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| Topic Started: Nov 30 2008, 12:18 AM (59 Views) | |
| Admin | Nov 30 2008, 12:18 AM Post #1 |
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1789 A day of thanksgiving was set aside by President George Washington to observe the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. 1825 The first college social fraternity, Kappa Alpha, was formed at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. 1832 Public streetcar service began in New York City. 1940 The half million Jews of Warsaw, Poland, were forced by the Nazis to live within a walled ghetto. 1942 "Casablanca," starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, had its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York. 1949 India adopted a constitution as a republic within the British Commonwealth. 1950 China entered the Korean War, launching a counter-offensive against soldiers from the United Nations, the United States and South Korea. 1965 France launched its first satellite. 1968 Cream, rock's first supergroup, played their farewell concert at London's Royal Albert Hall. (The band reunited for seven shows in 2005.) 1973 President Richard Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court that she'd accidentally caused part of the 18 1/2-minute gap in a key Watergate tape. 1975 A federal jury in Sacramento, Calif., found Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, guilty of trying to assassinate President Gerald R. Ford. 1992 The British government announced that Queen Elizabeth II had volunteered to start paying taxes on her personal income, and would take her children off the public payroll. 1998 Tony Blair gave the first speech ever by a British prime minister to an Irish parliament. 2000 Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified Republican George W. Bush the winner over Democrat Al Gore in the state's presidential balloting by 537 votes. |
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