This Week in History

NOVEMBER 2

Trish Sorensen was born.

1889 – North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states,

respectively.

NOVEMBER 3

Diana Darling was born.

1952 – Clarence Birdseye marketed the first frozen peas.

1957 – The Soviet Union sent the first animal, a dog named Laika, into space aboard the Sputnik II. Laika died in orbit.

NOVEMBER 4

John Shannon was born.

1842 – Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois.

2008 – Democratic senator Barack Obama wins the presidential election against Sen. John McCain, taking 338 electoral votes to McCain’s 161.

NOVEMBER 5

Howard Schwach was born.

Brian Van Dexter was born.

Brianne Carroll was born.

Caroline Intrabartolo was born.

1872 – Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for trying to vote in the presidential election (she was trying to vote for President Grant).

1994 – At 45, George Foreman became the oldest heavyweight champion when he knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas.

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. He was arrested three times in the first four days of the march.

NOVEMBER 7

Donald Olsen was born.

Brian Hullah was born.

Mickey Boehm Green was born.

Victoria Meier was born.

Jennifer Mollaghan 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 was born.

Courtney Cullen 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.