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Thursday, November 21, 2019
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| 1272 | Edward I proclaimed King of England |
| 1426 | Brescia surrenders to the Venetians under Carmagnola |
| 1780 | Britain declares war on Holland |
| 1829 | Jews are expelled from Nikolayev & Sevastopol, Russia |
| 1856 | USN & RN complete reduction of Barrier Forts, Canton (begun Nov 16) |
| 1862 | Confederate Army of Tennessee formed by Gen Braxton Bragg |
| 1866 | First national convention of the Grand Army of the Republic |
| 1910 | Revolution breaks out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero |
| 1917 | Battle of Cambrai, the first tank battle |
| 1920 | Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Woodrow Wilson |
| 1942 | British Eighth Army recaptures Banghazi, Lybia |
| 1943 | Galvanic: 27th Inf Div lands on Makin |
| 1943 | Galvanic: 2nd Mar Div lands on Betio, Tarawa |
| 1945 | 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany |
| 1953 | Scott Crossfield in Douglas Skyrocket breaks Mach 2 (1300 MPH) |
| 1962 | US lifts blockade of Cuba |
| 1990 | US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) returns from space |
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| 1521 | Bicocca: Prospero Colonna's Italo-Spanish army crushes the French |
| 1818 | Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine |
| 1918 | Two German ammunition trains explode in Hamont Belgium, 1,750 die |
| 1918 | The German High Seas Fleet is interned at Scapa Flo, Scotland |
| 1920 | Mussolini's Blackshirts kill 11 in Bologna |
| 1942 | ALCAN Highway official opened |
| 1943 | Operation Glavanic: Marines land on Abemama, 75 mi SE of Tarawa. |
| 1943 | Operation Galvanic: National Guardsmen advance on Makin |
| 1943 | Operation Galvanic: Marines in heavy fighting on Tarawa |
| 1981 | 400,000 demonstrate for Peace in Amsterdam |
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| 1221 | Frederik II Hohenstaufen crowned Holy Roman Emperor |
| 1497 | Vasco da Gama (28), leaves Lisbon with four ships, bound for India |
| 1798 | Neapolitan Army invades the French puppet "Roman Republic" |
| 1899 | Anglo-Boer War: Battle of Willow Grange |
| 1914 | Ypres burns after German bombardment |
| 1943 | Operation Galvanic: on Makin, 27th Div advances slowly |
| 1943 | Operation Galvanic: on Tarawa, Japanese "Banzai" charge after dark |
| 1943 | FDR, Churchill, & Chang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan |
| 1990 | George Bush visits US troops in Saudi Arabia |
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