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November 30 |
In
1995, President Clinton became the first U.S.
chief executive to visit Northern Ireland.
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November 29 |
In 1947, the U.N. General
Assembly passed a resolution calling for the partitioning of Palestine
between Arabs and Jews.
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November 28 |
In
1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met
in Tehran during World War II.
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November 27 |
In
1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R.
Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T.
Agnew, who'd resigned.
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November 26 |
In 1942,
President Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline rationing,
beginning December 1.
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November 25 |
In 1986, the
Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney
General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms
sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels.
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November 24 |
In 1963, Jack
Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the
accused assassin of President Kennedy.
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November 23 |
In 1943,
during World War II, United States forces seized control
of the Tarawa and Makin atolls from the Japanese.
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November 22 |
In 1963,
President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a
motorcade in Dallas. Texas Gov. John B. Connally was
seriously wounded. A suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald, was
arrested. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson became the 36th
president of the United States.
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November 21 |
In 1964, New York's Verrazano
Narrows Bridge opened.
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November 20 |
In 1945, 24
Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war
crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.
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November 19 |
In 1863,
President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he
dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil
War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
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November 18 |
In 1976,
Spain's parliament approved a bill to establish a
democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
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November 17 |
In 1973,
President Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors
meeting in Orlando, Fla., that ``people have got to know
whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a
crook.''
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November 16 |
In 1933, the United
States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations.
President Roosevelt sent a telegram to Soviet leader Maxim Litvinov,
expressing hope that United States-Soviet relations would ``forever
remain normal and friendly.''
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November 15 |
In 1969, a quarter
of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration in
Washington, D.C., against the Vietnam War.
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November 14 |
In 1972, the
Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 1,000 for the
first time, ending the day at 1,003.16.
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November 13 |
In 1956, the
Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on
public buses.
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November 12 |
In 1942, the World
War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal began. The Americans
eventually won a major victory over the Japanese.
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November 11 |
In 1918,
fighting in World War I came to an end with the signing of
an armistice between the Allies and Germany.
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November 10 |
In 1982, the
newly finished Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to its
first visitors in Washington, D.C.
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November 9 |
In 1965, the great
Northeast blackout occurred as several states and parts of
Canada were hit by a series of power failures lasting up to 13
1/2 hours.
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November 8 |
In 1960,
Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy defeated Vice
President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency.
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November 7 |
In 1917,
Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government
of Alexander Kerensky.
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November 6 |
In 1860, former
Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates
for the United States presidency.
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November 5 |
In 1968,
Republican Richard M. Nixon won the presidency,
defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and
third-party candidate George C. Wallace.
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November 4 |
In 1979, the Iranian
hostage crisis began as militants stormed the United States Embassy in
Tehran.
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November 3 |
In 1936, President
Roosevelt was re-elected in a landslide over Republican
challenger Alfred M. ``Alf'' Landon.
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November 2 |
In 1976,
former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter defeated Republican
incumbent Gerald R. Ford, becoming the first U.S.
president from the Deep South since the Civil War.
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November 1 |
In 1952, the United
States exploded the first hydrogen bomb, in a test at Eniwetok
in the Marshall Islands.
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