Thursday, November 19, 2009

TODAY IN HISTORY

NOVEMBER 19


1863:President Abraham Lincoln dedicates a national cemetery at a Civil War battlefield in Gettysburg, Pa., stating America is “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

1919: President Woodrow Wilson is rebuffed as the Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles.

1985: President Ronald Reagan meets Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at a Geneva summit that begins warming relations between the rival countries.

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