11/04:
1916: Walter Cronkite “The Most Trusted Man in America” is born.
1922: The entrance to King Tutankhamen’s tomb is discovered in Egypt.
1960: Dr. Jane Goodall makes the groundbreaking discovery that chimpanzees have the ability to make and use tools.
2008: Barack Obama becomes the first African American to be elected president of the United States.
11/05:
1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to an unprecedented third term as president of the United States.
1995: George Foreman becomes boxing’s oldest heavyweight champ ever at age 45.
11/06:
1860: Abraham Lincoln becomes the first Republican to win the presidency of the United States.
1917: Led by Vladimir Lenin, the Bolshevik Party seize control of Russia, forming the world’s first Marxist state.
11/07
1916: Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
11/08:
1895: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen becomes the first person to observe X-rays in Wurzberg, Germany.
2013: Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded strikes the Phillippines.
11/09:
1938: The Nazi regime attacks Germany’s Jewish population in a series of violent and destructive terror attacks known as Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass
1989: The Berlin Wall falls as communist East Germany opens its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West for the first time in decades.
11/10:
1775: The U.S. Marine Corps are created under the authority of the Continental Congress.
1969: “Sesame Street” debuts on National Educational Television (now PBS).
All photos and dates from AP Newsroom*
