Today in history

[Outlooker]

November 4, 1842: Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd are wed.

 

[smokeshadow]

1862 - inventor Richard J. Gatling received a U. S. patent for his rapid-fire Gatling gun
1922 - the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered in Egypt
1942 - during World War II, Axis forces retreated from El Alamein in North Africa in a major victory for British forces commanded by Lieutenant General Bernard Montgomery
1955 - baseball Hall-of-Fame pitcher Cy Young died in Newcomerstown, Ohio at the age of 88

 

[unloadonme]

4 November 1650 - Birth of King William III.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_III_of_England#

 

[rareboy]

1605
Guy Fawkes is betrayed and arrested in an attempt to blow up the British Parliament in the "Gunpowder Plot." Ever since, England has celebrated Guy Fawkes Day.

 

[Outlooker]

November 5, 1968: Richard Milhous Nixon is elected 37th president of the United States.

 

[smokeshadow]

1872 - suffragist Susan B. Anthony defied the law by attempting to cast a vote for President Ulysses S. Grant. She was convicted by a judge and fined $ 100, but she never paid the penalty.
1935 - Parker Brothers began marketing the board game Monopoly

 

[Schistt]

2006
Saddam is sentenced to death for war crimes

 

[Schistt]

1968
Richard Nixon was elected President of the USA.

 

[Kulindahr]

1414: The Council of Constance opens to end the Great Western Schism. It deposed all three rival popes, but it also executed Bohemian reformers Jan Hus and Jerome of Prague, and anathematized the teachings of John Wycliffe.

 

[Outlooker]

November 6, 1962: Saudi Arabia proclaims the abolition of slavery.

Well, it's a start...

 

[rareboy]

1429
Henry VI is crowned King of England.

 

[Outlooker]

November 7, 1917: The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, storm the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg in the October Revolution that was instrumental in the Russian Civil War.

The name comes from the Julian calendar, then used by Russia, which listed the date as October 25. But according to the Gregorian calendar, which is used by most of the world, the date was November 7.

 

[rareboy]

1931 Chinese People's Republic proclaimed by Mao Zedong

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

^

2020 The People´s Republic of China brings the Capitalist world to its knees by means of an engineered(?) virus. Politicians deny everything.

 

[rareboy]

1519


1st meeting of Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II and Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés in Tenochtitlan, Mexico

 

[Outlooker]

November 8, 1895: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen detects a new type of electromagnetic radiation, which he calls X-rays.

 

[Outlooker]

November 9, 1851: Calvin Fairbank, a Methodist minister, was abducted from Indiana by Kentucky marshals and brought back to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave named Tamar to escape. It seems Fairbank was a habitual offender, having committed the same "crime" with as many as 47 other slaves. After being returned to Kentucky, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison, where he was repeatedly flogged. He was eventually pardoned and died in poverty.

 

[smokeshadow]

1620 - the passengers and crew of the Mayflower sighted Cape Cod
1918 - it was announced that Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II would abdicate. He then fled to the Netherlands
1935 - United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization (more commonly know today as the CIO)
1938 - Nazis looted and burned synagogues as well as jewish owned stores and businesses in Germany and Austria in a pogram that became known as "Kristallinacht"

 

[rareboy]

1799 Napoleon Bonaparte pulls off a coup and becomes the dictator of France under the title of First Consul

 

[pornoboy]

Opening of the Berlin Wall
Long a symbol of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall, erected in 1961 and eventually extending 28 miles (45 km) to divide the western and eastern sectors of Berlin, was opened by the East German government on this day in 1989.​