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International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
2006: Thanksgiving Day
Born 1787: Franz Gruber (composer)
1817: First sword-swallower performance in the U.S.
Born 1835: Andrew Carnegie (industrialist)
1874: Greenback Party (originally, National Independent Party) organized
Born 1878: Georg Kaiser (dramatist)
Born 1896: Virgil Thomson (composer)
Born 1900: Helen Gahagan Douglas (politician)
Born 1914: Joe DiMaggio (baseball player)
1922: The first door to King Tut's tomb was opened
Born 1947: John Larroquette (actor)
Born 1960: Amy Grant (singer)
Born 1960: John F. Kennedy, Jr. (son of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy)
1963: President John F. Kennedy was buried at 3:34 pm EST in Arlington National Cemetery
Died 1968: Upton Sinclair (writer)
Born 1971: Christina Applegate (actress)
1975: Robert S. Ledley granted a patent for CAT scan
1976: Rene Levesque became premier of Quebec
Born 1981: Barbara Pierce Bush and Jenna Welch Bush (fraternal twin daughters of President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush)
1995: Ireland voted to legalize divorce
Died 1998: Flip Wilson (actor & comedian)
2011: Partial eclipse of the Sun






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