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Glancing Backward, 11/11/09
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share thisToday is Wednesday, November 11, the 315th day of 2009. There are 50 days left in the year.
Glancing Backward Locally:
There is no glancing backward locally today, as 25 and 75 years ago was a Sunday, and 50 years ago was Veterans Day, all of which The Review did not publish on.
Elsewhere on this date:
On Nov. 10, 1775, the U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress.
1500 - France's King Louis XII and Ferdinand of Aragon secretly sign the Treaty of Granada for conquest and partition of Naples.
1606 - Peace treaty is signed at Zeitva-Torok between Turks and Austrians.
1620 - Forty-one Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, anchor in Massachusetts and sign a compact calling for a "body politick."
1673 - Poland's King John Sobieski defeats Turks at Korzim, Poland.
1918 - World War I ends with Germany and the Allies signing an armistice in a railroad car at Compiegne, France.
1938 - Kate Smith first sings Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on U.S. network radio.
1942 - Tearing up the Franco-German armistice which established the occupied zone in 1940, Hitler orders German troops into Unoccupied France on the 25th anniversary of the World War I Armistice.
1992 - The Church of England votes to ordain women as priests.
1993 - At least 15 people are killed and 47 injured after 52 vehicles including six big-rig trucks are involved in a blazing pileup on a highway in western France.
1996 - Guatemalan President Alvaro Arzu announces a peace agreement with the guerrilla movement, ending 36 years of fighting.
2000 - A cable car being pulled through an Austrian mountainside to a glacier resort catches on fire, killing 155 skiers and snowboarders.
2001 - Thirty-one members of the banned Iran Freedom Movement are tried on charges of plotting to overthrow the government.
2002 - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates pledges $100 million to fight AIDS in India.
2004 - Palestinians at home and abroad weep in an eruption of grief at the death of Yasser Arafat, the man they consider the father of their nation, and quickly elevate his No. 2 in the Palestine Liberation Organization as their top leader.
2005 - Top diplomats from Russia and the United States express hope that a deal could be reached with Iran over the nuclear program that the West fears could help Tehran develop atomic weapons, but the status of a possible compromise remains unclear.
2006 - Unidentified gunmen attack U.N. peacekeepers near a restive slum in Haiti's capital, killing two Jordanian members of the force.
2008 - Mohamed Nasheed is sworn in as the Maldives' first democratically elected president.
Today's Birthdays:
Louis Antoine Bougainville, French navigator (1729-1811); Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian writer (1821-1881); Kurt Vonnegut Jr., U.S. writer (1922-2007); Daniel Ortega, former President of Nicaragua (1945--); Demi Moore, U.S. actress (1962--); Leonardo DiCaprio, U.S. actor (1974--)
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