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Today is a momentous occasion because if Thomas Edison hadn't invented the phonograph or what we know as the record player now that eventually led to CD's and mp3's later, us radio deejays may not even have jobs today!

Nov 16, 1952 - In the Peanuts comic strip, Lucy first held a football for Charlie Brown.  We all know how that ended.

Nov 14, 1991 - Thomas McIlvane fatally shot four workers at the Royal Oak, MI, Post Office before killing himself. He had been fired from the location.

Nov 13, 1789 - Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to a friend in which he said, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

Nov 12, 1972 - Don Shula, coach of the Miami Dolphins, became the first NFL head coach to win 100 regular season games in 10 seasons.

Here we are nearly 4 centuries later and we're right on the doorstep of our next Thanksgiving celebration thanks to this band of religious separatists that decided to brave the ocean and arrive here, free of oppression.

Right on the heels of the 2012 election where our incumbent president was just re-elected for his second term, it bears mentioning that on this date almost a century-and-a-half ago, one of our most beloved presidents was also elected to his second term as well. Which one? How about the guy on the $5 bill and the penny, none other than Abraham Lincoln.

Nov 6,  1955, the very first stereo broadcast was heard.

Nov 5, 1935 - The game "Monopoly" was introduced by Parker Brothers Company.

Nov 1, 1968 - The movie rating system of G, M, R, X, followed by PG-13 and NC-17 went into effect.

Oct 31, 1941 - Mount Rushmore was declared complete after 14 years of work. At the time the 60-foot busts of U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln were finished.

Oct 30, 1938 - Orson Welles' "The War of the Worlds" aired on CBS radio.