27 de noviembre

On the council’s ninth day the pope spoke to a crowd in a field outside the town, offering those who fought for Jerusalem remission of the penance for their sins. No text of the sermon survives: the versions we have were written years later, some by men who were there. It is the will of God! It is…

Glinka had called it Ivan Susanin, after the peasant who leads Polish troops astray to save the first Romanov tsar; the title changed with Nicholas I’s approval, and the Soviet stage changed it back. It is counted the first Russian national opera. The date was 9 December in the Gregorian calendar.

In Poughkeepsie, New York, the glow in the sky was so intense that fire engines were called out, as the Royal Society’s report records from Nature. Similar stories are told of New York and New Haven.

No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy’s memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long. — Lyndon B. Johnson Five days after Kennedy’s assassination, the new president’s first address to Congress made the bill his…

From noon to two, most of the country stopped work: factories, shops and offices. A strike that the workers joined showed the party it could not paint the protests as students and intellectuals alone.

The canton’s men had voted no by show of hands at their open-air Landsgemeinde that April. The Federal Supreme Court ruled unanimously that shutting women out broke the federal constitution’s equality clause. Women stood in the square the next spring.

Sixth console generationDreamcast

It opened with Sega’s Dreamcast, which had a modem built in and was Sega’s last console, and brought Microsoft in with the Xbox in 2001. The PlayStation 2 was made for thirteen years.