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On this day November 3 - 9 (week 45)
November 3, 2024 - November 9, 2024 - Graphics show birthdays and anniversaries on each day for the week. This week features the One World Trade Center, the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, the Voyager 2 space probe, musician and inventor of the saxophone Adolphe Sax, the elephant symbol of the U.S. Republican Party, the Three Gorges dam in China and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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November 3, 2014: One World Trade Center, the tallest building in the western hemisphere, opened 13 years after the original twin towers were destroyed on September 11, 2001
November 4, 1979: Iranian supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamic Revolution seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and captured 90 hostages, 52 of whom were held for 444 days
November 5, 2018: The Voyager 2 space probe, launched in 1977, became the second manmade object to leave the Solar System, six years after its twin craft, Voyager 1
November 6, 1814: Adolphe Sax, musician and instrument maker who invented the saxophone, now a staple feature of both jazz and marching bands, was born
November 7, 1874: A cartoon published in U.S. magazine Harper’s Weekly is considered to be the first major use of an elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party
November 8, 1997: Engineers blocked China’s Yangtze River as construction began of the Three Gorges dam, the world’s largest hydroelectric power project
November 9, 1989: Jubilant Berliners celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall as the East German government threw open its border to West Berlin and West Germany