On November 30, 1804, US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase went on trial in the Senate for “arbitrary and oppressive conduct of trials.” He was acquitted in March, 1805. Read a C-SPAN interview with Chief Justice William Rehnquist on his 1992 book Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson. [...]
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On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly voted to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab territories, leading to the establishment of a Jewish state the following year. Read UN General Assembly Resolution 181. Listen to a backgrounder from NPR.
On November 29, 1967, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announced that he was resigning from his office to accept an appointment as head of the World Bank. The announcement came as the Vietnam Conflict was becoming increasingly unpopular in the United States and abroad.
On November 28, 1871, Ku Klux Klan trials began in US District Court in South Carolina as part of a federal effort to halt growing White violence in the former Confederate states. Read a book review of Lou Faulkner Williams, The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871-1872 (1996) and learn more about the [...]
On November 28, 1893, women voted in New Zealand elections, becoming the first to participate in a national election anywhere in the world.
On November 27, 1983, the revised Code of Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church went into effect. Learn more about the history of Canon Law from Professor Kenneth Pennington of the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law.
On November 27, 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his will, creating the Nobel Prize. Learn more about the history of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Commission.
On November 26, 1975, Charles Manson follower Lynette ”Squeaky” Fromme was found guilty by a federal jury in Sacramento, California, of the attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford.
On November 26, 1949, the Constituent Assembly of India voted to adopt the country’s first constitution after attaining independence from the United Kingdom. The document went into force on January 26 of the following year.
On November 25, 1867, a US Congressional commission began looking into the possible impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. Learn more about the impeachment of President Johnson from contemporary articles in Harper’s Weekly, and pay a virtual visit to the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site in Greeneville, Tennessee.
