Today in History

November 22, 1963: LBJ sworn in as the 36th President on Air Force One in Dallas TX with Jackie Kennedy by his side.

Nov. 22, 1963: Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis, like John F. Kennedy, slip this mortal coil. May they rest in peace.

November 22, 1987: Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.

November 23, 1992: The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas NV.

November 23, 1992 – The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nev.

Good one! :slight_smile:

November 23, 1953: The Kinross Air Force Base Incident. First Lieutenant Felix Moncla and Second Lieutenant Robert Wilson fly out to investigate an unexplained object over Lake Superior. Ground radar controllers watch as the pursuing aircraft closes in and seems to merge with the unidentified flying object. The Air Force jet disappears and no wreckage is ever found.

November 23, 1963: “Doctor Who” the long-running British sci-fi series, debuts

November 23, 1924: Edwin Hubble’s discovery, that the Andromeda “nebula” is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.

November 27, 1978: San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk are murdered by former Supervisor Dan White.

November 27, 1835: James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for sodomy in England.

November 29, 1949: And explosion at an East German uranium mine supposedly kills thousands according to reports published in West German and American newspapers.

Current estimates of the death toll: 1

November 29, 1961: Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.

**November 30, 1954 **: The first documented case of a person being hit by a meteoriteoccurs when a space rock lands upon Ann Elizabeth Fowler Hodges in Alabama.

November 30, 1982: Michael Jackson’s second solo album, Thriller, is released worldwide. It will become the best-selling record album in history.

November 30, 1965 - On this day in 1965, 32-year-old lawyer Ralph Nader published the muckraking book Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile. The book became a best-seller right away. It also prompted the passage of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966, seat-belt laws in 49 states (all but New Hampshire) and a number of other road-safety initiatives. Today, Nader is perhaps best known for his role in national politics—and in particular for the controversial role he played in the 2000 presidential election—but Unsafe at Any Speed was the book that made him famous and lent credibility to his work as a consumer advocate.

December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks is arrested after she refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

December 1, 1990: Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 meters beneath the seabed.

December 2, 1959: The Malpasset Dam in France fails after excessive rainfall. 423 die.

December 2, 1954: The U.S. Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute”.