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November 20, 2006

THANKSGIVING:
HNN STATS THIS WEEK:
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:

  • 20/11/1789 - New Jersey is 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights

  • 20/11/1815 - Russia, Prussia, Austria and England signs Great Alliance

  • 20/11/1862 - Armies of Mississippi/Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee under Gen Braxton Bragg

  • 20/11/1866 - Howard University founded (Wash, DC)

  • 20/11/1866 - 1st natl convention of Grand Army of Republic (veterans' org)

  • 20/11/1910 - Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero

  • 20/11/1920 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US president W Wilson

  • 20/11/1938 - 1st documented anti-semitic remarks over US radio (by Father Coughlin)

  • 20/11/1945 - 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, German

  • 20/11/1947 - Britain's Princess Elizabeth, marries Duke Philip Mountbatten

  • 20/11/1949 - Jewish population of Israel reaches 1,000,000

  • 20/11/1959 - UN adopts Universal Declaration of Children's Rights

  • 20/11/1975 - Ronald Reagan announced candidacy for Rep nomination for president

  • 21/11/1620 - Pilgrim Fathers reach America: Provincetown Harbor, Mass

  • 21/11/1620 - Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims in Cape Cod

  • 21/11/1789 - North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state

  • 21/11/1824 - 1st Jewish Reform congregation forms, Charleston, SC

  • 21/11/1852 - Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College

  • 21/11/1877 - Tom Edison announces his"talking machine" invention (phonograph)

  • 21/11/1946 - Harry Truman becomes 1st US president to travel in a submerged sub

  • 21/11/1959 - Jack Benny (violin) and Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet

  • 21/11/1963 - JFK flies to Texas

  • 21/11/1973 - Pres Nixon's attorney, J Fred Buzhardt, reveals presence of 18 minute gap in a White House tape recording related to Watergate

  • 21/11/1974 - Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over Pres Ford's veto

  • 22/11/1864 - Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia, ends after 650 casualties

  • 22/11/1930 - 1st US football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)

  • 22/11/1930 - Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit

  • 22/11/1943 - FDR, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan

  • 22/11/1963 - John F. Kennedy is assassinated while travelling through Dallas, Texas in an open-top convertible

  • 22/11/1963 - Lyndon Baines Johnson sworn in as 36th US president

  • 22/11/1990 - Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister

  • 22/11/1992 - Wash Post reports Ore Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women

  • 22/11/1996 - OJ Simpson takes stand as hostile witness in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him, saying it is"absolutely not true"

  • 23/11/1765 - People of Frederick County Md refuse to pay England's Stamp tax

  • 23/11/1783 - Annapolis Maryland, becomes US capital (until June 1784)

  • 23/11/1863 - Battle of Chattanooga and Orchard Knob, TN begins

  • 23/11/1864 - -25] Battle at Ball's Ferry Georgia (30 casualties)

  • 23/11/1909 - Wright Brothers forms million dollar corp to manufacture airplanes

  • 23/11/1921 - Pres Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes

  • 23/11/1936 - 1st issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R Luce

  • 23/11/1939 - Nazi Gov of Poland Hans Frank requires Jews to wear a blue star

  • 23/11/1942 - German 4th and 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad

  • 23/11/1963 - JFK's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House

  • 23/11/1963 - LBJ proclaims Nov 25 a day of national mourning (for JFK)

  • 24/11/1105 - Rabbi Nathan ben Yehiel of Rome completes Talmudic dictionary

  • 24/11/1863 - Battle of Chattanooga, Columbia and Lookout Mt begins in Tennessee

  • 24/11/1869 - American Woman's Suffrage Association forms (Cleveland)

  • 24/11/1941 -"Life Certificates" issued to some Jews of Vilna, rest exterminated

  • 24/11/1944 - US bombers based on Saipan, begin 1st attack on Tokyo

  • 24/11/1948 - Ireland votes for independence from UK

  • 24/11/1950 - UN troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas

  • 24/11/1963 - 1st live murder on TV-Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald

  • 24/11/1974 - Gerald Ford and Leonid Brezhnev signs SALT-2-treaty

  • 25/11/1783 - Britain evacuates NYC, their last military position in US

  • 25/11/1792 - Farmer's Almanac 1st published

  • 25/11/1864 - Confederate plot to burn NYC, fails

  • 25/11/1864 - Confederate retreat at Sandersville, Georgia

  • 25/11/1867 - US Congress commission looks into"impeachment" of Pres Andrew Johnson

