you and me. The Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France to the United States is dedicated in New York Harbor. 1922Fascism comes to Italy as Benito Mussolini takes control of the government i
November 27th, 1978In San Francisco mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, are shot to death at City Hall. Former City Supervisor Dan White who pulled the trigger goes on trial for murder, but hes convicted of vo
November 10th, 1975Superior, they said, never gives up her dead when the gales of November come early! The ore-hauling ship Edmund Fitzgerald sinks and its crew of 29 perishes during a severe storm on Lake Superior. 1982Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet le
November 7th, 1917The Bolshevik Revolution takes place in Russia. Forces led by Vladimir Lenin overthrow the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky. What eventually emerges, the Soviet Union, the world's first communist state. 2000Americans vot
November 8th, 1923Nazi leader Adolf Hitler makes his first attempt to seize power in Germany. He launches a failed coup in the city of Munich, an event that becomes known as the Beer Hall Putsch. Hitler ultimately achieves his goal when he becomes Ge
November 17th, 1973An embattled President Richard Nixon defends himself during the Watergate scandal. He tells the Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Florida. People have got to know, whether or not their president is a crook. Well
November 12th, 1927Joseph Stalin becomes undisputed ruler of whats then the Soviet Union. His rival Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Communist Party. More than a dozen years later, Trotsky is killed with an ice-pick while in exile in Mexico. Stalin
November 14th, 1940One of the most devastating bombing raids during World War Two. Hundreds of Nazi Germany's warplanes destroy most of the English town of Coventry. 1851Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick, the tale about the pursuit of the great white
October 12th, 1492On this date under the old style calendar, explorer Christopher Columbus lands in the Americas. Columbus sailing under Spain's banner traveled across the Atlantic, trying to seek a route to Asia. His arrival in the Caribbean leads t
November 18th, 1978A mass murder-suicide in the jungles of Guyana in South America. Cult leader Jim Jones orders more than 900 followers at his Jonestown compound to drink poison punch. That happens after a congressman and four others investigating t
I appreciate your being here this morning, Mrs. Kennedy is organizing herself. It takes longer, but gladly she looks better than we do, well she does. But we appreciate youre welcome. This citys been a great western city. We understand that theres be
And they started their dirty aggression against this country. November 23rd, 2001The UN war crimes tribunal says it will try former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for genocide in Bosnia. Its the first time that the court links Milosevic to the
November 25th, 1963Three days after his slain in Dallas, the body of President John F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. 1986In Washington, new details about the Iran-Contra affair engulf President Ronald Reagans administration.
November 15th, 1864During the American Civil War, Union General William T. Sherman and his troops begin their march to the sea. Their devastating campaign from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia strikes at the heart of the Confederacy. 1806,In the Rocky Mo
December 4th, 1991Freedom at last for Terry Anderson, the Associated Press correspondent, held hostage in Lebanon, Anderson is released after nearly 7 years in captivity held longer in Lebanon than any other western hostage. 1992President George H.W.
November 29th, 1963President Lyndon B. Johnson names a commission to investigate President John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. The bipartisan panel, chaired by chief justice Earl Warren, becomes known as the Warren Commission. It later concl
November 30th, 1874I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. Sir Winston Churchill,the British statesman who led his people through World War II is born in Blenheim Palace, England. 1835Writer and humorist Mark Twain, author
November 24th, 1963In Dallas, a scene caught on live TV that shocks America just days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. There is Lee Harvey Oswald. Hes been shot. Hes been shot! Lee Oswald has been shot! Theres a man with a gun. N
December 3rd, 1967Surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard, perform the first human heart transplant, the patient Louis Washkansky lives 18 days with his new heart. 1984A horrific industrial accident kills thousands of peopl
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