This Week in History: November 15th to November 21st 1863 famous Gettysburg Address delivered by President Lincoln 1922 Mussolini Comes To Power In Italy 1926 NBC launches 1928 Mickey Mouse appears for the first time in Steamboat Willie 1942 The Alcan Highway, which connects British Columbia to Alaska opens 1942 Battle of Guadalcanal Won By US Fleet 1947 Princess Elizabeth, the future queen of England, marries Philip Mountbatten in Westminster Abbey. 1950 15-year-old Tenzin Gyatso, is enthroned asthe 14th Dalai Lama at age 15. 1954 The first automatic toll collection machine is used at the Union Toll Plaza on New Jerseys Garden State Parkway. 1956 Love Me Tender, Elvis Presleys first movie, opens in New York. 1959 The last Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music opens on Broadway. 1964 Staten Island and Brooklyn linked by the new Verrazano Narrows Bridge 1966 U.S. Roman Catholic bishops did away with the rule against eating meat on Fridays. 1967 Beatles Release Magical Mystery Tour 1968 Soviet Union Imports Vodka From United States 1969 Apollo 12 lands on the Moon 1970 Soviet Unions moonrover becomes the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on the moon. 1971 Intel releases worlds first commercial complete central processing unit 4004 1973 President Richard Nixon told the nation on TV, “I am not a crook.” 1973 Marshal Law Declared In Greece 1974 Congress passes the Freedom Of Information Act 1980 Millions of TV viewers tune in to watch the start of the new series of Dallas and find out Who Shot JR 1985 Microsofts launches Windows 1.01 1992 Fire damages a major part of Windsor Castle 1994 UK lottery operated by Camelot has its first lottery draw in UK 1995 Diana Princess is interviewed on British Television by Martin Bashir for the Panorama program about her life with the Royals 2000 Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones Marry 2004 Fox Hunting Ends In England 2004 President George W. Bush nominates National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice for Secretary of State. 2006 Nintendo releases its newest video game console the Wii in North America 2006 Great Firewall of China Providing Internet Net censorship put in Place 2006 Nancy Pelosi selected as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives 2007 Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is sworn in as the governor of California .
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