November Milestones

     November is obviously about Thanksgiving. And some good Packer games, like last night! But if you’re in the market for a book display, website content, or newsletter articles minus the turkeys, you can draw lots of ideas from historic November milestones.

     
     Most every remembrance of JFK is the anniversary of his death (November 22, 1963) But 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of JFK’s election to the Presidency. A wonderful destination in person and on the web is the Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.


     An especially intriguing feature of the website is White House Diaries, a day-by-day calendar of JFK’s appointments. Eleanor Roosevelt died in November 1962; you can read President Kennedy’s tribute to Mrs. Roosevelt in the diary’s November 7, 1962 entry.


For more November milestones:

• Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel was revealed to the public November 1, 1512.
• Edwin Hubble, astronomer and inventor of the Hubble telescope, was born Nov20, 1889
• Chronicles of Narnia author C.S. Lewis died in England, coincidentally on the same day that JFK was assassinated in Dallas; C.S. Lewis’ death was barely covered in international news until much later.
• John and Abigail Adams were the first “first couple” to move into the White House, November 1800.
• November 1940, the Warsaw Ghetto was sealed off from the rest of the city as the war in Europe intensified.
• Before he became known to the world as Pope John Paul II, he was Karol Wojtyla and a newly ordained priest on November 1, 1946.