  • 25/11/1913 - Woodrow Wilson's daughter Jessie marries in White House

  • 25/11/1920 - 1st Thanksgiving Parade (Phila)

  • 25/11/1941 - German Jews in Netherlands declared stateless (lose of nationality)

  • 25/11/1955 - Race segregation forbidden on trains and buses between US states

  • 25/11/1957 - Pres Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech

  • 25/11/1963 - JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery

  • 25/11/1986 - Oliver North's sect, Fawn Hill, smuggles documents out of his office

  • 25/11/1986 - Iran-Contra affair erupts, Pres Reagan reveals secret arm deal

  • 26/11/1789 - 1st national Thanksgiving

  • 26/11/1861 - West Virginia created as a result of dispute over slavery with Virg

  • 26/11/1863 - -Dec 2] Mine Run campaign, VA

  • 26/11/1864 - Confederate troops vacate Sandersville Georgia

  • 26/11/1898 - -27) Snow/ice storm over US; 455 die

  • 26/11/1940 - Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw

  • 26/11/1969 - Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon

  • 26/11/1973 - Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18«-minute gap in a key Watergate tape

  • 26/11/1985 - Random House buys Richard Nixons memoires for $3,000,000

  • 27/11/1863 - -29] Battle at Fort Esperanza Texas

  • 27/11/1868 - Battle at Washita-Gen Custer defeats Cheyennes

  • 27/11/1972 - Pierre Trudeau forms Canadian government

  • 27/11/1990 - Britain's conservatives chose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher

    BIGGEST STORIES:
    IN THE NEWS:
    REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:

    • James MacGregor Burns: Splendid Isolation How uncoupling presidents from their parties has given us less dynamic leaders RUNNING ALONE Presidential Leadership -- JFK to Bush II: Why It Has Failed and How We Can Fix It - Wa Po, 11-19-06

    • Robert K. Brigham: Is Iraq Another Vietnam? - Wa Po, 11-19-06

    • Alistair Horne: Aftershocks A classic on France's losing fight against Arab rebels contains troubling echoes of Iraq today A SAVAGE WAR OF PEACE Algeria 1954-1962 - Wa Po, 11-19-06

    • Books of the battleground Horror and hopelessness of the Great War revived in republished novels - The State, SC, 11-19-06

    OP-ED:
    PROFILED:

    • Lisa Wilson, a professor of American history at Connecticut College, is featured as a commentator in the History Channel's original documentary,"Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower," which will debut on the History Channel at 8 p.m. Sunday - TheDay, CT, 11-15-06

    INTERVIEWED:

    • Michael Oren: Gaza Rockets Challenge Israeli Security - NPR, 11-17-06

    • Eliot Cohen: Weighing Options for the Best Exit from Iraq - 11-13-06

    FEATURE:

    • Timothy B. Tyson: The Ghosts of 1898 Duke historian Tyson explains how prominent North Carolinians seized power and altered the state's history.- News and Observer

    • Marilyn Lake: Anti-Americanism in Australia have predictably hit the headlines this week -

    • A Northern City's Southern Shame:"New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War," a well-designed, richly informative exhibition opening at the New-York Historical Society - New York Sun, 11-16-06

    • Gabor Boritt: Lincoln's Hanover speech helped shape his legend - http://www.eveningsun.com, 11-12-06

    QUOTED:

    • Cynthia Harrison on"National Organization for Women at 40":"They concluded, quite sensibly, that they needed to form organization that wasn't sponsored by the government, so that they would have a completely free hand. It was at this convention that this group of women sat down at a table. Betty Freidan famously wrote the letters NOW on a napkin, and they formed the National Organization for Women." - NPR, 11-18-06

    • Levon Panos Dabagian Armenian historian rejects"Armenian genocide":"Turkish history has never had genocide against Armenians" - NGO 'Right of Choice', Azerbaijan, 11-14-06

    SPOTTED & SPEAKING EVENTS CALENDAR:

    • Nov. 20, 2006: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Humanities and chair of African American Studies at Harvard, will discuss and show clips from his new PBS documentary,"African American Lives," during a Nov. 20 event at UNLV - UNLV The Rebel Yell, NV, 11-16-06

    • Nov. 20, 2006: Sucheta Mazumdar: Duke Historian to Discuss U.S.-China Trade at at noon Monday, Nov. 20, in Room 229 of the Carr Building on Duke’s East Campus - Duke University, NC, 11-16-06

