Today is Monday, November 22, the 326th day of 2010. 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
1928 _ ``Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, 1st 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
1989 _ Eastern Airlines pilots and flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired
1990 _ Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British prime minister