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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Today is Friday, November 25, the 329th day of 2011. There are 36 days left in the year. 1834 ― Delmonico's, one of N.Y.'s finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak, coffee and half a pie for 12 cents 1841 ― 35 Amistad survivors return to Africa 1867 ― Alfred Nobel invents dynamite 1884 ― John B. Meyenberg of St. Louis patents evaporated milk 1930 ― 690 earthquake shocks recorded in one day (Ito Japan) 1933 ― First Soviet liquid rocket attains altitude of 261 feet (80meters) 1960 ― First atomic reactor for research & development, Richland, Wash. 1963 ― JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery, 1986 ― Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arm deal 1990 ― Lech Walesa wins in Poland's first popular election

Nov 24, 2011

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Today is Thursday, November 24, the 328th day of 2011. There are 37 days left in the year. 1639 ― First observation of transit of Venus occurred (only two, record event) 1759 ― Destructive eruption of Vesuvius 1859 ― Charles Darwin publishes ``On the Origin of Species" 1944 ― U.S. bombers based on Saipan, first attack Tokyo 1947 ― Un-American Activities Committee finds ``Hollywood 10" in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether they were communists 1949 ― Britain nationalizes its steel and iron industry 1952 ― Agatha Christie's ``The Mousetrap" opens in London 1960 ― Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record) 1983 ― PLO exchanges six Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians and Lebanese 1989 ― Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia

Nov 23, 2011

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Today is Wednesday, November 23, the 327th day of 2011. There are 38 days left in the year. 1852 ― Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30 feet (9m) 1863 ― Patent granted for a process of making color photographs 1899 ― First jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel, San Francisco) 1903 ― Enrico Caruso U.S. debut (Metropolitan Opera House, N.Y.) in ``Rigoletto" 1936 ― First issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R. Luce 1942 ― Steward Poon Lim set adrift for 133 days after his boat was torpedoed 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 ― Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin, arrested of spying for China 1988 ― Wayne Gretzky scores his 600th NHL goal

Nov 22, 2011

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Today is Tuesday, November 22, the 326th day of 2011. 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, first performed publicly, in Paris 1943 ― FDR, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan 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, 2011

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Today is Monday, November 21, the 325th day of 2011. There are 40 days left in the year. 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 1934 ― Yanks buy Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco Seals 1935 ― First commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper) 1977 ― First flight of the Concorde (London to New York) 1980 ― Dallas' ``Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating 1980 ― John & 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

Nov 20, 2011

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2011

Today is Saturday, November 19, the 323rd day of 2011. There are 42 days left in the year. 1493 _ Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his second voyage 1644 _ First Protestant ministry society in New England 1906 _ London selected to host 1908 Olympics 1919 _ U.S. Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations 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 1994 _ First National Lottery draw in England

Nov 18, 2011

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Today is Friday, November 18, the 322nd day of 2011. There are 43 days left in the year. 1307 ― William Tell shoots apple off his son's head 1421 ― Zuider Zee floods 72 villages, killing an estimated 10,000 in Netherlands 1497 ― Bartolomeu Dias discovers Cape of Good Hope 1805 ― 30 women meet at Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset, Maine, organizes Female Charitable Society, the first woman's club in America 1894 ― First newspaper Sunday color comic section published (N.Y. World) 1928 ― Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in N.Y. in ``Steamboat Willie" 1936 ― Germany and Italy recognized Spanish government of Francisco Franco 1964 ― J. Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as ``most notorious liar" 1970 ― Russia lands self propelled rover on the Moon

Nov 17, 2011

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Today is Thursday, November 17, the 321st day of 2011. 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 (Egypt) 1913 ― Panama Canal opens 1948 ― Britain's House of Commons votes to nationalize steel industry 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" 1980 ― John Lennon releases ``Double Fantasy" album in U.K. 1993 ― U.S. Congress votes for NAFTA

Nov 16, 2011

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Today is Wednesday, November 16, the 320th day of 2011. There are 45 days left in the year. 1532 ― Pizarro seizes Incan emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca 1894 ― 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan 1908 ― Arturo Toscanini begins conducting N.Y. Metropolitan Opera 1914 ― Federal Reserve System formally opens 1918 ― Hungarian People's Republic declared 1933 ― Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR 1959 ― ``Sound of Music" opens on Broadway 1962 ― Wilt Chamberlain of NBA San Francisco Warriors scores 73 points vs. N.Y. 1982 ― Agreement reached ending 57-day football strike 1988 ― Benazir Bhutto wins first free Pakistani elections in 11 years

Nov 15, 2011

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Today is Tuesday, November 15, the 319th day of 2011. There are 46 days left in the year. 1492 ― Christopher Columbus notes first recorded reference to tobacco 1881 ― American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh) 1884 ― Colonization of Africa organized at international conference in Berlin 1889 ― Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, deposed; republic proclaimed 1939 ― Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews 1969 ― 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Washington, D.C. against the Vietnam War 1969 ― Janis Joplin, accused of vulgar and indecent language in Tampa, Fla. 1988 ― PLO proclaims the State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence 1988 ― Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (two orbits) 1999 ― Next transit of Mercury visible in North America

Nov 14, 2011

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