CHICKEN BUCKETS: TODAY IN HISTORY

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

AP Highlight in History:
On Nov. 21, 1877, inventor Thomas A. Edison unveiled the phonograph.

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On this date in:
1789	North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1922	Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia was sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.
1969	The Senate voted down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth.
1973	President Richard 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.
1980	A fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas killed 87 people.
1985	Former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested, accused of spying for Israel. (He later pleaded guilty and is serving a life sentence.)
1989	The proceedings of Britain's House of Commons were televised live for the first time.
1991	The U.N. Security Council chose Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt to be secretary-general.
1995	The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 5,000 for the first time.
2000	The Florida Supreme Court granted Democrat Al Gore's request to keep the presidential election recount going.
2001	A 94-year-old Connecticut woman died of inhalation anthrax, the last of five people killed in the anthrax attacks.
2002	NATO invited seven former communist countries to join the alliance: Slovenia, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Bulgaria.
2004	The NBA suspended Indiana's Ron Artest for the rest of the season following a brawl in the stands during a game against the Detroit Pistons.
2005	Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon broke away from the hardline Likud with the intention of forming a new party.
2007	Officials announced the recall of more than a half-million pieces of Chinese-made children's jewelry contaminated with lead.
2010	Debt-struck Ireland applied for a massive EU-IMF loan to stem the flight of capital from its banks.