October 12th, 1492On this date under the old style calendar, explorer Christopher Columbus lands in the Americas. Columbus sailing under Spain's banner traveled across the Atlantic, trying to seek a route to Asia. His arrival in the Caribbean leads t

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November 18th, 1978A mass murder-suicide in the jungles of Guyana in South America. Cult leader Jim Jones orders more than 900 followers at his Jonestown compound to drink poison punch. That happens after a congressman and four others investigating t

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I appreciate your being here this morning, Mrs. Kennedy is organizing herself. It takes longer, but gladly she looks better than we do, well she does. But we appreciate youre welcome. This citys been a great western city. We understand that theres be

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And they started their dirty aggression against this country. November 23rd, 2001The UN war crimes tribunal says it will try former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for genocide in Bosnia. Its the first time that the court links Milosevic to the

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November 25th, 1963Three days after his slain in Dallas, the body of President John F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. 1986In Washington, new details about the Iran-Contra affair engulf President Ronald Reagans administration.

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November 15th, 1864During the American Civil War, Union General William T. Sherman and his troops begin their march to the sea. Their devastating campaign from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia strikes at the heart of the Confederacy. 1806,In the Rocky Mo

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December 4th, 1991Freedom at last for Terry Anderson, the Associated Press correspondent, held hostage in Lebanon, Anderson is released after nearly 7 years in captivity held longer in Lebanon than any other western hostage. 1992President George H.W.

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November 29th, 1963President Lyndon B. Johnson names a commission to investigate President John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. The bipartisan panel, chaired by chief justice Earl Warren, becomes known as the Warren Commission. It later concl

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November 30th, 1874I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. Sir Winston Churchill,the British statesman who led his people through World War II is born in Blenheim Palace, England. 1835Writer and humorist Mark Twain, author

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November 24th, 1963In Dallas, a scene caught on live TV that shocks America just days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. There is Lee Harvey Oswald. Hes been shot. Hes been shot! Lee Oswald has been shot! Theres a man with a gun. N

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December 3rd, 1967Surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard, perform the first human heart transplant, the patient Louis Washkansky lives 18 days with his new heart. 1984A horrific industrial accident kills thousands of peopl

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December 5th, 1933Prohibition ends in the United States after more than a dozen years, as Utah ratifies the 21st Amendment to the constitution. That measure repeals the 18th Amendment, which had banned the manufacture, sale or transportation of alcoh

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December 2nd, 1954In Washington, the US Senate takes the rare step of condemning one of its own, Joseph McCarthy, Republican of Wisconsin. McCarthy is censured for bringing the Senate into disrepute after his anti-communist crusade and its tactics co

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December 7th, 1941 a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. All of a sudden, seaplanes were dropping bombs in the distance and then of course

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December 6th, 1889Jefferson Davis, the first and only, President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War dies in New Orleans. Davis spent two years in prison after the war and was indicted for treason, but never faced trial. 1969Vio

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A date which will live in infamy. December 8th, 1941America enters World War Ⅱ as Congress declares war on Japan, a day after its attack on Pearl Harbor. President Franklin D. Roosevelt tells lawmakers during a joint session in Washington. With con

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December 9th, 1992Britains Prince Charles and Princess Diana announce their separating. It happens more than a decade after their widely watched wedding that seemed like something out of a fairy tale. Divorce becomes final for the royal couple nearly

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December 10th, 1964Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Junior accepts his Nobel Peace Prize in Norways capital Oslo. The clergyman and activist is honored for his nonviolent campaign to end segregation of African Americans in the south. I stil

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December 1st, 1955Whats considered the birth of the modern Civil Rights Movement takes place in Montgomery, Alabama. We just like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free and have the same rights and privilege as anybody else. Rosa Parks, a

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November 1st, 1765The Stamp Act takes effect, as Britain imposes a tax on its American colonists. They respond with stiff resistance and Britain later repeals the Act. But the episode sets the stage for the American Revolution a decade later. 1952The

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