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A look at various events that took place on this day, November 23, photographed over the past century.

Benito Mussolini, right, fights a fencing duel with a Fascist militia officer in Rome, on November 23, 1936. The match was watched by Nazi newspapermen, who were visiting Rome, and Fascist officials.

Dr. William Beebe, center, and two of his assistants, stand beside their bathysphere after their arrival in New York from Bermuda, on November 23, 1932.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt behind the wheel of his car in Warm Springs, Georgia, on November 23, 1935.

Headmaster Sims, left, watches as students of Dorset House Preparatory School file into a bomb-proof shelter in their first air raid drill in Littlehampton, England, on November 23, 1938.

A group of Marines, after landing on the beach at Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. November 23, 1943

Women wave their ration books happily in Seattle at a meat market on November 23, 1945, when they learned that meat rationing was ended.

A smiling mother helps her child from a boat as they reach Austrian soil, after crossing a border canal from Hungary with other fleeing refugees on November 23, 1956.

Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is led down a corridor of the Dallas police station for another round of questioning in connection with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, on November 23, 1963.

Members of the White House staff file past the body of John F. Kennedy, lying in repose in a closed, flag-draped coffin in the historic East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on November 23, 1963.

A Vietnamese monsoon drenches men of the U.S. First Infantry Division as an Army helicopter waits for weather to clear, so it can take off in a jungle clearing about 50 miles northwest of Saigon, Vietnam, on November 23, 1965.

Exhibition motorcycle rider Evel Knievel, a former movie stuntman, jumps his cycle between two ramps a hundred feet apart, to open a Sports Cycle Exhibition at the Civic Center, November 23, 1967, San Francisco, California.

A San Francisco cable car is shown on a turntable getting ready for a return trip, on November 23, 1968.

Actress Jane Fonda and actor Donald Sutherland talk to reporters at the Los Angeles airport on November 23, 1971, before departing on a tour to entertain troops in Hawaii, Japan, Guam, and the Philippines.

A man makes his way on a street covered with rubble in the small town of Balvano, near Potenza, southern Italy, on November 23, 1980. A major earthquake hit the Irpinia region, killing 2,735 people.

President George Bush tosses presidential tie clips to U.S. Marines at a desert encampment in eastern Saudi Arabia on November 23, 1990, during a Thanksgiving visit.

Then U.S. President-elect Bill Clinton, center, leans back and laughs as he plays the saxophone with the Sugar Bear marching band of Central High School during a City Hall rally in Macon, Georgia, on November 23, 1992.

Somali gunmen ride through the streets of northern Mogadishu during a rally by clan leader Ali-Mahdi on November 23, 1994.

Customers examine the Japanese language version of Windows 95 moments past midnight, on November 23, 1995, in a store in Tokyo's Akihabara electronic district.

A Broward County Canvassing Board member, stares at a dimpled presidential punch-card ballot on November 23, 2000 as the board begins counting the county's ballots that were considered questionable. After review by the three-member panel, the vote went to Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush.

A firefighter sprays water on fires as recovery work continues at the site of the North Tower of the World Trade Center after the September 11 attacks, in New York - November 23, 2001.

The Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on November 23, 2002, from Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

A US Army soldier shoots during a basketball game inside one of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's former palaces in Tikrit, Iraq, on November 23, 2003.