On This Day November 7

American outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and their The Wild Bunch gang became so proficient at robbing banks, payrolls and trains all over Colorado and Utah that the Pinkerton Detective Agency was hired to run them down. The pressures of being pursued forced Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to flee first to Argentina and then to Bolivia, where they were killed in a shoot-out on November 7, 1908.

Butch Cassidy poses in the Wild Bunch group photo, Fort Worth, Texas

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On This Day November 6

In December 1526, Charles V commissioned Spanish conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez to explore, conquer and settle a portion of North America stretching along the Gulf coast from Mexico to Florida. The expedition's treasurer, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, along with 79 others were the first known Europeans to set foot in Texas on November 6, 1528. Only de Vaca, and three others survived the next eight years, during which they wandered through what is now the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. They eventually reached Mexico City in 1536.

Below is the route of the Narváez expedition (until November 1528 at Galveston Island), and speculative historical reconstruction of Cabeza de Vaca's later wanderings.

By Lencer - Own work (Original text: own work, used:)

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On This Day November 5

Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan Dam in 1956, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation. Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt to get back the Suez Canal with the initial Anglo-French assault taking place on Port Said on November 5, 1956. Despite being a military success and having minor losses, the Suez Crisis had so much political fallout that most historians consider it the end of Britain as a superpower.

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On This Day November 4

Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd on November 4, 1842 at the Springfield, Illinois, mansion of Mary's married sister. Mary was a hysterical and madly jealous wife and she refused her husband to receive female visitors alone. She was the first presidential wife to be referred to as the First Lady. Mary was so disliked in her day she was nicknamed the “she-wolf”.

Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln

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On This Day November 3

Martha Hughes Cannon became the first female state senator elected in the United States when she was elected as a Utah State Senator on November 3, 1896. A Mormon polygamous wife, she ran against and defeated her own husband. Martha Hughes Cannon was the author of Utah sanitation laws and was a founder and member of Utah's first State Board of Health.

Martha Hughes Cannon

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On This Day November 2

The first radio broadcast license by the U.S. Commerce Department was given in 1920 to Westinghouse for station KDKA in Pittsburgh. On November 2, 1920, KDKA broadcast the US presidential election returns from a shack on the roof of the K Building of the Westinghouse Electric Company "East Pittsburgh Works" in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania. The original broadcast was said to be heard as far away as Canada.

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On This Day November 1

The Russian mystic Rasputin first met Tsar Nicholas II on November 1, 1905, at the Peterhof Palace. The Tsar recorded the event in his diary, writing that he and his wife Alexandra had "made the acquaintance of a man of God - Grigory, from Tobolsk province." By late 1906, Rasputin began acting as a healer for the royal family's son Alexei, who suffered from hemophilia.

Alexandra Feodorovna with her children, Rasputin and the nurse (1908)

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