This Week in History

November 20

Maureen Blue-Kraus was born.

Thomas Tyne was born

1945 – The war crimes trials of 24 German World War II leaders began in Nuremberg, Germany.

1962 – President John F. Kennedy agreed to lift the American blockade of Cuba, ending the Cuban missile crisis.

November 21  

Maribel Araujo was born.

Brian Dickesheid was born.

Elizabeth Feeney was born.

Frank Gulluscio was born.

1922 – Georgia’s Rebecca Felton was sworn into the U.S. Senate, becoming the first woman U.S. Senator.

1973 – The 18 1/2 minute gap in the Richard Nixon Watergate tapes was revealed.

November 22

Grace Acquafredda was born.

James Dionne was born.

Maureen Hagner was born.

Dan Mirkin was born.

Jay Butler was born.

1963 – John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

November 23

Christopher Warren was born.

Nancy Re was born.

Mary Ryan was born.

Jackie Doherty was born.

1945- The United States stopped rations after World War II. However, sugar rations still existed.

November 24

Sheila Dalton was born.

Mary Sanford was born.

Keith “Bugsy” Goldberg was born.

Heidi Van Sluyk was born.

1963 – Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK’s accused assassin, in the garage of Dallas police headquarters.

November 25

Margaret Powers was born.

Jazmine Outlaw was born.

Jim Kohler was born.

2002 – President George W. Bush signed into law the Department of Homeland Security and named Tom Ridge as head.

November 26

Billy Heeran was born.

Cathi Ryan Lahey was born.

Robert Hauck was born.

1789 – The first national Thanksgiving Day in the U.S. was proclaimed by President George Washington.

2000 – Katherine Harris certified George W. Bush the winner in Florida’s presidential balloting.