In 2005, Harvard-educated Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, dubbed the “Iron Lady,” claimed electoral victory and became the first woman president of Liberia. In 2004, Yasser Arafat, the longtime Palestinian leader whose career ranged from terrorist to diplomat, a key figure in the forever smoldering Middle East, died in a Paris hospital after several days in a coma. Bush and leaders from around the world stood near the World Trade Center ruins and, in a solemn ceremony, honored the dead from more than 80 nations. In 2001, two months after terrorist attacks on the United States, President George W. In 1992, the Church of England broke the tradition of a male-only clergy when it voted to allow the ordination of women as priests. In 1989, an estimated 1 million East Germans poured into reopened West Germany for a day of celebration, visiting and shopping. (Kennedy joined the court in February 1988.) Supreme Court after Judge Douglas Ginsburg withdrew his nomination and Judge Robert Bork was rejected by the Senate. President Ronald Reagan nominated Judge Anthony Kennedy to the U.S. In 1982, the space shuttle Columbia blasted off on the first commercial space mission. In 1945, composer Jerome Kern, who wrote such memorable tunes as “Ol’ Man River,” “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” and “The Last Time I Saw Paris,” died at the age of 60. Many countries have similarly named memorials.) (It is commonly called the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. President Warren Harding dedicated the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. The song had been written for her by Irving Berlin. In 1938, Kate Smith first performed “God Bless America” on her weekly radio show. In 1918, World War I ended with the signing of the Armistice of 11 November 1918 in a railroad car in a forest in France. In 1889, Washington was admitted to the union as the 42nd state. (About 60 whites were killed in the two-day rampage.)
Turner, an educated minister, believed he was chosen by God to lead people out of slavery.
In 1831, Nat Turner, who led fellow slaves on a bloody uprising in Virginia, was hanged. George Patton in 1885 baseball Hall of Fame member Walter “Rabbit” Maranville in 1891 actor Pat O’Brien in 1899 Alger Hiss, accused of being a communist spy in Washington in the late 1940s, in 1904 actors Robert Ryan in 1909 and Stubby Kaye in 1918 novelist Kurt Vonnegut in 1922 comedian Jonathan Winters in 1925 jazz musician Mose Allison in 1927 (age 88) golfer Frank “Fuzzy” Zoeller in 1951 (age 64) and actors Stanley Tucci in 1960 (age 55), Demi Moore in 1962 (age 53), Philip McKeon and Calista Flockhart, both in 1964 (age 51) and Leonardo DiCaprio in 1974 (age 41). President John Adams, in 1744 Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky in 1821 Austrian pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Alfred Hermann Fried in 1864 U.S. Those born on this date are under the sign of Scorpio. The evening stars are Mars, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn and Venus. The morning stars are Jupiter and Mercury.
This is Veterans Day in the United States.
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