Last Thursday in November
Time: Tuesday Oct 31, 1939
Place: U.S.
Details: On October 31, 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a presidential proclamation changing the holiday to the next to last Thursday in November, for business reasons.
Best-effort ordering. Some events may appear out of order since many are only known to the year, but they are usually around the same period.
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World War II-German first
Jan, 1942 - U.S., United Kingdom and U.S.S.R.
Donald Trump-Trump spoke to Turkish president Tayyip Erdoğan
Oct, 2019 - U.S.
Donald Trump-Trump issued a revised order
Monday Mar 6, 2017 - U.S.
Frederick Douglass-Douglass conferred with President Abraham Lincoln
1863 - U.S.
Donald Trump-Conflict of interest
Dec, 2015 - U.S.
Donald Trump-A President
Friday Jan 20, 2017 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Great Depression-Hoover Moratorium is issued
Saturday Jun 20, 1931 - U.S.
World War II-Arsenal of Democracy
Sunday Dec 29, 1940 - Washington D.C., U.S.
World War II-Lend-Lease
Tuesday Mar 11, 1941 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Father's Day-First presidential proclamation honoring fathers
1966 - U.S.
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson-Johnson suspended Stanton
Monday Aug 5, 1867 - U.S.
Dwight D. Eisenhower-Day for Rejoicing
Monday Jan 20, 1969 - U.S.
Dwight D. Eisenhower-Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty
Tuesday Dec 21, 1954 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Audrey Hepburn-The Presidential Medal of Freedom
1992 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Joe Biden-Vice President
Tuesday Jan 20, 2009 - U.S.
1973 oil crisis-U.S. Phase II price controls begin
Nov, 1971 - U.S.
Winston Churchill-Churchill had returned to Washington
Wednesday Jun 17, 1942 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Dwight D. Eisenhower-Chance for Peace speech
Thursday Apr 16, 1953 - Washington D.C., U.S.
1973 oil crisis-Nixon signs the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act (EPAA)
Tuesday Nov 27, 1973 - U.S.
Tony Hawk-Skating in The White House
Jun, 2009 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Abraham Lincoln-A wish
Friday Aug 22, 1862 - U.S.
Donald Trump-"Very much under control"
Feb, 2020 - U.S.
Donald Trump-Trump became the Republican nominee
Monday Aug 24, 2020 - U.S.
Abraham Lincoln-Lincoln carried all but three states
Tuesday Nov 8, 1864 - U.S.
Abraham Lincoln-Amnesty Proclamation
Tuesday Dec 8, 1863 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Dwight D. Eisenhower-President Roosevelt decided that Eisenhower would be Supreme Allied Commander in Europe
Dec, 1943 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Abraham Lincoln-Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address
Tuesday Mar 5, 1861 - U.S.
1973 oil crisis-President Richard Nixon orders 90-day nationwide freeze on all wages, prices, salaries and rents
Sunday Aug 15, 1971 - U.S.
Dwight D. Eisenhower-Mild stroke
Monday Nov 25, 1957 - U.S.
Donald Trump-Trump administration imposed sanctions and visa restrictions against senior Chinese officials
Jul, 2020 - U.S.
Abraham Lincoln-Lincoln would still defeat the Confederacy before turning over the White House
1864 - U.S.
International Monetary Fund-Nixon Shock
1971 - U.S.
Abraham Lincoln-Lincoln ran for reelection in 1864
1864 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Abraham Lincoln-A President
Monday Mar 4, 1861 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Donald Trump-Trump signed an executive order restricting some forms of immigration to the United States
Wednesday Apr 22, 2020 - U.S.
Dwight D. Eisenhower-New Look
1953 - U.S.
Dwight D. Eisenhower-Eisenhower wanted to increase surveillance inside the Soviet Union
1954 - U.S.
Donald Trump-Trump announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19
Friday Oct 2, 2020 - U.S.
