Tuesday, November 17, 2009

TODAY IN HISTORY

NOVEMBER 17


1558:Elizabeth I takes the throne of England after Queen Mary, her older half-sister, dies.

1800: Congress meets for the first time in the not-yet-finished Capitol in Washington, D.C.

1973: At a televised meeting with Associated Press editors, President Richard Nixon maintains his innocence in the Watergate scandal, saying: “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.”

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