Nov. 1: All Hallows Day, also known as All Saints Day among Roman Catholics, commemorating those who have no special feast day. Daniel Boone (1734-1820) was born in Berks County, near Reading, Pennsylvania. Nov. 3, 1534: King Henry VIII became Supreme Head of the Church of England following the passage of the Act of Supremacy by Parliament. Nov. 5: Remembered as Guy Fawkes Day in Britain, for the anniversary of the failed Gunpowder Plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament and King James I in 1605. Nov. 7, 1990: Mary Robinson became Irelands first female president. Nov. 11, 1992: The Church of England voted to allow women to become priests. Nov. 17, 1993: The United Nations opened its first war crimes tribunal since the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials following World War II. Judges from 11 nations were sworn in to examine recent mass murders in Yugoslavia characterized as ethnic cleansing. Nov. 21, 1783: The first free balloon flight took place in Paris as Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier and Marquis Francois Laurent dArlandes ascended in a Montgolfier hot air balloon. Their flight lasted about 25 minutes and carried them nearly six miles at a height of about 300 feet over Paris. Benjamin Franklin was one of the spectators. Nov. 26, 1979: After an absence of 21 years, the International Olympic Committee voted to re-admit China. Nov. 26, 1992: British Prime Minister John Major announced Queen Elizabeth II had agreed to pay taxes on her personal income. Nov. 26, 1998: In Dublin, Tony Blair became the first British Prime Minister to appear before the Irish Parliament, which had been created 80 years earlier in defiance of the British government. Nov. 27, 1701: Anders Celsius (1701-1744) was born in Sweden. He invented the centigrade (Celsius) temperature scale commonly used in Europe. Nov. 28, 1520: Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan passed through the strait (of Magellan) located at the southern tip of South America, thus crossing from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific. Nov. 28, 1821: Panama declared itself independent from Spain and joined the fledgling nation of Gran Colombia. Nov. 28, 1905: Irish political party Sinn Fein was founded in Dublin by Arthur Griffith. Nov. 28, 1919: Lady Nancy Astor was elected as the first female in the British House of Commons. Nov. 28, 1934: FBI agents killed bank robber George Baby Face Nelson near Barrington, Ill. Nov. 28, 1942: Fire erupted inside the Coconut Grove nightclub in Boston killing nearly 500 persons who had become trapped inside. Nov. 28, 1943: The Teheran Conference began, attended by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin. Among the major topics discussed: a second front in Western Europe, resulting in D-Day, the seaborne invasion of Normandy in northern France on June 6, 1944. Nov. 29, 1864: U.S. Army troops led by Colonel John Chivington attacked and killed at least 400 Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians at Sand Creek, Colo., after they had already surrendered. Nov. 29, 1890: The first Imperial Diet was opened in Japan, consisting of a House of Peers and a House of Representatives. Nov. 29, 1929: American explorer Richard Byrd and Bernt Balchen completed the first airplane flight to the South Pole. Nov. 29, 1947: Palestine was partitioned into Jewish and Arab land by the U.N. General Assembly, resulting in the establishment of the Jewish state of Israel the following year. Nov. 29, 1989: Forty-one years of Communist rule came to an end in Czechoslovakia following a twelve day revolution sparked by the beating of protesters. The Czech parliament voted unanimously to repeal constitutional clauses granting the Communist Party sole power. This brought a wave of reform headed by playwright Vaclav Havel, who later became president in the first free elections since World War II. Nov. 30, 1700: The Battle of Narva occurred as eight thousand Swedish troops under King Charles XII invaded Norway, defeating a force of 50,000 Russians. Nov. 30, 1782: A provisional peace treaty was signed between Great Britain and the United States heralding the end of Americas War of Independence. The final treaty was signed in Paris on Sept. 3, 1783. It declared the U.S. ...to be free, sovereign and independent states... and that the British Crown ...relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety and territorial rights of the same, and every part thereof.
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