This Day in History......

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Nov. 20
1902 Geo Lefevre and Henri Desgrange create Tour de France bicycle race.

 

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On November 21, 1980, 350 million people around the world tune in to television’s popular primetime drama “Dallas” to find out who shot J.R. Ewing, the character fans loved to hate.

 

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Nov. 22,
1963 US President John friend. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in an open-topped motorcade in Dallas, Texas.

I remember this like it was yesterday...….sophomore H.S. typing class

 

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On November 23, 1936, the first issue of the pictorial magazine Life is published, featuring a cover photo of the Fort Peck Dam's spillway by Margaret Bourke-White.

 

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Nov. 24,
1859 English naturalist Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species" radically changing the view of evolution and laying the foundation for evolutionary biology.

 

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Nov. 25,
1867 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel Patents Dynamite.

 

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Nov. 26,
1789 1st national Thanksgiving in America.

 

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On November 27, 1095, Pope Urban II makes perhaps the most influential speech of the Middle Ages, giving rise to the Crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to reclaim the Holy Land, with a cry of “Deus vult!” or “God wills it!”

 

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Nov. 28
1925 Grand Ole Opry premieres as WSM Barn Dance on WSM radio Nashville, Tennessee.

 

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Nov. 29,
1987 Joe Montana of SF 49ers completes NFL record of 22 consecutive passes.

 

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Nov. 29,
1987 Joe Montana of SF 49ers completes NFL record of 22 consecutive passes.

Only 4 rings ,, wasn’t that good ,,,

 

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On this day in 1936, @Covemastah was born.

Happy Birthday

 

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Nov. 30
1982 "Thriller", 6th studio album by Michael Jackson is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year 1984, best-selling album of all time, Billboard Album of the Year 1983).

 

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Dec.1
1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama.

 

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December 2, 2001, the Enron Corporation files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a New York court, sparking one of the largest corporate scandals in U.S. history.

 

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On December 3, 1947, Marlon Brando’s famous cry of “STELLA!” first booms across a Broadway stage, electrifying the audience at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre during the first-ever performance of Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire.

 

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Dec. 4,
1991, Islamic militants in Lebanon release kidnapped American journalist Terry Anderson after 2,454 days in captivity.

 

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Dec. 5,
1973 Paul McCartney & Wings release album "Band on the Run" in the US.

 

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On December 6, 1884, in Washington, D.C., workers place a nine-inch aluminum pyramid atop a tower of white marble, completing the construction of an impressive monument to the city’s namesake and the nation’s first president, George Washington.

 

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Dec. 5,
1973 Paul McCartney & Wings release album "Band on the Run" in the US.

Was he a Beatle before becoming a big Star with Wings ??