A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on November 9th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On November 9, 694, the Seventeenth Council of Toledo opened, a third round ordered by Egica, King of the Visigoths (Spain), a council of Bishops of the Christian Church. On November 9, 1913, The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the North American lakes, destroyed 19 ships and killed more than 250 people. On November…

A Brief History On November 9, 1993, the Mostar Bridge, also known as the Stari Most, collapsed due to bombing by Croatian forces in the Croat–Bosniak War of 1992 to 1994.  Located in Mostar, the capital of Herzegovina, the bridge was completed in 1566. Digging Deeper Too many times historical buildings, structures, or art works are lost because of wars.  Today, we take a look at some of those precious items destroyed by human stupidity. Dating back to 529 and mostly built in the 16th and 17th Centuries, the Allies reluctantly bombed the Monastery at Monte Cassino, Italy in 1944,…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on November 8th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On November 8, 1520, the Stockholm Bloodbath began, an event that followed the successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces and resulted in the execution of around 100 people. On November 8, 1837, Mary Lyon founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later became Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. On November 8, 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen (or Röntgen) discovered what…

A Brief History On November 8, 1965, a North Vietnamese force of 1,200 soldiers ambushed 400 of the US Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade West of the Dong Nai River and paid dearly for their disregard of American military prowess. Digging Deeper In a search and destroy mission called Operation Hump, the US Army was roaming South Vietnam hoping to find and engage North Vietnamese forces to force a battle that would diminish the Communist forces.  As often happened during the US war in Vietnam, it was the Vietnamese that found the Americans first and initiated contact. Although the outnumbered American…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on November 7th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On November 7, 921, the Treaty of Bonn was signed by two Frankish kings, Charles the Simple and Henry the Fowler. On November 7, 1492, the same year that Christopher Columbus made his epic voyage to the New World, a large meteor fell on the town of Ensisheim, Alsace, Austria, in what is now France. On November 7, 1775, in an announcement…