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TODAY IN HISTORY
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Today is Friday, Nov. 20, the 324th day of 2009. There are 41 days left in the year.

Thought for the day:
    Make haste slowly." _ Caesar Augustus, Roman emperor (63 B.C.-A.D. 14).


Today's Hightlight in History:
    On Nov. 20, 1947, Britain's future queen, Princess Elizabeth, married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey.


On This Date:
    In 1910
      revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I. Madero.

    In 1925
      Robert F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Mass.

    In 1929
      the radio program "The Rise of the Goldbergs" debuted on the NBC Blue Network.

    In 1945
      22 out of 24 indicted Nazi officials went on trial (one in absentia) before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.

    In 1959
      the United Nations issued its Declaration of the Rights of the Child.

    In 1967
      the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock at the Commerce Department ticked past 200 million.

    In 1969
      the Nixon administration announced a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phaseout. A group of American Indian activists began a 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.

    In 1975
      after nearly four decades of absolute rule, Spain's General Francisco Franco died, two weeks before his 83rd birthday.

    In 1992
      fire seriously damaged Windsor Castle, the favorite weekend home of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II.


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A day after violent anti-American protests in Greece, President Bill Clinton sought to heal old wounds by acknowledging the United States had failed its "obligation to support democracy" when it backed Greek's harsh military junta during the Cold War. Republicans whisked a $388 billion spending bill through the House. Palestinians formally opened the campaign for a successor to Yasser Arafat. Scientist Ancel Keys, who invented the K rations eaten by soldiers in World War II and who linked high cholesterol and fatty diets to heart disease, died in Minneapolis at age 100. Sen. Ted Stevens, the chamber's longest-serving Republican, delivered his swan song address following his failed re-election bid; he was saluted by his colleagues as a staunch friend and teacher. The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to impose new sanctions aimed at reducing the arms flowing into Somalia and the lawlessness and piracy that were flourishing there. Betty James, co-founder of the company that made the Slinky, died in Philadelphia at age 90.


Today's Birthdays:
    Sen
    Robert Byrd (D-W.V.) is 92
    Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer is 86
    Actress-comedian Kaye Ballard is 84
    Actress Estelle Parsons is 82
    TV personality Richard Dawson is 77
    Comedian Dick Smothers is 71
    Singer Norman Greenbaum is 67
    Vice President Joe Biden is 67
    Actress Veronica Hamel is 66
    Broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff is 63
    Actor Samuel E
    Wright is 63
    Singer Joe Walsh is 62
    Actor Richard Masur is 61
    Opera singer Barbara Hendricks is 61
    Actress Bo Derek is 53
    Former NFL player Mark Gastineau is 53
    Reggae musician Jim Brown (UB40) is 52
    Actress Sean Young is 50
    Pianist Jim Brickman is 48
    Rock musician Todd Nance (Widespread Panic) is 47
    Actress Ming-Na is 46
    Actor Ned Vaughn is 45
    Rapper Mike D (The Beastie Boys) is 44
    Rapper Sen Dog (Cypress Hill) is 44
    Actress Callie Thorne is 40
    Actress Sabrina Lloyd is 39
    Actor Joel McHale is 38
    Actress Marisa Ryan is 35
    Country singer Dierks (duhkrs) Bentley is 34
    Actor Joshua Gomez is 34
    Actress Laura Harris is 33
    Olympic gold medal gymnast Dominique Dawes is 33
    Country singer Josh Turner is 32
    Actress Nadine Velazquez is 31
    Actor Dan Byrd is 24
    Rock musician Jared Followill (Kings of Leon) is 23
    Actor Cody Linley is 20.


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