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Re: On this day in History...
On November 6th
In 1947 – Meet The Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
In 1985 – The Iran-Contra Affair: The American press reveals that U.S. President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran.
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In 1976 – Pat Tillman, American football player
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On November 7th
In 1872 – The ship Mary Celeste sails from New York, eventually to be found deserted
In 1917 – Russian Revolution: In Petrograd, Russia, Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Russia was still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show the date as October 25).
In 1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America
In 1989 – Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
In 1991 – Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.
In 2000 – Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady.
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In 1973 – Yunjin Kim, South Korean actress, Lost
Notable Deaths
In 1962 – Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States
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On November 8th
In 1889 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
In 1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
In 1901 – Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
In 1939 – In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
In 1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.
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In 1979 – Dania Ramírez, Dominican actress, Heroes
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On November 9th
In 1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
In 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup d'état of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government).
In 1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
In 1888 – Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
In 1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
In 1979 – Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
In 1989 – Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. People start demolishing the Berlin Wall.
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In 1951 – Lou Ferrigno, American bodybuilder
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that would have been scary
On November 10th
In 1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philidelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
In 1865 – Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
In 1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.
In 1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
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In 1928 – Ennio Morricone, Italian composer
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On November 11th
In 1620 – The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.
In 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.
In 1918 – World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France. The war officially stops at 11:00 (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month) this is annually honoured with two-minutes of silence.
In 1926 – U.S. Route 66 is established.
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On Nov. 12th
In 1912 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
In 1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
In 1990 – Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
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In 1945 – Neil Young, Canadian singer and musician
In 1979 – Cote de Pablo, Chilean/American actress, NCIS
In 1982 – Anne Hathaway, American actress
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On November 13th
In 1982 – Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Kim's subsequent death (on November 17) leads to significant changes in the sport.
In 2005 – Andrew Stimpson, a 25-year old British man, is reported as the first person proven to have been 'cured' of HIV
Notable Births
In 1969 – Gerard Butler, Scottish actor
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On November 14th
1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.
In 1889 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in seventy-two days.
In 1922 – The BBC begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
In 1965 – Vietnam War: The Battle of the Ia Drang begins – the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
In 1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon.
In 1979 – Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
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In 1719 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart father and teacher
In 1740 – Johann van Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven's father and first teacher
In 1908 – Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin
In 1959 – Paul McGann, British actor, Doctor Who
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