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November 7 is the 311th day ... 1874 – A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United ...
1874 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1874th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 874th year of the 2nd millennium, the 74th year of the 19th century, and the 5th year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1874, the ...
November 3 – George S. Houston is elected the 24th governor of Alabama defeating David P. Lewis. November 4 – Democrats regain the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time since 1860. November 7 – Harper's Weekly publishes a political cartoon by Thomas Nast considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the ...
The White League had formed in 1874 as an insurgent, white Democratic paramilitary group in Grant Parish and nearby parishes [2] on the Red River of the South in Louisiana.The League was founded by members of the white militia who had committed the Colfax Massacre in Louisiana in 1873, killing numerous black people in order to turn out Republicans from parish offices as part of the disputed ...
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Nellie Griswold Francis was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on November 7, 1874. [7] Her parents were Maggie Seay and Thomas Garrison Griswold, and she had a sister, Lula Griswold Chapman, who died in 1925. [7] [8] [9] Her grandmother was Nellie Seay (1814–1931), a house slave to Colonel Robert Allen, a Tennessee congressman. [10]
The History Channel started its operations in India in late 2003 with 21st Century Fox's STAR TV as its sales partner, managed by National Geographic until November 21, 2008. [53] The History Channel India closed down on November 21, 2008. In 2011, History was granted permission to relaunch services in India.
An 1874 engraving showing the probably apocryphal account of Newton's lab fire. Diamond was, according to legend, Sir Isaac Newton's favourite dog, who, by upsetting a candle, set fire to manuscripts containing his notes on experiments conducted over the course of twenty years. According to one account, Newton is said to have exclaimed: "O ...