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Nov 19, 1703: A masked man held prisoner in the Bastille in Paris died. His true identity was the cause of much intrigue, and his story became the basis of literary works by François Voltaire and Alexandre Dumas.

Nov 18, 1820: Captain Nathaniel Palmer discovered Antarctica.

Nov 17, 1558: Queen Elizabeth I of England ascended to the throne upon the death of her half-sister Queen Mary.

Nov 16, 1864: General Sherman and his troops began their "March to the sea" during the Civil War.

Nov 15, 1763: Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon began surveying the Mason-Dixon line.

Nov 14, 1851: Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick was published.

Nov 13, 1927: The world's first long, mechanically ventilated underwater tunnel, the Holland Tunnel, opened between New York and New Jersey.

Nov 12, 1954: Ellis Island stopped serving as the chief immigration station for the United States. Twenty million immigrants went through Ellis Island in its 62 years of operation.

Nov 11, 1889: Washington became the 42nd state.

Nov 10, 1928: Hirohito was crowned Emperor of Japan.

Nov 9, 1938: Nazis burned and looted temples and Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in what became known as Kristallnacht (Crystal Night–referring to broken glass on streets).

Nov 8, 1889: Montana became the 41st state.

Nov 7, 1874: The Republican Party was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly magazine.

Nov 6, 1860: Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States.

Nov 5, 1872: Susan B. Anthony was fined 100 for trying to vote in the presidential election (she was trying to vote for President Grant).

Nov 4, 1842: Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd in Springfield, Ill.

Nov 3, 1952: Clarence Birdseye marketed the first frozen peas.

Nov 2, 1889: North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states, respectively.

Nov 1, 1512: Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were shown to the public for the first time.

Oct 31, 1517: Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace church, marking the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany.

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