Today in History, January 16th

<p>A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, January 16th!</p>

<p>1547
Ivan IV (popularly known as Ivan the Terrible) was crowned czar of Russia.</p>

<p>
1786
The Council of Virginia guarantees religious freedom.</p>

<p>
1847
John C. Fremont, the famed Pathfinder of Western exploration, is appointed governor of California. </p>

<p>
1865
General William T. Sherman begins a march through the Carolinas.</p>

<p>
1900
The U.S. Senate recognizes the Anglo-German Treaty of 1899 by which the UK renounced its rights to the Samoan Islands.</p>

<p>
1909
One of Ernest Shackletons polar exploration teams reaches the Magnetic South Pole.</p>

<p>
1914
Maxim Gorky is authorized to return to Russia after an eight year exile for political dissidence. </p>

<p>
1920
The League of Nations holds its first meeting in Paris.</p>

<p>
1920
Allies lift the blockade...

Presidents and Sex Scandals

<p>Presidents and Their Sex ScandalsA Long Running Tradition
I mean, really? Does anyone believe this stuff?
That being said, it wouldnt be the first President of the United States to partake in a sexual relationship leading to a national scandal.
Anyone living todayand old enough to be surfing the web to read thisremembers the following:</p>

<p>I did not have sexual relations with that woman. Bill Clinton</p>

<p>Bill Clinton
This affair, with Monica Lewinsky, led to President Bill Clinton being impeached by the House of Representatives. (He was later acquitted by the Senate.) His career came to a stand still; however, it did launch the career of his wife, Hillary Clinton. In fact, in a video by Youtube sensation Philip Defranco, while covering the previous nights coverage of the 2013 Golden Globes, he referred to him as Hillary Clintons husband. Any other former president would have been recognized by name, but his scandal lowered his status to that b...

Today in History, January 15th

<p>A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, January 15th!</p>

<p>1559
Englands Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey. </p>

<p>
1624
Riots flare in Mexico when it is announced that all churches are to be closed.</p>

<p>
1811
In a secret session, Congress plans to annex Spanish East Florida.</p>

<p>
1844
The University of Notre Dame received its charter from the state of Indiana.</p>

<p>
1865
Union troops capture Fort Fisher, North Carolina.</p>

<p>
1913
The first telephone line between Berlin and New York is inaugurated.</p>

<p>
1919
Peasants in Central Russia rise against the Bolsheviks.</p>

<p>
1920
The Dry Law goes into effect in the United States. Selling liquor and beer becomes illegal. </p>

<p>
1920
The United States approves a $150 million loan to Poland, Austria and Armenia to aid in their war with the Russian communi...

Today in History, January 14th

<p>A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, January 14th!</p>

<p>1526
Francis of France, held captive by Charles V for a year, signs the Treaty of Madrid, giving up most of his claims in France and Italy.</p>

<p>
1639
Connecticuts first constitution, the Fundamental Orders, was adopted.</p>

<p>
1784
The United States ratified a peace treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War.</p>

<p>
1797
Napoleon Bonaparte defeats Austrians at Rivoli in northern Italy.</p>

<p>
1858
Emperor Napoleon and Empress Eugenie escape unhurt after an Italian assassin throws a bomb at their carriage as they travel to the Paris Opera. </p>

<p>
1864
Confederate President Jefferson Davis writes to General Joseph E. Johnson, observing that troops may need to be sent to Alabama or Mississippi.</p>

<p>
1898
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote Alices Adventures in Wonderland under the pen ...

The History of Victory Gardens

<h4>The History of Victory Gardens (Guest Post)</h4>
<p>Thanks to the efforts of community gardeners, locavores, and the First Lady, the victory garden has made a comeback in recent years. And it’s not just the province of hippies and hipsters — many neighborhoods in the inner cities of the United States have fully embraced the community garden model as a way to reduce crime and delinquency, bring up property values, and offset grocery costs. What many people don’t quite realize is that this current upsurge in garden enthusiasm has a precedent: the mass victory garden movement that began in World War I and really took off with World War II.</p>
<p>In 1917, a group of American politicians, intellectuals, conservationists, and social welfare activists formed the National War Garden Commission as a reaction to World War I’s detrimental effect on the food supply. Thanks to the collapse of intra-European trade relations, nations that had previously imported foo...

