Medici, Mayflower, Mary Jane Kelly-12 Newsworthy Notes From November 9

Medici, Mayflower, Mary Jane Kelly-12 Newsworthy Notes From November 9

By Cupertino REALTOR® Michelle Carr Crowe

“The Medici, Mayflower and Mary Jane Kelly have what in common?”

All three share an important newsworthy anniversary on November 9^th.

Curious to learn more about Medici, Mayflower and Mary Jane Kelly? Read along to learn about these and other interesting tales from November 9^th.

·         1494 – The Family de' Medici are expelled from Florence.

·         1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

·         1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

·         1888 – Mary Jane Kelly is murdered in London. Kelly is considered the fifth and final victim of the notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper.

·         1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He inspected progress on the Panama Canal.

·         1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.

·         1937 – Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.

·         1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.

·         1967 – The first issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published.

·         1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.

·         1994 – The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.

·         1998 – A US federal judge orders 37 US brokerage houses to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.

 While these interesting facts about Medici, Mayflower and Mary Jane Kelly on November 9th have nothing to do with my real estate business selling homes to families in San Jose, Cupertino and Saratoga in Silicon Valley, Calif., they add fun and entertainment to life.

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Images courtesy of Michelle Carr-Crowe’s private collection, the public domain, the U.S. government or www.freedigitalphotos.net.Facts compiled from Wikipedia, Smithsonian, HistoryOrb and MentalFloss among others.

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