This Week in History

NOVEMBER 6

William Hickey was born.

Vinnie Furlong was born.

1860 – Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States.

1913 – Mohandas Gandhi led a march of miners in South Africa.

NOVEMBER 7

Donald Olsen was born.

Brian Hullah was born.

Jennifer Mollaghan was born.

Victoria Meier was born.

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.

NOVEMBER 8

Victoria Moriarty James was born.

Courtney Cullen Barcavage was born.

Peggy Vasselman was born.

Nora Capek was born.

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.

NOVEMBER 9

Ellen Rayder Collins was born.

John Doherty was born.

Patricia Radigan was born.

1888 – Jack the Ripper killed his last victim, Mary Jane Kelly.

1989 – Borders between East and West Germany were opened and the Berlin Wall began to be dismantled the next day.

NOVEMBER 10

Mick Schramm was born.

Mark Mina was born.

Ryan Woerner was born.

Christine Casares was born.

Michelle Giambra 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

Jacklyn Quinn was born.

Janet Fash was born.

Marie Potter was born.

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.

2001- American Airlines Flight 587 crashed down in Belle Harbor.