Today in History, January 13th

<p>A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, January 13th!</p>

<p>1794
President George Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the union.</p>

<p>
1808
Salmon P. Chase, U.S. senator, secretary of the treasury and chief justice of the Supreme Court, was born in Cornish, N.H. </p>

<p>
1846
President James Polk dispatches General Zachary Taylor and 4,000 troops to the Texas Border as war with Mexico looms.</p>

<p>
1862
President Lincoln names Edwin M. Stanton Secretary of War.</p>

<p>
1893
Britains Independent Labor Party, a precursor to the Labor Party, first met.</p>

<p>
1898
Novelist Emile Zolas Jaccuse a defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jew falsely convicted of treason was published in a Paris newspaper.</p>

<p>
1900
To combat Czech nationalism, Emperor Fr...

Army Pfc. Glenn S. Schoenmann, A Hero Laid to Rest

<h4>Army Pfc. Glenn S. Schoenmann, A Hero Laid to Rest – A Moment of Silence</h4>
<p>With the posting of this article, the funeral services for Glenn Schoenmann have commenced. Before you go any further, take a moment and be grateful for the men and women that have and will continue to protect our great nation.</p>
<p>Army Pfc. Glenn S. Schoenmann, prisoner of war held captive during the Korean War, will receive a proper burial today. Glenn Schoenmann will be buried with full military honors at the Brown’s Chapel Cemetery, in Palmer, Tennessee, in the same cemetery with his mother and father. Across the entire state of Tennessee, Governor Bill Haslam has ordered that flags be lowered to half-staff in honor of Private First Class Glenn Schoenmann.</p>
<p>Governor Haslam spoke sincere words about the grateful return of Schoenmann’s remains.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Schoenmann family has waited 62 years to give Glenn a proper buria...

Today in History, January 12th

<p>A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, January 12th!</p>

<p>
1519
Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I died.</p>

<p>
1773
The first public museum in America was established, in Charleston, S.C.</p>

<p>
1872
Russian Grand Duke Alexis goes on a gala buffalo hunting expedition with Gen. Phil Sheridan and Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. </p>

<p>
1879
The British-Zulu War begins. British troops — under Lieutenant General Frederic Augustus — invade Zululand from the southern African republic of Natal.</p>

<p>
1908
A wireless message is sent long-distance for the first time from the Eiffel Tower in Paris.</p>

<p>
1913
Kiel and Wilhelmshaven become submarine bases in Germany.</p>

<p>
1915
The U.S. Congress establishes Rocky Mountain National Park. </p>

<p>
1926
U.S. coal talks break down, leaving both sides bitter as the strike drags on into its fifth mont...

The History of Beef

<h4>The History of Beef (Guest Post)</h4>
<p>In prehistoric times, we lived as hunter-gatherers. The primitive man hunted and consumed wild animals, including the bovine in its many forms. Some of the oldest cave paintings, such as the one in Lascaux, France, depict aurochs, the ancestor of domestic cattle, being hunted.</p>
<p>As early as 8,000 BC man began domesticating animals including the bovine. The cattle came in two forms, one type Bos taurus came from Europe, and the other Bos indices came from South East Asia and Africa.</p>
<p>The Spanish brought cattle to the Americas through Mexico. Starting with Columbus himself on his second voyage in 1493, cattle began to make their way from Europe to the New World. The trend continued with the Spaniard Vera Cruz and Portuguese traders.</p>
<p>Later, in 1611, the English brought large numbers of cattle to North America, specifically to the Jamestown colony. The French and English col...

Today in History, January 11th

<p>A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, January 11th!</p>

<p>1757
American founding father Alexander Hamilton was born in the West Indies.</p>

<p>
1805
The Michigan Territory was created.</p>

<p>
1861
Alabama secedes from the Union.</p>

<p>
1862
Lincoln accepts Simon Camerons resignation as Secretary of War. </p>

<p>
1887
At Fort Smith, Arkansas, hangman George Maledon dispatches four victims in a multiple hanging.</p>

<p>
1904
British troops massacre 1,000 dervishes in Somaliland.</p>

<p>
1916
Russian General Yudenich launches a WWI winter offensive and advances west.</p>

<p>
1923
The French enter the town of Essen in the Ruhr valley, to extract Germanys resources as war payment.</p>

<p>
1934
The German police raid the homes of dissident clergy in Berlin.</p>

<p>
1940
Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., becomes the U.S. Armys first...

