Today in history: On Nov. 20, 1789, New Jersey became the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights. In 1917, Ukraine declared itself to be a republic. In 1947, Meet the Press premiered on NBC. In 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis ended when the then-Soviet Union agreed to remove its nuclear missiles from Cuba. In 1974, the U.S. Department of Justice filed an anti-trust lawsuit against AT&T, causing AT&T and the Bell System to break up. In 1982, the Cal-Stanford football game ended with a last-second kick-off return touchdown. In 1985, Microsoft released Windows 1.0. In 1992, the movie Malcolm X, starring Denzel Washington, premiered. And in 1998, the first module of the International Space Station (ISS) was launched.
Posted on: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:51:38 +0000
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