📖🗣️ Notable Events

Notable Events on November 1st:

[source: National Day Calendar - November 1 | Birthdays & Events]

1683 - New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
1776 - Mission San Juan Capistrano founded in CA.
1787 - The African Free School in NY opens.
1800 - President John Adams moves into the Executive Mansion (White House).
1802 - Ohio begins forming a state constitutional.
1834 - Poker is officially published for the first time as a Mississippi riverboat game.
1848 - The first medical school for women (Boston Female Medical School) opens MA.
1870 - The Weather Bureau makes its first official meteorological forecast.
1894 - Thomas Edison films the Buffalo Bill show.
1896 - National Geographic shows an image of a woman's breast on the cover of their printed magazine.
[While it's true that National Geographic published an image of a woman's breast on its cover, it was in 1972, not 1896.]
1897 - The Library of Congress building opens to the public.
1921 - The American Birth Control League after the National Birth Control League and Voluntary Parenthood League merge.
[The American Birth Control League was founded in 1921, not 1931.]
1938 - Baseball legend Ernie Lombardi (Cincinnati Reds) becomes the first catcher to win the National League MVP.
1938 - Seabiscuit beats Triple Crown winner War Admiral by 3 lengths and becomes the greatest horse race in history.
1941 - Japanese naval staff officer Suguru Suzuki arrives at Pearl Harbor on the Taiyo Maru boat carrying 340 passengers with intentions of scoping out the island for a future attack.
[While it's true that a Japanese naval officer visited Pearl Harbor, the specific date and details of the visit are not entirely accurate. The attack on Pearl Harbor occurred on December 7, 1941.]
1942 - John H. Johnson publishes the first issue of the Negro Digest.
1951 - U.S. Army soldiers are exposed to desert rock after a few atomic explosions used for training.
1957 - The world's longest suspension bridge opens MI.
1968 - The movie rating system is officially introduced with the ratings G, M, R, and X.
1971 - The President Eisenhower dollar coin is put into circulation.
1988 - Staten Island ferry gets pay phones installed.
1997 - The Expanded Negro Leagues Museum opens in Kansas City to honor Black baseball players.
2009 - Sisters Serena and Venus Williams play against for the WTA Championship.
2012 - Gmail becomes the world's most popular email provider.

Notable Events on November 2nd:

[source: National Day Calendar - November 2 | Birthdays & Events]

1783 - General George Washington says goodbye to his army after the American Revolutionary War ends.
1852 - Franklin Pierce becomes the 14th President of the U.S.
1867 - Harper's Bazaar publishes their first magazine issue.
1880 - James A. Garfield becomes the 20th President of the U.S.
[James A. Garfield did become the 20th President, but he was assassinated a few months into his term. Chester A. Arthur succeeded him.]
1889 - North Dakota and South Dakota both become the 39th and 40th states in the union.
1898 - Cheerleading makes its debut at a University of Minnesota football game.
1907 - Banker J. P. Morgan locks 40 bankers in his library to try and force them to find a way to prevent to force them to find ways to avert New York banking crisis.
[While J. P. Morgan did convene a meeting of bankers to address the financial crisis, the specific detail of "locking them in his library" is likely an exaggeration or a myth.]
1917 - James Gresham, Thomas Enright and Merle Hay become the first U.S. soldiers killed in WWI.
[The first U.S. soldiers killed in WWI were actually members of the 16th Infantry Regiment.]
1920 - The Presidential Election is broadcasted for the first time on the radio declaring Warren Harding as the 29th President of the U.S.
1947 - Howard Hughes flies his wooden airplane for the first and only time.
1960 - Outfielder Roger Maris beats his teammate Mickey Mantle for American League MVP.
1967 - President Johnson concludes the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the Vietnam War.
1979 - The owners of Studio 54 are arrested for tax evasion.
1983 - President Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
1984 - Velma Barfield becomes the first woman to be executed in the U.S. in 22 years.
1988 - The first Internet-distributed computer worm (The Morris Worm) is launched by MIT.
1999 - A gunman shoots at 8 people in his workplace in Hawaii.
2016 - The Chicago Cubs win the World Series for the first time in 108 years.
2020 - Baby Shark (Pinkfong) becomes the most-watched video on YouTube with over 7.04 billion views.

