WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Today is Wednesday, November 21, the 326th day of 2012. There are 40 days left in the year.

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― Pilstre de Rozier & Marquis d'Arlandes make first free balloon flight 1818 ― Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine 1837 ― Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times 1871 ― Moses Gale patents a cigar lighter 1877 ― Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention 1933 ― First U.S. ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service 1964 ― World's longest suspension bridge "Verrazano Narrows" opens (NYC) 1967 ― Phillip & Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet 1977 ― First flight of the Concorde (London to New York) 1990 ― Signing of Declaration of "End of Cold war" in Paris