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On this day, in 1983… VANESSA WILLIAMS made history… when she became the first Black woman EVER to be crowned Miss America. 

It was a huge milestone achievement…. They gave her the Crown… the Sash…. the Flowers….

And then, LESS THAN A YEAR LATER, they asked for it all BACK… after a little scandal leaked to the public… BUT HEY, that’s history for ya!

Still, Vanessa’s “Whoopsie-Daisy”…. isn't even CLOSE to the strangest thing that's ever happened during the competition.

That’s why today … we’re digging through the sequins… the sashes… and oddest moments from Miss America history… during a special Pageant Pandemonium” edition of Plenty of Twenty.

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