Today in History, January 10th

<p>A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, January 10th!</p>

<p>
1645
The Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, is beheaded on Tower Hill, accused of acting as an enemy of the British Parliament. </p>

<p>
1724
King Philip V shocks all of Europe when he abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, Louis.</p>

<p>
1811
An uprising of over 400 slaves is put down in New Orleans. Sixty-six blacks are killed and their heads are strung up along the roads of the city.</p>

<p>
1847
General Stephen Kearny and Commodore Robert Stockton retake Los Angeles in the last California battle of the Mexican War.</p>

<p>
1861
Florida secedes from the Union.</p>

<p>
1863
Londons Metropolitan, the worlds first underground passenger railway, opened to the public.</p>

<p>
1870
John D. Rockefeller and his brother William establish the Standard Oil Company of Ohio. </p>

<p&...

Today in History, January 9th!

<p>A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, January 9th!</p>

<p>
1719
Philip V of Spain declares war on France.</p>

<p>
1788
Connecticut became the fifth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.</p>

<p>
1792
The Ottomans sign a treaty with the Russians ending a five year war.</p>

<p>
1793
Jean Pierre Blanchard makes the first balloon flight in North America.</p>

<p>
1861
Southern shellfire stops the Union supply ship Star of the West from entering Charleston Harbor on her way to Fort Sumter.</p>

<p>
1861
Mississippi secedes from the Union.</p>

<p>
1908
Count Zeppelin announces plans for his airship to carry 100 passengers. </p>

<p>
1909
A Polar exploration team lead by Ernest Shackleton reaches 88 degrees, 23 minutes south longitude, 162 degrees east latitude. They are 97 nautical miles short of the South Pole, but the weather is too severe to continue...

Native American Dances and Meanings

<p>One of the most beautiful things about Native American culture is the rich forms of art this group has brought to America. Among forms of art such as painting, sculpting and storytelling, the truly unique quality of Native American dance makes it the most awe-inspiring and thought-provoking of them all. To the untrained eye, these Native American dances may look like nothing more than interesting movements designed to match the rhythm of a song. On the contrary, dances in this culture each have a deeper purpose and significance that exemplifies how powerful this medium can be in expressing an idea.</p>
<p><strong>1. Stomp Dance</strong></p>
<p>Practiced by the Chickasaw tribe, the traditional stomp dance begins with an announcement by one of the ground leaders, indicating that he will be leading the song. He then heads toward the ceremonial fire with a shell shaker, or rattle, in hand, leading the rest of the people behind him. Women and men...

History from the Web

I should be studying for a Biology final, but that is boring! Therefore, it is time for another segment of History from the Web! 

I received an email today from HNN.us (History News Network), with a subject line which said the following:

Best History Book of 2012?

This is definitely not spam, and I was glad to open this one. (Not to say that most of their email is spam…) You might remember that earlier in the year, I wrote an article about HNN’s Least Credible History Books. With so little time, this list was appreciated as I didn’t desire to waste my time reading “least credible” books. I was glad to see that they were putting out a list with the best history books of 2012. This way I know what I need to be reading. There are only so many books that one can read in a lifetime…

All this being said, today is the last day to suggest a “Best History Book of 2012″

Here is the text so you can click through and nominate your favorite book!

Email editor@hnn.us, tweet to @myHNN, or comment on Facebook or LinkedIn.

Once you do that, jump over to The History Vault and play a game of Guess Who! No, thank goodness it isn’t the children’s. There are five historical women portrayed in pictures. Can you guess who they are? I could not complete the list, and I believe that no one else has… so go check it out!

Do you know who this is?

Last but not least for today is a Pearl Harbor article. On the day of such a significant events in history, I generally don’t write about them. There are so many others–some better that I–writing about the topic, I like to read what they write. Out of all the Pearl Harbor pieces that I read, I can highly recommend Belle Grove Plantation’s We Will Never Forget.

http://hankeringforhistory.com/2012/12/11/history-from-the-web-2/

Today in history, Dec 7th!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on December 7th!

