SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2009

Today is Saturday, November 21, the 325th day of 2009. There are 40 days left in the year.

1654 _ Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia

1818 _ Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine

1871 _ Moses Gale patents a cigar lighter

1877 _ Tom Edison announces his ``talking machine" invention

1945 _ General Motors workers go on strike

1977 _ first flight of the Concorde (London to New York)

1980 _ Dallas' ``Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating

1980 _ John and Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum

1990 _ Michael Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations

1990 _ Signing of ``Declaration of End of Cold war" in Paris