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1860
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Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the sixteenth President of the United States.
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1869
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The first official intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick, NJ.
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1947
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"Meet the Press" debuted on NBC-TV. The show began to air weekly on September 12, 1948.
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1967
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Phil Donahue began a TV talk show in Dayton, OH. The show ended up being on the air for 29 years.
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1984
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For the first time in 193 years, the New York Stock Exchange remained open during a presidential election day.
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1991
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Kuwait celebrated the dousing of the last of the oil fires ignited by Iraq during the Persian Gulf War.
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1995
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Art Modell, the owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced plans to move his team to Baltimore.
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1998
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The Islamic militant group, Hamas, exploded a car bomb killing two attackers and injuring 21 civilians.
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2001
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In London, the "Lest We Forget" exhibit opened at the National Memorial Arboretum. Fred Seiker was the creator of the 24 watercolors. Seiker was a prisoner of war that had been forced to build the Burma Railroad, the "railway of death," for the Japanese during World War II.
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2001
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In Madrid, Spain, a car bomb injured about 60 people. The bomb was blamed on Basque separatists.
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2001
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Ten people were executed in Beijing, China. The state newspaper of China said that all of the people executed were robbers and killers aged 20-23.
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2001
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Disney's "Mickey's Magical Christmas - Snowed In at the House Of Mouse" was released on video and DVD.
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