This Week in History

NOVEMBER 13

Joan Sharkey Farrell was born.

Amy McDade was born.

1927 -The world’s first long, mechanically ventilated underwater tunnel, the

Holland Tunnel, opened between New York and New Jersey.

1956 – The Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on buses.

NOVEMBER 14

Cathy Mulholland was born.

Ryan Quigley was born.

Michael Gliner was born.

Linda Carter-Murray was born.

Ellen May Banks was born.

Keri McManus was born.

1851 – Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick was published.  It mentions Rockaway in the first chapter.

NOVEMBER 15

Roger Clark was born.

Elisabetta Di Stefano was born.

1969 – About 250,000 protesters against the Vietnam War, the largest war protest ever, converged peacefully on Washington, DC.

November 16

Allison Puckhaber was born.

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.

November 17

Lauren Raphael McCallion was born.

Jaime Jordan was born.

Bob Moran was born.

Finbar Devine was born.

1973 – President Nixon said, “I am not a crook.”

November 18

Dylan Elise Courtney was born.

Annie Graves was born.

Jim McDonald was born.

Christy Cook was born.

Colleen Brady was born.

Sean Heeran was born.

1928 – Mickey Mouse made his debut in Steamboat Willie.

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.

November 19

Tom J. McVeigh was born.

John Edwards was born.

Bobby O’Hara was born.

Scott McCarthy was born.

1863 – Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the national cemetery on the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa.

1985 – Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met for the first time in Geneva.