GlobalWafers America will be hosting an onsite Job Fair in our lobby on Tuesday, November 17, 2026, from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Candidates should come prepared to meet directly with hiring managers and representatives from multiple departments across the organization.

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson are best remembered for their roles in founding a nation, but their contributions to American gardening and horticulture left a lasting legacy of their own. Both men were passionate gardeners, agricultural innovators, and lifelong students of the natural world. This presentation will explore how their work at Mount Vernon and Monticello helped shape early American gardening traditions through experimentation, landscape design, and the introduction and cultivation of new plant varieties.

Santa is trading his sleigh for a helicopter this holiday season as he makes a special airborne arrival at Frontiers of Flight Museum on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2026. The Smithsonian-affiliated museum at Dallas Love Field will welcome families to Santa Day, a festive morning celebrating the magic of the season and the excitement of aviation.

The Sam Rayburn VA Medical Center in Bonham, Texas, has a long history of serving veterans dating back to efforts by local community leaders in 1943 to establish a VA facility in the area. Construction began in 1948, and the facility officially opened in November 1951, with U.S. House Speaker Sam Rayburn serving as the keynote speaker. In 1973, the center was renamed the Sam Rayburn Memorial Veterans Center in his honor. VA North Texas Health Care System will commemorate 75 years of serving veterans in Bonham, Texas, at a ceremony beginning at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, November 6, 2026 at the Sam Rayburn Memorial VA Medical Center Auditorium.

N.T. Wright speaks at St. Andrew Methodist Church in 2025. St. Andrew Methodist Church is proud to announce that world-renowned theologian and author N.T. Wright will return to St. Andrew as part of the Dr. Scott L. Engle Lecture Series on Wednesday, November 4, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., in the sanctuary at 5801 W. Plano Parkway in Plano, Texas. Wright will speak on practical hope found in the Christian faith, followed by a Q&A moderated by St. Andrew Senior Pastor Arthur Jones. Together, they'll explore some of life's most important questions in an evening that takes both faith and doubt seriously.

1979 – Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages. The Iran hostage crisis began on November 4, 1979, when 66 Americans, including diplomats and other civilian personnel, were taken hostage at the Embassy of the United States in Tehran, with 52 of them being held until the end of the crisis on January 20, 1981. The incident occurred after the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line stormed and occupied the building in the months following the Iranian Revolution. With support from Ruhollah Khomeini, who had led the Iranian Revolution and would eventually establish the present-day Islamic Republic of Iran, the hostage-takers demanded that the United States extradite Iranian king Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who had been granted asylum by the Carter administration for cancer treatment. Notable among the assailants were Hossein Dehghan (future Minister of Defense of Iran), Mohammad Ali Jafari (future Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), and Mohammad Bagheri (future Chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces). The hostage crisis contributed to a dramatic decline in Iran–United States relations. After 444 days, it came to an end with the signing of the Algiers Accords between the Iranian and American governments; Pahlavi had died in Cairo, Egypt, on July 27, 1980. The American magazine Time described the Iran hostage crisis as an entanglement of vengeance and mutual incomprehension. American president Jimmy Carter called the hostage-taking an act of "blackmail" and the hostages "victims of terrorism and anarchy." Among proponents of the Iranian Revolution, it was seen as an act against perceived attempts by the United States to undermine the uprising against Iran's king, who had been accused of committing numerous human rights abuses against Iranian dissidents through his Bureau for Intelligence and Security of the State. The Carter administration's refusal to extradite Pahlavi was cited by the hostage-takers as proof of complicity on the part of the United States.