MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Today is Monday, November 22, the 326th day of 2010. 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

1928 _ ``Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, 1st 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

1989 _ Eastern Airlines pilots and flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired

1990 _ Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British prime minister