WKOW 27: Madison, WI Breaking News, Weather and SportsThis day in history: November 20
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1789 - New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1820 - An 80-ton sperm whale attacks a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. Herman Melville's 1851 novel 'Moby-Dick' is in part inspired by this story.
1962 - In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
1985 - Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
2008 - After critical failures in the US financial system began to build up after mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level since 1997.
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