Winston Churchill-Honorary Citizen
1963 - U.S.
Dwight D. Eisenhower-Eisenhower was recovering from a heart attack late in September 1955
Sep, 1955 - U.S.
Dwight D. Eisenhower-Eisenhower was assigned to the General Staff in Washington
Dec, 1941 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Winston Churchill-Lend-Lease
Tuesday Mar 11, 1941 - U.S.
Abraham Lincoln-Effective Emancipation Proclamation
Thursday Jan 1, 1863 - U.S.
1973 oil crisis-Nixon administration imposes a 60-day economy-wide price freeze
Thursday Jun 14, 1973 - U.S.
Abraham Lincoln-Lincoln signed the Confiscation Act
Tuesday Aug 6, 1861 - U.S.
Abraham Lincoln-Lincoln called on the states to send detachments totaling 75,000 troops
Monday Apr 15, 1861 - U.S.
Abraham Lincoln-Lincoln removed McClellan
Tuesday Mar 11, 1862 - U.S.
United Nations-Four Policemen
Monday Dec 29, 1941 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Joe Biden-Obama named Biden to head the Gun Violence Task Force
Dec, 2012 - U.S.
1973 oil crisis-Nixon named William E. Simon as the first Administrator of the Federal Energy Office
Tuesday Dec 4, 1973 - U.S.
United Nations-14-point proposal to end the war
1918 - U.S.
Dwight D. Eisenhower-Eisenhower returned to Washington to replace Marshall as Chief of Staff of the Army
Nov, 1945 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Donald Trump-Trump signed the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act into law
Friday Mar 6, 2020 - U.S.
1973 oil crisis-Year-round daylight saving time was implemented
Sunday Jan 6, 1974 - U.S.
Joe Biden-A big fucking deal
Tuesday Mar 23, 2010 - U.S.
Dwight D. Eisenhower-Eisenhower returned to Washington
Wednesday Jun 3, 1942 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Abraham Lincoln-Lincoln replaced War Secretary Simon Cameron with Edwin Stanton
Jan, 1862 - Washington D.C., U.S.
1973 oil crisis-Nixon decided to keep the quotas due to vigorous political opposition
1969 - U.S.
Joe Biden-Biden supported the NATO-led military intervention in Libya
2011 - U.S.
1973 oil crisis-Special Rule No. 1 reimposes mandatory (Phase II) price controls on the 23 largest oil companies
Mar, 1973 - U.S.
Dwight D. Eisenhower-Domino theory
1954 - U.S.
Dwight D. Eisenhower-Eisenhower forced an end to the combined British, French and Israeli invasion of Egypt
Nov, 1956 - U.S.
1973 oil crisis-Nixon imposed a price ceiling on oil in 1971
1971 - U.S.
1973 oil crisis-Two-tier price ceiling
Sunday Aug 19, 1973 - U.S.
Dwight D. Eisenhower-The cork in the bottle
Nov, 1960 - U.S.
Joe Biden-"To the gates of hell"
2014 - U.S.
Dwight D. Eisenhower-French asked Eisenhower for help in French Indochina against the Communists
1953 - U.S.
Joe Biden-Biden said Obama had asked him to remain as his running mate for the 2012 presidential election
Oct, 2010 - U.S.
Dwight D. Eisenhower-Eisenhower was aboard the maiden flight of Air Force One
Wednesday Aug 26, 1959 - U.S.
Severo Ochoa-U.S. National Medal of Science
1978 - U.S.
Abraham Lincoln-Lincoln arrived in disguise in Washington, D.C.
Sunday Feb 24, 1861 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Donald Trump-Donald declared a national emergency
Friday Mar 13, 2020 - U.S.
Dwight D. Eisenhower-Executive Order 10450
Jul, 1953 - Washington D.C., U.S.
1973 oil crisis-President Ford signs the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA)
Monday Dec 22, 1975 - U.S.
Joe Biden-Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021 - Washington D.C., U.S.
