Major World Events Narrowcast for November 15 to 19
Highlights from history include Bloody Sunday clashes in London on November 13 1887 the 1956 US Supreme Court ruling striking down Alabama bus segregation the 1970 Bhola cyclone deadliest in history the 1982 Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedication and the 1920 League of Nations first assembly Geneva notable political changes include 1939 F D Roosevelt cornerstone for Jefferson Memorial 1969 large antiwar march and 2002 Hu Jintao rising to Communist Party leadership 2006 Al Jazeera English launch.
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London
Supreme Court
Alabama
Bangladesh
Washington, D.C
League of Nations
Geneva
Franklin Roosevelt
Jefferson Memorial
Vietnam
Hu Jintao
China
Communist Party
Jiang Zemin
al Jazeera English
Notable Firsts and Opened Lands in History
A concise chronology notes Oklahoma achieving statehood on November 14, 1907 as the 46th state. It recalls Congress meeting in the unfinished Capitol in 1800 in Washington, D.C. The Suez Canal opened in 1869, and the NRA received its New York charter in 1871.
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Oklahoma
U.S. State
United States Congress
Washington, D.C
Capitol Building
Suez Canal
National Rifle Association
New York
Chronology highlights five major events on Nov 18–19
Key dates recount landmark moments: railroads adopting standard time zones in 1883, Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willie sound cartoon in 1928, test marketing push button phones in 1963, lifting meat-eating bans by the Holy See in 1966, and Calvin and Hobbes first appearing in 1985. Also noted are Lincoln’s 1863 Gettysburg Address dedication, Sadat’s 1977 visit to Israel, and Reagan-Gorbachev summit in 1985.
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Walt Disney
Abraham Lincoln
Military Cemetery
Pennsylvania
Anwar Sadat
Israel
Menachem Begin
Ronald Reagan
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Thames River
Federal Reserve System of the
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Richard Nixon
Carnegie
Greensburg
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Calvin and Hobbes
Steamboat Willie