This Day in History......

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Oct. 27
1982 China announces its population has reached 1 billion plus people.

 

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Oct. 28, 1904
St Louis police try a new investigation method - fingerprints.

 

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Oct. 29, 1929
"Black Tuesday" Wall Street Stock Market crashes triggering the "Great Depression".

 

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Oct. 30, 1973
The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time

 

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Oct. 31, 1517
On this day in 1517, the priest and scholar Martin Luther approaches the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation.

 

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Nov. 1
2012 Scientists detect evidence of light from the universe's first stars, predicted to have formed 500 million years after the big bang.

 

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Nov. 2
1966 The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the US

 

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Nov. 3,
1957 USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit

 

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Nov.4
1842 U.S. first lady Mary Todd Lincoln (23) weds US President Abraham Lincoln (33) in Springfield, Illinois.

 

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Nov. 5,
1979 Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini declares US "The Great Satan"

 

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November 5, 2009-
Fort Hood shooting that killed 13 unarmed people.
Nothing mentioned in the news...

 

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November 5, 2009-
Fort Hood shooting that killed 13 unarmed people.
Nothing mentioned in the news...

Doesn’t fit the left Media agegenda !!

 

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Nov. 6, 1962
On this day in 1962, the United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution condemning South Africa’s racist apartheid policies and calling on all its members to end economic and military relations with the country.

 

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Nov. 8, 1895
On this day in 1895, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (1845-1923) becomes the first person to observe X-rays, a significant scientific advancement that would ultimately benefit a variety of fields, most of all medicine, by making the invisible visible. Rontgen’s discovery occurred accidentally in his Wurzburg, Germany, lab, where he was testing whether cathode rays could pass through glass when he noticed a glow coming from a nearby chemically coated screen. He dubbed the rays that caused this glow X-rays because of their unknown nature.

 

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Nov. 9, 1799
Napoleon Bonaparte pulls off a coup and becomes the dictator of France under the title of First Consul.

 

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Nov. 13,
1956 US Supreme court rules race separation on buses in Alabama unconstitutional

 

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Photo of the day: ON NOVEMBER 13, FELIX UNGER WAS ASKED TO REMOVE HIMSELF FROM HIS PLACE OF RESIDENCE . . .

 

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Nov. 14
1896 Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation.

 

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Nov. 15, 1867
On this day in 1867, the first stock ticker is unveiled in New York City. The advent of the ticker ultimately revolutionized the stock market by making up-to-the-minute prices available to investors around the country. Prior to this development, information from the New York Stock Exchange, which has been around since 1792, traveled by mail or messenger.

 

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Nov. 16, 1532

Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish explorer and conquistador, springs a trap on the Incan emperor, Atahualpa. With fewer than 200 men against several thousand, Pizarro lures Atahualpa to a feast in the emperor’s honor and then opens fire on the unarmed Incans. Pizarro’s men massacre the Incans and capture Atahualpa, forcing him to convert to Christianity before eventually killing him.