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18th November 1872: Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting in a Presidential election

Anthony and fourteen other women successfully cast their votes despite it being illegal under federal ...

17th November 1978: CBS broadcast the heavily-criticised Star Wars Holiday Special

13 million people tuned in, securing it the second-highest audience share, but the film garnered an almost universally-negative ...

16th November 1933: The USA establishes formal diplomatic relations with the USSR

Roosevelt announced the establishment of formal diplomatic relations with the USSR on 16 November, and appointed William C. Bullitt as the first Ambassador to the Soviet ...

12th November 1970: A dead whale is blown up with dynamite by the Oregon State Highway Division

The Oregon State Highway Division blew up a dead whale that had washed up on a ...

9th November 1979: A computer error at NORAD reports that the USSR had fired hundreds of nuclear missiles at the USA

When news of the incident reached the Soviet Union, party leader Leonid Brezhnev wrote to Carter condemning the ‘tremendous danger’ caused by the ...

8th November 1861: The Trent Affair nearly causes a war between Britain and the United States

When news of the interception of a neutral ship reached Britain at the end of November, the government responded ...

3rd November 1868: John Willis Menard became the first African-American to be elected to Congress

Running against Caleb S. Hunt, Menard secured approximately 64 percent of the vote, and on 3 November 1868 became the first African-American person to be elected to the United States ...

2nd November 1988: Release of the Morris Worm signalled the first major internet security attack

By the time the attack was brought under control over the next few days, between 2,000 and 6,000 major systems had been ...

1st November 1765: The Stamp Act went into force in the Thirteen Colonies

The Stamp Act levied a direct tax on American colonists without ...

29th October 1964: ‘Murf the Surf’ and two accomplices carry out the biggest jewel heist in New York’s history

‘Murf the Surf’ and two accomplices committed the biggest jewel heist in New York’s history when they stole priceless gems from the American Museum of Natural ...