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				1 1871—Stephen Crane is born 1986—First National War Monument for Native Americans is dedicated	2 1948—Harry Truman is elected President 2—Day of the Dead ~ Día de los Muertos (Spanish)	3 1783—Washington orders the Continental Army disbanded 1964—Lyndon B. Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater for President
4 1922—Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen	5 1912—Woodrow Wilson defeats William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt to become president 1492—Christopher Columbus is introduced to maize (corn) by Indians of Cuba	6 1965—Dorothy Day speaks out against war 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	7 1917—Lenin leads Bolshevik Revolution in Russia 1813—Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain	8 1864—Abraham Lincoln is elected to a second term as President	9 1731—African American mathematican Benjamin Banneker born in Maryland 1938—“Kristallnacht” (Crystal Night): Nazi Stormtroopers attack Jews 1989— Berlin Wall falls	10 1871—Journalist Henry M. Stanley finds missionary David Livingstone in Africa 1938—Kate Smith introduces “God Bless America” over radio
11 2012—Veterans Day 1922—American novelist Kurt Vonnegut born 1885—American World War II general George Patton born	12 1815—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, suffragist, is born	13 1982—The Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated on the Washington Mall 1839—First U.S. antislavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY 1850—Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson born	14 1851—Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick; or, The Whale” published in the United States 1840—Impressionist painter Claude Monet born	15 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	16 1930—Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer, is born	17 1558—Elizabeth I of England ascends to throne
18 1865—Mark Twain publishes “Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” 1789—Louis Daguerre, photography pioneer, is born	19 1863—Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address 1919—Senate rejects Versailles Treaty & U.S. participation in League of Nations	20 1789—New Jersey becomes first state to ratify the Bill of Rights 1910—Mexican Revolution begins	21 1789—North Carolina ratifies the Constitution, becoming the 12th U.S. state 1877—Edison announces new device he calls phonograph 1620—Mayflower Compact signed (old style calendar)	22 1963—President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX 1916—Death of Jack London 1863—Thanksgiving Day more	23 2008—Native American Heritage Day 1863—Battle of Chattanooga begins	24 1958—Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community 1859—Charles Darwin publishes “On The Origin of Species”
25 1835—Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and philanthropist, is born 1846— Temperance advocate Carry Nation born	26 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	27 1963—LBJ gives “Let Us Continue” speech 1953—American playwright Eugene O’Neill dies —Horace, Roman poet, dies in 8 BCE more	28 1757—William Blake, English poet and painter, is born	29 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	30 1667—Irish essayist and satirist Jonathan Swift born 1835—Author Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) born 1874—Winston Churchill born

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