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• Jolie received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Before guests including Brad Pitt and a man Jolie cited as "my hero," WWII veteran and Olympian Louis Zamperini, the 38-year-old actress-director became emotional as she thanked her late mother, whom she said inspired her to think of others and give back.
• "To stand here today means I did as she asked," Jolie said. "And if she were alive, she'd be very proud."
• Tom Hanks and Martin Short helped present Martin with his honorary Oscar, which Short described as "the highest honor an actor can receive in mid-November."
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Sunday, Nov. 17, the 321st day of 2013. There are 44 days left in the year.
• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Nov. 17, 1800, Congress held its first session in Washington in the partially completed Capitol building.
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• On this date:
• In 1558, Elizabeth I acceded to the English throne upon the death of Queen Mary.
• In 1869, the Suez Canal opened in Egypt.
• In 1911, the African-American fraternity Omega Psi Phi was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
• In 1917, French sculptor Auguste Rodin (roh-DAN') died in Meudon at age 77.
• In 1934, Lyndon Baines Johnson married Claudia Alta Taylor, better known as Lady Bird, in San Antonio, Texas.
• In 1962, Washington's Dulles International Airport was dedicated by President John F. Kennedy.
• In 1969, the first round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks between the United States and the Soviet Union opened in Helsinki, Finland.
• In 1970, the Soviet Union landed an unmanned, remote-controlled vehicle on the moon, the Lunokhod 1.
• In 1973, President Richard Nixon told Associated Press managing editors in Or (Continued on page 28)
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