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Today in History: November 5, Fort Hood shooting kills 13
Today in History: November 4, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated
Today in History: November 3, Bill Clinton becomes 42nd president with defeat of George H.W. Bush
Today in History: November 2, Jimmy Carter beats Gerald Ford in presidential election
Today in History: November 1, Clarence Thomas joins the Supreme Court
Today in History: October 31, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated
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Today in History: October 30, Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in ‘Rumble in the Jungle’
Today in History: October 29, “Black Tuesday” on Wall Street sets off panic, starts Great Depression
Today in History: October 29, “Black Tuesday” on Wall Street sets off panic, starts Great Depression
Today in History: October 28, Benito Mussolini takes power in Italy
Today in History: October 27, Gunman kills 11 in Pittsburgh synagogue
Today in History: October 26, Amy Coney Barrett confirmed as Supreme Court justice
Today in History: October 25, George III takes the throne in Britain
Today in History: October 24, the United Nations is officially born
The Who’s ‘Quadrophenia’ turns 50; How US fans embraced a rock opera on British youth culture
Today in History: October 23, Beirut truck bombing kills 241 US service members
Today in History: October 22, JFK reveals Soviet-built missile bases in Cuba
Today in History: October 21, Thomas Edison perfects a workable electric light
Today in History: October 20, 3 members of Lynyrd Skynyrd killed in plane crash
Today in History: October 19, U.S. military begins accepting openly gay recruits
Yesterday Once More: Young TikTok talent re-imagines Carpenters 1970s Top 40 classics
Today in History: October 18, U.S. takes possession of Alaska from Russia
Today in History: October 17, Albert Einstein arrives in the U.S. as a refugee from Nazi Germany
Today in History: October 16, Cuban missile crisis begins
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