This Month In History
By: Brooke Lanser
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Welcome to the Huguenot Herald. We are the student-run newspaper at New Rochelle High School. We meet Wednesdays in room 309.
October:
October 1, 1949 - Mao Zedong declared the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, marking the beginning of communist rule in China.
October 4, 1957 - The Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, beginning the Space Age.
October 14, 1066 - William the Conqueror defeated the English army in the Battle of Hastings, leading to the Norman takeover of England.
October 16, 1793 - France executed its former queen, Marie Antoinette, during the height of the French Revolution.
October 19, 1781 - The British defeat at Yorktown effectively ended major combat in the American Revolutionary War.
October 24, 1929 - On Black Thursday, the U.S. stock market crashed, triggering the Great Depression.
October 28, 1962 - The U.S. and Soviet Union reached an agreement that marked the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
November:
November 1, 1993 - The Maastricht Treaty took effect, officially establishing the European Union.
November 5, 1605 - A plan to blow up England’s Parliament was discovered, leading to the arrest of Guy Fawkes, and the prevention of the Gunpowder Plan.
November 9, 1989 - The Berlin Wall fell, East Germany opened its borders, symbolically ending the Cold War divide.
November 11, 1918 - The Allies and Germany signed an agreement ending fighting on the Western Front during the WWI Armistice
November 19, 1863 - Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous speech, the Gettysburg Address, redefining the purpose of the Civil War.
November 22, 1963 - President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, shocking the world and reshaping U.S. politics.
November 26, 1922 - Howard Carter entered the nearly intact tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh, King Tut, in one of the most significant archaeological discoveries ever.
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