November 25. Thanksgiving Day tornado outbreak ravages MidWest in 1926.
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November 25, 1926. Amusement out of fear is produced by this promotional card from about 1880.
November 24. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell is published in 1877.
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November 24, 1877. A beautiful black horse decorates this 1930s orange crate label from Southern California.
November 22. Inaugural date for the American Humane Society in 1954.
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November 22, 1954. Victorian die cut of a cute cat, long before the Humane Society existed, 1880.
November 17. The Fourteenth Dalai Lama is named in 1950.
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November 17, 1950. The Dalai Lama meets Mao Tse Tung.
November 16. In what is today Zimbabwe, David Livingstone is the first white person to see Victoria Falls in 1855.
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November 16, 1855. Comical trade card showing Doctor Henry Stanley in search of the explorer Livingstone, printed around 1885.
November 14. Herman Melville’s ‘Moby Dick’ is published in 1851.
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November 14, 1851. A white whale is created using Soapine, on an advertising card from around 1880.
November 9. Society of United Irishmen founded in Dublin in 1791.
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November 9, 1791. Class warfare in Ireland as depicted in an 1899 cartoon from Dublin.
November 7. The Battle of Tippecanoe fought in territory of Indiana, 1791.
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November 7, 1791. Advertising trade card using the Battle of Tippecanoe as a theme, from circa 1890.
November 6. Jefferson Davis elected President of the Confederate States of America, 1861.
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November 6, 1861. Cartoon of Jefferson Davis as a ass, from a Union mailing envelope, circa 1862.
November 4. The Arno River floods the City of Florence, Italy in 1966.
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November 6, 1966. Gouache painting of ghosts in Florence, Italy by Mark Rucker, 1978.
November 3. Bank of Montreal, the first in Canada, opens in 1817.
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November 3, 1817. Stereo view of the Bank of Montreal within the largest city in Quebec, c 1860.
November 2. First meeting of the Soviet Military Committee initiating the Russian Revolution in 1917.
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November 2, 1917. Dramatic poster celebrating the magnificent accomplishments of Comrade Lenin in the Soviet Union, circa 1970.
November 1. At Whitehall Palace in London ‘Othello’ is first performed in 1611.
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November 1, 1611. Advertising lithographic card for the famous actor Thomas Keene playing the role of Othello, circa 1885.
October 31. Work on Mount Rushmore is complete in South Dakota in 1941.
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October 31, 1941. Work on Mount Rushmore is complete in South Dakota. Photographic postcard of Mount Rushmore under construction in the mid-1930s.
October 30. Jackie Robinson signs contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1945.
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October 30, 1945. Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Photo of Robinson and Dodger manager Leo Durocher in March of 1947 shaking hands…
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