On this day :
1994 George Foreman becomes oldest heavyweight champ, 1775 Washington condemns Guy Fawkes festivities, 1895 George Selden patents gaspowered car, 1862 Lincoln removes McClellan, 1968 Richard Nixon elected president, 2009 Army major kills 13 people in Fort Hood shooting spree, 1991 Philippines struggles with severe flooding, 1556 Mughal victory assures Akbars ascension, 1605 King James learns of gunpowder plot, 1912 Wilson wins landslide victory, 1930 An American Nobel Prize in Literature, 1990 Jewish extremist assassinated in New York, 2007 Writers strike stalls production of TV shows movies, 1893 Willa Cather starts writing for the Nebraska State Journal, 1938 Samuel Barbers Adagio For Strings receives its world premiere on NBC radio, 1862 300 Santee Sioux sentenced to hang in Minnesota, 1977 George W Bush marries Laura Welch in Midland Texas, 1994 George Foreman becomes oldest heavyweight champ in history, 1968 Nixon wins presidential election, 1970 US combat deaths down, 1914 Battle of Tanga ends in defeat for British colonial troops, 1940 FDR reelected president,
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