WEDNESDAY, Nov. 22, 2023

1809 — Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen

1842 — Mount St Helens in Washington, erupts

1906 — International Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help

1910 — Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs

1924 — England orders Egyptians out of Sudan

1930 — First U.S. football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)

1932 — Pump patented that computes quantity & price delivered

1935 — China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, CA, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on first trans-Pacific airmail flight

1943 — FDR, Churchill & Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan

1967 — U.N. Sec council passes resolution 242-Israel must give back occupied land

1977 — Regular Concorde passenger service between NY & Europe begins

1989 — Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn & the Moon

1990 — George Bush visits U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia during Thanksgiving

1990 — Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister