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November 17 Great American Smokeout

November 2, 1983:
President Reagan designates Martin Luther King Jr. Day a national holiday.

November 14, 1915:
Booker T. Washington, educator and writer, dies.

November 18, 1787:
Abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth born.

November 22, 1930:
Elijah Muhammed establishes the Nation of Islam.

November 29, 1908:
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall born.