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	1 1908—Henry Ford introduces Model T 1890—Yosemite National Park established	2 1879—Poet Wallace Stevens is born 1800—Slave rebel Nat Turner is born 1869—Mahatma Gandhi born	3 1863—Abraham Lincoln declares last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day 1895—“The Red Badge of Courage” published	4 1636—Legal code is instituted in Plymouth Colony	5 1877—Chief Joseph surrenders to U.S. soldiers 1813—Shawnee Chief Tecumseh defeated at Battle of Thames 1703—American evangelical religious leader Jonathan Edwards born	6 1889—Thomas Edison shows first motion picture 1683—William Penn brings first group of German settlers to America 1930—William Faulkner’s “As I Lay Dying” published
7 1765—Stamp Act Congress convenes in New York 1849—Edgar Allan Poe dies 1849—“The Children’s Poet” James Whitcomb Riley born more	8 1871—Great Fire destroys much of Chicago 1970—Alexander Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for literature	9 1776—Spanish missionaries settle in present-day San Francisco 1635—Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1890—Kicking Bear delivers speech to Hunkpapa Sioux more	10 1951—Harry Truman signs Mutual Security Act 1935—George Gershwin’s “Porgy & Bess” opens on Broadway	11 1965—Depression-era photographer Dorothea Lange dies 1884—Eleanor Roosevelt born	12 1892—The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited in many U.S. public schools, marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s voyage 1492—Columbus Day 1870—Gen. Robert E. Lee dies more	13 1792—Cornerstone of White House laid
14 1890—President Dwight D. Eisenhower born 1964—Martin Luther King, Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize 1960—Senator John F. Kennedy proposes formation of Peace Corps more	15 1844—Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche born —Roman poet Virgil born	16 1854—Irish wit and author Oscar Wilde born 1854—Abraham Lincoln speaks out against Kansas–Nebraska Act 1859—Abolitionist John Brown leads raid on Harper's Ferry more	17 1915—American playwright Arthur Miller born 1777—British forces under General Burgoyne surrender to American troops in Saratoga, N.Y., a turning point in the war.	18 1898—U.S. troops take over Puerto Rico 1867—U.S. Buys Alaska from Russia 1931—Thomas Alva Edison dies	19 1781—General Cornwallis surrenders his British Army to American forces outside Yorktown. 1765—Stamp Act Congress meets in New York, draws up Declaration of Rights and Grievances	20 1803—Senate ratifies Louisiana Purchase 1940—American poet Robert Pinsky born
21 1960—Final round of televised debates between JFK and Nixon 1879—Thomas Edison unveils working light bulb 1940—Ernest Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls” is published more	22 1962—John F. Kennedy announces blockade of Cuba —N.C. Wyeth, American artist and illustrator, is born	23 1850—First national Women’s Rights Convention held in Worcester, Massachusetts 1915—25,000 women march in New York demanding right to vote 1855—Rival governments set up in Bleeding Kansas	24 1861—First transcontinental telegraph system is completed, making it possible to transmit messages rapidly 2005—Civil rights activist Rosa Parks dies 1904—American playwright Moss Hart born	25 1881—Pablo Picasso is born 1400—English poet Geoffrey Chaucer dies 1415—Battle of Agincourt more	26 1776—Benjamin Franklin goes to France on diplomatic mission	27 1932—Sylvia Plath, American poet, is born 1787—First of the Federalist Papers published 1914—Welsh poet Dylan Thomas born
28 1886—Statue of Liberty dedicated 1954—Ernest Hemingway awarded Nobel Prize for Literature	29 1929—“Black Tuesday”; Great Depression begins	30 1735—John Adams, second President of the United States born	31 1863—Nevada enters the Union 1795—John Keats, English poet, is born 2012—Halloween (Celtic harvest festival “Samhain”)

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