November 2011
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WatchNOVEMBER 29: PRESIDENT EISENHOWER TRAVELS TO KOREA, 1952
On this day in 1952, President Dwight Eisenhower made good on a presidential campaign promise and traveled to Korea. On the campaign trail, Eisenhower had promised Americans that he would personally travel to the country to find a solution to end the Korean War. The war would be over the following year. Last year’s special,...
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WatchNOVEMBER 28: U.S. DIPLOMATIC CABLES RELEASED, 2010
On this day last year, WikiLeaks released 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables to the international media, making this the biggest intelligence breach in U.S. history. FRONTLINE’s “WikiSecrets” reveals the inside story of Julian Assange and Bradley Manning.
Watch the full episode here.
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WatchNOVEMBER 23: BATTLE OF CHATTANOOGA BEGINS, 1863
On this day in 1863, Confederate forces advanced upon Union troops in Chattanooga, Tennessee, beginning a three day campaign in which the Union eventually triumphed. Antiques Roadshow takes us straight to the scene of the battle in Chattanooga, where Mark (in uniform!) helps fire a powerful 19th Century cannon.
WatchNOVEMBER 22: KENNEDY ASSASSINATED, 1963
On this day in 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
In this scene from American Experience’s “The Kennedys,” a former senator and friend recalls Kennedy’s apprehensions on traveling to Dallas that day.
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WatchNOVEMBER 20: MY LAI MASSACRE PHOTOS PUBLISHED, 1969
On this day in 1969, pictures from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam were published for the first time in The Plain Dealer, a prominent Cleveland newspaper. A year before, US soldiers had killed hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese men, women and children; this controversial massacre was kept under wraps for years by the military and government. Watch...
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WatchNOVEMBER 17: “I AM NOT A CROOK” - NIXON, 1973
On this day in 1973, President Richard Nixon famously uttered the words “I’m not a crook.” The President gave this televised speech amidst the damaging revelations from the Watergate investigations that eventually prompted him to resign from the presidency. Listen to Nixon’s famous speech in this scene from...
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WatchNOVEMBER 16: OPERATION PAPERCLIP, 1945
On this day in 1945, the U.S. government began Operation Paperclip, a post-war project to recruit former Nazi scientists to research subjects such as rocketry, aeronautics, medicine, electronics and intelligence.
The operation was dubbed Paperclip because the paperclips attached to the scientists personnel files effectively “erased” their past...
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WatchNOVEMBER 14: FIRST LASER PATENTED, 1967
On this day in 1967, American physicist Theodore Maiman officially patents the world’s first laser.
In this Wired Science video, we see where Maiman’s discovery has brought us today. Watch a civil engineer use laser technology to translate endangered archaeological sights (like this one in Colorado) into 3-D blueprints.
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WatchNOVEMBER 11: VETERANS DAY; ARMISTICE DAY, 1918
Today is Veterans Day. November 11 is formerly known as Armistice Day, which recognized the lives lost during World War I.
On this day in 1918, on the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month,” all fighting on the Western Front of World War I ceased. The agreement promised an end to fighting between the Allied powers and...
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WatchNOVEMBER 10: THE MARINES ARE FOUNDED, 1775
On this day in 1775, the U.S. Marine Corps was founded. Modeled after the iconic photo, “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima,” the Marine Corps Memorial honors U.S. Marines who have been died in combat since 1775.
This History Detectives episode uncovers the mystery of a Japanese map that was hiding for 60 years among the possessions of a former...
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WatchNOVEMBER 9: THE BERLIN WALL FALLS, 1989
On this day in 1989, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) announced that all of its citizens could freely cross into West Germany, breaking a separation between the two countries that lasted 28 years. November 9 is considered by most as the fall of the Berlin Wall; the announcement paved the way for full reunification of Germany in the coming...
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WatchNOVEMBER 7: FIRST WOMAN ELECTED TO CONGRESS, 1916
On this day in 1916, Jeannette Rankin was the first woman elected to Congress. The Republican from Montana managed her historic feat four years before the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave women all over the country the right to vote.
This Montana PBS special introduces us to the life of Jeannette Rankin. Get a closer look into the...
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WatchNOVEMBER 2: MLK HOLIDAY ESTABLISHED
On this day in 1983, President Reagan signed a bill confirming a new federal holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
In honor of the recent unveiling of the new memorial on the National Mall, Tavis Smiley examines the forgotten agenda of Dr. King: the call to end the Vietnam War. King’s 1967 speech urging non-violent reconciliation and a renewed...
