On this day...
365 [Felix II] ends his reign as Catholic Pope
498 St Symmachus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
498 [Lawrence] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1809 Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen
1831 The opera "Robert Le Diable" is produced (Paris)
1842 Mount St Helens in Washington, erupts
1851 The opera "La Perle Du Br‚sil" is produced (Paris)
1884 T Thomas Fortune starts NY Freeman (NY Age) newspaper
1886 Victoria Street Cable Tram route begins in Melbourne, Australia
1898 The opera "Iris" is produced (Rome)
1906 International Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help
1910 Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs
1917 National Hockey Association disbands
1917 NHL founded with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, TorontArenas, Ottawa Senators & Quebec Bulldogs
1922 Library Ave in the Bronx named
1923 Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death
1924 England orders Egyptians out of Sudan
1925 Red Grange signs with Chicago Bears directly out of college
1928 "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, 1st performed publicly, in Paris
1930 1st US football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)
1932 Pump patented that computes quantity & price delivered
1935 China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, CA, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight
1943 FDR, Churchill & Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan
1945 Jim Benton, Cleveland end, gains 303 yards (NFL record)
1950 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY
1950 Lowest NBA score, Ft Wayne Pistons (19), Minneapolis Lakers (18)
1956 16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne
1956 Bill Sharman (Boston) begins NBA free throw streak of 55 games
1957 Mickey Mantle beats Ted Williams by 1 vote for MVP
1959 Boston Patriots enter the AFL
1959 NY Titans (AFL) 1st draft choice (George Izo, QB, Notre Dame)
1963 Beatles release their 2nd album "With the Beatles" in the UK
1967 BBC unofficially bans "I am the Walrus" by the Beatles
1967 Silver hits record $2.17 an ounce in New York
1967 UN Sec council passes resolution 242-Israel must give back occupied land
1968 Beatles release "The Beatles," (White Album)in UK, their only double album
1972 Flyers start Islanders on 15 game winless streak
1972 Pittsburgh Penguins set NHL record for scoring fastest 5 goals (2m7s)
1974 Lake Buena Vista Club opens
1975 Juan Carlos proclaimed king of Spain
1977 Regular Concorde passenger service between NY & Europe begins
1980 Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak
1981 San Diego Charger Dan Fouts passes for 6 touchdowns vs Oakland (55-21)
1982 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB, Texas
1985 Columbia moves to the Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-C
1986 Mike Tyson KOs Trevor Berbick to win WBC heavyweight title
1986 Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton, became 13th NHLer to score 500 goals
1987 Patriots shutout Indianapolis 24-0
1989 Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn & the Moon
1989 Kirby Pucket signs record $3,000,000 per year Minnesota Twins contract
1989 US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) launches into orbit
1989 Eastern Airlines pilots & flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired
1990 George Bush visits US troops in Saudi Arabia during Thanksgiving
1990 Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister
