This Week in History
NOVEMBER 10
Mick Schramm was born.
Mark Mina was born.
Ryan Woerner was born.
1871 – Journalist and explorer Henry Stanley found the missing David Livingstone in Central Africa and made his famous comment, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”
1969 – Sesame Street premiered on PBS TV.
NOVEMBER 11
1620 – The Mayflower Compact was signed by Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower.
1992 – The Church of England voted to ordain women as priests.
NOVEMBER 12
Janet Fash was born.
1942 – The World War II battle of Guadalcanal begins.
1954 – Ellis Island stopped serving as the chief immigration station for the United States. Twenty million immigrants went through Ellis Island in its 62 years of operation.
NOVEMBER 13
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.
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.
1806 – Explorer Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop now known as Pikes Peak.
1969 – About 250,000 protesters against the Vietnam War, the largest war protest ever, converged peacefully on Washington, DC.
NOVEMBER 16
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.