1973 oil crisis-Carter orders cessation of Iranian imports to the U.S.
Tuesday Nov 13, 1979 - U.S.
1973 oil crisis-Nixon announced the end of the quota system
1973 - U.S.
Joe Biden-Trump and his allies falsely accused Biden of getting the Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin fired because he was supposedly pursuing an investigation into Burisma Holdings
2019 - U.S.
Abraham Lincoln-Grant's victories impressed Lincoln
1863 - U.S.
Joe Biden-Biden lost an internal debate to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about sending 21,000 new troops to Afghanistan
2009 - U.S.
Joe Biden-Biden endorsed Hillary Clinton
Friday Jun 10, 2016 - U.S.
Dwight D. Eisenhower-Eisenhower voiced his disagreements with the Democrats and declared himself to be a Republican
1951 - U.S.
1973 oil crisis-President Nixon suspends the mandatory oil import quota on No. 2 heating oil through April 30
Wednesday Jan 17, 1973 - U.S.
Dwight D. Eisenhower-United States presidential election of 1956
Tuesday Nov 6, 1956 - U.S.
September 11 (9/11) Attacks-President's Daily Briefing (August 6, 2001)
Monday Aug 6, 2001 - White House, Washington D.C., U.S.
Great Depression-Executive Order 6102 of President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued
Wednesday Apr 5, 1933 - U.S.
Donald Trump-Presidential Proclamation 9645
Sunday Sep 24, 2017 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Father's Day-Permanent national holiday
1972 - U.S.
Donald Trump-Trump not going to rule out a military option
Friday Aug 11, 2017 - U.S.
Frederick Douglass-Emancipation Proclamation
Thursday Jan 1, 1863 - U.S.
Red Summer-A telegram to Woodrow Wilson
Sunday Jul 20, 1919 - U.S.
Ruby Bridges-Bridges met with President Barack Obama at the White House
Friday Jul 15, 2011 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Red Summer-Another telegram
Aug, 1919 - U.S.
Library of Congress-Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970
Monday Oct 26, 1970 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Dissolution of the Soviet Union-President of the U.S. televised speech recognizing the independence of the 11 remaining republics
Wednesday Dec 25, 1991 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Josip Broz Tito-Tito met President Dwight D. Eisenhower
1960 - U.S.
Edward VIII-Edward visited President Dwight D. Eisenhower
1955 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Donald Trump-July 25 phone call
Aug, 2019 - U.S.
Great Depression-Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated as President
Saturday Mar 4, 1933 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Barack Obama-A President
Tuesday Jan 20, 2009 - U.S.
On This Day - 31 October
Mamluks-Abu Sa'id Qansuh was the twenty third Mamluk Sultan of Egypt
Monday Oct 31, 1498 - Cairo, Egypt
Muhammad Ali of Egypt-Egyptian invasion of Syria
Monday Oct 31, 1831 - Ottoman Syrian provinces
Abraham Lincoln-Nevada was admitted as a free state
Monday Oct 31, 1864 - Nevada, U.S.
Xinhai Revolution-Nanchang Restoration
Tuesday Oct 31, 1911 - Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
World War 1-Battle of Beersheba
Wednesday Oct 31, 1917 - Beersheba, (Syria this time)
Hungarian–Romanian War-The Aster Revolution in Budapest
Thursday Oct 31, 1918 - Budapest, Hungary
Red Summer-Corbin race riot
Friday Oct 31, 1919 - Corbin, Kentucky, U.S.
Benito Mussolini-Second assassination was failed
Sunday Oct 31, 1926 - Italy
Bay of Pigs Invasion-The CIA Fail
Monday Oct 31, 1960 - Cuba
The Beatles-Return to the UK
Thursday Oct 31, 1963 - Heathrow Airport, London, England
Marco van Basten-Born
Saturday Oct 31, 1964 - Utrecht, Netherlands
Ted Bundy-Laura Ann Aime
Thursday Oct 31, 1974 - Lehi, Utah, U.S.