Notable Events on November 3rd:
[source: National Day Calendar - November 3 | Birthdays & Events]

1783 - Continental Army is disbanded.
1762 - Spain claims Louisiana.
1791 - Indians kill 637 soldiers during the Battle at Wabash.
[The battle is likely the Battle of Fallen Timbers, not Wabash.]
1796 - John Adams becomes the second President of the U.S.
1813 - U.S. troops annihilated the Red Stick Creek village of Tallushatchee in Alabama.
1868 - John Willis becomes the first Black person elected to the U.S. Congress.
1883 - Black Bart the Poet gets robs his last stagecoach, but leaves behind a clue that leads to his capture.
1883 - The Supreme Court decides federal courts have no jurisdiction over Native American tribal Council.

[The Supreme Court case Ex Parte Crow Dog establishes that federal courts generally do not have jurisdiction over matters within the authority of Native American tribal councils.]
1896 - Black inventor J.H. Hunter receives his patent for portable weighing scales.
1908 - William Taft is elected the 27th President of the U.S.
1911 - Chevrolet enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
1917 - First class mail goes up to 3 cents per ounce.
1936 - Franklin Roosevelt is elected the 32nd President of the U.S.
1943 - 500 U.S. Air Force aircraft devastate Wilhelmshaven harbor in Germany.
1955 - Scientists Carlton E. Schwerdt and Fred L. Schaffer crystallize the pure polio virus to examine a possible vaccine.
1956 - The The Wizard of Oz is televised for first time.
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain scores 72 points against LA Lakers.
1964 - Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time since 1880.
1969 - President Nixon addresses the nation asking for the U.S. to show solidarity on the Vietnam War effort.
1970 - President Nixon promises a gradual removal of troops in Vietnam.
1973 - NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to reach that planet Mercury.
1979 - A group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis shoot 5 members of the Communist Workers Party during a rally in NC.
1997 - The U.S. imposes sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens.
2014 - One World Trade Center opens in NY City, replacing the Twin Towers that were destroyed on September 11, 2001.

Notable Events on November 4th:
[source: National Day Calendar - November 4 | Birthdays & Events]

1791 - The Western Confederacy of American Indians win the Battle of the Wabash of the U.S.
[The battle was the Battle of Fallen Timbers, not the Battle of the Wabash.]
1841 -The first wagon caravan arrives in California after traveling 1,730 miles from the eastern part of the country.
1845 - Election Day is moved to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
1846 - Benjamin Palmer patents the Artificial Leg.
1854 - A lighthouse is built on Alcatraz Island.
[The lighthouse was built on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.]
1856 - James Buchanan becomes the 15th President of the U.S.
1861 - The University of Washington is founded in Seattle.
1862 - Richard Jordan Gatling patents the hand cranked machine gun.
1873 - Dentist John Beers patents the Gold Crown.
1879 - Black inventor Thomas Elkins patents the Refrigerating Apparatus.
1879 - James Ritty patents the first Cash Register as a solution to stop his bartenders from stealing from him.
1904 - Harvard builds the first official football stadium.
1914 - Vogue holds the first model/fashion show in NY.
1928 - Gangster Arnold Rothstein is shot for not paying debts.
1939 - President Roosevelt orders the U.S Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939.
1939 - The Packard automobile is unveiled as the first car to have air conditioning.
1952 - The National Security Agency (NSA) is established.
1962 - The U.S. stops all above-ground nuclear weapons testing.
1980 - Ronald Reagan becomes the 40th President of the U.S.
1981 - Dr. George Nichopoulos is acquitted of overprescribing prescription drugs to Elvis Presley.
1987 - Six-year-old Lisa Steinberg is beaten into a coma by her adoptive father Joel Steinberg.
1994 - The first conference on the commercial potential of the World Wide Web is held in San Francisco.
2008 - Barack Obama becomes the first person biracial person to become the President of the U.S.

[2008 - Barack Obama becomes the 44th President of the U.S.]

Notable Events on November 5th:
[source: National Day Calendar - November 5 | Birthdays & Events]

1639 - The first post office is set up in the Massachusetts colonies.
1773 - John Hancock is elected as moderator at a Boston town meeting and says anyone who supports the Tea Act is an "Enemy to America."
1780 - French-American forces are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
1781 - John Hanson is elected first resident of US in Congress.
[John Hanson was elected as the first President of the Continental Congress, not the first resident of the US in Congress.]
1862 - President Lincoln removes George McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
1862 - 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to death.
1872 - Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time in defiance of the law and is later fined $100.
1872 - President Ulysses Grant is re-elected a second term.
1889 - Louisa Woosley is the woman to be ordained as a minister in any Presbyterian church.
1895 - The first U.S. patent for an automobile is awarded to George Selden.
1912 - Woodrow Wilson becomes the 28th President of the U.S.
1917 - U.S. troops see action on Western Front for first time.
1940 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first only President to be elected to a third term.
[Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first President to be elected to a third term, not the only one.]
1955 - Marty McFly returns to November 5 in Back to the Future.
[The movie Back to the Future is set in 1985, not 1955. Marty McFly travels back to 1955 from 1985.]
1956 - NBC debuts The Nat King Cole Show and becomes the first program hosted by a Black American.
1967 - U.S. troops conquer Loc Ninh South (Vietnam).
1968 - Richard Nixon becomes the 37th President of the U.S.
1970 - In their weekly report, Vietnam announces the lowest American soldier death toll in five years.
1978 - John Madden (Oakland Raiders) becomes 13th NFL coach to win 100.
1994 - George Foreman knocks out Michael Moorer.
1996 - Bill Clinton is re-elected a second term as President of the U.S.
2007 - Google unveils the Android operating system.

