MONDAY, Nov. 21, 2022

On this day...

1794-Honolulu Harbor discovered

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

1925-Red Grange plays final Univ of Illinois game, signs with Chicago Bears

1933-First U.S. ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service

1935-First commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper)

1946-Harry Truman becomes 1st US President to travel in a submerged sub

1964-World's longest suspension bridge "Verrazano Narrows" opens (NYC)

1980-Fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84

1980-John & Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum

1981-Olivia Newton-John's "Physical," single goes #1 & stays for 10 weeks

1990-Signing of Declaration of "End of Cold war" in Paris