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November 1, 1950 - Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.

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November 1, 1959 ~ Montreal Canadiens’ goal tender Jacques Plante becomes first NHL net-minder to wear a fibreglass protective face mask during a regulation game.

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November 1 1952 - The United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb on Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

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November 2, 1965 - Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war

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November 2, 1944 ~ Canadian troops occupy Knokke in Belgium.

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November 2, 1985 - The South African government imposed severe restrictions on television, radio and newspaper coverage of unrest by both local and foreign journalists.

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November 3, 1956 - A new Hungarian government is formed, in which many members of banned non-Communist parties participate. János Kádár and Ferenc Münnich form a counter-government in Moscow as Soviet troops prepare for the final assault.

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Nov. 3, 1967 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins.

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November 4, 2008 ~ Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate John McCain.

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November 5, 1940 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is the first and only President of the United States to be elected to a third term.

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November 5, 1605 ~ Catholic conspirator Guy Fawkes attempts to blow up King James I and the British Parliament. Plot discovered, Guy Fawkes caught, tortured and later executed along with seven others. Celebrated ever since as Guy Fawkes Day, where his effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, accompanied by fireworks.

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November 8, 1895 - First person to observe X-rays. German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen accidentally discovered X-rays, also sometimes called Röntgen rays while working on cathode rays. X-rays are a type of electromagnetic radiation that are often used today in medicine. Röntgen was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for his discovery.

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On Nov. 9, 1989, communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West for the first time in decades; joyous Germans danced atop the Berlin Wall.

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November 9, 1965 - A Catholic Worker Movement member, Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.

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November 9, 1799 ~ Napoleon Bonaparte pulls off a coup and becomes the dictator of France under the title of First Consul.