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President Harry Truman holds up an election day edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune mistakenly reporting 'Dewey Defeats Truman' (AP Photo-Byron Rollins)

Today in History: November 02

Today in History: November 02: In 1948, in one of the most unexpected results in U.S. election history, Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman won the presidential election against the heavily favored Republican governor of New York, Thomas E. Dewey. In 1783, General George Washington issued his Farewell Address to the Army. In 1947, Howard Hughes piloted his Hughes H-4 Hercules, nicknamed the ‘Spruce Goose,’ on its one and only flight. In 1959, Charles Van Doren testified to a Congressional committee that he had conspired with television producers to cheat on the television quiz show ‘Twenty-One.’ In 1976, former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter became the first candidate from the Deep South to be elected president since the Civil War as he defeated incumbent Gerald R. Ford. In 2000, American astronaut Bill Shepherd and two Russian cosmonauts, Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev, became the first crew to reside onboard the International Space Station; they spent a total of 136 days in the International Space Station before returning to Earth on Space Shuttle Discovery.

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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachen Begin gather to sign the Camp David Accords

Today in History: September 17

Today in History, September 17: Coincidences and ironies are attached to this day in history. Significantly, the Constitution of the U.S. was signed in 1787, and the Camp David Accords were signed in 1978. In 1908 a U.S. Army officer became the first fatality of a military airplane crash, while in 1944 Allied paratroopers landed behind enemy lines in Operation Market Garden. In 2001 there was flag-waving in the stock exchange as it opened for the first time after the 9-11 attacks, while in 2011 the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations began.

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Air raid damage scene on King William Street, in the City of London

Today in History: September 7

Today in History: September 7: In 1940 Nazi Germany launched a relentless air assault on Britain known as the Blitz. Atlantic City, New Jersey, hosted the inaugural Miss America Pageant. In 1977, U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos signed the Panama Canal Treaty. In 1986, Bishop Desmond Tutu was installed as the first Black leader of the Anglican Church in Southern Africa.

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