This Day in History - November 25, 1835 - industrialist Andrew Carnegie is born. In his later years, he became a philanthropist and donated money towards building libraries and other educational programs.
https://www.biography.com/business-figure/andrew-carnegie
https://www.npr.org/2013/08/01/207272849/how-andrew-carnegie-turned-his-fortune-into-a-library-legacy
https://www.biography.com/business-figure/andrew-carnegie
https://www.npr.org/2013/08/01/207272849/how-andrew-carnegie-turned-his-fortune-into-a-library-legacy
How Andrew Carnegie Turned His Fortune Into A Library Legacy
At the start of the 20th century, the ruthless, self-made steel industrialist paid $60 million for 1,689 public libraries to be built in communities around the U.S. "The man who dies rich dies in disgrace," Carnegie wrote.
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This Day in History - November 24, 1971 - Hijacker and criminal mastermind D.B. Cooper parachutes out of plane.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hijacker-parachutes-into-thunderstorm
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/db-cooper-hijacking
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hijacker-parachutes-into-thunderstorm
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/db-cooper-hijacking
D.B. Cooper Hijacking | Federal Bureau of Investigation
A man who parachuted out of an airplane in 1971 with a bag full of stolen cash has never been seen again in one of the great unsolved mysteries in FBI history.
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This Day in History - November 20, 1947 - Princess Elizabeth marries Philip Mountbatten.
https://www.history.com/news/queen-elizabeth-royal-wedding-photos
https://www.history.com/news/queen-elizabeth-royal-wedding-photos
Glorious Behind-the-Scenes Photos of Queen Elizabeth's 1947 Wedding
A tremendous amount of effort goes into planning a royal wedding.
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This Day in History - November 19, 1863 - President Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address.
The Bliss Copy:
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863"
https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/gettysburg-address"
The Bliss Copy:
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863"
https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/gettysburg-address"
The Gettysburg Address
On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered remarks, which later became known as the Gettysburg Address, at the official dedication ceremony for
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