This Week in History Nov. 20 to Nov. 26

11/20/1789 – New Jersey becomes the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

11/21/1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph.

11/22/1963 – John F. Kennedy, the 43rd president of the United States, is assassinated while riding in an open-top convertible in Dallas.

11/23/1980 – An earthquake rocks southern Italy.

11/24/1849 – The inventor of the first gasoline-powered tractor, John Froehlich, is born.

11/25/1949 – “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer” first hits the music charts.

11/26/1922 – Archaeologists enter the tomb of King Tutankhamen for the first time.

Source: www.history.com

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