1656<\/b> — Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Quakers.<\/p>\n
1773<\/b> — The East India Company tea ships’ cargo is burned at Annapolis.<\/p>\n
1789<\/b> — President George Washington proclaims the first Thanksgiving Day.<\/p>\n
1884<\/b> — George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.<\/p>\n
1916<\/b> — Paul Robeson is excluded from the Rutgers football team when Washington and Lee University refused to play against a black person.<\/p>\n
1926<\/b> — A. A. Milne’s book Winnie-the-Pooh<\/i> is first published.<\/p>\n
1933<\/b> — Nazi Germany withdraws from The League of Nations.<\/p>\n
1943<\/b> -\u2013 US Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortresses during an assault on Schweinfurt. (Today’s America likely would have called it quits after such losses.)<\/p>\n
1960<\/b> — The idea of a Peace Corps is first suggested by Presidential candidate John F Kennedy at the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n
1962<\/b> — A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed, thus getting the Cuban Missile Crisis under way.<\/p>\n
1964<\/b> — Martin Luther King Jr wins the Nobel Peace Prize. And Leonid Brezhnev ousts Nikita Khrushchev as leader of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n
1986<\/b> — Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel wins the Nobel Peace Prize.<\/p>\n
1991<\/b> — Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi wins the Nobel Peace Prize for her struggle to achieve democracy in her homeland. <\/p>\n
1994<\/b> — Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize.<\/p>\n
2009<\/b> — The price of gold spikes to a record high of $1,072 per ounce. The dollar slumps to a 14-month low against the euro (1.49:1). Crude oil futures go above $75 per barrel for the first time in a year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average passes 10,000 for the first time in a year before closing at 9988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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