This Week in History (9-15 November): SUNDAY: 1862 Pres. Lincoln places Ambrose Burnside in command of the Union Army of the Potomac; 1938 Nazis launch Kristallnacht; 1989 East Germany opens the Berlin Wall MONDAY: 1775 Birth of the U.S. Marine Corps; 1969 Sesame Street debuts TUESDAY: 1834 Pres. Pierce marries Jane Appleton; 1858 Pres. Garfield marries Lucretia Rudolph; 1885 George Patton is born; 1918 World War I ends; 1921 Dedication of the Tomb of the Unknowns; 1942 Draft age is lowered to 18 WEDNESDAY: 1864 The destruction of Atlanta begins; 1948 Japanese war criminals sentenced; 1954 Ellis Island closes; 1979 Pres. Carter shuts down oil imports from Iran THURSDAY: 1775 Patriots take Montreal; 1789 First presidential tour concludes; 1941 Congress revises the Neutrality Act; 1955 Whoopi Goldberg is born; 1982 Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated FRIDAY: 1851 Moby-Dick is published; 1882 Billy The Kid is killed; 1969 Apollo 12 lifts off SATURDAY: 1777 The Articles of Confederation are published; 1864 Shermans March to the Sea begins; 1943 Himmler orders Gypsies to concentration camps This Week in Minnesota History: SUNDAY: 1862 In the aftermath of the US–Dakota War a mob attacks a group of Dakota captives in New Ulm. The troops guarding the captives manage to restore order. 5 days later, in Henderson, settlers attack Dakota captives being led to Fort Snelling MONDAY: 1975 The ore boat Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in Lake Superior, killing 29 crew members TUESDAY: 1865 Little Six and Medicine Bottle, leaders in the U.S.–Dakota War of 1862, are executed at Fort Snelling; 1919 The American Legion, a veterans organization, holds its first convention, in Minneapolis WEDNESDAY: 1892 Walter Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional football player in history THURSDAY: 1891 Floyd B. Olson is born in Minneapolis. He would be the first Democratic- Farmer-Labor governor, serving from 1931 until his death on 22 August 1936 FRIDAY: 1860 Telegraph service reaches Minnesota; 1862 Nearly 1,600 Dakota non-combatants (mostly women, children, and the elderly) under the custody of the U.S. military arrived at Fort Snelling SATURDAY: 1851 Montezuma, (presently Winona) is founded by Orrin Smith, a steamboat captain Photos: Gen. George Patton; The Daily Telegraph announcing armistice; Gen. William T. Sherman and staff at Fed Fort No 7 outside Atlanta; Ellis Island
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