November 16, 1824: New York City’s Fifth Avenue opens for business.
November 17, 1968: Viewers of the Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts the movie Heidi instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S.
November 17, 1967: NASA’s Surveyor 6 makes a six-second flight on the moon, the first liftoff from the lunar surface.
**November 18, 1755 **: The Cape Ann Earthquake in Boston occurs. Estimated today between a 6.0 and a 6.3, this is the strongest earthquake in Massachusetts history. Some speculate this quake could have somehow been related to the Lisbon Quake back on November 1st of the same year.
November 18, 1978: Jonestown, Guyana. 918 members of the Peoples’ Temple are murdered or commit suicide under the leadership of cult leader Jim Jones.
November 18, 2003: The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules 4–3 that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, making Massachusetts the first state in the United States to grant marriage rights to same-sex couples.
Nov 18, 1928 - Mickey mouse makes his film debut in Steamboat Willie, the first animated talking picture.
November 19, 1984: The San Juanico Disaster occurs when a liquid petroleum gas tank farm explodes in Mexico. 500 to 600 are killed, 7000+ are injured.
Seven score and thirteen years ago,
On November 19, 1863, at the dedication of a military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, during the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the most memorable speeches in American history. In just 272 words, Lincoln brilliantly and movingly reminded a war-weary public why the Union had to fight, and win, the Civil War.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
November 19, 1998: The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton.
NM, already posted byIgnatz.
November 19, 1969: Charles Conrad and Alan Bean become the second and third men to walk on the moon.
Actually they were the third and fourth. Armstrong and Aldrin were the first and second.
November 20, 1980: Louisiana’s Lake Peigneuris permanently turned from a freshwater lake to a saltwater one when Texaco accidentally drills into a salt mine below the lake.
November 21, 1847: The steamship *Phoenix *catches fire on Lake Michigan. Over 200 people aboard are lost.
November 21, 1976: the movie, Rocky, debuted.
November 21, 1877: Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph.
November 21, 1783: Pilâtre de Rozier & the Marquis d’Arlandes, made the first, manned, free ascent in a balloon, flying the Montgolfier Brothers built aerostat for about 5.5 miles (9 km) in approximately 25 minutes.
November 21, 1922: Rebecca L. Felton, from Georgia, was sworn in as the first woman to serve in the US Senate.
November 22, 1842: Mount St. Helens erupts.