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Nov. 1
1501
Amerigo Vespucci discovers Bahia de Todos Santos on the coast of Brazil
1894
The last Czar, Nicholas II succeeds his father
1956
The Hungarian Revolution against Communist rule; Premier Imre Nagy delares Hungary a neutral state and requests help from the United Nations
November 2
1164
Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas a Becket begins six year exile in France
1637
Charles Harvard arrives in Massachusetts bay Colony
1783
Congress disbands the Continental Army after the American Revolution
1917
Great Britain issues the Balfour Declaration, stating intent to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine
November 3
1839
Ottoman Sultan Abdulmecid I issus the "Noble Edict of the Rose Chamber", a decree granting equality to all his subjects, regardless of race or creed
1914
Mary Jacob wins patent for first bra
November 4
1918
one week before the Armistice, great English poet Wilfred Owen is killed in action
1956
Soviet tanks roll into Budapest to stop Hungary's political reform movement
1979
in Iran, the US embassy (and 90 hostages) are siezed
1995
Israei Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated
November 5
1605
the Gunpowder Plot to destroy the UK Parliament is uncovered
1891
future Nobel Prize Wimmer Marie Curie enrolls for classes in the Sorbonne; on this same date in 1906 she becomes that college's first female physics professor
November 6
1600
Ishida Mitsunari is executed following his loss in the Batlle of Sekigahara; this loss assured the rise to power of the Tokugawa family, who became the Shoguns of Japan until 1868
1860
Abraham Lincoln elected as Preident of the USA
1917
Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
November 7
305BC
Ptolomy assumes kingship of Egypt (last of his line will be the famous Cleopatra VII)
1917
Kerensky flees Russia, the Bolsheviks take power
1921
Mussolini is picked as leader by Italian nationals congress
November 8
392
Roman Empire outlaws paganism
1519
Cortez enters Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan
1864
Abraham Lincoln reelected as US president
1923
Adolf Hitler launches his Beer Hall Putsch, his first attempt at siezing power
more will follow later, but hopefully this can get some debates rolling on some of these events in world history.
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