November

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Shortly after a lecture from Christopher Wren, the Gresham College astronomy professor, a dozen men committed to create “a College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Just over a year after arriving in Antarctica, Admiral Richard Byrd made one of the most difficult journeys of his life — and fulfilled a major…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Just 30 days after sending the first manmade object into orbit, the Soviet Union made a second leap ahead of the United States in the space…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons In world history, there have been few leaders who have managed to hold their countries together against extraordinary circumstances quite like Sir Winston Churchill did during…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons More than 30 years after he first set foot in Egypt, archaeologist Howard Carter made the discovery of a lifetime on November 4, 1922: he and…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Six weeks after leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history, Nat Turner was convicted of “making insurrection” and sentenced to death on November 5,…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons On the northwest coast of Africa, a unique demonstration against European colonialism took place on November 6, 1975: 350,000 people gathered near the border of their…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons In a tiny Ukrainian village, far from the glamorous capital of the Russian Empire, St. Petersburg, a legendary figure in the October Revolution was born on…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons One of the most important discoveries in history occurred on November 8, 1895 at the University of Wurzburg in Germany: Wilhelm Rontgen, a physics professor, was…

After more than five years of creating laws designed to weaken the Jewish community and spreading propaganda to raise suspicion, the Nazi leadership in Germany took advantage of an opportunity…