TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Today is Tuesday, November 22, the 326th day of 2011. 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, first performed publicly, in Paris

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

1956 ― 16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne

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

1989 ― Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn & 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