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Mon, January 18, 2021 | 22:42
Today in History
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2019
Posted : 2019-11-22 17:04
Updated : 2019-11-22 17:04
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1832-French take Antwerp in liberation of Belgium

1863-Patent granted for a process of making color photographs

1899-First jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel, San Francisco)

1936-First issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R. Luce

1942-Steward Poon Lim set adrift for 133 days after his boat was torpedoed

1943-U.S. forces seize control of Tarawa, Makin from Japanese

1955-British transfer Cocos (Keeling) Island in Indian Ocean to Australia

1963-JFK's body lay in repose in East Room of White House

1971-China People's Republic seated in U.N. Security Council

1977-European weather satellite Meteosat 1 launched from Cape Canaveral

1980-4,800 die in series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy

1985-58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijacked Egyptair jet in Malta

1985-Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin arrested of spying for China

1988-Wayne Gretzky scores his 600th NHL goal

1989-Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines











 
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