THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Today is Thursday, November 22, the 327

th

day of 2012. There are 39 days left in the year.

1809 ― Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen

1923 ― Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death

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

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

1950 ― Lowest NBA score, Ft. Wayne Pistons (19), Minneapolis Lakers (18)

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