SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Today is Saturday, November 22, the 327th day of 2008. There are 39 days left in the year.

1809 ― Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen

1906 ― International Radio Telecommunications Com adopts ``SOS" as new call for help

1924 ― England orders Egyptians out of Sudan

1928 ― ``Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, first performed publicly, in Paris

1943 ― FDR, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan

1967 ― U.N. Security Council passes resolution 242 ― Israel must give back occupied land

1968 ― Beatles release ``The Beatles," (White Album) in U.K., their only double album

1977 ― Regular Concorde passenger service between N.Y. and Europe begins

1989 ― Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and the Moon

1990 ― Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British prime minister