This Week in History

NOVEMBER 7

Jennifer Mollaghan was born.

Don Olsen was born

Brian Hullah was born

Mickey Boehm Green 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 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 … until this week.

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

Mike 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

Jaci 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.

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.