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Author Stephen Crane was born in 1871. |
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Today, Mexicans celebrate the annual holiday of El Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). | 3
Comedian and actor Dennis Miller was born in 1953. | 4
In 1804, Lewis and Clark hired Toussaint Charbonneau and his Shoshone wife, Sacagawea, to assist in an exploration of the Mississippi and territory to its west. | 5
In 1994, former President Ronald Reagan disclosed that he had Alzheimer's disease. | 6
Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1893. | 7
In 2000, Hillary Clinton was elected to the United States Senate from New York. | 8
English mathematician John Wallis died in 1703. |
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In 1990, the country of Nepal adopted a constitution. | 10
Botanist Robert Morison, whose work helped develop the systematic classification of plants, died in 1683. | 11
Fossils of a new species of dinosaur, Jobaria tiguidensis, were discovered in 1997. | 12
The first drive-in banking service opened in 1946. | 13
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C., in 1982. | 14
Moby Dick was first published in America in 1851. | 15
In 1920, the first Assembly of the League of Nations occurred. |
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The Federal Reserve Bank officially opened for business in 1914. | 17
The United States Congress convened for the first time at the U.S. Capitol in 1800. | 18
Four standard time zones for the continental U.S.A. were introduced in 1883. | 19
President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863. | 20
Today is Mexican Revolution Day (Día de la Revolución). | 21
French inventor Jacques de Vaucanson, a pioneer in automated machinery, died in 1782. | 22
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. |
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Physicist Johannes Diederik van der Waals was born in 1837. | 24
Ragtime composer Scott Joplin was born in 1868. | 25
In 1998, President Jiang Zemin arrived in Tokyo for the first visit to Japan by a Chinese head of state since World War II. | 26
After eight years of searching, Howard Carter uncovered King Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922. | 27
Today is Thanksgiving | 28
Explorer Ferdinand Magellan sailed through the Straits of Magellan and entered the Pacific Ocean from the east for the first time in 1520. | 29
Author and scholar C.S. Lewis was born in 1898. |
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Mark Twain, né Samuel Clemens, was born in the town of Florida, Missouri, in 1835. | | | | | | |