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| Topic Started: Nov 30 2008, 12:14 AM (49 Views) | |
| Admin | Nov 30 2008, 12:14 AM Post #1 |
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1783 The British evacuated New York, their last military position in the United States, during the Revolutionary War. 1835 Industrialist Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland. 1881 Pope John XXIII was born Angelo Roncalli near Bergamo, Italy. 1914 Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio was born in Martinez, Calif. 1944 Baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis died at age 78. 1947 Movie studio executives meeting in New York agreed to blacklist the "Hollywood 10," who were cited a day earlier and jailed for contempt of Congress for failing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee. 1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a slight stroke. 1963 The body of President John F. Kennedy was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. 1973 Greek President George Papadopoulos was ousted in a bloodless military coup. 1974 Former U.N. Secretary-General U Thant died at age 65. 1987 Chicago Mayor Harold Washington died after suffering a heart attack in his City Hall office. 1999 Six-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez was rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off the coast of Florida. 2001 CIA officer Johnny "Mike" Spann was killed during a prison uprising in Mazar-e-Sharif, becoming America's first combat casualty of the conflict in Afghanistan. 2002 President George W. Bush signed legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security and appointed Tom Ridge to be its head. 2003 The Senate gave final congressional approval to historic Medicare legislation combining a new prescription drug benefit with measures to control costs before the baby boom generation reaches retirement age. 2003 Yemen arrested Mohammed Hamdi al-Ahdal, a top al-Qaida member suspected of masterminding the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole and the 2002 bombing of a French oil tanker off Yemen's coast. 2006 New York City police officers shot an unarmed man to death outside a bar in Queens in the early morning hours of his wedding day. 2006 Israel and the Palestinians agreed to a cease-fire to end a five-month Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip and the firing of rockets by Palestinian militants into the Jewish state. |
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