Notable Events on November 6th:
[source: National Day Calendar - November 6 | Birthdays & Events]

1860 - Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th President of the U.S.
1861 - Jefferson Davis is elected to a 6-year term as the U.S. Confederate President.

[While Jefferson Davis did become the President of the Confederate States of America, he was not elected to a 6-year term. The Confederate Constitution did not specify a term length.]
1862 - A direct telegraphic link forms between New York and San Francisco.
1869 - Players use their hands or feet in the first college football game.
1885 - The U.S. mint at Carson City, NV is directed to close.
1900 - President McKinley is re-elected as President of U.S.
1928 - Herbert Hoover is elected the 31st President of the U.S.
1938 - The three DiMaggio brothers (Joltin' Joe, Dom, and Vince DiMaggio) play together for first time in a charity game.
1941 - The U.S. borrows the Soviet Union $1 million.
1945 - The House Committee on Un-American Activities investigates seven radio commentators.
1947 - NBC debuts Meet the Press on television.
1971 - The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission tests hydrogen bomb on an island.
[While the U.S. did conduct numerous nuclear tests, including hydrogen bomb tests, the specific event mentioned is not easily identifiable. The U.S. conducted many tests in the Pacific Ocean, but a single, specific test on an island in 1971 is not widely documented.]
2012 - Tammy Baldwin is elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first openly gay politician to be elected in Washington.

[While Tammy Baldwin was a significant milestone as the first openly gay person elected to the U.S. Senate, it's important to note that there were other openly gay politicians elected to state and local offices before her.]

Notable Events on November 7th:

[source: National Day Calendar - November 7 | Birthdays & Events]

1775 - John Murray (Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia) begins emancipating slaves, which becomes the first act against slavery.
[While John Murray did advocate for gradual emancipation, it wasn't the first act against slavery. Several colonies had already taken steps to limit or abolish the slave trade.]
1805 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition see the Pacific Ocean at the mouth of the Columbia River.
1811 - The U.S. Army, under General William Henry Harrison, defeat the Tecumseh Confederation.
1820 - President Monroe is re-elected as President.
1837 - Abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead in an attempt to protect his printing shop from being destroyed.
1848 - Zachary Taylor elected the 12th President of U.S.
1874 - Cartoonist Thomas Nast uses an elephant in Harper's Weekly, which is the first time the symbol is used for the Republican Party.
[While Thomas Nast popularized the elephant as a symbol of the Republican Party, it wasn't the first time the symbol was used. It had been used informally before Nast's cartoons.]
1907 - Delta Sigma Pi is founded at NYU.
1910 - The Wright brothers and department store owner Max Morehouse attempt the first air freight shipment.
1916 - Jeannette Rankin becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
1916 - Woodrow Wilson is re-elected as President.
1929 - The Museum of Modern Art opens in NY City.
1932 - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century airs on CBS-radio.
1940 - The Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm.
1955 - The Baltimore Supreme Court of Baltimore bans segregation in public recreational areas.
1963 - Catcher Elston Howard becomes the first Black player to be voted AL MVP.
1967 - Carl Stokes is elected Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio and become the first Black mayor.
1967 - President Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 and establishes the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1972 - President Nixon is re-elected President by the largest landslide in history.
1973 - Congress overrides President Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which would have limited presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
1973 - New Jersey becomes first state to allow girls into little league.
1983 - A bomb explodes inside the U.S. Capitol causing nearly $250,000 in damages.
1989 - Douglas Wilder becomes Governor of Virginia, making him the first Black Governor in the U.S.
1989 - David Dinkins becomes the first Black to be elected Mayor of New York City.
1991 - Magic Johnson retires from the NBA after announcing he has HIV.
2000 - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers the largest LSD lab inside a converted military missile silo in KS.
2020 - Joe Biden is becomes the 46th President of the U.S.

