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Encyclopaedia Britannica | On This Day
November 28
Berry Gordy, Jr.

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Berry Gordy, Jr.

American businessman and musician
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Tehrān Conference: Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill

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1943

Opening of Tehrān Conference
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