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This Day in History 11/18/20 Nov 18, 2020

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Hello, and welcome to This Day in History. Here’s what happened on November 18th. What time is it where you are? Well, before this day in 1883, that question was much more difficult to answer. That’s when American railroads begin using the four continental time zones. Before that most towns in the U.S. had their own local time, generally based on “high noon,” or the time when the sun was at its highest point in the sky.

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This Day in History 11/17/20 Nov 17, 2020

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Hello, and welcome to This Day in History. Here’s what happened on November 17th. If you tune in to watch NFL football, you can usually rest assured that the game will be broadcast in its entirety, all thanks to what happened on this day in 1968. That night, the Oakland Raiders scored two touchdowns in nine seconds to beat the New York Jets—but no one saw it, because they were watching the movie Heidi instead.

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This Day in History 11/16/20 Nov 16, 2020

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Hello, and welcome to This Day in History. Here’s what happened on November 16th. Climb ev’ry mountain. Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. Do-re-mi. If these lyrics sound familiar, then you’re one of the millions of Americans who’s seen--or heard--The Sound of Music, which premiered on Broadway on this day in 1959.

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This Day in History 11/15/20 Nov 15, 2020

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Hello, and welcome to This Day in History. Here’s what happened on November 15th. For nearly a decade after declaring independence from Great Britain, the United States wasn’t governed by the Constitution, but by a vastly different document that was adopted on this day in 1777--the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union.

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This Day in History 11/14/20 Nov 14, 2020

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Hello, and welcome to This Day in History. Here’s what happened on November 14th. If you’ve seen the film “We Are Marshall,” then you’re familiar with the tragic event that devastated the Marshall University community 50 years ago today.

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This Day in History 11/13/20 Nov 13, 2020

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Hello, and welcome to This Day in History. Here’s what happened on November 13th. Studies show consumption of wine, beer, and liquor has risen as much as 30 percent during the pandemic, but we know wine making and drinking dates back at least 8,000 years. That’s what scientists discovered on this day in 2017, when earthenware jars holding residual wine compounds were found at two archaeological sites south of Tbilisi, Georgia.

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This Day in History 11/12/20 Nov 12, 2020

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Hello, and welcome to This Day in History. Here’s what happened on November 12th. Today, nearly 40 percent of all Americans can trace their roots through Ellis Island. The immigration gateway processed more than 12 million immigrants between its opening in 1892 and this day in 1954, when it finally shut its doors. The first immigrant to pass through Ellis Island was a 15-year-old Irish girl named Annie Moore; the last was a 48-year-old Norwegian merchant seaman named Arne Patterson.

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This Day in History 11/11/20 Nov 11, 2020

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Hello, and welcome to This Day in History. Here’s what happened on November 11th. Today, at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, marks the 102nd anniversary of the end of one of the most devastating conflicts in human history--World War I. That's when Germany signed an armistice with the Allies in a railroad car in northern France.

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This Day in History 11/10/20 Nov 10, 2020

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Hello, and welcome to This Day in History. Here’s what happened on November 10th. “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” Those were the famous words uttered by New York journalist Henry Morton Stanley on this day in 1871 upon finding Socttish explorer David Livingstone in Ujiji, in present day Tanzania, after a nearly 8 month long search.

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This Day in History 11/9/20 Nov 09, 2020

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Hello, and welcome to This Day in History. Here’s what happened on November 9th. It was the biggest power failure in U.S. history: On this day in 1965, the Great Northeast Blackout began when a power surge overwhelmed the transmission lines in western New York, which resulted in the eventual breakup of the entire Northeastern transmission network. All together, 30 million people in eight U.S. states and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec were affected by the blackout.

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