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Show It's November The Wind From The North Is Strong and Proud, And He Pounds On My Door In A Fashion Loud--Anne Lowler 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 (the 22nd in 1963). It's also the month in which the Allies invaded in-vaded North Africa (the 7th, 1942) in World War II and in which World War I ended in 1918 (Nov. 11). THE 2nd IS the birthday anniversary of both James Polk 11th President, and Warren Harding, 29th President Harding, a relatively recent President, was bom 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 Bovemor and was then defeated in a gubernatorial race. He 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 elected 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 15th in 1777, a committee of the Continental Congress, which had adopted the Declaration of Indepen-aCTreMrted Indepen-aCTreMrted out the draft of the Articles of Confederation Confedera-tion - thefirst Constitution of the new nation; it provided for aoerpetual union. This draft was changed, in 1787, and hire controversy until the Civil War whether or not S wereTn a perpetual union under terms of the 1787 Constitution. i |