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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Today is Wednesday, November 21, the 325th day of 2007. There are 40 days left in the year. 235 _ St. Anterus begins his reign as Catholic pope 496 _ St. Gelasius I ends his reign as Catholic pope 1787 _ Andrew Jackson admitted to the bar 1789 _ North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th U.S. state 1794 _ Honolulu Harbor discovered 1818 _ Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine 1877 _ Tom Edison announces his ``talking machine" invention 1933 _ First U.S. ambassador to the USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service 1935 _ First commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper) 1946 _ Harry Truman becomes the first U.S. president to travel in a submerged sub 1968 _ Yoko Ono suffers a miscarriage 1977 _ First flight of the Concorde (London to New York) 1990 _ Signing of Declaration of ``End of Cold War" in Paris

Nov 20, 2007

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2007

Today is Tuesday, November 20, the 324th day of 2007. There are 41 days left in the year. 1272 _ Edward I proclaimed the king of England 1780 _ Britain declares war on Holland 1789 _ New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights 1805 _ The opera ``Fidelio" is produced in Vienna 1910 _ Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero 1917 _ The Ukrainian Republic declared 1945 _ 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany 1947 _ Britain's Princess Elizabeth marries Duke Philip Mountbatten 1959 _ The U.N. adopts the declaration of children's rights 1962 _ The U.S. lifts a blockade of Cuba 1969 _ Pele scores his 1,000th soccer goal 1977 _ Egyptian President Sadat became the first Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset 1986 _ WHO announces first global effort to combat AIDS 1990 _ Thatcher fails to defeat Heseltine's bid for party leadership

Nov 19, 2007

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Today is Monday, November 19, the 323rd day of 2007. There are 42 days left in the year. 461 _ St. Hilary begins his reign as Catholic pope 1493 _ Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico on his second voyage 1863 _ Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg 1919 _ The U.S. Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations 1942 _ Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along the Don front 1963 _ Worst Canadian air disaster kills 118 in Montreal 1970 _ The Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a Californian state historical landmark 1977 _ Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel 1985 _ U.S. President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time 1990 _ Iraq announces it will free all German hostages 1994 _ First National Lottery draw in England

Nov 18, 2007

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Today is Saturday, November 17, the 321st day of 2007. There are 44 days left in the year. 1278 _ 680 Jews arrested (293 hanged) in England for counterfeiting coins 1558 _ Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary 1796 _ The Battle of Arcole-Napoleon I's French forces beat Austrians in Italy 1800 _ U.S. Congress held the first session in Washington, D.C. 1869 _ The Suez Canal opens in Egypt 1913 _ The Panama Canal opens 1948 _ Britain's House of Commons votes to nationalize the steel industry 1962 _ President Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C. 1970 _ Russia lands Lunokhod 1 unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon 1977 _ Egyptian President Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel 1980 _ John Lennon releases 11Double Fantasy" album in U.K. 1993 _ U.S. Congress votes for NAFTA

Nov 16, 2007

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2007

Today is Friday, November 16, the 320th day of 2007. There are 45 days left in the year. 1798 _ Kentucky becomes the first U.S. state to nullify an act of Congress 1894 _ 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan 1914 _ The Federal Reserve System formally opens 1918 _ The Hungarian People's Republic declared 1950 _ The U.N. gets U.S. government approval to issue postage stamps 1959 _ ``Sound of Music" opens on Broadway 1973 _ President Nixon authorizes construction of the Alaskan pipeline 1988 _ Benazir Bhutto wins first free Pakistani elections in 11 years 1988 _ Estonia declares sovereignty in internal affairs 1989 _ Six Jesuit priests killed by El Salvadorian troops 1990 _ Manuel Noriega claims the U.S. denied him a fair trial

