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1871—Stephen Crane is born
1861—George B. McClellan made general-in-chief of Union armies
1986—First National War Monument for Native Americans is dedicated
1948—Harry Truman is elected President
2—Day of the Dead ~ Día de los Muertos (Spanish)
1783—Washington orders the Continental Army disbanded
1964—Lyndon B. Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater for President
1922—Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen
1492—Christopher Columbus is introduced to maize (corn) by Indians of Cuba
1811—Battle of Tippecanoe: Gen. William Henry Harrison defeats a Shawnee-led confederation of Ohio Valley tribes
1860—Abraham Lincoln elected to first term as President
1813—Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain
1864—Abraham Lincoln is elected to a second term as President
1938—“Kristallnacht” (Crystal Night): Nazi Stormtroopers attack Jews
1989— Berlin Wall falls
1938—Kate Smith introduces “God Bless America” over radio
1922—American novelist Kurt Vonnegut born
1885—American World War II general George Patton born
1815—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, suffragist, is born
1839—First U.S. antislavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY
1850—Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson born
1851—Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick; or, The Whale” published in the United States
1840—Impressionist painter Claude Monet born
1777—American colonies approve final version of Articles of Confederation
1864—General William T. Sherman begins March to Sea
1805—Lewis & Clark reach Pacific Ocean
1930—Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer, is born
1558—Elizabeth I of England ascends to throne
1865—Mark Twain publishes “Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
1789—Louis Daguerre, photography pioneer, is born
1863—Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address
1789—New Jersey becomes first state to ratify the Bill of Rights
1910—Mexican Revolution begins
1789—North Carolina ratifies the Constitution, becoming the 12th U.S. state
1877—Edison announces new device he calls phonograph
1963—President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX
1783—Death of John Hanson, the first president under Articles of Confederation
1863—Battle of Chattanooga begins
1958—Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community
1859—Charles Darwin publishes “On The Origin of Species”
1835—Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and philanthropist, is born
1846— Temperance advocate Carry Nation born
1864—Lewis Carroll presents the manuscript of “Alice’s Adventures under Ground” with his own illustrations to Alice Liddell
1942—Cinematic classic “Casablanca” premiers in New York City
1953—American playwright Eugene O’Neill dies
—Horace, Roman poet, dies in 8 BCE
1095—Pope Urban II proclaims First Crusade at Council of Clermont
1757—William Blake, English poet and painter, is born
1781—British ship Zong crew throws slaves overboard to claim insurance
1832—Louisa May Alcott, American novelist, is born
1918—Madeleine L’Engle Camp is born
1667—Irish essayist and satirist Jonathan Swift born
1835—Author Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) born
1874—Winston Churchill born