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November |
| 1-Nov |
Australia abolishes peace-time compulsory military training. (1929) |
| 1-Nov |
A London organization sent a delegation of women to Geneva to lobby representatives at a test ban conference to push for an end to nuclear testing. (1958) |
| 1-Nov |
McDonald's, under pressure from environmental groups, said it would replace plastic food containers with paper. (1990) |
| 2-Nov |
President Ronald Reagan signs a bill designating a federal holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1983) |
| 3-Nov |
Washington orders the Continental Army disbanded.(1783) |
| 3-Nov |
US Supreme Court declares Native Americans to be "aliens" (1883) |
| 4-Nov |
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is fatally shot minutes after attending a peace rally held in Tel Aviv's Kings Square in Israel. (1995) |
| 5-Nov |
Italians are the first to drop bombs from airplanes when they bombed an oasis in Libya. (1911) |
| 5-Nov |
Bobby Seale, the founder of the Black Panther Party, is sentenced to four years in prison on sixteen counts of contempt of court during the Chicago Eight trial in Chicago. (1969) |
| 5-Nov |
Goban Mbeki, an early leader of the African National Congress, was released from Robben Island prison after serving twenty-four years. (1987) |
| 6-Nov |
The United States exploded the world's first hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific. (1952) |
| 6-Nov |
The Iran-Contra affair, a scandal that involved the illegal selling of arms to Iran to fund
anti-communist guerrilla forces in Nicaragua, was revealed to the American public. (1986) |
| 7-Nov |
Abolitionist editor Elijah Lovejoy dies defending his printing press, Alton, IL (1837) |
| 7-Nov |
Jeannette Rankin, America's first Congresswoman, was elected in Montana. (1916) |
| 7-Nov |
New Jersey becomes the first state to allow girls into the little league. (1973) |
| 8-Nov |
Dorothy Day born (1897) |
| 8-Nov |
Trail of Broken Treaties march occupies Bureau of Indian Affairs, Wash., DC (1972) |
| 9-Nov |
78 Native Americans take over Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, CA (1969) |
| 9-Nov |
Berlin Wall falls (1989) |
| 10-Nov |
Society for Human Rights, first gay rights organization in U.S., founded in Chicago (1924) |
| 10-Nov |
Kristalnacht - across Germany, Nazis murder dozens of Jews, attack synagogues and loot stores in open terror that leads to holocaust (1938) |
| 11-Nov |
A Roman Catholic priest in Berlin, Provost Lichtenberg, preached in a sermon that he wanted to be deported to the East with the Jews to be and pray with them. He was. (1941) |
| 11-Nov |
250,000 march for abortion rights in Washington, DC (1989) |
| 12-Nov |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, spokeswoman for the human rights of women, was born in Johnstown, NY. (1815) |
| 13-Nov |
The first recorded "sit-down" strike in the US was staged by workers at the Hormel Packing Company in Austin, Minn. (1933) |
| 13-Nov |
1,000 celebrate 300th anniversary of first Quaker peace protest with silent vigil at Pentagon (1960) |
| 13-Nov |
US Supreme Court rules segregation is unconstitutional on public buses. (1956) |
| 13-Nov |
The Vietnam War Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.(1982) |
| 14-Nov |
Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is released after 11 months in prison. (1989) |
| 15-Nov |
The NY General assembly permits Jews to omit phrase "upon the faith of a Christian" from abjuration oath. (1727) |
| 15-Nov |
US Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE) founded (1957) |
| 15-Nov |
500,000 peacefully demonstrate in Wash DC against Vietnam War (1969) |
| 16-Nov |
Six Jesuit priests murdered by Salvadoran military (1989) |
| 17-Nov |
New York newspaper publisher Peter Zenger is arrested and imprisoned for seditious libel against New York Governor William Cosby. (1734) |
| 17-Nov |
Reformer and children's rights advocate Grace Abbott born in Grand Island, NE. (1878) |
| 17-Nov |
Samuel Gompers organized the forerunner of the American Federation of Labor. (1888) |
| 18-Nov |
Birth of Sojourner Truth, feminist, abolitionist, former slave (1787) |
| 18-Nov |
The National Women's Christian Temperance Union was organized in Cleveland, Ohio. (1888) |
| 18-Nov |
South Africa's ruling National Party and leaders of 20 other parties representing blacks and whites approved a new national constitution that provides fundamental rights to blacks. (1993) |
| 19-Nov |
Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. (1863) |
| 19-Nov |
In an unprecedented move for an Arab leader, Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat travels to Jerusalem in Israel to seek a permanent peace settlement with Egypt's Jewish neighbor after decades of conflict. (1977) |
| 20-Nov |
