November Links

2008
SUNDAY	MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY	SATURDAY
						1 Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome were revealed to the public for the first time. (1512)
2 North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states. (1889)	3 Jack the Ripper kills his last victim. (1888)	4 1957: Russians launch dog into space	5 The game "Monopoly" was introduced by the Parker Brothers Company. (1935)	6 Benjamin Harrison of Indiana won the presidential election, defeating incumbent Grover Cleveland; (1888)	7 The Republican party is first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly magazine. (1874)	8 Born On This Day - Bram Stoker author d: 1912 (1847)
9 The fall of the Berlin Wall. (1989)	10 The children's educational program "Sesame Street" made its debut on PBS. (1969)	11 Veterans Day	12 Born On This Day - Sammy Sosa baseball (1968)	13 Walt Disney's new film Fantasia was released to the public. (1940)	14 Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick" was first published in the United States. (1851)	15 Social Security Administration approves the first unemployment check. (1939)
16 Those were the days - Archive	17 Elizabeth I ascended the English throne upon the death of Queen Mary. (1558)	18 The 21st president of the United States, Chester A. Arthur, died in New York at age 56. (1886)	19 Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg Address. (1863)	20 Born On This Day - Rick [Robert James] Monday baseball, broadcaster (1945)	21 North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the United States Constitution. (1789)	22 President John F. Kennedy, Jr. is assasinated.(1963)
23 Thanksgiving Day The first jukebox is installed at the Palais Royal Saloon in San Francisco. (1889)	24 Born On This Day - Dan Glickman U.S. Secretary of Agriculture in the Clinton Administration (1944)	25 The last British troops left New York City at the end of the American War of Independence. (1783)	26 The first college social fraternity, Kappa Alpha, was formed at Union College in Schenectady, New York. (1825)	27 University of Chicago doctors implant part of a woman's liver in her 21-month-old daughter in the nation's first living donor liver transplant. (1989)	28 Margaret Thatcher formally tenders her resignation to the Queen and leaves Downing Street for the last time. (1990)	29 United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii. (1887)
30 Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as author Mark Twain, was born in Florida, Missouri. (1835)