What Happened in November

Thursday, October 16, 2008

by Joe Bourland

Day Year Event

1	1864 1959	U.S. Post Offices begin selling money order Montreal Canadians goalie Jacques Plante is first hockey player to wear face mask
2	1889 1947	North Dakota & South Dakota become the 39^th and 40^th states Howard Hughes pilots the $25,000 Spruce Goose’s only flight out of Long Beach, CA
3	1903	Listerine trademark is registered
4	1862	Richard Gatling received a patent for the machine gun
5	1492 1911	Corn is discovered by the Spanish in Cuba 1^st Transcontinental flight arrives in California from New York in 82 hours and 4 minutes
6	1947	Meet the Press debuts on NBC
7	1916	Jeannette Rankin (R-Montana) becomes the first woman elected into the U.S. Congress
8	1956	Cecile B. Demille’s “The Ten Commandments” appears in the theaters
9	1944	The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet premiers on CBS radio station
10	1871	Journalist and explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley locates missing missionary Dr. David Livingstone in Central Africa—“Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”
11	1898	Nabisco (National Biscuit Company) opened its doors
12	1939	The first told origin of the Batman was in Detective Comics 33
13	1982	Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington D.C.
14	1851	Herman Melville’s classic, Moby Dick is published
15	1904	King C. Gillette introduced the safety disposable razor
16	2348BC	Noah’s flood ends
17	1928 1894	Walt Disney premieres his first cartoon with sound Steamboat Willie A Sunday comics section is published for the 1^st time in the New York World
18	1947	White glue became known as Elmer’s Glue
19	1954	The 1^st automatic toll collectors in American are installed in the Garden State Parkway in NJ
20	1919	Tucson AZ celebrates the opening of the 1^st municipal airport in the U.S.
21	1980	75% of the U.S primetime viewing audience watched season opener of Dallas to find out “who shot JR”
22	1906	In Berlin, SOS approved as the international distress signal
23	1936	First publication of Life Magazine
24	1874	Joseph Glidden introduced barbed wire fencing
25	1851	First North American chapter of the YMCA is organized
26	1942	Casablanca premiers in New York City
27	1889	Curtis Brady receives the 1^st license to drive a car through Central Park In New York
28	1846	Arm & Hammer Baking Soda
29	1890	First Army-Navy football game played at West Point, New York
30	1858	John Mason introduces the Mason jar—screw neck bottle