Virginia Geographic Calendar - November

November 1

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November 2

- In the 1999 election, the Republican Party won control of the House of Delegates for the next two years.

November 3

- Danville "riot" in 1883 leads to defeat of biracial Readjuster coalition and over a century of Democrat control of General Assembly

November 4

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November 5

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November 6

- first two women elected to serve in the General Assembly from Norfolk and Buchanan/Russell counties, in 1923 (three years after the 20th Amendment was ratified, despite its rejection by Virginia's General Assembly)

November 7

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November 9

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November 10

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November 11

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November 12

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November 13

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November 14

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November 15

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November 16

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November 17

- Dulles International Airport is dedicated (1962)

November 18

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November 19

- In 1776, the General Assembly responded to the Ten Thousand Names Petition submitted by dissenters and stopped collecting taxes that funded Anglican ministers, leading to the evntual separation of church and state and dis-establishment of the official state church.

November 20

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November 21

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November 22

- Edward Teach, the pirate known as "Blackbeard," was killed at Ocracoke Island in North Carolina on November 22, 1718. Governor Spotswood sent an expedition to North Carolina, after losing patience with the protection reportedly afforded to Blackbeard by Governor Eden of North Carolina. The head of Blackbeard was severed and returned to Virginia to collect the bounty, and the skull was stuck on a pole at the mouth of the Hampton River.

November 23

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November 24

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November 25

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November 26

- In 1775, six enslaved men took a fishing boat to sail down the James River in order to join Lord Dunmore's "Ethiopian Regiment." Four appear to have succeeded.

November 27

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November 30

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