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NATIONAL Men Make Dinner Day [first Thursday of November]
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1889 North Dakota becomes the 39th state and South Dakota becomes the 40th state
1903 London’s Daily Mirror newspaper is first published
1920 The first radio broadcast in the United States is made from Pittsburgh
1947 Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose flies for the first and last time
1948 Harry S. Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey to the surprise of pollsters and newspapers, in the greatest presidential upset in history [until, perhaps, 2016]
1960 A British jury determines that Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence is not obscene
1983 President Ronald Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
2000 An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts became the first residents of the international space station
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