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Answers to November in History
1. 1869 The Suez Canal
2. 1883 The railroad industry, which needed to create uniform
time schedules across the country.
3. 1918 World War I
4. 1922 Tutankhamen (King Tut)
5. 1942 Boston, Massachusetts
6. 1963 John B. Connolly
7. 1966 Edward Brooke (R) of Massachusetts
8. 1968 George Wallace
9. 1978 San Francisco. (Note: The two civic leaders were shot
by Dan White, a former City Supervisor whose defense at
trial was that his change in diet to Twinkies and other sugary
foods was symptomatic of the depression which caused his
"diminished capacity." It became known as the "Twinkie
defense.")
10. 1980 Kristin was the one who shot J.R. Ewing in the TV series
Dallas.
11. 1991 Earvin "Magic" Johnson
12. 1999 Elian Gonzalez
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