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."
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