History On this Day in History

21st November.

1620 Leaders of the Mayflower expedition frame the "Mayflower Compact," designed to bolster unity among the settlers.

1855 Franklin Colman, a pro-slavery Missourian, guns down Charles Dow, a Free Stater from Ohio, near Lawrence, Kansas.

1864 From Georgia, Confederate General John B. Hood launches the Franklin-Nashville Campaign into Tennessee.

1918 The last German troops leave Alsace-Lorraine, France.

1927 Police turn machine guns on striking Colorado mine workers, killing five and wounding 20.
 
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November 21, 1894 - Port Arthur, China, Now known as Lushun Port, falls to the Japanese during the first Sino-Japanese War. Japanese are accused of massacring the rest of the inhabitants.

November 21 1972 - Korea adopts the Fourth Republic. The Government that will be in place from 1972 to 1981
 
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On this day in 1963 John F Kennedy was shot while driving through Dallas in a motorcade at 12:30 pm. He was pronuanced dead a half hour later. Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as Pres.ident at 2:39 pm at Dallas Hartfield airport while aboard Air Force One . Kennedy's wife was one of the witnesses still wearing the clohes with her husband's blood on them.
 
1869 The clipper Cutty Sark was launched In Dumbarton, Scotland. She was one of the last clippers ever built, and is the only one still surviving today. She is preserved as a museum ship, located near the centre of Greenwich, in south-east London.

1943 World War II: Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the U.S. El Comandante Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek met in Cairo, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
 
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24th November.

1542 The English army defeated the Scots at the Battle of Solway Moss. It started as a family dispute when Henry VIII of England broke from the Roman Catholic Church and asked James V of Scotland, his nephew, to do the same, but James ignored his uncle's request.

1859 Charles Darwin published his controversial and groundbreaking scientific work 'The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection'. Darwin was born in Shewsbury, Shropshire.
 
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25th of November.

1876 Colonel Ronald MacKenzie destroys Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife's village, in the Bighorn Mountains near the Red Fork of the Powder River, during the so-called Great Sioux War.

1923 Transatlantic broadcasting from England to America commences for the first time.

1940 World War II: The first flight of the deHavilland Mosquito aircraft. The Mosquito was one of the few operational, front-line aircraft to be constructed almost entirely of wood and, as such, was nicknamed 'The Wooden Wonder' or Mossie to its crews. When it entered production in 1941 it was one of the fastest operational aircraft in the world.

1963 The body of assassinated El Comandante John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
 
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