The Maryland Guide • 11-19-25 November in History November may bring cooler weather and cozy holidays, but it’s also full of worldchanging moments that shaped history. • Nov. 1, 1512: Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling is unveiled in Rome. • Nov. 2, 1983: Reagan signs the bill making Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday. • Nov. 3, 1957: The dog Laika, the rst animal in space, is sent into orbit on the Sputnik 2 rocket. • Nov. 3, 1839: The rst Opium War between China and Britain begin. • Nov. 4, 1841: The rst wagon train arrives in California. • Nov. 4, 1979: Iranian militants seize the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 90 hostages. • Nov. 5, 1935: Parker Brothers markets the board game Monopoly. • Nov. 8, 1895: Wilhelm Roentgen discovers X-rays, revolutionizing medicine. • Nov. 9, 1922: Albert Einstein receives the Nobel Prize in Physics. • Nov. 10, 1775: The United States creates the Marine Corps. • Nov. 10, 1983: Microsoft introduces Windows. • Nov. 11, 1675: Gottfried Leibniz, a German mathematician & polymath, demonstrated the method of integral calculus. • Nov. 12, 2014: The Rosetta spacecraft’s Philae lander becomes the rst to land on a comet. • Nov. 15, 1971: Intel releases the 4004, the world’s rst commercial single-chip microprocessor. • Nov. 18, 1928: Mickey Mouse makes his rst appearance in Steamboat Willie. • Nov. 22, 1995: Toy Story, the rst fully computer-animated feature lm, is released by Pixar. • Nov. 23, 1963: The BBC airs the rst episode of the science ction Doctor Who series. • Nov. 26, 1922: Howard Carter opens the tomb of King Tutankhamun in Egypt, one of the greatest archaeological nds in history. • Nov. 27, 1095: Pope Urban II calls for the First Crusade. • Nov. 30, 1993: The Brady Bill was signed by Clinton restricting rearm purchases. Fun Fact: November’s name comes from the Latin “novem”, meaning “nine” — a reminder of its original place as the ninth month in the Roman calendar.
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