November 



Research: An Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics was 

 established at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts, under a grant from the National Science Foundation. 



November 



Agreement: The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service entered into 

 an agreement with the USSR Ministry of Culture for the development, organization, 

 and travel of "Moscow: Treasures and Traditions," an exhibition of two hundred 

 objects produced by artisans and craftsmen from the sixteenth to early twentieth 

 centuries. It will be on view in the United States beginning in June 1990. 



November 1 



Premiere: Discovery Theater's original production of "Rosa Parks: Speaking Out" 

 made its debut. The show explored the life of a black woman who helped spark the 

 civil rights movement in the United States in the 1960s. The production was also 

 noteworthy for its incorporation of American Sign Language. Fiscal year 1989 

 represented the highest registration ever achieved by Discovery Theater. 



November 2 



Lecture: The Smithsonian Institution Libraries presented a public lecture titled 

 "E pluribus unum. Do the Washington Metropolitan Area Universities Need A 

 Super-Library?" Paul Vassallo, executive director of the Washington Research 

 Library Consortium, was the speaker. 



November 3 



Special Event: A black tie dinner was held in the New York City Equitable Center 

 complex to honor Archives of American Art Trustee Benjamin D. Holloway, who was 

 responsible for securing office space for the Archives in this new complex. 

 Proceeds from the evening benefited the Archives' New York Regional Center. 



November 14 



Exhibition and Publication: Co-organized by the Cooper-Hewitt Museum and the 

 Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, "Courts and Colonies: The William and Mary 

 Style in Holland, England and America" opened in New York under the gracious 

 patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands. The show 

 celebrated the 300th anniversary of the Glorious Revolution. Assembled by an 

 international team of curators, it included more than 250 works of art, 

 architectural prints, drawings, furniture, ceramics, and silver from the late 

 seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. 



November 14 



Meeting: Andrei Sakharov, renowned Soviet dissident, member of the Presidium of 

 the USSR Academy of Sciences, and a deputy to the USSR Congress of People's 

 Deputies, spoke at a meeting organized by the Kennan Institute for Advanced 

 Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. 

 Sakharov died December 14, 1989. 



