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November 20: ON THIS DAY in 1947, Princess Elizabeth says ‘I will’ in royal wedding
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November 7, ON THIS DAY in 1928, Herbert Hoover wins in landslide
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January 18: ON THIS DAY in 1942, trio of ships sunk in Tokio Bay

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January 17: ON THIS DAY in 1952, city hails Capt. Henrik Kurt Carlsen

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January 16: ON THIS DAY in 1953, Soviets purge East Germany

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January 15: ON THIS DAY in 1944, Hull warns of Nazi power to cross sea if British lose

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Brooklyn Today

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THE LEDE: Happy Friday! Alleged leaders of a drug delivery service in southern Brooklyn were arrested, we go inside Brooklyn’s first marijuana dispensary and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon tackles outrage over the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway rehab plan. Plus, birds feast in Sheepshead Bay, a Brooklyn boxer returns to his old Greenpoint block and a Brownsvillefamily is imprisoned in their home by the NYPD. Finally, Helen Keller Servicesopens its new center, borough businesses offer specials to government workers and a West Bengal restaurant opens in Ditmas Park.

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