Today is Saturday, November 21, the 325th day of 2009. There are 40 days left in the year.
1654 _ Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia
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
1945 _ General Motors workers go on strike
1977 _ first flight of the Concorde (London to New York)
1980 _ Dallas' ``Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating
1980 _ John and Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum
1990 _ Michael Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations
1990 _ Signing of ``Declaration of End of Cold war" in Paris