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Hello, and welcome to This Day In History. Here’s what happened on November 4th. Did you stay up late last night watching election returns? That’s just what millions around the country were doing on this day in 2008, when then-Senator Barack Obama from Illinois defeated Senator John McCain of Arizona to become the 44th U.S. president, and America’s first Black commander-in-chief.
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