HISTORY MOMENTS

The Idaho State Historical Society reports that during this week in history:

The founder of a chain of Golden Rule Department Stores, C. C. Anderson, was born November 2, 1873. Anderson came to Boise in 1896 and opened a Golden Rule Store on Main Street. By 1937, when the chain was sold to Allied Stores, there were a total of twenty one stores throughout the Northwest. Anderson died in Boise in 1958.

The first transcontinental airplane flight arrived at Pasadena, CA, from New York, on November 5, 1911, taking 82 hours, 4 minutes.

Idaho's constitution was adopted on November 5, 1889.

On November 8, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Civil Works Administration to find work for millions of unemployed Americans. Between 1933 and 1942 there were a total of 51 Civilian Conservation Corps camps in Idaho employing 28,074 men—second only to California in number. Expenditures in Idaho exceeded $82 million and projects included building forest lookouts and towers; building bridges, roads, campgrounds and picnic areas; and restoring historic sites.

Football was played as an intercollegiate sport for the first time on November 5, 1859, as Rutgers beats Princeton 6-4.