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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…

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Nov. 22 – In 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas…

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Nov. 22 - In 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in…

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Nov. 24 – In 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded…

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Nov. 24 - In 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the…

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May 1 – In 2011, President Barack Obama announced that Osama Bin Laden…

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May 1 - In 2011, President Barack Obama announced that Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of…

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May 2 – In 1945, the Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin…

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May 2 - In 1945, the Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin and the Allies…

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