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Nov. 25 – In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese…
Nov. 26 – In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered…
Nov. 27 – In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.
Nov. 28 – In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II…
Nov. 18 – In 1976, Spain’s parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
Nov. 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.
Nov. 20 – In 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany….
Nov. 21 – n 1995, the presidents of three rival Balkan states agreed to make peace in Bosnia, ending nearly four years of terror and ethnic bloodletting that have left a quarter of a million people dead in the worst war in Europe since World War II…
Nov. 22 – In 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas…
Nov. 24 – In 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded…

Omicron Spreads Global Gloom over New Year’s celebrations by Raf Casert, AP News

December 30, 2021

Omicron spread continues to ravage country l WNT https://youtu.be/xCAP7SJOkQI U.S. states are seeing a rise…
By Lawrence Walker
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Reconstruction of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris by

December 26, 2021

After the fire: Rebuilding Notre Dame https://youtu.be/IuMa_Aiz1gk It's at the heart of Paris, in every…
By Lawrence Walker
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More than 80 feared dead after tornadoes hit central and southern US by Jason Hanna, Elizabeth Joseph, Claudia Dominguez, and Susannah Cullinane, CNN

December 12, 2021

https://youtu.be/rnbcBR1U9S0 Storms unleashed devastating tornadoes late Friday and early Saturday across parts of the central…
By Lawrence Walker
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bell hooks, Pathbreaking Black Feminist, Dies at 69 by Clay Risen

December 29, 2021

Bell Hooks Interview (1999) https://youtu.be/LTRDHb-8EF0 Author Bell Hooks is interviewed on her 18th book, All…
By Lawrence Walker
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Keechant Sewell to become 1st Woman, 3rd Black Person to lead NYC Police Force by Michelle L. Price, Associated Press

December 16, 2021

https://youtu.be/XGHu3U-eR2E Keechant Sewell, 49, is the first woman to lead the NYPD in its 176-year…
By Lawrence Walker
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Remembering Lucille Désirée Ball

December 05, 2021

https://youtu.be/xQR5BzN4EKg Along with having Dolly Pardon, Henry Winkler, and Stacy Weitzerman as guests for her…
By Lawrence Walker
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Remembering Josephine Baker

December 05, 2021

https://youtu.be/LbjSZSuIfRk The Life and Sad Ending of Josephine Baker. Mini bio of the life of…
By Lawrence Walker
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