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A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on November 30th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On November 30 1016, Edmund Ironside, also known as Edmund II or even Ēadmund Isernside (in Old English), was murdered on his “throne,” stabbed to death as he attended to “business.” On November 30, 1718, while manning a front line trench in a battle in Norway, the King of Sweden, Charles XII, was killed by either a musket ball or a grape…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on November 29th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On November 29, 800, the Frankish King Charlemagne (aka, Charles I) traveled to Rome and The Vatican to investigate charges of adultery and perjury against Pope Leo III, another soap opera in the long saga of the papacy. On November 29, 1729, the Native American Natchez people who had been living peacefully with their French colonist neighbors in the area of what…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on November 28th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On November 28, 1893, the women of New Zealand became the first women in the world to vote in a national election. On November 28, 1895, the first American auto race took place, the Chicago Times-Herald Race, a 54 mile event with a grand prize of $5,000. On November 28, 1925, a one hour “barn dance” radio show began in Nashville, Tennessee…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on November 27th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On November 27, 1095, Pope Urban II announced at the Council of Clermont (in Clermont, France) before a mixed council of clergy and lay people (landholding nobles) a call to arms that would become known as the First Crusade, a Catholic invasion of the Moslem world with the goal of “liberating” Jerusalem and the Holy Sites and putting them back in Christian…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on November 26th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper Okay, so we know Abraham Lincoln created the Thanksgiving holiday on November 26, 1863, but what do Wallachians have to be thankful for? On November 26, 1883, at the age of 86, Sojourner Truth, perhaps the greatest African-American woman advocate of Civil Rights died of natural causes, ending one of if not the greatest life of fighting for African-American rights. On November…