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Author Stephen Crane was born in 1871. 		2
Today, Mexicans celebrate the annual holiday of El Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). 		3
Comedian and actor Dennis Miller was born in 1953. 		4
In 1804, Lewis and Clark hired Toussaint Charbonneau and his Shoshone wife, Sacagawea, to assist in an exploration of the Mississippi and territory to its west. 		5
In 1994, former President Ronald Reagan disclosed that he had Alzheimer's disease. 		6
Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1893. 		7
In 2000, Hillary Clinton was elected to the United States Senate from New York.
8
English mathematician John Wallis died in 1703. 		9
In 1990, the country of Nepal adopted a constitution. 		10
Botanist Robert Morison, whose work helped develop the systematic classification of plants, died in 1683. 		11
Fossils of a new species of dinosaur, Jobaria tiguidensis, were discovered in 1997. 		12
The first drive-in banking service opened in 1946. 		13
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C., in 1982. 		14
Moby Dick was first published in America in 1851.
15
In 1920, the first Assembly of the League of Nations occurred. 		16
The Federal Reserve Bank officially opened for business in 1914. 		17
The United States Congress convened for the first time at the U.S. Capitol in 1800. 		18
Four standard time zones for the continental U.S.A. were introduced in 1883. 		19
President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863. 		20
Today is Mexican Revolution Day (Día de la Revolución). 		21
French inventor Jacques de Vaucanson, a pioneer in automated machinery, died in 1782.
22
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. 		23
Physicist Johannes Diederik van der Waals was born in 1837. 		24
Ragtime composer Scott Joplin was born in 1868. 		25
In 1998, President Jiang Zemin arrived in Tokyo for the first visit to Japan by a Chinese head of state since World War II. 		26
Today is Thanksgiving 		27
Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament in 1885, establishing the Nobel Prize. 		28
Explorer Ferdinand Magellan sailed through the Straits of Magellan and entered the Pacific Ocean from the east for the first time in 1520.
29
Author and scholar C.S. Lewis was born in 1898. 		30
Mark Twain, né Samuel Clemens, was born in the town of Florida, Missouri, in 1835.


 

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