Iran–Iraq War-During Operation Muharram
Sunday Oct 31, 1982 - Iran
Croatian War of Independence-Operation Otkos 10
Thursday Oct 31, 1991 - Croatia and Slovenia
Galileo Galilei-Pope John Paul II expressed regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
Saturday Oct 31, 1992 - Vatican City
Disasters with highest death tolls-Tropical Storm Linda (1997)
Friday Oct 31, 1997 - Vietnam
Francesco Totti-A Captain
Saturday Oct 31, 1998 - Rome, Italy
Plane Accidents-EgyptAir Flight 990
Sunday Oct 31, 1999 - The Atlantic Ocean
Ayman al-Zawahiri-The Afghan citizenship
Wednesday Oct 31, 2001 - Afghanistan
Reddit-Reddit was sold
Tuesday Oct 31, 2006 - San Francisco, California, United States
Google LLC-The Shares Hit $350 For The First Time
Wednesday Oct 31, 2007 - Mountain View, California, U.S.
Bitcoin-A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Friday Oct 31, 2008 - Japan
Plane Accidents-Metrojet Flight 9268
Saturday Oct 31, 2015 - Sinai, Egypt
Rafael Nadal-Withdraw from the Paris Masters
Wednesday Oct 31, 2018 - Paris, France
Best Buy-Hit by a tornado
Sunday Oct 31, 2021 at 06:25:00 PM - Roseville, Minnesota, U.S.
Roman Republic-Battle of the Great Plains
Monday Oct 31, 203 BC - Souk Ahras, Algeria
Christopher Anstey Birth
Tuesday Oct 31, 1724 - Brinkley
Martin Luther's reformation in 1517
Wednesday Oct 31, 1517 - Mainz
October 1939
Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-Arriving in Kraków
Oct, 1939 - Kraków, Poland
World War II-Battle of Kock
Monday Oct 2, 1939 - Kock, Poland
Charles de Gaulle-Reynaud asked for a staff posting under De Gaulle
Oct, 1939 - France
World War II-Public peace overture
Friday Oct 6, 1939 - Germany
The Holocaust-Hitler signed a "euthanasia decree"
Oct, 1939 - Germany
1939
Computer-One of The Earliest Examples of an Electromechanical relay Computer.
1939 - Germany
Heinrich Himmler-Invasion of Poland
1939 - Germany
Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-His role in the invasion of Poland
Jan, 1939 - Ostrava, Czech Republic
Alan Turing-Ludwig Wittgenstein's Lectures about The Foundations of Mathematics
1939 - Cambridge, England
Igor Stravinsky-His Wife's Death
1939 - France
Returning to Cambridge
1939 - Cambridge, England
Howard Hughes: The Aviator-TWA Takeover
1939 - U.S.
Antibiotic-The Discovery of The First Naturally Derived Antibiotic
1939 - U.S.
Cameras-Argus C9
1939 - U.S.
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle was put in command of the French Fifth Army's tanks
1939 - France
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh-Philip completed a term as a cadet at the Royal Naval College
1939 - Dartmouth, Devon, England, United Kingdom
Spanish Civil War-Franco's troops conquered Catalonia
Jan, 1939 - Catalonia, Spain
Disasters with highest death tolls-Black Friday Bushfires
Thursday Jan 12, 1939 - Victoria, Australia
Library of Congress-Putnam retired in 1939
1939 - Washington D.C., U.S.
The Holocaust-Germany began a genocide policy against Jews
Monday Jan 30, 1939 - Berlin, Germany
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels continued his intensive antisemitic
Monday Jan 30, 1939 - Berlin, Germany
Frank Sinatra-1st Marriage
Saturday Feb 4, 1939 - Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S.
