November 15. Inaugural date for NBC Radio System in 1926.
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November 15, 1926. Real photo postcard of National Broadcasting Company headquarters in Hollywood, California, c.1950.
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 13. In Paris, for the Rugby League World Cup, Great Britain over France in 1954.
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November 13, 1954. Pixies play rugby in a cartoon game, on an advertising card from circa 1890 promoting agricultural fertilizer.
November 12. Robert Scott and his exploration team found frozen in Anarctic in 1912.
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November 12, 1912. Advertising card for cast iron stoves using the dramatic world of the polar regions, circa 1890.
November 11. After an uprising of slaves, Nat Turner is lynched in Jerusalem, Virginia in 1831.
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November 11, 1831. The Motto of the slave-owning economy of the American South.
November 10. AT&T introduces direct dial telephone service in the U.S. in 1951.
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November 10, 1951. Photograph of the outmoded switchboard for directing telephone calls, from circa 1940.
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 8. Giant storm on the Great Lakes kills 250 in 1913.
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November 8, 1913. Litho art from the 1880s illustrates the Egyptian God of Storms churning up the seas.
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 5. Woodrow Wilson elected President of the United States in 1912.
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November 5, 1912. Sheet music celebrating the work on behalf of the League of Nations by Woodrow Wilson.
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.
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