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