The 2009 forecast for turkey sale receipts to farmers is $3.8 billion.
Source: Census Bureau
President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19, 1863.
Source: Library of Congress
At noon on Nov. 18, 1883, the U.S. Naval Observatory changed its telegraphic signals to correspond to the four standard time zones that were created in the continental U.S. The railroads were responsible for prompting the introduction of time zones.
Source: Library of Congress
California’s American Indian and Alaska Native population, the highest of any state, was 738,978, as of July 1, 2008. Oklahoma’s population, 406,492, was the second highest.
Source: Census Bureau
As of July 1, 2008, 4.9 million American Indians and Alaska Natives were living in the U.S. That’s 1.6 percent of the total population.
Source: Census Bureau
In 1990, President George H.W. Bush was the first president to designate November as "National American Indian Heritage Month."
Source: Census Bureau
The poppy was known as the flower that grew over the graves of soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars. After World War I, the poppy sprouted in France and Belgium in lime-rich soil due to rubble.
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada
Hurricane activity in October for the North Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico was below the month’s average, which is one hurricane. There were two named storms, but neither became hurricanes.
Source: National Weather Service National Hurricane Center
Women’s rights advocate Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born on Nov. 12, 1815, in Johnstown, N.Y.
Source: Library of Congress
Designated as Veterans Day in 1954, Nov. 11 is the day Allied powers signed a cease-fire agreement with Germany in 1918, ending World War I.
Source: Library of Congress