Francisco Franco-United kingdom and France officially recognized the Franco regime
Monday Feb 27, 1939 - Spain
Spanish Civil War-Peace deal
Sunday Mar 5, 1939 - Spain
Spanish Civil War-Negrín fled to France
Monday Mar 6, 1939 - France
League of Nations-A total of 63 countries became member states of the League of Nations
1939 - Geneva, Switzerland
World War II-Germany invaded the remainder of Czechoslovakia
Mar, 1939 - Czechoslovakia (Present Day Czechia and Slovakia)
Adolf Hitler-Invade Prague
Wednesday Mar 15, 1939 - Czech Rep. (Czechoslovakia that time)
World War II-1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania
Monday Mar 20, 1939 - Lithuania
World War II-Free City of Danzig
1939 - Danzig (Present Day Gdańsk, Poland)
Spanish Civil War-Nationalists started a general offensive
Sunday Mar 26, 1939 - Spain
Francisco Franco-Madrid fell to the Nationalists
Tuesday Mar 28, 1939 - Madrid, Spain
Adolf Hitler-Offended by the British "guarantee"
Friday Mar 31, 1939 - Germany
Spanish Civil War-Nationalists occupied all Spanish territory
Friday Mar 31, 1939 - Spain
Francisco Franco-Victory was proclaimed
Saturday Apr 1, 1939 - Spain
World War II-Spanish Civil War ended
Saturday Apr 1, 1939 at 09 PM - Spain
Spanish Civil War-Franco proclaimed victory in a radio speech
Saturday Apr 1, 1939 - Spain
Black Friday-President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a presidential proclamation proclaiming Thanksgiving to be the fourth Thursday in November rather than the last Thursday
1939 - U.S.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh-Philip met the Princess
1939 - Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, England, United Kingdom
World War II-Italy conquered Albania
Wednesday Apr 12, 1939 - Albania
Anna May Wong-Wong visited Australia for more than three months
1939 - Australia
Anna May Wong-The Campbell Playhouse
1939 - New York., U.S.
Anna May Wong-Support of the Chinese struggle against Japan
1939 - U.S.
Second Sino-Japanese War-The Battle of Suixian–Zaoyang
Thursday Apr 20, 1939 - Zaoyang, Xiangyang, Hubei, China
DC Comics-The introduction of Batman
May, 1939 - U.S.
Spanish Civil War-There were harsh reprisals against Franco's former enemies
1939 - Spain
The Holocaust-100,000 Austrian Jews had left the country
May, 1939 - Austria
Edward VIII-NBC radio broadcast
May, 1939 - France
Benito Mussolini-The Pact of Steel
Monday May 22, 1939 - Berlin, Germany
World War II-Pact of Steel
Monday May 22, 1939 - Berlin, Germany
David Ben-Gurion-The British 1939 White paper
Tuesday May 23, 1939 - Palestine
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh-Philip repatriated to Greece
1939 - Athens, Greece
Library of Congress-Roosevelt appointed Archibald MacLeish
1939 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Alan Turing-Warsaw Meeting
Jul, 1939 - Warsaw, Poland
Laser-Valentin A. Fabrikant predicted the use of stimulated emission to amplify "short" waves
1939 - Moscow, U.S.S.R.
Nikola Tesla-The Medal of the University St. Clement of Ochrida
1939 - Sofia, Bulgaria
KFC-The Idea
1939 - Kentucky, U.S.
