Today is Wednesday, November 21, the 325th day of 2007. There are 40 days left in the year.
235 _ St. Anterus begins his reign as Catholic pope
496 _ St. Gelasius I ends his reign as Catholic pope
1787 _ Andrew Jackson admitted to the bar
1789 _ North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th U.S. state
1794 _ Honolulu Harbor discovered
1818 _ Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine
1877 _ Tom Edison announces his ``talking machine" invention
1933 _ First U.S. ambassador to the USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service
1935 _ First commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper)
1946 _ Harry Truman becomes the first U.S. president to travel in a submerged sub
1968 _ Yoko Ono suffers a miscarriage
1977 _ First flight of the Concorde (London to New York)
1990 _ Signing of Declaration of ``End of Cold War" in Paris