Today in HistoryToday is Monday, November 20, the 324th day of 2006. There are 41 days left in the year.

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In 1943, during the Second World War, US Marines began landing on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands, encountering fierce resistance from Japanese forces but emerging victorious three days later.

In 1947, Britain’s future queen, Princess Elizabeth, married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, in a ceremony broadcast worldwide from Westminster Abbey.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“The next great step of mankind is to step into the nature of his own mind.” — Stanley Kauffmann, American film and theatre critic.