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November 12
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In 1815, American suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, N.Y.
In 1920, baseball got its first "czar" as Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis was elected comissioner of the American and National Leagues.
In 1921, representatives of nine nations gathered in the nation's capital for the start of the Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments.
In 1927, Josef Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party.
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Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun (1908)
Actress Kim Hunter (1922)
Musician-songwriter Neil Young (1945)
Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci (1961)
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"If you try to please everybody, somebody is not going to like it."
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Donald Rumsfeld, former U.S. Secretary of Defense.