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On Nov 20:
1820 - The whaler Essex, from Nantucket, Massachusetts, was attacked and sunk by a sperm whale near the western coast of South America. It was the first American vessel sunk by a whale. |
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On Nov 21:
1953 - The discovery of the Piltdown Man skull by Charles Dawson in Sussex in 1912 was revealed as a hoax. |
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On Nov 22:
1963 - President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, shot to death while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald, suspected of assassinating the president, was arrested. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the 36th President of the United States of America. |
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On November 22, 1914, the first extended battle fought between Allied and German forces in the much-contested Ypres Salient during World War I comes to an end after over one month of fighting.
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On November 22,
President John F. Kennedy is assassinated during a visit to Dallas. |
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Nov. 22, 1890, Charles de Gaulle, the leader of Free France during World War II and the chief architect of France's Fifth Republic, was born. Following his death on Nov. 9, 1970, his obituary appeared in The Times
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On Nov 23:
1869 - In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched - one of the last clippers ever to be built, and the only one still surviving to this day. |
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On Nov 26:
1922 - British archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first to enter King Tutankhamen's tomb in over 3000 years. |
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