Nov 15, 2007

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Today is Thursday, November 15, the 319th day of 2007. There are 46 days left in the year. 1492 _ Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco 1777 _ Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress 1884 _ Colonization of Africa organized at international conference in Berlin 1889 _ Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, deposed; republic proclaimed 1932 _ Walt Disney Art School created 1935 _ The Commonwealth of the Phillipines inaugurated 1957 _ The U.S. sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and $3,000 1969 _ 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Wash DC against the Vietnam War 1977 _ President Jimmy Carter welcomes the Shah of Iran 1979 _ ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage 1982 _ Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I Brezhnev 1983 _ The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus proclaimed 1988 _ PLO proclaims the state of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence 1991 _ Dow Jones average drops 120.31 points (5th largest dive)

Nov 14, 2007

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Today is Wednesday, November 14, the 318th day of 2007. There are 47 days left in the year. 1666 _ Samuel Pepys reports on the first blood transfusion (between dogs) 1851 _ ``Moby Dick" by Herman Melville published 1896 _ Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation 1906 _ Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to visit a foreign country (Panama) 1918 _ The Republic of Czechoslovakia created with T.G. Masaryk as president 1969 _ Apollo 12 launched for the second manned Moon landing 1973 _ Britain's Princess Anne marries commoner, Capt. Mark Phillips 1975 _ Spain abandoned the Spanish Sahara 1977 _ Egyptian President Sadat repeats willingness to visit Israel to Cronkite 1984 _ Astronauts aboard ``Discovery" pluck a second satellite from orbit 1986 _ The SEC imposes a record $100 million penalty against Ivan Boesky 1990 _ Michael Heseltine contests Thatcher's leadership of the party 1991 _ Michael Jackson's ``Black or White" video premiers on FOX TV

Nov 13, 2007

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Today is Tuesday, November 13, the 317th day of 2007. There are 48 days left in the year. 867 _ St. Nicholas I ends his reign as Catholic pope 1002 _ English King Ethelred II launches massacre of Danish settlers 1775 _ American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal 1865 _ The U.S. issues first gold certificates 1921 _ The U.S., France, Japan and the British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty 1956 _ The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses 1970 _ Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Chittagong, Bangladesh 1970 _ Lt. Gen. Hafez al-Assad becomes prime minister of Syria following military coup 1982 _ Korean boxer Kim Duk-koo fatally injured when KOed by Ray Mancini 1982 _ Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington, D.C. 1985 _ Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, kills 25,000 1986 _ The U.S. violates Iran arms boycott

Nov 12, 2007

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2007

Today is Monday, November 12, the 316th day of 2007. There are 49 days left in the year. 324 B.C. _ The origin of Era of Alexander 607 _ Boniface III ends his reign as Catholic pope 1775 _ Gen. Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks 1915 _ Britain annexes Gilbert and Ellice Islands 1918 _ Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic 1927 _ Trotsky expelled from the Soviet Communist Party; Stalin becomes an undisputed dictator 1933 _ Nazis receive 92 percent of vote in Germany 1948 _ Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by the war crimes tribunal 1977 _ New Orleans elects the first black mayor, Ernest (Dutch) Morial 1979 _ The U.S. halts Iranian oil imports and freezes Iranian assets 1982 _ Yuri V. Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as Soviet leader 1989 _ Brazil holds first free presidential election in 29 years

Nov 11, 2007

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2007

Today is Saturday, November 10, the 314th day of 2007. There are 51 days left in the year. 461 _ St. Leo I ends his reign as Catholic pope 1544 _ Antwerps painter John Matsys banished 1836 _ Louis Napoleon banished to America 1918 _ German Emperor Wilhelm II flees to the Netherlands 1928 _ Hirohito ascended throne as emperor of Japan 1945 _ Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald liberated by U.S. 1950 _ Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner 1975 _ The U.N. General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism 1980 _ Poland acknowledges the Solidarity union 1982 _ IMF lends Mexico $3.8 billion due to threatened bankruptcy 1989 _ Germans begins demolishing the Berlin Wall

Nov 9, 2007

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