Today is Saturday, November 22, the 327th day of 2008. There are 39 days left in the year.
1809 ― Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen
1906 ― International Radio Telecommunications Com adopts ``SOS" as new call for help
1924 ― England orders Egyptians out of Sudan
1928 ― ``Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, first performed publicly, in Paris
1943 ― FDR, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan
1967 ― U.N. Security Council passes resolution 242 ― Israel must give back occupied land
1968 ― Beatles release ``The Beatles," (White Album) in U.K., their only double album
1977 ― Regular Concorde passenger service between N.Y. and Europe begins
1989 ― Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and the Moon
1990 ― Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British prime minister