December 1. Aleister Crowley dies in 1947.
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December 1, 1947. Aleister Crowley dies. Magician’s poster with all the hobgoblins and demonic forces that pleased Crowley so much.
November 30. At Glasgow England and Scotland play the first international football match in 1872.
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November 30, 1872. Two teams of cats play a football match on a Dutch postcard from the 1930s.
November 29. Sand Creek Massacre led by John Chivington shocks Colorado in 1864.
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November 29, 1864. Chromolithographic die cut, to incite white violence, of a Massacre from a Victorian scrapbook, circa 1880.
November 28. In Nashville, Tennessee the Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in 1925.
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November 28, 1925. Advertising photographic postcard for Happy Johnny and Handsome Bob the Cowboy musicians, from the around 1940.
November 27. George Custer leads attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land, 1868.
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November 27, 1868. One panel of a stereo view of the Little Big Horn battlefield in Montana, where Custer met his hubristic end in 1876.
November 26. Thanksgiving Day proclaimed as national holiday by Abraham Lincoln in 1863.
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November 26, 1863. And what a great holiday it is, this 1910 postcard proclaims.
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 23. Boss Tweed, ex-NYC Mayor is captured in Spain, fleeing American justice, in 1876.
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November 23, 1876. Sheet music published for political boss William H. Tweed during his heyday in the mid 1860s.
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 21. Deaths total 21 in Canoe River Train Crash, British Columbia in 1950.
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November 21, 1950. Real photo postcard of a head-on train crash from an unknown location about 1930.
November 20. Kennesaw Mountain Landis is born in 1866.
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November 20, 1866. Kennesaw Mountain Landis joins Ford Frick and William Harridge in the Cooperstown Post Office during the opening week of the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939.
November 19. Near the city of Odessa, Ukraine a large meteor crashes in 1881.
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November 19, 1881. The meteor Ponato landed in Italy in 1839.
November 18. Time Zones regulated by American and Canadian railroad systems in 1883.
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November 18, 1883. The railroads ruled all travel in the late 19th Century. This elaborate lithograph depicts the power and grandeur of the Iron Horse, from circa 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.
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