Adolf Hitler-Military mobilization is ordered
Tuesday Aug 22, 1939 - Germany
Joseph Stalin-Non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany
Wednesday Aug 23, 1939 - Soviet Union (Present-Day Russia)
World War II-Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
Wednesday Aug 23, 1939 - Moscow, Russia
World War II-Delayed attack
Wednesday Aug 23, 1939 - Germany
Adolf Hitler-Anglo-Polish alliance
Friday Aug 25, 1939 - England, United Kingdom
The Holocaust-List of 30,000 people to send to concentration camps
Tuesday Aug 29, 1939 - Germany
World War II-Hitler demanded that a Polish plenipotentiary immediately travel to Berlin
Wednesday Aug 30, 1939 - Berlin, Germany
World War II-Stormy meeting
Thursday Aug 31, 1939 - Berlin, Germany
Adolf Hitler-WWII Begun
Friday Sep 1, 1939 - Western Poland
Joseph Stalin-WWII Began
Friday Sep 1, 1939 - Poland
John F. Kennedy-Europe tour
Friday Sep 1, 1939 - Europe & Middle East
World War II-World War II Begins
Friday Sep 1, 1939 - Poland
The Holocaust-Germany invaded Poland
Friday Sep 1, 1939 - Poland
United Nations-World War II was broke up
Friday Sep 1, 1939 - Poland (and then Europe)
Igor Stravinsky-Stravinsky sailed (alone) for The United States
Sep, 1939 - Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
World War II-First battle of the war
Saturday Sep 2, 1939 - Westerplatte, Poland
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels proclaimed it illegal to listen to foreign radio stations
Saturday Sep 2, 1939 - Germany
Adolf Hitler-Britain and France declared war on Germany
Sunday Sep 3, 1939 - United Kingdom and France
Winston Churchill-Winston is back
Sunday Sep 3, 1939 - London, England, United Kingdom
World War II-France and Britain declared war on Germany
Monday Sep 4, 1939 - France and United Kingdom
Alan Turing-Turing Reported To Bletchley Park
Monday Sep 4, 1939 - Bletchley, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Turing report to Bletchley Park
Monday Sep 4, 1939 - Bletchley Park, England
World War II-German troops reached the suburbs of Warsaw
Friday Sep 8, 1939 - Warsaw, Poland
Bicycle-Military Usage
1939 - Germany
World War II-Battle of the Bzura
Saturday Sep 9, 1939 - Kutno, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland
Stan Lee-Graduating high school
1939 - New York, U.S.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh-Philip returned to Britain
Sep, 1939 - London, England, United Kingdom
Stan Lee-Working at Timely Comics
1939 - Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle attacked at Bitche
Tuesday Sep 12, 1939 - Bitche, France
Edward VIII-Back to the United Kingdom
Sep, 1939 - United Kingdom
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon-Outbreak of World War II in the Balmoral Castle estate
1939 - Scotland, United Kingdom
World War II-Ceasefire with Japan
Sep, 1939 - Russia (U.S.S.R.)
Adolf Hitler-Soviets invaded eastern Poland
Sunday Sep 17, 1939 - Eastern Poland
World War II-Soviets invaded Poland
Sunday Sep 17, 1939 - Poland
World War II-First Battle of Changsha
Sunday Sep 17, 1939 - Changsha, China
World War II-Cash and Carry
Thursday Sep 21, 1939 - Washington D.C., U.S.
The Holocaust-Letter from Reinhard Heydrich to the Einsatzgruppen
Thursday Sep 21, 1939 - Germany
Queen Elizabeth II-Elizabeth and Margaret should be evacuated to Canada
Sep, 1939 - Balmoral Castle, Balmoral Estates, Ballater, United Kingdom
World War II-Mutual assistance pacts
Sep, 1939 - Moscow, Russia
Operation Mincemeat-The deception paper used by the British
Friday Sep 29, 1939 - U.K
Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-Arriving in Kraków
Oct, 1939 - Kraków, Poland
World War II-Battle of Kock
Monday Oct 2, 1939 - Kock, Poland
Charles de Gaulle-Reynaud asked for a staff posting under De Gaulle
Oct, 1939 - France
World War II-Public peace overture
Friday Oct 6, 1939 - Germany
The Holocaust-Hitler signed a "euthanasia decree"
Oct, 1939 - Germany
United Nations-Empty headquarters
1939 - Geneva, Switzerland
Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-Meeting Itzhak Stern
Nov, 1939 - Kraków, Poland
Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-Business Consultant
Nov, 1939 - Kraków, Poland