11-07-2009, 02:51 AM | #1521 (permalink) |
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11-07-2009, 03:26 AM | #1522 (permalink) |
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Also on Nov. 7, 1917, Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.
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11-08-2009, 02:56 AM | #1523 (permalink) |
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On November 8, 1954, Rickie Lee Jones was born...
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11-08-2009, 03:51 AM | #1524 (permalink) |
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Also on November 8th, 1971- The album "Led Zeppelin IV," which included the song "Stairway to Heaven," was released.
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11-09-2009, 02:38 AM | #1525 (permalink) |
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11-09-2009, 02:50 AM | #1526 (permalink) |
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Also on November 9th, 1989 - Communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West. Joyous Germans danced atop the Berlin Wall.
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11-10-2009, 02:13 AM | #1527 (permalink) |
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On Nov. 10, 1982, the newly finished Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to its first visitors in Washington, D.C.
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11-10-2009, 02:53 AM | #1528 (permalink) |
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Also on November 10, 1959, MacKenzie Phillips was born...
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11-11-2009, 02:31 AM | #1530 (permalink) |
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On November 11th, 1972- The U.S. Army turned over its base at Long Binh to the South Vietnamese army, symbolizing the end of direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War.
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11-11-2009, 02:58 AM | #1531 (permalink) |
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11-11-2009, 05:03 PM | #1532 (permalink) |
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Armistice Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
or if you like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day Thanks veterans, for all your sacrifices.
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11-12-2009, 02:40 AM | #1533 (permalink) |
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On Nov. 12, 1942, the World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal began. The Americans eventually won a major victory over the Japanese
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11-12-2009, 02:55 AM | #1534 (permalink) |
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11-13-2009, 02:47 AM | #1536 (permalink) |
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On Nov. 13, 1956, the Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses.
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11-13-2009, 02:55 AM | #1537 (permalink) |
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11-14-2009, 02:55 AM | #1539 (permalink) |
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On November 14, 1910, Rosemary DeCamp was born...
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11-15-2009, 02:51 AM | #1540 (permalink) |
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On November 15, 1945, Anni-Frid Lyngstad was born...
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11-16-2009, 02:54 AM | #1541 (permalink) |
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. Last edited by uncle phil; 11-17-2009 at 02:52 AM.. |
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11-18-2009, 02:54 AM | #1543 (permalink) |
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11-18-2009, 03:53 AM | #1544 (permalink) |
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Also on November 18th, 1928- The first successful sound-synchronized animated cartoon, Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" starring Mickey Mouse, premiered in New York.
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11-19-2009, 02:25 AM | #1545 (permalink) |
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On November 19th 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
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11-19-2009, 02:52 AM | #1546 (permalink) |
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11-20-2009, 02:47 AM | #1547 (permalink) |
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On Nov. 20, 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.
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11-20-2009, 03:34 AM | #1548 (permalink) |
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11-21-2009, 02:57 AM | #1549 (permalink) |
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11-22-2009, 02:52 AM | #1550 (permalink) |
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On November 22, 1961, Mariel Hemingway was born...
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11-23-2009, 02:53 AM | #1551 (permalink) |
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11-24-2009, 02:51 AM | #1553 (permalink) |
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11-25-2009, 03:05 AM | #1554 (permalink) |
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On November 25, 1971, Christina Applegate was born...
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11-26-2009, 03:21 AM | #1555 (permalink) |
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11-27-2009, 03:57 AM | #1556 (permalink) |
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On November 27, 1903, Mona Washbourne was born...
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11-28-2009, 02:51 AM | #1557 (permalink) |
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On November 28, 1967, Anna Nicole Smith was born...
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11-28-2009, 03:27 AM | #1558 (permalink) |
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Also on Nov. 28, 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II.Al;so
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11-29-2009, 02:58 AM | #1559 (permalink) |
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Also on Nov. 29, 1947, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution calling for Palestine to be partitioned between Arabs and Jews.
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