Notable Events on November 8th:

[source: National Day Calendar - November 8 | Birthdays & Events]

1701 - William Penn presents the Charter of Liberties that would guarantee religious freedom for the Pennsylvania colony.
1731 - Benjamin Franklin opens the Library Company of Philadelphia, becoming the first library in the colonies.
1789 - Elijah Craig distills the first bourbon whiskey in KY.
1837 - Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke College in MA.
1864 - Abraham Lincoln is re-elected President of the U.S.
1889 - Montana becomes the 41st state to join the Union.
1892 - Black and white trade unionists join forces and strike action for the first time together in New Orleans.
1904 - Harvey Hubbell receives the first patent for a separable electric attachment plug.
1932 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected as the 32nd President of the U.S.
1933 - President Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration to help create jobs so the country can recover from the Great Depression.
1938 - Crystal Bird Fauset becomes the first Black woman elected as a legislator in Philadelphia.
1950 - 1st Lt. Russell J. Brown (U.S. Air Force) shoots down two North Korean aircrafts in a dog fight.
1957 - A flight between San Francisco and Honolulu disappears.
1960 - John F. Kennedy is elected the 35th President of the U.S.
1965 - The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by the Viet Cong in Operation Hump.
1965 - An American airline crashes in KY, killing 58.
1966 - President Johnson signs a law allowing the National Football League to merge with the American Football League.
1972 - Home Box Office (HBO) launches.
1988 - George H. W. Bush is elected as the 41st President of the U.S.
2016 - Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the U.S.

Notable Events for November 9th:

[source: National Day Calendar - November 9 | Birthdays & Events]

1620 - The Mayflower spots land (Cape Cod) after two months at sea.
1821 -The first pharmacy college holds the its first class in Philadelphia.
1842 - George Bruce receives a design patent for typefaces and borders.
1851 - Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist Calvin Fairbank from Indiana and transport him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping slaves.
1862 - General Ulysses S. Grant issues orders barring Jews from serving under him.
[There is no credible historical evidence to support the claim that General Ulysses S. Grant issued orders barring Jews from serving under him. This claim is widely disputed and often considered a myth or a misunderstanding of historical events.]
1887 - The U.S. receives the rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1906- President Roosevelt makes the first an official trip outside the country (Panama Canal).
[While President Theodore Roosevelt's visit to the Panama Canal Zone was a significant presidential trip, it wasn't the first official presidential trip outside the continental United States. Previous presidents had visited territories like Alaska and Hawaii.]
1936 - Fashion designer Ruth Harkness captures a nine-week-old panda cub in Sichuan and brings the cub back to the U.S.
1943 - The UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration is signed by 44 countries in the White House.
1960 - Robert McNamara becomes the first President for the Ford Motor Company that is not a member of the Ford family.
1961 - The PGA eliminates the "whites-only rule".
1970 - The Supreme Court votes 6–3 against allowing Massachusetts to enforce a law granting residents the right to refuse military service.
1984 - The iconic 3 Servicemen Vietnam Veterans Memorial is completed.
1998 - A U.S. federal judge orders 37 U.S. brokerage firms to pay $1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors for price fixing.
2023 - Surgeons at NYU announce they have successfully performed the first eye transplant.

Notable Events for November 10th:

[source: National Day Calendar - November 10 | Birthdays & Events]

1766 - NJ Governor William Franklin, signs the charter of for Rutgers University.
1775 - The Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia.
1801 - Duelling is outlawed in KY.
1808 - The Osage Nation cedes territory after signing the Treaty of Fort Clark.
1857 - Paul Morphy wins the first American Chess Congress.
1865 - Prison camp superintendent Major Henry Wirz is hanged for war crimes committed during the Civil War.
1898 - A municipal government is overthrown Wilmington Insurrection of 1989.
[The Wilmington Insurrection actually occurred in 1898, not 1989.]
1919 - National Book Week is celebrated for the first time.
1944 - the U.S. 9th Army takes over Margraten cemetery to avoid burying American soldiers on enemy soil during WWII.
1951 - Direct-dial telephone service begins the country.
[Direct-dial telephone service began in the United States, not the entire country.]
1954 - President Eisenhower dedicates the Iwo Jima memorial at Arlington.
1958 - Harry Winston donates The Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian in NY.
1969 - Sesame Street debuts on National Educational Television.
1970 - There are no American fatalities reported in Vietnam for the first time in five years.
1983 - Windows 1.0 is introduced by Microsoft.
2006 - The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, VA is opened.