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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Today is Tuesday, November 27, the 332nd day of 2012. There are 34 days left in the year.1815 ― Cracow (Poland) declared a free republic 1870 ― N.Y. Times dubs baseball "The National Game" 1895 ― Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize 1903 ― The opera "Die Heugierigen Frauen" is produced (Munich) 1941 ― USSR begins a counter offensive causing Germany to retreat 1951 ― First rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, N.M.1958 ― USSR abrogates allied wartime agreements on control of Germany 1971 ― Soviet Mars 2 becomes first spacecraft to crash land on Mars 1990 ― Britain's conservatives chose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher 1991 ― Undertaker beats Hulk Hogan to become new WWF champ

Nov 26, 2012

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Today is Monday, November 26, the 331st day of 2012. There are 35 days left in the year.1789 ― First national thanksgiving 1865 ― Alice in Wonderland published 1885 ― First meteor photograph 1940 ― Nazis force 500,000 Warsaw Jews to live in walled ghetto 1949 ― India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth republic 1950 ― China enters Korean War, sends troops across Yalu River 1962 ― First recording session under the name "Beatles" 1969 ― Creams' final concert (Royal Albert Hall) 1983 ― Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million 1991 ― Condoms are handed out to thousands of N.Y. High School students 

Nov 25, 2012

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2012

Today is Saturday, November 24, the 329th day of 2012. There are 37 days left in the year.1639 ― First observation of transit of Venus occurred (only two, record event) 1642 ― Abel Janzoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) 1859 ― Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species" 1874 ― Joseph F. Glidden patents barbed wire 1944 ― U.S. bombers based on Saipan, first attack Tokyo 1949 ― Britain nationalizes its steel and iron industry 1952 ― Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" opens in London 1966 ― 400 die of respiratory failure and heart attack in killer NYC smog 1983 ― PLO exchanges six Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians and Lebanese 1989 ― Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia 

Nov 23, 2012

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Today is Friday, November 23, the 328th day of 2012. There are 38 days left in the year.1852 ― Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop nine meters1899 ― First jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel, San Francisco) 1903 ― Enrico Caruso’s U.S. debut (Metropolitan Opera House, N.Y.) in "Rigoletto" 1904 ― Third Olympic games close in St. Louis 1936 ― First issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R. Luce 1948 ― Lens to provide zoom effects patented by F. G. Back 1963 ― JFK's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House 1971 ― China People's Republic seated in U.N. Security Council 1985 ― 58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijacked Egypt Air jet in Malta 1988 ― Wayne Gretzky scores his 600th NHL goal

Nov 22, 2012

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Today is Thursday, November 22, the 327th day of 2012. There are 39 days left in the year.1809 ― Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen 1923 ― Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death1928 ― "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, first performed publicly, in Paris 1943 ― FDR, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan 1950 ― Lowest NBA score, Ft. Wayne Pistons (19), Minneapolis Lakers (18)1956 ― 16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne 1968 ― Beatles release "The Beatles," (White Album)in U.K., their only double album 1989 ― Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn & 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 

Nov 21, 2012

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2012

 Today is Wednesday, November 21, the 326th day of 2012. There are 40 days left in the year.1783 ― Pilstre de Rozier & Marquis d'Arlandes make first free balloon flight 1818 ― Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine 1837 ― Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times 1871 ― Moses Gale patents a cigar lighter 1877 ― Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention 1933 ― First U.S. ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service 1964 ― World's longest suspension bridge "Verrazano Narrows" opens (NYC) 1967 ― Phillip & Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet 1977 ― First flight of the Concorde (London to New York) 1990 ― Signing of Declaration of "End of Cold war" in Paris

Nov 20, 2012

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Today is Tuesday, November 20, the 325th day of 2012. There are 41 days left in the year.1910 ― Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero 1931 ― Commercial teletype service begins 1945 ― 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany 1947 ― Britain's Princess Elizabeth, marries Duke Philip Mountbatten 1959 ― U.N. adopts the declaration of children's rights 1969 ― Pele scores his 1,000th soccer goal 1977 ― Egyptian President Sadat became first Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset 1983 ― 100 million watch ABC-TV movie "The Day After," about nuclear war 1986 ― U.N.'s WHO announces first global effort to combat AIDS 1990 ― Thatcher fails to defeat Heseltine's bid for party leadership

Nov 19, 2012

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Today is Monday, November 19, the 324th day of 2012. There are 42 days left in the year.1493 ― Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his second voyage 1863 ― Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg; "Four score & seven years..." 1906 ― London selected to host 1908 Olympics 1919 ― U.S. Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations 1942 ― Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along the Don front 1947 ― 200-inch mirror arrives at Mt. Palomar 1969 ― Apollo 12's Conrad and Bean become third and fourth humans on the Moon 1985 ― President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for first time 1990 ― Greyhound files reorganization plan so they can be traded publicly 1990 ― Iraq announces it will free all German hostages 

Nov 18, 2012

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Today is Saturday, November 17, the 322nd day of 2012. There are 44 days left in the year.  1558 ― Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary 1800 ― Congress held first session in Washington, D.C. 1866 ― The opera "Mignon" is produced (Paris) 1869 ― Suez Canal opens 1913 ― Panama Canal opens 1937 ― Britain's Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement 1959 ― De Beers firm of South Africa announces synthetic diamond 1973 ― President Nixon told AP "...people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook" 1977 ― Miss World Contest; Miss U.K. wears $9,500 platinum bikini 1993 ― U.S. Congress votes for NAFTA

Nov 16, 2012

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Today is Friday, November 16, the 321st day of 2012. There are 45 days left in the year.1532 ― Pizarro seizes Incan emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca 1908 ― Arturo Toscanini begins conducting N.Y.'s Metropolitan Opera 1914 ― Federal Reserve System formally opens 1918 ― Hungarian People's Republic declared 1925 ― American Association for the Advancement of Atheism formed in N.Y. 1933 ― Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR 1959 ― "Sound of Music" opens on Broadway 1965 ― First public announcement about Walt Disney World 1965 ― Venera 3 launched, first to land on another planet (crashes into Venus) 1973 ― John Lennon releases "Mind Games" album 

Nov 15, 2012

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