"On Nov. 16,1988, Benazir Bhutto was voted prime minister of Pakistan, the first woman elected to lead a Muslim-majority country. Also on this date: In 1907, Oklahoma became the 46th state of the union. In 1914, the newly created Federal Reserve Banks opened in 12 cities. In 1973, President Richard Nixon signed the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of an 800-mile (1,290-kilometer) oil pipeline from the Alaska North Slope to the port city of Valdez."
"In 1989, six Jesuit priests, a housekeeper and her daughter were killed by Salvadoran army troops at the University of Central America Jose Simeon Canas in San Salvador, the capital. In 2001, investigators found a letter addressed to Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont containing anthrax; it was the second letter bearing the deadly germ known to have been sent to Capitol Hill."
"(Pelosi would officially become speaker by House vote the following January, the first woman to serve in the role.) In 2018, a U.S. official said intelligence officials had concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the October killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. In 2022, NASA resumes lunar exploration 50 years after the end of the fabled Apollo program, rocketing the uncrewed Orion space capsule aloft from the Kennedy Space Center on a 25-day mission to orbit"
On Nov. 16, 1988, Benazir Bhutto was voted prime minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman elected to lead a Muslim-majority country. In 1907 Oklahoma became the 46th state of the union and in 1914 Federal Reserve Banks opened in 12 cities. In 1973 President Nixon signed the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act. In 1989 six Jesuit priests, a housekeeper and her daughter were killed in El Salvador. In 2001 an anthrax letter was found addressed to Sen. Patrick Leahy and the first Harry Potter film debuted. In 2006 Nancy Pelosi was nominated by the Democratic caucus to become House speaker. In 2018 U.S. intelligence concluded Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s killing. In 2022 NASA launched the uncrewed Orion mission to resume lunar exploration.
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