It was a monumental task : design a museum beside Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s “Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World,” in honor of her enduring legacy — and to accommodate 4.5 million annual visitors .

ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY On November 26, 1942, the movie Casablanca premieres in New York City. The World War II-era film starred Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. The romantic-drama opened nationwide on January 23, 1943, and is considered an all-time classic. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards, ultimately taking three, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.

It used to be that American students learned the history of their country from “official” sources — teachers and textbooks accredited and vetted by experts. But that’s no longer true.

VIDEO: Scientific curiosity can lead to some surprising, and useful, discoveries. Consider the cat – questions about its sandpaper-like tongue led to plans for a synthetic version that could be used for household products or to dispense medicine.

A spokesman for Britain’s Labour Party said its leader, Jeremy Corbyn, would “relish a head-to-head debate with Theresa May about her botched Brexit deal and the future of our country.”

A decade after 10 Islamic terrorists laid a three-day siege to India’s financial capital, Mumbai, and killed 166 people, businessman Dilip Mehta recalls the horror of the nine hours that he was holed up in a banquet hall in a luxury hotel, wondering when the gunmen would storm inside .