This Week in History
OCTOBER 31
Dennis O’Connor was born.
Marilyn Kohn was born.
1517 – Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace church, marking the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany.
1992 – Pope John Paul II admitted that the Roman Catholic Church had erred in convicting Galileo of heresy 350 years earlier.
NOVEMBER 1
Marianne Skippy Doyle was born.
Joe Keenan was born
Jim Sluyk was born.
Jeannine Morris was born.
1765 – The Stamp Act, the first direct tax on the American colonies, went into effect.
1952 – The United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb in a test in the Marshall Islands.
NOVEMBER 2
Trish Sorensen was born.
1889 – North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states,
respectively.
1959 – Twenty-One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admitted that
he had been given questions and answers in advance.
NOVEMBER 3
Diana Darling was born.
1957 – The Soviet Union sent the first animal, a dog named Laika, into space aboard the Sputnik II. Laika died in orbit.
NOVEMBER 4
Jim Mazza was born.
John Shannon was born.
1842 – Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois.
2008 – Barack Obama wins the presidential election against Sen. John McCain, taking 338 electoral votes to McCain’s 161.
NOVEMBER 5
Caroline Intrabartolo was born.
Howard Schwach was born.
Brian Van Dexter was born.
1872 – Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for trying to vote (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.