    • Nov. 26, 2006: Gary D. Joiner will sign copies of his books from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble at 6646 Youree Drive in Shreveport, LA - Shreveport Times, LA, 11-17-06

    • Feb. 23 to 25, 2007: John Gillingham: Camden Conference marks its 20th anniversary, Feb. 23 to 25, 2007, at the Camden Opera House - 8-15-06 - Sold-out Camden Conference offers satellite seating at Strand knox.VillageSoup.com, ME, 10-29-06

    HONORED, AWARDED, AND APPOINTED:
    ON TV:

    • C-Span2, BookTV: 2006 National Book Awards Ceremony, Sunday, November 19 at 7:00 pm - C-Span2, BookTV

    • C-Span2, BookTV: History on Book TV Timothy Egan,"The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl," Sunday, November 19 at 8:30 pm - C-Span2, BookTV

    • PBS: American Experience"RFK", Monday November 27, @ 9pm ET - PBS

    • History Channel:"Home for the Holidays: The History of Thanksgiving," Sunday, November 19, @ 7pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of The Mayflower" Sunday, November 19, @ 8pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Decoding The Past :Presidential Prophecies," Monday, November 20, @ 5pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai," Tuesday, November 21, @ 2pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"The Presidents :1789-1825," Tuesday, November 21, @ 8pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"The Presidents :1825-1849," Tuesday, November 21, @ 9pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Battlefield Detectives :Native American Wars: The Apache" Wednesday, November 22, @ 2pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Battlefield Detectives :Custer at Little Big Horn" Wednesday, November 22, @ 3pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"History's Mysteries :The First Americans" Wednesday, November 22, @ 5pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Inside Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade" Wednesday, November 22, @ 7pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"American Eats :Holiday Foods" Wednesday, November 22, @ 8pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"The Presidents :1849-1865," Wednesday, November 22, @ 9pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"The Presidents :1865-1885," Wednesday, November 22, @ 10pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"The Presidents :1885-1913," Wednesday, November 22, @ 11pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of The Mayflower," Thursday, November 23, @ 8pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Home for the Holidays: The History of Thanksgiving," Thursday, November 23, @ 11pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Shootout :Okinawa: The Last Battle of WWII" Friday, November 24, @ 8pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Special : The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy," Saturday, November 25, @ 8pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Kennedys: The Curse of Power," Saturday, November 25, @ 10pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Engineering An Empire" Marathon, Saturday, November 25, @ 1-5pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Native Americans in the Civil War," Sunday, November 26, @ 7pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Banned from The Bible," Sunday, November 26, @ 8pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Special :Beyond The Da Vinci Code," Sunday, November 26, @ 10pm ET/PT

    SELLING BIG (NYT):

    • Evan Thomas: SEA OF THUNDER, #19 - 11-26-06

    • Hampton Sides: BLOOD AND THUNDER An Epic of the American West #27 - 11-26-06

    • David Nasaw: ANDREW CARNEGIE, #30 - 11-26-06

    FUTURE RELEASES:

    • Stanley Weintraub: 11 Days in December: Christmas at the Bulge, 1944 (Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group), November 2006

    • David M. Glantz: Red Storm over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944 (University Press of Kansas), November 2006

    • Adam LeBor: "Complicity With Evil": The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide, November 2006

    • A. J. Langguth: Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence (Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group) November 2006

    • Graeme Fife: The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine: France 1792--1794, November 2006

    • Robert M. Collins: Transforming America: Politics and Culture During the Reagan Years, November 2006

    • Judith Lissauer Cromwell: Dorothea Lieven: A Russian Princess in London and Paris, 1785-1857, (McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers), November 2006

    • Stella Tillyard: Royal Affair: George III and His Scandalous Siblings (Random House Publishing Group), December 2006

    • Jeremy Black: George III: America's Last King, (Yale University Press), December 2006

    • Gill Bennett: Churchill's Mystery Man, (Taylor & Francis, Inc.), December 2006

    • David Greenberg: Calvin Coolidge: The 30th President, 1923-1929 (Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated), December 26, 2006

    • Geoffrey Perret: Commander in Chief: How Truman, Johnson, and Bush Turned a Presidential Power into a Threat to America's Future (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), February 6, 2007

    • Margaret MacMillan: Nixon in China: The Week That Changed the World, (Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group), February 13, 2007

    DEPARTED:

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