This Week in History

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.

1497 – Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama became the first navigator to sail around the Cape of Good Hope in his search for a sea route to India.

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.

Mary O’Brien 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.

November 27

Katie Honan was born.

Melissa Fallon was born.

Prerana Reddy was born.

Kathryn Dennis was born.

1910 – New York’s Pennsylvania Station opened.