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Misc. History
1863 - U.S. President Lincoln declared that the last Thursday of November would be recognized as Thanksgiving Day.
1901 - The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated. After a merger with Radio Corporation of America the company became RCA-Victor.
1929 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes officially changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
1941 - Adolf Hitler stated in a speech that Russia was "broken" and they "would never rise again."
1952 - Britain became the third nuclear power in the world when they successfully detonated their first atomic bomb. The U.S. and Russia were the only other nuclear powers.
1955 - "Captain Kangaroo" premiered on CBS-TV.
1988 - The space shuttle Discovery landed safely after its four-day mission. It was the first American shuttle mission since the Challenger disaster.
1990 - The Berlin Wall was dismantled eleven months after the borders between East and West Germany. The unification ended 45 years of division.
| A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe |
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