today in history: november 23
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A look at various events that took place on this day, November 23, photographed over the past century.
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Benito Mussolini, right, fights a fencing duel with a Fascist militia officer in Rome, on November 23, 1936. The match was watched by Nazi newspapermen, who were visiting Rome, and Fascist officials.
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Dr. William Beebe, center, and two of his assistants, stand beside their bathysphere after their arrival in New York from Bermuda, on November 23, 1932.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt behind the wheel of his car in Warm Springs, Georgia, on November 23, 1935.
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Headmaster Sims, left, watches as students of Dorset House Preparatory School file into a bomb-proof shelter in their first air raid drill in Littlehampton, England, on November 23, 1938.
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A group of Marines, after landing on the beach at Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. November 23, 1943
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Women wave their ration books happily in Seattle at a meat market on November 23, 1945, when they learned that meat rationing was ended.
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A smiling mother helps her child from a boat as they reach Austrian soil, after crossing a border canal from Hungary with other fleeing refugees on November 23, 1956.
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Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is led down a corridor of the Dallas police station for another round of questioning in connection with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, on November 23, 1963.
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Members of the White House staff file past the body of John F. Kennedy, lying in repose in a closed, flag-draped coffin in the historic East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on November 23, 1963.
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A Vietnamese monsoon drenches men of the U.S. First Infantry Division as an Army helicopter waits for weather to clear, so it can take off in a jungle clearing about 50 miles northwest of Saigon, Vietnam, on November 23, 1965.
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Exhibition motorcycle rider Evel Knievel, a former movie stuntman, jumps his cycle between two ramps a hundred feet apart, to open a Sports Cycle Exhibition at the Civic Center, November 23, 1967, San Francisco, California.
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A San Francisco cable car is shown on a turntable getting ready for a return trip, on November 23, 1968.
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Actress Jane Fonda and actor Donald Sutherland talk to reporters at the Los Angeles airport on November 23, 1971, before departing on a tour to entertain troops in Hawaii, Japan, Guam, and the Philippines.
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A man makes his way on a street covered with rubble in the small town of Balvano, near Potenza, southern Italy, on November 23, 1980. A major earthquake hit the Irpinia region, killing 2,735 people.
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President George Bush tosses presidential tie clips to U.S. Marines at a desert encampment in eastern Saudi Arabia on November 23, 1990, during a Thanksgiving visit.
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Then U.S. President-elect Bill Clinton, center, leans back and laughs as he plays the saxophone with the Sugar Bear marching band of Central High School during a City Hall rally in Macon, Georgia, on November 23, 1992.
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Somali gunmen ride through the streets of northern Mogadishu during a rally by clan leader Ali-Mahdi on November 23, 1994.
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Customers examine the Japanese language version of Windows 95 moments past midnight, on November 23, 1995, in a store in Tokyo's Akihabara electronic district.
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A Broward County Canvassing Board member, stares at a dimpled presidential punch-card ballot on November 23, 2000 as the board begins counting the county's ballots that were considered questionable. After review by the three-member panel, the vote went to Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush.
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A firefighter sprays water on fires as recovery work continues at the site of the North Tower of the World Trade Center after the September 11 attacks, in New York - November 23, 2001.
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The Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on November 23, 2002, from Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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A US Army soldier shoots during a basketball game inside one of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's former palaces in Tikrit, Iraq, on November 23, 2003.
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