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Show CSUGiiiiJOP. 76 November, ninth month of the old Roman calendar, is the birthday month of five U.S. Presidents and the month in which President John Kennedy was assassinated assas-sinated (the 22nd in 1963). ITS ALSO the month in which the allies invaded North Africa (the 7th, 1942) in world war II and in which world war I ended in 1918 (November 11). The 2nd is the birthday of both James Polk, 11th president, and Warren Harding, Hard-ing, 29th president. HARDING, a relatively recent president, was born in Morrow County, Ohio, in 1865, the oldest of eight children. He was first a newspaper man, buying a Marion, Ohio, weekly for $300. At his death it was a daily and a valuable property. HE SERVED in the state legislature and as Lieutenant Governor and was then defeated in a gubernatorial r3He nominated William Taft at the Republican convention in 1912 and two years later was elected to the U.S. Senate. IN 1920 he was nominated by the Republicans and elect- ed president. However, he failed to survive his term, dying after a trip to Alaska, which he had promised to make in his campaign, in 1923. On the 6th, in 1789, the Pope appointed the first American Catholic bishop, John Carroll of Maryland. AT THAT time there were no Catholic schools in the United States and Carroll was educated in France and consecrated con-secrated bishop in England. On the in 1777, a committee com-mittee of the Continental Congress, which had adopted the Declaration of Independence, Indepen-dence, reported out the draft of the Articles of Confederation Confedera-tion - the first Constitution of the new nation; it provided for a perpetual union. THIS draft was changed, in 1787, and there was controversy con-troversy until the Civil War whether or not states were in a perpetual union under terms of the 1787 Constitution. |