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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…

March 30, 2023 Trump indictment by Elise Hammond, Tori B. Powell, Amir Vera and Jessie Yeung, CNN

March 31, 2023

Trump indicted in Manhattan; first ex-president to be charged with a crime | Special Report…
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January 6 committee releases final report, says Trump should be barred from office by Zachary Cohen, Annie Grayer, Jeremy Herb, Tierney Sneed, Devan Cole, Geneva Sands, Katelyn Polantz, and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN

December 23, 2022

https://youtu.be/YtwItbTPWNE After 18 months of investigating the events and causes of the Jan. 6, 2021…
By Lawrence Walker
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Watch Live: House Jan. 6 committee to vote on criminal referrals, final report at last meeting

December 19, 2022

Attack On The Capitol: The Investigation https://youtu.be/LzZsiafsv4I The House Jan. 6 committee kicked off their…
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Tina Turner dies at 83 by Tori B. Powell, Maureen Chowdhury and Amir Vera, CNN

May 25, 2023

https://youtu.be/9KWnl2KyrxQ In 1997, 60 Minutes met "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll" Tina Turner at her…
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Pelosi Steps Aside, Signaling End to Historic Run as Top House Democrat by Carl Hulse

November 18, 2022

Pelosi announces she is stepping aside as House Democratic leader https://youtu.be/EnSzMer_MZ0 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,…
By Lawrence Walker
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Tributes pour in for Dame Angela Lansbury after her death aged 96 by Sky News

October 12, 2022

Angela Lansbury Dead at 96 https://youtu.be/NogKy5H6yYo Angela Lansbury has died. She was 96. The 'Murder,…
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Loretta Lynn Dead at 90: Country Legend ‘Passes Peacefully in Her Sleep’ Family Says Today by Stephen M. Silverman

October 04, 2022

https://youtu.be/wayjbTNCcMA Loretta Lynn, a dirt-poor Kentucky coal miner's daughter who rose to the greatest heights…
By Lawrence Walker
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