In 1765, Frederick County, Md., repudiated the British Stamp Act.
In 1804, the 14th president of the United States, Franklin Pierce, was born in Hillsboro, N.H.
In 1963, the body of President John F. Kennedy, who was felled the day before by an assassin's bullets, lay in repose in a closed, flag-draped coffin in the East Room of the White House. The new president, Lyndon B. Johnson, proclaimed Nov. 25, the day of Kennedy's funeral, a day of national mourning.
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Broadway composer Jerry Bock (1928)
Former Labor Secretary William E. Brock (1930)
Actress Susan Anspach (1939)
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"If ... history ... teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge, and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred."