Capture of Fort Duquesne
On November 25, 1758, British and Colonial American forces successfully took over Fort Duquesne from the French.
On November 25, 1758, British and Colonial American forces successfully took over Fort Duquesne from the French.
America’s second First Lady was born Abigail Smith on November 22, 1744 (November 11 in the Old Style calendar), in Weymouth, Massachusetts.
On November 21, 1848, the first American Turners gymnastic union was established in Cincinnati, Ohio.
On November 19, 1965, the U.S. Post Office issued the first stamp in a new series honoring Prominent Americans.
On November 18, 1865, Mark Twain published an early version of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” in The New York Saturday Press, bringing him his first significant fame.
Engineer and inventor Robert Fulton was born on November 14, 1765, in Little Britain, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
On November 8, 1837, Mary Lyons opened Mount Holyoke Female Seminary.
American composer and conductor John Philip Sousa was born on November 6, 1854, in Washington, DC.
On November 5, 1781, John Hanson was elected President of the Continental Congress.