Special Note: This newsletter covers
November 19th and 26th
since there is no meeting during
Thanksgiving week.
November 19th in History
1703 - A masked man held prisoner in the
Bastille in Paris died. His true identity
was the cause of much intrigue, and his
story became the basis of literary works by
Franηois Voltaire and Alexandre Dumas.
1794 - John Jay and Lord Grenville signed
Jay's Treaty.
1863 - Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg
Address at the dedication of the national
cemetery on the Civil War battlefield of
Gettysburg, Pa.
1977 - Egyptian president Anwar Sadat became
the first Arab leader to visit Israel.
1985 - Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev
met for the first time in Geneva.
1990 - Milli Vanilli's Grammy award was
rescinded after it was discovered they
didn't do their own singing.
November 26th in History
1789 - The first national Thanksgiving Day
in the U.S. was proclaimed by President
George Washington.
1922 - Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon
became the first to enter the tomb of King
Tutankhamen (Tut) since it was sealed in
1323 B.C.
1940 - The Nazis began to force Warsaw's
Jews to live in a walled ghetto.
1950 - China entered the Korean War.
1975 - Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower
of Charles Manson, was found guilty of
trying to assassinate President Ford.
1998 - Tony Blair became the first British
prime minister to speak to the Irish
parliament.
2000 - Katherine Harris certified George W.
Bush the winner in Florida's presidential
balloting.
Patience and perseverance have a magical
affect before which difficulties disappear
and obstacles vanish.
- John
Quincy Adams
