Saturday, November 19, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY

 November 19
1985:President Ronald Reagan and Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev, the world leaders who will be credited with ending the Cold War, meet for the first time for a three-day summit in Geneva, Switzerland.

1863: President Abraham Lincoln delivers one of the most famous speeches in American history, a 272-word oration at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pa. In memorializing the soldiers who fell during the Battle of Gettysburg the previous July, Lincoln resolves "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

1997: Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to the world's first set of surviving septuplets (four boys and three girls) in Des Moines, Iowa
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