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Nov. 3 – The Chicago Tribune jumps the gun and mistakenly declares New York Gov. Thomas Dewey the winner of his presidential race against incumbent Harry S. Truman in a front-page headline titled “Dewey Defeats Truman,” 1948.

Nov. 9 – Indian inspector E.C. Watkins submits a report to Washington, D.C., stating that hundreds of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians associated with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse are hostile toward the United States, setting into motion a series of events that would lead to the Battle of the Little Big Horn in Montana the following year, 1875.

Nov. 13 – Walt Disney’s Fantasia – an unusual animated film in that it had no plot, and instead was an ambitious, artistic attempt to combine music and animation in a new way – opens, 1940.

Nov. 22 – Carl Eliason of Sayner, Wis., is granted the first patent ever given for a snowmobile design, 1927.

Nov. 30 – Samuel Clemens, the author better known as Mark Twain, is born in Florida, Mo., 1835.


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