Today in History - November 10th, 2006

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1983 - Microsoft released its Windows computer operating system.

1975 - The ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald broke in two and sank during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew members. It was the worst Great Lakes ship disaster of the decade.

2005 - A bomb explosion in a busy central Baghdad restaurant killed at least 34 people and wounded some 25 others.

2005 - Palestinian Authority officials said rampant corruption and growing anarchy had security forces on the verge of collapse.

2004 - U.S. President George W. Bush announced he had selected White House General Counsel Alberto Gonzales to succeed the resigned John Ashcroft as attorney general.

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