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2020-11-04

2020-11-04

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United States Electoral College
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United States Electoral College

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In the United States, the Electoral College is the group of presidential electors that is formed every four years for the sole purpose of voting for the president and vice president in the presidential election. This process is described in Article Two of the Constitution. The number of electors from each state is equa…

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On This Day

10 events
2025
UPS_Airlines
A UPS Airlines plane crashed in Louisville, Kentucky, killing at least twelve people.
2016
Paris_Agreement
The Paris Agreement, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, came into effect.
2010
Aviation_accidents_and_incidents
In the first aviation incident involving an Airbus A380, Qantas Flight 32 suffered an uncontained engine failure and made an emergency landing at Changi Airport in Singapore with no casualties.
2008
Barack_Obama
Barack Obama (pictured) became the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected President of the United States.
1995
Yitzhak_Rabin
Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (pictured) was assassinated by Yigal Amir, a right-wing extremist, at a peace rally at Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv.
1970
Feral_child
Authorities in California discovered a 13-year-old feral child, pseudonymously known as Genie, who had spent nearly her entire life in social isolation.
1964
Ruhollah_Khomeini
Ruhollah Khomeini was arrested by SAVAK, the Iranian secret police, and exiled to Turkey.
1952
Robert_A._Lovett
Robert A. Lovett, United States Secretary of Defense, issued a memorandum establishing the National Security Agency, with responsibility for all communications intelligence for the government.
1944
World_War_II
Second World War: Allied forces completed Operation Pheasant, a major operation to clear German troops from the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands.
1938
Hlinka_Guard
The Hlinka Guard and Slovakian police began the deportation of several thousand Jews from the country.

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