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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2008

Today is Friday, November 28, the 333rd day of 2008. There are 33 days left in the year 1520 _ Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing Pacific Ocean 1871 _ Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District Court in S.C. 1929 _ Adm. Richard E Byrd makes first South Pole flight 1942 _ Nearly 500 die in a fire that destroyed Coconut Grove nightclub in Boston, Mass. 1943 _ FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy 1960 _ Mauritania gains independence from France (National Day) 1963 _ First million copy record prior to release ``I Want to Hold Your Hand" 1966 _ Coup in Burundi overthrows monarchy; a republic is declared 1986 _ Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for first time 1988 _ Picasso's ``Acrobat & Harlequin" sells for $38.46 million

Nov 27, 2008

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2008

Today is Thursday, November 27, the 332nd day of 2008. There are 34 days left in the year. 1095 _ Pope Urban II preaches first Crusade 1870 _ N.Y. Times dubs baseball ``The National Game" 1895 _ Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize 1903 _ The opera ``Die Heugierigen Frauen" is produced (Munich) 1912 _ Spanish protectorate in Morocco established 1941 _ USSR begins a counter offensive causing Germany to retreat 1958 _ USSR abrogates allied wartime agreements on control of Germany 1970 _ Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest 1971 _ Soviet Mars 2 becomes first spacecraft to crash land on Mars 1985 _ Republic of Ireland gains consultative role in Northern Ireland

Nov 26, 2008

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Today is Wednesday, November 26, the 331st day of 2008. There are 35 days left in the year. 1778 _ Capt Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands) 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 1950 _ China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River 1962 _ First recording session under the name ``Beatles" 1969 _ Creams' final concert (Royal Albert Hall) 1973 _ Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape 1991 _ Condoms are handed out to thousands of N.Y. High School students

Nov 25, 2008

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Today is Tuesday, November 25, the 330th day of 2008. There are 36 days left in the year. 1867 _ Alfred Nobel invents dynamite 1930 _ 690 earthquake shocks recorded in one day (Ito, Japan) 1933 _ First Soviet liquid rocket attains altitude of 261 feet (80m) 1960 _ First atomic reactor for research & development, Richland, Wash. 1963 _ JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery, 1980 _ Sugar Ray Leonard defeats Duran regains WBC welterweight championship 1983 _ World's greatest robbery _ 5,000,000 pounds sterling of gold, Heathrow, England 1986 _ Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arm deal 1988 _ Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed 1990 _ Lech Walesa wins in Poland's first popular election

Nov 24, 2008

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Today is Monday, November 24, the 329th day of 2008. There are 37 days left in the year. 166 B.C. _ Origin of Era of Maccabees 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" 1871 _ National Rifle Association organized (NYC) 1874 _ Joseph F. Glidden patents barbed wire 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 1989 _ Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia

Nov 23, 2008

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Today is Saturday, November 22, the 327th day of 2008. 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 1924 ― England orders Egyptians out of Sudan 1928 ― ``Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, first 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 1990 ― Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British prime minister

Nov 21, 2008

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2008

Today is Friday, November 21, the 326th day of 2008. 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 1964 _ World's longest suspension bridge ``Verrazano Narrows" opens (NYC) 1967 _ Phillip & Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet 1968 _ Supremes & Temptations release ``I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" 1977 _ First flight of the Concorde (London to New York) 1980 _ Fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84 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, 2008

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Today is Thursday, November 20, the 325th day of 2008. There are 41 days left in the year. 1272 _ Edward I proclaimed King of England 1805 _ The opera ``Fidelio" is produced (Vienna) 1931 _ Commercial teletype service begins 1945 _ 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany 1947 _ ``Meet the Press" makes network TV debut on NBC 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 1986 _ U.N.'s WHO announces first global effort to combat AIDS

Nov 19, 2008

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Today is Wednesday, November 19, the 324th day of 2008. 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..." 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 1949 _ Prince Rainier III coronation in Monaco 1969 _ Apollo 12's Conrad and Bean become third and fourth humans on the Moon 1977 _ Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel 1985 _ President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for 1st time 1990 _ Iraq announces it will free all German hostages 1994 _ First National Lottery draw in England

Nov 18, 2008

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Today is Tuesday, November 18, the 323rd day of 2008. 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 1820 _ U.S. Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer discovers Antarctica 1894 _ First newspaper Sunday color comic section published (N.Y. World) 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" 1976 _ Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 years of dictatorship

Nov 17, 2008

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