Today in history facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.

http://hankeringforhistory.com/2012/12/07/today-in-history-dec-7th/

43 BC	Cicero, considered one of the greatest sons of Rome, is assassinated on the orders of Marcus Antonius.
983	Otto III takes the throne after his father’s death in Italy. A power struggle between magnates ensues.
1787	Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1796	Electors chose John Adams to be the second president of the United States.
1808	James Madison is elected president in succession of Thomas Jefferson.
1836	Martin Van Buren was elected the eighth president of the United States.
1842	The New York Philharmonic gave its first concert.
1861	USS Santiago de Cuba, under Commander Daniel B. Ridgely, halts the British schoonerEugenia Smith and captures J.W. Zacharie, a New Orleans merchant and Confederate purchasing agent.
1862	Confederate forces surprise an equal number of Union troops at the Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas.
1863	Outlaw George Ives, an alleged member of an outlaw gang known as the “Innocents,” robs and then kills Nick Thiebalt in the Ruby Valley of what would become Montana.
1917	The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary with only one dissenting vote in Congress.
1918	Spartacists call for a German revolution.
1931	A report indicates that Nazis would ensure “Nordic dominance” by sterilizing certain races.
1941	Japanese planes raid Pearl Harbor in a surprise attack.
1942	The U.S. Navy launches USS New Jersey, the largest battleship ever built.
1946	The president of the United Mine Workers, John L. Lewis, orders all striking miners back to work.
1949	The A.F.L. and the C.I.O. organize a non-Communist international trade union.
1963	Videotaped instant replay was used for the first time in a live sports telecast during the Army-Navy football game on CBS.
1970	Poland and West Germany sign a pact renouncing the use of force to settle disputes, recognizing the Oder-Neisse River as Poland’s western frontier, and acknowledging the transfer to Poland of 40,000 square miles of former German territory.
1972	The crew of Apollo 17, the last manned mission to the moon, lifts off at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1981	The Reagan Administration predicts a record deficit in 1982 of $109 billion.
1982	A U.S. prisoner was executed by injection for the first time, in Huntsville, Texas.
1985	Retired Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart died at age 70.
1988	An earthquake in Armenia kills an estimated 100,000 people.
1993	A gunman opened fire on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train, killing six people and wounding 17. (Colin Ferguson was later sentenced to a minimum of 200 years in prison.)
1995	A 746-pound probe from the Galileo spacecraft hurtled into Jupiter’s atmosphere, sending back data to the mothership before it was destroyed.
2001	Taliban forces abandoned their last bastion in Afghanistan, fleeing the southern city of Kandahar.
2002	Iraq denied it had weapons of mass destruction in a declaration to the United Nations.
2004	Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan’s first popularly elected president.
2007	Baseball home run king Barry Bonds pleaded not guilty in San Francisco to charges he’d lied to federal investigators about using performance-enhancing drugs.

Today in history, Nov 27th!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on November 27th!

1826	Jedediah Smith’s expedition reaches San Diego, becoming the first Americans to cross the southwestern part of the continent.
1862	George Armstrong Custer meets his future bride, Elizabeth Bacon, at a Thanksgiving party.
1868	Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer’s 7th Cavalry kills Chief Black Kettle and about 100 Cheyenne (mostly women and children) on the Washita River.
1887	U.S. Deputy Marshall Frank Dalton, brother of the three famous outlaws, is killed in the line of duty near Fort Smith, Ark.
1901	The Army War College was established in Washington, D.C.
1904	The German colonial army defeats Hottentots at Warm bad in southwest Africa.
1909	U.S. troops land in Blue fields, Nicaragua, to protect American interests there.
1910	New York’s Pennsylvania Station opened.
1919	Bulgaria signs peace treaty with Allies at Unequally, France, fixing war reparations and recognizing Yugoslavian independence.
1922	Allied delegates bar the Soviets from the Near East peace conference.
1936	Great Britain’s Anthony Eden warns Hitler that Britain will fight to protect Belgium.
1942	The French navy at Toulon scuttled its ships and submarines to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.
1950	East of the Choosing River, Chinese forces annihilate an American task force.
1953	Playwright Eugene O’Neill died at age 65.
1954	Alger Hiss, convicted of being a Soviet spy, is freed after 44 months in prison.
1959	Demonstrators march in Tokyo to protest a defense treaty with the United States.
1967	Lyndon Johnson appoints Robert McNamara to presidency of the World Bank.
1967	Charles DeGaulle vetoes Great Britain’s entry into the Common Market again.
1970	Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, was slightly wounded at the Manila airport by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.
1970	Syria joins the pact linking Libya, Egypt and Sudan.
1973	The Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who had resigned.
1985	The British House of Commons approved the Anglo-Irish accord, giving Dublin a consultative role in the governing of British-ruled Northern Ireland.
2002	U.N. specialists began a new round of weapons inspections in Iraq.
2008	Iraq’s parliament approved a pact requiring all U.S. troops to be out of the country by Jan. 1, 2012.
2009	Golfer Tiger Woods crashed his SUV outside his Florida mansion, sparking widespread attention to reports of marital infidelity.
2009	Former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced daughter Chelsea’s engagement to longtime boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky.

Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.

http://hankeringforhistory.com/2012/11/27/today-in-history-nov-27th/

Today in history, Nov 16th!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on November 16th!

1798	British seamen board the U.S. frigate Baltimore and impress a number of crewmen as alleged deserters, a practice that contributed to the War of 1812.
1813	The British announce a blockade of Long Island Sound, leaving only the New England coast open to shipping.
1821	Trader William Becknell reaches Santa Fe, N.M., on the route that will become known as the Santa Fe Trail.
1902	A cartoon appears in the Washington Star, prompting the Teddy Bear Craze, after President Teddy Roosevelt refused to kill a captive bear tied up for him to shoot during a hunting trip to Mississippi.
1907	Oklahoma became the 46th state.
1913	Swann’s Way, the first volume of Marcel Proust’s 7-part novel Remembrance of Things Past, is published.
1920	Metered mail is born in Stamford, Connecticut with the first Pitney Bowes postage meter.
1933	The United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations.
1945	Eighty-eight German scientists, holding Nazi secrets, arrive in the United States.
1948	President Harry S Truman rejects four-power talks on Berlin until the blockade is removed.
1953	The United States joins in the condemnation of Israel for its raid on Jordan.
1955	The Big Four talks, taking place in Geneva on German reunification, end in failure.
1959	The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “The Sound of Music” opened on Broadway.
1960	After the integration of two all-white schools, 2,000 whites riot in the streets of New Orleans.
1965	In the last day of the fighting at Landing Zone X-Ray, regiments of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division repulse NVA forces in the Ia Drang Valley.
1966	Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard was acquitted in his second trial on charges of murdering his pregnant wife, Marilyn, in 1954.
1967	U.S. planes hit Haiphong shipyard in North Vietnam for the first time.
1973	Skylab 4, with three astronauts on board, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on an 84-day mission.
1973	President Richard M. Nixon signed the Alaska Pipeline measure into law.
1982	The space shuttle Columbia completes its first operational flight.
1982	An agreement was announced in the 57th day of a strike by National Football League players.
1988	Estonia’s parliament declared the Baltic republic sovereign.
1995	Attorney General Janet Reno disclosed that she had Parkinson’s disease.
2001	Congress passed a law mandating that airport screeners be federal employees.
2004	President George W. Bush picked National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to be secretary of state, succeeding Colin Powell.
2010	U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel was convicted on 11 of 13 charges related to financial misconduct, prompting fellow lawmakers to censure the 80-year-old New York Democrat.
2010	The engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton was announced in London.
2010	President Barack Obama presented the Medal of Honor to Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta, the first living service member from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars to receive the nation’s top military award.

Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.

http://hankeringforhistory.com/2012/11/16/today-in-history-nov-16th/

History from the Web

It is 2:00 a.m. local time, and I cannot sleep. What better time to have a segment of…history from the web? After tossing and turning–for what seems like an eternity–I quietly sneaked out of my bed and slinked down the hall. My wife is never fond of rolling over and finding me gone, but what am I to do? I pull out my laptop and start scouring the internet for history. There are always great finds, but I am looking for blogs. If I type “history” in my Google search and your site pops up, you are probably too mainstream for me. Sorry, History Channel!

