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2001: First day of Ramadan
2006: Sadie Hawkins Day
2001: Election Day (United States)
2001: Daylight Saving Time Ends
Born 1814: Adolphe Sax (inventor & musician)
Born 1851: Charles Henry Dow (founder of Dow Jones & Company)
Born 1854: John Philip Sousa (composer)
1860: Abraham Lincoln was elected president
Born 1861: James Naismith (invented game of basketball)
1879: Canada's second national Thanksgiving Day after confederation
Born 1890: Henry Knox Sherrill (clergyman)
Died 1893: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (composer)
Born 1907: Charles W. Yost (diplomat)
1923: Electric shaver patent awarded to Col. Jacob Schick
Born 1946: Sally Field (actress)
1947: Meet the Press made its television debut
Born 1948: Glenn Frey (musician)
Born 1955: Maria Shriver (newscaster)
1956: President Dwight D. Eisenhower won reelection
Born 1970: Ethan Hawke (actor)
Born 1972: Rebecca Romijn (actress)
1984: President Ronald Reagan won reelection in an electoral landslide
2003: National Public Radio announced the largest donation in its history, a cash bequest from the will of the late philanthropist Joan Kroc of about $200 million. The nonprofit organization called the donation the "largest monetary gift ever received by an American cultural institution."






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