1718-English pirate Edward Teach - better known as "Blackbeard" - was killed during a battle off the Virginia coast.

Believed that he was born in Bristol around 1680. It is believed that he was a well educated man since he could read/write and papers were found on him after his death. It is reasonable to believe that he wished to keep his true identity secret to protect his relatives at home, so "Edward Teach" may have been just an alias. He was said to be a polite pirate, not into torture or victimizing, he was simply after valuables. Teach was also apparently a ladies man, as it is said that he had around 14 wives. He treated women kindly and fell in love easily and treated each like his first love. Only his last marriage to a 16 year old young lady (thought to be Mary Ormond) is believed to be legitamite since he was properly married, but this happened during his last year of his life. His previous marriages were conducted on board his ship and were almost a common-place ritual to the crew.

On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. Suspected gunman Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th president of the United States.

1919-The Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles.

not a real exciting day in history today. The wii came out and the kindle did, the wii in 2006 and the kindle followed a year after.


woohoo?

11/18/2010

1883-The United States and Canada adopted a system of standard time zones
1966-U.S. Roman Catholic bishops did away with the rule against eating meat on Fridays.
1978-1978-More than 900 people died in Jonestown, Guyana, after Peoples Temple cult leader Jim Jones urged them to kill themselves by drinking cyanide-laced grape punch. Jones died of a bullet wound to the head; whether it was self-inflicted is unknown.

2003-The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled 4-3 that the state constitution guarantees gay couples the right to marry.

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1907- Oklahoma became the 46th State

On Nov. 16, 1933, the United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations. President Roosevelt sent a telegram to Soviet leader Maxim Litvinov, expressing hope that United States-Soviet relations would ``forever remain normal and friendly.''

1973-President Richard M. Nixon signed the Alaska Pipeline measure into law

2001-Investigators found a letter addressed to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., containing anthrax.





1902- A cartoon appears in the Washington Star, after President Teddy Roosevelt refused to kill a captive bear tied up for him to shoot during a hunting trip. AND THATS HOW TADDERS THE TEDDY BEAR WAS BORN

1999	President Bill Clinton signed a sweeping measure knocking down Depression-era barriers and allowing banks, investment firms and insurance companies to sell each other's products.

2008	Same-sex marriages began in Connecticut, a month after the state Supreme Court ruled that gays had the right to wed.

On November  10, 1906, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about a school segregation order that sparked a diplomatic crisis between Japan and the United States.

1969	-Sesame Street" debuted on PBS.