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2020 ‐
Newly discovered rock art announced found in the Serranía La Lindosa, Colombian Amazon, dated 12,600 and 11,800 years ago with thousands of paintings of now extinct Ice Age animals
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2007 ‐
Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office hostage crisis: Leeland Eisenberg enters campaign office of Hillary Clinton in Rochester, New Hampshire with suspected bomb and holds three people hostage for 5 hours
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1995 ‐
Official end of Operation Desert Storm
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1993 ‐
President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill
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1990 ‐
American actor Burt Lancaster suffers a stroke
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1987 ‐
Afghanistan Constitution adopted
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1983 ‐
Radio Shack announces Tandy Model 2000 computer (80186 chip)
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1964 ‐
USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned
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1922 ‐
Adolf Hitler speaks to 50,000 national-socialists in Munich, Germany
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1886 ‐
First commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo, NY
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1866 ‐
Work begins on 1st US underwater highway tunnel in Chicago
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1838 ‐
Mexico declares war on France
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1786 ‐
Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold II promulgates a penal reform, making his the 1st state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 commemorated as Cities for Life Day.
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1782 ‐
Britain signs agreement recognizing US independence
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