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Baseball's Longest-Lasting Curses
Congratulations to the Atlanta Braves, who beat the Houston Astros 7-0 in Game 6 of the World Series last night, to win their 1st World Championship since October 28, 1995.That 26-year drought seemed...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 3, 1969, President Richard Nixon's...
November 3, 1969: In the face of a massive demonstration against the Vietnam War on October 15 -- during Game 4 of the World Series between the Mets and the Baltimore Orioles -- and knowing that he had...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 3, 1992, Bill Clinton Is Elected President
November 3, 1992: Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas is elected President of the United States, defeating incumbent President George H.W. Bush and computer billionaire H. Ross Perot, who ran an...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 3, 2004, George W. Bush Is Re-Elected...
November 2, 2004: George W. Bush achieves -- due to the appearance of shenanigans in Ohio, I won't say "wins" -- a 2nd term as President, defeating the Democratic nominee, Senator John F. Kerry of...
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One Year Later
November 3, 2020, 1 year ago: I wrote, "This may turn out to be the most important day in American history. Vote like the whole world depends on it. Because it might."Joe Biden was elected the 46th...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 3, 1979: What's a Rutgers?
November 3, 1979: The football team of Rutgers University travels to Knoxville to play the University of Tennessee. UT's school paper, The Daily Beacon, teased their upcoming opponent by printing the...
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MLB Title Droughts as of 2021
This is my 564th post of the calendar year, setting a new record.Last World Series Win:1. 2021 Atlanta Braves2. 2020 Los Angeles Dodgers3. 2019 Washington Nationals4. 2018 * Boston Red Sox5. 2017 *...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 4, 1979, The Iran Hostage Crisis Begins
November 4, 1979: The Iran Hostage Crisis begins. Islamic militants take over the U.S. Embassy in Iran, and take 80 hostages, a number that will drop to 52. At first, the nation rallies around...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 4, 1980, Ronald Reagan Is Elected...
November 4, 1980: Ronald Reagan, former actor and former Governor of California, begins an era of Republican dominance, winning 489 Electoral Votes to be elected President. President Jimmy Carter, the...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 4, 1995, Yitzhak Rabin Is Assassinated
November 4, 1995: I got home from watching my alma mater, East Brunswick High School, defeat neighboring Sayreville, 36-29, at Jay Doyle Field in East Brunswick. I turned on the TV, and began watching...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 4, 2001, The Last Night of the Yankee...
November 4, 2001, 20 years ago: Game 7 of the World Series, at Bank One Ballpark (now Chase Field) in Phoenix. Although the record has been tied, this remains the latest date that a Major League...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 4, 2008, Barack Obama Is Elected President
November 4, 2008: History is made when America elects a black man as its President. Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, the Democratic nominee, wins 69.5 million votes. At the times, it was the highest...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 5, 1938, Rutgers Stadium Opens
Program from the dedication gameNovember 5, 1938: Rutgers Stadium opens in Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey, across the Raritan River from the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers College, now...
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November 5, 1946: Rifleman 1, Backboard 0
November 5, 1946, 75 years ago: The Boston Celtics play their 1st home game at the Boston Garden. Only 4,329 fans attend, and it's delayed for an hour, because a Celtic player damaged a wooden...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 5, 1968, Richard Nixon Is Elected...
November 5, 1968: Eight years after losing one of the closest Presidential elections, former Vice President Richard Nixon wins one that's nearly as close. The Republican nominee wins 301 Electoral...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 5, 1996, President Bill Clinton Is...
November 5, 1996, 25 years ago: President Bill Clinton is re-elected, winning 379 Electoral Votes to Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole's 159. Clinton wins 49.2 percent of the popular vote, while Dole...
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How to Be a New York Basketball Fan In Charlotte -- 2021-22 Edition
The New York Knicks visit the Charlotte Hornets on this coming Friday, November 12; and again on March 23, 2022. The Brooklyn Nets do so on March 8.Before You Go. Being in the South, it's going to be...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 5, 2017, The Sutherland Springs Church...
November 5, 2017: Devin Patrick Kelley walks into a service at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, a suburb of San Antonio, and shoots 46 people, 26 of whom die. He then led the...
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Who Was President the Last Time Your Team Won a Title?
Every so often, I point out that the Yankees haven't won a World Series under a Republican President since 1958, when Dwight D. Eisenhower was in office. "The Ike Age."Then again, having Joe Biden in...
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Scores On This Historic Day: November 6, 1984, President Ronald Reagan Is...
November 6, 1984: President Ronald Reagan is overwhelmingly re-elected, defeating Walter Mondale, who had been Vice President under Reagan's predecessor as President, Jimmy Carter. Reagan nearly...
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