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Friday, November 21th 2008
Today is the 326th day of 2008.  There are 39 days left in this year.


What Happened On This Day In History?

1783 French physicist Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier makes the first manned flight in a hot air balloon.
1789 North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1877 Thomas Edison announced his invention of the phonograph.
1918 The German High Seas Fleet surrendered to the Allies.
1922 Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia was sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.
1929 Surrealist painter Salvador Dali had his first exhibit.
1942 The Alcan Highway, an overland military supply route to the U.S. territory of Alaska, linking Canada and Alaska, was opened. It is now called the Alaska Highway.
1945 The United Auto Workers staged the first postwar strike at the General Motors plant in Detroit, Michigan.
1953 The discovery of the Piltdown Man skull by Charles Dawson in Sussex in 1912 was revealed as a hoax.
1964 New York's Verrazano Narrows Bridge opened.
1967 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the air quality act, which allotted money to fight air pollution.
1969 The Senate voted down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth, the first such rejection since 1930.
1973 President Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, revealed the existence of an 18 1/2-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.
1979 A mob in the Pakistani capital Islamabad burns the US Embassy to the ground in a five-hour attack in which a US marine is killed.
1980 A fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas killed 87 people.
1980 Approximately 83 million people tuned in to find out "who shot J.R." on the TV show "Dallas."
1985 Former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested, accused of spying for Israel. He later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison.
1989 The proceedings of Britain's House of Commons were televised live for the first time.
1990 Leaders of NATO and Warsaw Pact member states signed the Charter of Paris and a treaty on conventional forces in Europe, bringing an end to the Cold War.
1991 The U.N. Security Council chose Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt to be the new secretary-general.
1992 Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., issued an apology but refused to discuss allegations that he'd made unwelcome sexual advances toward 10 women over the years.
1995 The Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 5,000 mark for the first time.
1995 The United States brokers a peace settlement for Bosnia Herzegovina in Dayton, to be enforced by 60,000 NATO troops.
2002 NATO invited the seven former communist countries into its membership.
2004 Donald Trump's casino empire filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Born on this day

1694 Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet), French philosopher, historian, poet, dramatist and novelist.
1898 René Magritte, French surrealist painter.
1904 Coleman Hawkins, American jazz musician
1920 Stan Musial, American baseball Hall-of-Famer.
1945 Goldie Hawn, American Academy Award-winning actress.
1969 Ken Griffey, Jr., American baseball player

Died on this day

1695 Henry Purcell, English composer.
1945 Robert Benchley, American humorist, critic, and parodist.
1997 Robert Simpson, English composer and long-serving BBC producer and broadcaster.
1999 Quentin Crisp, English writer, actor and raconteur.

 

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