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This Day in History: November 18

1820

Captain Nathaniel Palmer discovered Antarctica.

1883

Standard time began in the United States.

1886

Chester A. Arthur, the 21st president of the United States (1881-1885), died in New York at 56.

1928

Mickey Mouse made his debut in Steamboat Willie.

1976

Spain's parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.

1978

Jim Jones, a U.S. pastor, led 914 of his followers to their deaths at Jonestown, Guyana, by drinking a cyanide-laced fruit drink. Cult members who refused to swallow the drink were shot.

2003

The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that the right to same sex marriage was guaranteed by the state constitution.

2004

The UN Security Council held a two-day session in Nairobi. This was the first time it had convened outside of New York headquarters.

(courtesy www.infoplease.com)

This Day in History: November 16

1864

General Sherman and his troops began their "March to the sea" during the Civil War.

1907

Oklahoma became the 46th state.

1933

The United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations.

1973

President Nixon signed the bill authorizing the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.

2004

President George W. Bush nominated Condoleezza Rice to replace Colin Powell as secretary of state.

(courtesy: www.infoplease.com)

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This Day in History: November 9

1888

Jack the Ripper killed his last victim, Mary Jane Kelly.

1938

Nazis burned and looted temples and Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in what became known as Kristallnacht (Crystal Night-referring to broken glass on streets).

1953

Author-poet Dylan Thomas died in New York at age 39.

1965

A switch at a station near Niagara Falls failed. The Northeast and parts of Canada went dark for more than 13 hours.

1970

Former French president Charles De Gaulle died at age 79.

1989

Borders between East and West Germany were opened and the Berlin Wall began to be dismantled the next day.

This Day in History: November 8

1889

Montana became the 41st state.

1892

Former president Grover Cleveland beat incumbent Benjamin Harrison and became the only president to win nonconsecutive terms in the White House.

1923

Adolf Hitler attempted, and failed, to seize control of the German government in the Beer Hall Putsch.

1960

John F. Kennedy defeated Richard M. Nixon for the presidency of the United States.

1966

Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts became the first African American to be elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction.

1994

After a 40-year Democrat domination, the Republican Party gained control of the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as a Senate majority.

This Day in History: November 7

1874

The Republican Party was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly magazine.

1916

Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.

1917

Vladimir Lenin's forces overthrew Alexander Kerensky's government in Russia's Bolshevik Revolution.

1944

President Franklin D. Roosevelt won a fourth term in office, defeating Thomas E. Dewey.

1962

Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt died in New York City at age 78.

1967

Carl Stokes of Cleveland became the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city.

1989

L. Douglas Wilder was elected governor of Virginia. He became the nation's first elected black governor.

2000

The U.S. went to the polls to choose between George W. Bush and Al Gore. The outcome wouldn't be known for more than a month because of disputed votes in Florida.