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November 9, 1906
Roosevelt travels to Panama
On
the first foreign trip by a U.S. president, President Theodore
Roosevelt departs the United States for Panama aboard the battleship Louisiana.
The
visit came three years after Roosevelt gave tacit U.S. military support
to the Panamanian revolt against Colombian rule. Panamanian
independence allowed American engineers to begin work on the Panama
Canal project--an effort to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
with a U.S.-administered canal across the Isthmus of Panama.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=5508
November 9, 1970
Supreme Court refuses to rule on legality of Vietnam War
The
Supreme Court refuses to hear a challenge by the state of Massachusetts
regarding the constitutionality of the Vietnam War. By a 6-3 vote, the
justices rejected the effort of the state to bring a suit in federal
court in defense of Massachusetts residents claiming protection under a
state law that allowed them to refuse military service in an undeclared
war.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1472