On November 27, 1973, the United States Senate delivered an overwhelming bipartisan verdict—a 92–3 vote to confirm House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford as Vice President of the United States—marking the first major invocation of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment’s Section 2 mechanism to fill a…
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On November 27, 1973, the Twenty-Fifth Amendment was used for the first time. Gerald Ford’s ascent to the position of Vice President of the United States resulted from the political turbulence that marked the early 1970s. In the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, then-Vice…
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On October 3, 1863, amid the turmoil of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation that would establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday in the United States. Lincoln’s declaration designated November 26, 1863, as a day of “Thanksgiving and Praise to our…
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The Mars Rover Curiosity, a marvel of modern space exploration, embarked on its journey to the Red Planet with a historic launch on November 26, 2011. Launched as part of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission, Curiosity aimed to unravel the mysteries of Mars and…
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The postwar anxiety that had been simmering beneath the surface of American political life hardened into a formal purge on November 25, 1947, when the nation’s major movie studios announced they would no longer employ a group of screenwriters and directors who had refused…
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Servius Tullius, the sixth king of Rome, holds a pivotal place in Roman history for his military achievements, societal reforms, and administrative innovations. Among his many accomplishments, his first triumph over the Etruscans remains a defining moment that showcased his strategic brilliance and leadership.…
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On November 25, 1999, a five-year-old boy from Cuba was found on Thanksgiving day holding on to an inner tube a few miles off of the coast of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Fishermen rescued him and took him to a hospital for treatment. Elian Gonazlez’s…
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On November 24, 1863, Union forces launched one of the most visually dramatic and symbolically powerful actions of the American Civil War: the assault on Lookout Mountain, a towering, fog-shrouded massif that loomed over the desperately besieged city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. The engagement—popularly remembered…
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Australopithecus afarensis, a pivotal hominid species in the human evolutionary timeline, was discovered in the Afar region of Ethiopia on November 24, 1974, by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and his team. This ancient species, which thrived between 3.9 and 2.9 million years ago, is best…
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On November 23, 534 BC, in the city of Athens during the festival of the Great Dionysia, a figure from the rural deme of Icaria stepped onto a wooden platform and changed the trajectory of Western storytelling. His name was Thespis. By tradition—and according…
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