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Hello, and welcome to This Day in History. Here’s what happened on November 22nd. Americans who were alive on this day in 1963 can likely tell you exactly what they were doing when they found out that President John F. Kennedy had been shot while traveling through Dallas in an open convertible. He died 30 minutes later. Vice President Lyndon Johnson, who was three cars behind President Kennedy in the motorcade, was sworn in as the 36th U.S.

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Hello, and welcome to This Day in History. Here’s what happened on November 21st. Who shot J.R.? Forty years ago today, 350 million people worldwide tuned in to the prime time soap Dallas to find out. J.R. Ewing, the character fans loved to hate, had been shot on the season-ending episode the previous March, in what now stands as one of television’s most famous cliffhangers.

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Hello, and welcome to This Day in History. Here’s what happened on November 20th. It was a royal wedding to remember, but it wasn’t Charles and Diana’s or even Harry and Megan’s--on this day in 1947, a 21-year-old Princess Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten. Mountbatten, a dashing prince of Greece and Denmark, renounced his titles in order to marry the English princess, who was heir to the British crown.

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Hello, and welcome to This Day in History. Here’s what happened on November 19th. It was one of the most famous--and inspiring--speeches in American history: On this day in 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of a cemetery for those killed during the Battle of Gettysburg. In the midst of the Civil War, Lincoln brilliantly and movingly reminded a war-weary public why it was so important for the Union to fight--and win--the war.

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Hello, and welcome to This Day in History. Here’s what happened on November 18th. What time is it where you are? Well, before this day in 1883, that question was much more difficult to answer. That’s when American railroads begin using the four continental time zones. Before that most towns in the U.S. had their own local time, generally based on “high noon,” or the time when the sun was at its highest point in the sky.

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Hello, and welcome to This Day in History. Here’s what happened on November 17th. If you tune in to watch NFL football, you can usually rest assured that the game will be broadcast in its entirety, all thanks to what happened on this day in 1968. That night, the Oakland Raiders scored two touchdowns in nine seconds to beat the New York Jets—but no one saw it, because they were watching the movie Heidi instead.

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Hello, and welcome to This Day in History. Here’s what happened on November 16th. Climb ev’ry mountain. Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. Do-re-mi. If these lyrics sound familiar, then you’re one of the millions of Americans who’s seen--or heard--The Sound of Music, which premiered on Broadway on this day in 1959.

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Hello, and welcome to This Day in History. Here’s what happened on November 15th. For nearly a decade after declaring independence from Great Britain, the United States wasn’t governed by the Constitution, but by a vastly different document that was adopted on this day in 1777--the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union.

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Hello, and welcome to This Day in History. Here’s what happened on November 14th. If you’ve seen the film “We Are Marshall,” then you’re familiar with the tragic event that devastated the Marshall University community 50 years ago today.

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Hello, and welcome to This Day in History. Here’s what happened on November 13th. Studies show consumption of wine, beer, and liquor has risen as much as 30 percent during the pandemic, but we know wine making and drinking dates back at least 8,000 years. That’s what scientists discovered on this day in 2017, when earthenware jars holding residual wine compounds were found at two archaeological sites south of Tbilisi, Georgia.

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