Fun Facts about November

By Mary M. Alward

• Thanksgiving was first celebrated in the U.S. in 1789.
  
  
• The birthstone for November is the topaz.
  
  
• John F. Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963.
  
  
• Lincoln’s Gettysburg address was given in November 1863.
  
  
• The ancient Roman calendar listed November as the ninth month.
  
  
• The US and Canada celebrate the end of WWI on November 11.
  
  
• Presidents Harding and Polk differed in age by 70 years, but they were both born on November 2.
  
  
• Winter once began on November 11, according to the calendar of ancient Rome.
  
  
• November was called "Blood Month" by the ancient Saxons because that was the month they sacrificed animals to their gods.

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