Nuremberg War Crimes Trials begin and continue until October 1, 1946, establishing that subordinates are responsible for their own actions even if ordered by their superiors. (1945) |
| 20-Nov |
The UN issued "The Declaration of the Rights of the Child." (1959) |
| 20-Nov |
President John F. Kennedy issued an executive order forbidding racial discrimination in public housing. (1962) |
| 20-Nov |
the U.S. Senate approved the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). (1993) |
| 21-Nov |
National Organization for Women (NOW) founded in Chicago. (1966) |
| 21-Nov |
President Lyndon Johnson sighed the Air Quality Act, beginning the war on pollution in America. (1967) |
| 21-Nov |
The Freedom of Information Act is passed by Congress over President Ford's veto. (1974) |
| 21-Nov |
350,000 march against nuclear weapons in Holland. (1981) |
| 21-Nov |
President Bush signed the Civil Rights Act of 1991, making it easier for workers to sue in job discrimination cases. (1991) |
| 21-Nov |
Dayton Peace Accords, ending the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, initialed at Wright-Patterson AFB; formally signed in Paris on Dec. 14. (1995) |
| 21-Nov |
China jailed well-known dissident Wei Jing-sheng and charged him with trying to overthrow the government. (1995) |
| 22-Nov |
New York female garment workers call for general strike, leading to the "Uprising of the 20,000." (1909) |
| 22-Nov |
The first interracial kiss in TV history is shown on Star Trek between Capt. Kirk and Uhura. (1968) |
| 22-Nov |
Circumpolar peoples from Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Norway, & Sweden meet in Copenhagen to demand self-government & control over Arctic land & resources. (1972) |
| 22-Nov |
Some 2,000 people taken into custody during a demonstration against the Army's School of the Americas, accused by critics of training soldiers involved in atrocities in Latin America. (1998) |
| 23-Nov |
First recorded strike takes place, in Egypt, by laborers working on pyramid. (1170 BCE) |
| 23-Nov |
U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Louisville (Ky.) ordinance requiring blacks & whites to live in separate residential areas. (1917) |
| 24-Nov |
Women from 21 states met in Cleveland to organize the American Women Suffrage Association. (1869) |
| 24-Nov |
A group of writers, producers and directors that became known as the "Hollywood 10" are cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about alleged Communist influence in the movie industry.(1947) |
| 24-Nov |
Congress votes to formally apologize to Hawaii for overthrowing the government in 1893. (1993) |
| 24-Nov |
Plowshare 7 damage B52's carrying cruise missiles at Griffith Air Force Base. (1983) |
| 25-Nov |
Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.(1867) |
| 25-Nov |
British government outlaws the IRA in all of Great Britain. (1974) |
| 25-Nov |
The Iran-Contra affair erupted as U.S. President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to American-supported Nicaraguan rebels in violation of U.S. laws. (1986) |
| 25-Nov |
2,000 march in NY city to protest sale of furs. Over 50 other cities hold demonstrations. (1988) |
| 26-Nov |
Birthday of Sarah Moore Grimke, antislavery/women's rights advocate. (1792) |
| 26-Nov |
U.S. Supreme Court declares 1875 Civil Rights Act unconstitutional. (1883) |
| 26-Nov |
U.N. passes Resolution Against Capital Punishment. (1968) |
| 27-Nov |
First convention of No-Conscription Fellowship, in England. (1915) |
| 27-Nov |
Jawaharlal Nehru, who fought British authority through acts of passive resistance and became India's first Prime Minister, made an impassioned speech for global disarmament. (1957) |
| 27-Nov |
March on Washington for Peace in Vietnam' Washington, D.C. 15,000-30,000 march. (1965) |
| 27-Nov |
U.S. Army medics stationed in Pleiku stage a fast to protest the Vietnam War. (1969) |
| 27-Nov |
20,000 rally for peace in Northern Ireland, Trafalgar Square, London. (1976) |
| 27-Nov |
Activists paint anti-military graffiti on war planes due for delivery to Turkey, Woensdrecht, te Netherlands. (1988) |
| 28-Nov |
Sinn Fein is founded in Dublin by Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith. (1905) |
| 29-Nov |
The Sand Creek Massacre takes place. Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, awaiting surrender terms, are attacked by 900 calvarymen. (1864) |
| 30-Nov |
Pope Innocent III orders Jews to wear a special badge. (1216) |
| 30-Nov |
The American Society of Free Persons of Colour met for the first time, in Philadelphia. (1830) |
| 30-Nov |
Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act becomes law. (1993) |
| 30-Nov |
Thousands of activists, students, unionists and environmentalists shut down the World Trade Organization (WTO) summit in Seattle. (1999) |
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