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• On Nov. 1, 1512,  Michelangelo finished painting the ceiling of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel.
• On Nov. 2, 1948,  President Harry S. Truman surprised the experts by winning a narrow upset over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey.
• On Nov. 3, 1900,  the first major U.S. automobile show opened at New York's Madison Square Garden under the auspices of the Automobile Club of America.
• On Nov. 5, 1605,  the "Gunpowder Plot" failed as Guy Fawkes was seized before he could blow up the English Parliament.
• On Nov. 8, 1960,  Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency.
• On Nov. 9, 1965,  the great Northeast blackout occurred as power failures lasting up to 13 1/2 hours left 30 million people in seven states and part of Canada without electricity.
• On Nov. 10, 1975,  the ore-hauling ship SS Edmund Fitzgerald and its crew of 29 mysteriously sank during a storm in Lake Superior with the loss of all on board.
• On Nov. 12, 1942,  the World War 2 naval Battle of Guadalcanal began.  (The Allies ended up winning a major victory over the Japanese.)
• On Nov. 15, 1777,  the Second Continental Congress approved theArticles of Confederation, a precursor to the Constitution of the United States.
• On Nov. 16, 1960,  Academy Award-winning actor Clark Gable died in Los Angeles at age 59 shortly after he completed filming "The Misfits" with co-star Marilyn Monroe.
• On Nov.17, 1800,  Congress held its first session in Washington in the partially completed Capitol building.
• On Nov. 22, 1963,  President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas; Texas Gov. John B. Connally, in the same car as Kennedy, was seriously wounded.  Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested.
• On Nov. 23, 1889,  the first jukebox made its debut in San Francisco, at the Palais Royale Saloon.
• On Nov. 24, 1971,  hijacker "D.B. Cooper" parachuted from a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 over Washington state with $200,000 in ransom --his fate remains unknown.
• On Nov.29, 1961,  Enos the chimp was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbited earth twice before returning.
• On Nov. 30, 1960,  the last DeSoto was built by Chrysler, which had decided to retire the brand after 32 years.