I have never found a great way to search Blogger blogs, so I generally spend most my time on Tumblr or WordPress. In looking through WordPress, I stumbled across several excellent sites. The first of these was a “this day in history” site. Aviation History Project has daily post with aviation events that occurred on this day in history. So if planes are your thing, go check them out.

I ran across a site, with a post titled Civil War 2.0. The author of the post says what we are all thinking,

Does history really repeat itself?

If you aren’t aware, there are currently 20 states that are gathering signatures, on a petition, to secede from the United States of America. Last I heard, Texas almost had the required number of signatures to make it a real policy, they were only 2,000 short.. (By now they probably have the 25,000 necessary.) Below is a map of the states that have filed petitions.

I am not surprised at most of these, as most voted for Romney. Colorado and Florida were somewhat surprising, but oh man…Oregon, New York, and New Jersey. Those are Democrat states. I am interested to see how this unfolds.

The last interesting blog post that I ran across was “Trivial Sex Facts About the Victorian Era.” I don’t want to steal the author’s thunder, but I will tell you this… King George IV had a very interesting ‘romantic souvenir’ that he kept from his lovers. So go check out the site.

Most importantly, I want to see your blogs! Comment below with your blog site so I can check it out, or go to Hankering for History’s blogroll and leave your site there so that I will add it to the blogroll feed.

http://hankeringforhistory.com/2012/11/13/history-from-the-web/

Today in history, Nov 11th!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on November 11th!

Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll
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http://hankeringforhistory.com/2012/11/11/today-in-history-nov-11th/

1499	Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is executed.
1620	Forty-one Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, anchored off Massachusetts, signed a compact calling for a “body politick.”
1778	Indians, led by William Butler, massacre the inhabitants of Cherry Valley, N.Y.
1831	Nat Turner, a slave who led a revolt against slave owners, is hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia.
1889
1909	Construction begins on the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
1918	The German leaders sign the armistice ending World War I.
1919	The first two-minutes’ silence is observed in Britain to commemorate those who died in the Great War.
1921	President Warren G. Harding dedicated the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
1922	Canada’s Vernon McKenzie urges to fight U.S. propaganda with taxes on U.S. magazines.
1933	The first of the great dust storms of the 1930s hits North Dakota.
1935	Albert Anderson and Orvil Anderson set a new altitude record in South Dakota, when they float to 74,000 feet in a balloon.
1940	Britain’s Royal Navy attacks the Italian fleet at Taranto.
1944	Private Eddie Slovik is convicted of desertion and sentenced to death for refusing to join his unit in the European Theater of Operations.
1953	The polio virus is identified and photographed for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1965	Rhodesia proclaimed its independence from Britain.
1966	The United States launches Gemini 12, a two-man orbiter, into orbit.
1970	U.S. Army Special Forces raid the Son Tay prison camp in North Vietnam but find no prisoners.
1972	The U.S. Army turned over its base at Long Binh to the South Vietnamese army, symbolizing the end of direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War.
1973	Israel and Egypt sign a cease-fire.
1973	The Soviet Union is kicked out of World Cup soccer for refusing to play Chile.
1987	An unidentified buyer buys Vincent Van Gogh’s painting “Irises” from the estate of Joan Whitney Payson for $53.9 million at Sotheby’s in New York.
1992	The Church of England voted to ordain women as priests.
1998	Israel’s Cabinet narrowly ratified a land-for-peace agreement with the Palestinians.
2000	Republicans went to court seeking an order to block manual recounts from continuing in Florida’s presidential election.
2000	A cable car crammed with skiers and snowboarders caught fire while being pulled through an Alpine tunnel in Austria, killing 155 people.
2004	Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died in Paris at age 75.

Events that happened today in history, Nov 5th!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on November 5th!

1219	The port of Damietta falls to the Crusaders after a siege.
1556	The Emperor Akbar defeats the Hindus at Panipat and secures control of the Mogul Empire.
1605	Guy Fawkes is betrayed and arrested in an attempt to blow up the British Parliament in the “Gunpowder Plot.” Ever since, England has celebrated Guy Fawkes Day.
1653	The Iroquois League signs a peace treaty with the French, vowing not to wage war with other tribes under French protection.