The History Shack

  OTD November 19th is the three hundredth twenty-third day of the year, and there are 42 days remaining until the end of the year.   Events 1794 – The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain signed Jay's Treaty, which attempted to resolve lingering problems from the American Revolutionary War. 1802 – The Garinagu arrive in British Honduras (present-day Belize). 1847 – The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railroad, is opened. 1911 – The Doom Bar in Cornwall claims two ships, Island Maid and Angele, killing the entire crew except the captain of the Angele. 1916 – Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures. 1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launched the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor. 1955 – National Review publishes its first issue. 1969 – Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th

  OTD November 18th is the three hundredth twenty-second day of the year, and there are 43 days remaining until the end of the year.   Events 326 – Pope Sylvester, I consecrated the old St. Peter's Basilica 401 – The Visigoths, led by King Alaric I, crossed the Alps and invaded northern Italy. 1493 – Christopher Columbus first sighted the island which is now known as Puerto Rico. 1803 – The Battle of Vertières, the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, is fought, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere. 1803—The Battle of Vertières, the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, is fought. It leads to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere. 1910—In their campaign for women's voting rights, hundreds of suffragettes marched to the British Parliament in London. Police beat several, newspaper attention embarrassed the authorities, and

  OTD November 17th is the three hundredth twenty-first day of the year, and there are 44 days remaining until the end of the year.   Events 1558 – Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England. 1603 – English explorer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason. 1800 – The United States Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C. 1820 – Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica. (The Palmer Peninsula is later named after him.) 1858 – Modified Julian Day zero. 1894 – H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts. 1947—American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, an essential element in the electronics revolution of the 20th century. 1968 – Viewers of the Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunit

  OTD November 16th is the three hundredth twentieth day of the year, and there are 45 days remaining until the end of the year.   Events 1532 – Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa at the Battle of Cajamarca. 1632 – King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden was killed at the Battle of Lützen during the Thirty Years' War. 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units capture Fort Washington from the Patriots. 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schöngrabern: Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Joachim Murat. 1822 – American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail. 1855 – David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now Zambia-Zimbabwe. 1871 – The National Rifle Association of America receives its charter from New York State. 1938 – Albert Hofmann first synthesized LSD

  OTD November 15th is the three hundredth nineteenth day of the year, and there are 46 days remaining until the end of the year.   Events 1532 – Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Incan Emperor Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging for a meeting in the city plaza the following day. 1777 – American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate, the Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation. 1806 – Pike Expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike spots a mountain peak near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It was later named Pikes Peak in his honor. 1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins his March to the Sea. 1920 – The Free City of Danzig is established. 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory. 1968 – The Cleveland Transit System became the first transit system in the

    OTD November 14th is the three hundredth eighteenth day of the year, and there are 47 days remaining until the end of the year.   Events 332 BC – Alexander the Great was crowned pharaoh of Egypt. 1680 – German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovered the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope. 1889 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days. 1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher. 1922 – The British Broadcasting Company began radio service in the United Kingdom. 1952 – The New Musical Express publishes the first regular UK Singles Chart. 1957 – The "Apalachin meeting" in rural Tioga County in upstate New York is raided by law enforcement; many high-level Mafia f