GOOD MORNING – TODAY IS by John Dwyer 


GOOD MORNING – TODAY IS MONDAY, November 21, the 326th day of 2016 with 40 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 6:42 and sunset is @ 4:17. The moon is waning. The morning stars are stars are Jupiter, Mars, Uranus & Venus. The evening stars are Mercury, Neptune & Saturn.

ON THIS DAY IN: 1620 – The Mayflower reached Provincetown, MA. The ship discharged the Pilgrims at Plymouth, MA, on December 26, 1620. 

1694 – French author and philosopher Jean Francois Voltaire was born. At age 65 he spent only three days writing “Candide.” 

1783 – The first successful flight was made in a hot air balloon. The pilots, Francois Pilatre de Rosier and Francois Laurent, Marquis d’Arlandes, flew for 25 minutes and 5½ miles over Paris. 

1789 – North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. 

1871 – M.F. Galethe patented the cigar lighter. 

1877 – Thomas A. Edison announced the invention of his phonograph. 

1922 – Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia was sworn in as the first woman to serve as a member of the U.S. Senate. 

1929 – Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali had his first art exhibit. 

1934 – The New York Yankees purchased the contract of Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco of the Pacific Coast League. 

1942 – The Alaska Highway across Canada was formally opened. 

1953 – British Natural History Museum authorities announced that “Piltdown Man” was a hoax. 

1962 – U.S. President Kennedy terminated the quarantine measures against Cuba. 

1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, arrived in San Antonio, TX. They were beginning an ill-fated, two-day tour of Texas that would end in Dallas. 

1973 – U.S. President Richard M. Nixon’s attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, announced the presence of an 18½-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to the Watergate case. 

1979 – The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, was attacked by a mob that set the building afire and killed two Americans. 

1980 – An estimated 83 million viewers tuned in to find out “who shot J.R.” on the CBS prime-time soap opera Dallas. Kristin was the character that fired the gun. (Texas) 

1980 – 87 people died in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas, NV. 

1982 – The National Football League (NFL) resumed its season following a 57-day player’s strike. 

1985 – Former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested after being accused of spying for Israel. He was later sentenced to life in prison. 

1986 – U.S. Attorney General Meese was asked to conduct an inquiry of the Iran arms sales. 

1987 – An eight-day siege began at a detention center in Oakdale, LA, as Cuban detainees seized the facility and took hostages. 

1989 – The proceedings of Britain’s House of Commons were televised live for the first time. 

1992 – U.S. Senator Bob Packwood, issued an apology but refused to discuss allegations that he’d made unwelcome sexual advances toward 10 women in past years. 

1993 – The U.S. House of Representatives voted against making the District of Columbia the 51st state. 

1994 – NATO warplanes bombed an air base in Serb-held Croatia that was being used by Serb planes to raid the Bosnian “safe area” of Bihac. 

1995 – France detonated its fourth underground nuclear blast at a test site in the South Pacific. 

1995 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 5,000-mark (5,023.55) for the first time. 

1999 – China announced that it had test-launched an unmanned space capsule that was designed for manned spaceflight. 

2000 – The Florida Supreme Court granted Al Gore’s request to keep the presidential recounts going. 

2001 – Microsoft Corp. proposed giving $1 billion in computers, software, training and cash to more than 12,500 of the poorest schools in the U.S. The offer was intended as part of a deal to settle most of the company’s private antitrust lawsuits. 

2002 – NATO invited Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members. 

2013 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 16,000 for the first time.

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