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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Today is Tuesday, November 23, the 327th day of 2010. There are 38 days left in the year. 1868 ― Louis Ducos du Hauron patents trichrome color photo process 1899 ― First jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel, San Francisco) 1903 ― Enrico Caruso’s U.S. debut (Metropolitan Opera House, N.Y.) in ``Rigoletto" 1904 ― 3rd Olympic games close in St. Louis 1936 ― First issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R. Luce 1963 ― JFK's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House 1964 ― Beatles release ``I Feel Fine" & ``She's a Woman" 1971 ― China People's Republic seated in U.N. Security Council 1977 ― European weather satellite Meteosat 1 launched from Cape Canaveral 1980 ― 4,800 die in series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy

Nov 22, 2010

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2010

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

Nov 21, 2010

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2010

Today is Saturday, November 20, the 324th day of 2010. There are 41 days left in the year. 1805 ― The opera ``Fidelio" is produced (Vienna) 1866 ― Pierre Lalemont patents rotary crank bicycle 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 1962 ― U.S. lifts blockade of Cuba 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

Nov 19, 2010

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Today is Friday, November 19, the 323rd day of 2010. 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 1942 ― Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along the Don front 1977 ― Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel 1979 ― Chuck Berry released from prison on income tax evasion 1980 ― CBS TV bans Calvin Klein's jeans ad featuring Brooke Shields 1985 ― U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for first time 1990 ― Greyhound files reorganization plan so they can be traded publicly

Nov 18, 2010

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Today is Thursday, November 18, the 322nd day of 2010. There are 43 days left in the year. 1307 ― William Tell shoots apple off his son's head 1497 ― Bartolomeu Dias discovers Cape of Good Hope 1909 ― U.S. invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya 1912 ― Albania declares independence from Turkey 1928 ― Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in NY 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 1976 ― Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 years of dictatorship 1990 ― Saddam offers to free an estimated 2,000 men held in Kuwait

Nov 17, 2010

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Today is Wednesday, November 17, the 321st day of 2010. There are 44 days left in the year. 1558 ― Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary 1796 ― Battle of Arcole-Napoleon I's French forces beat Austrians in Italy 1866 ― The opera ``Mignon" is produced (Paris) 1869 ― Suez Canal opens (Egypt) 1913 ― Panama Canal opens 1959 ― De Beers firm of South Africa announces synthetic diamond 1970 ― Russia lands Lunokhod 1, unmanned remote-controlled vehicle, on Moon 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 ― Egyptian President Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel 1993 ― U.S. Congress votes for NAFTA

Nov 16, 2010

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Today is Tuesday, November 16, the 320th day of 2010. 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 Tuscanini begins conducting NY's Metropolitan Opera 1914 ― Federal Reserve System formally opens 1933 ― Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR 1959 ― ``Sound of Music" opens on Broadway 1973 ― John Lennon releases ``Mind Games" album 1988 ― Benazir Bhutto wins first free Pakistani elections in 11 years 1988 ― Estonia declares sovereignty in internal affairs 1990 ― Manuel Noriega claims U.S. denied him a fair trial

Nov 15, 2010

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Today is Monday, November 15, the 319th day of 2010. 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 1920 ― Free City of Danzig established under League of Nations protection 1920 ― League of Nations holds first meeting, in Geneva 1939 ― Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews 1969 ― 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Washington, D.C. against the Vietnam War 1977 ― President Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran 1988 ― PLO proclaims the State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence

Nov 14, 2010

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2010

Today is Saturday, November 13, the 317th day of 2010. There are 48 days left in the year. 1775 ― American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal 1789 ― Ben Franklin writes ``Nothing . . . certain but death and taxes" 1921 ― U.S., France, Japan and British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty 1933 ― First modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, Minn. 1946 ― First artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mt. Greylock, Mass. 1982 ― Korean boxer Kim Deuk-koo fatally injured when KOed by Ray Mancini 1982 ― Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington, D.C. 1985 ― Dwight Gooden, youngest 20 game winner, wins Cy Young award 1985 ― Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, kills 25,000 1986 ― U.S. violates Iran arms boycott

Nov 12, 2010

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Today is Friday, November 12, the 316th day of 2010. There are 49 days left in the year. 324 B.C. ― Origin of Era of Alexander 1910 ― First movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon 1918 ― Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic 1927 ― Trotsky expelled from Soviet Communist Party; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator 1933 ― First known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken 1933 ― Nazis receive 92 percent of votes in Germany 1948 ― Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal 1956 ― Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, first sighted 1981 ― First balloon crossing of the Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V) 989 ― Brazil holds first free presidential election in 29 years

Nov 11, 2010

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