Today is Friday, Nov. 20, the 324th day of 2009. There are 41 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 20, 1947, Britain's future queen, Princess Elizabeth, married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey.
Glanc
Today is Thursday, Nov. 19, the 323rd day of 2009. There are 42 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civ
Today is Wednesday, Nov. 18, the 322nd day of 2009. There are 43 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 18, 1959, "Ben-Hur," MGM's Biblical-era spectacle starring Charlton Heston and directed by William Wyler, had its world premie
Today is Tuesday, Nov. 17, the 321st day of 2009. There are 44 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 17, 1800, Congress held its first session in Washington in the partially completed Capitol building.
Glancing Backward Locally:
Today is Monday, November 16, the 320th day of 2009. There are 45 days left in the year.
Today's highlight in history:
In 1941, Nazi Germany launches second failed assault on Moscow in World War II.
Glancing Backward Locall
Today is Sunday, Nov. 15, the 319th day of 2009. There are 46 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 15, 1959, Kansas farmer Herbert Clutter, his wife, Bonnie, and the couple's two youngest children, Nancy, 16, and Kenyon, 1
Today is Saturday, Nov. 14, the 318th day of 2009. There are 47 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 14, 1851, Herman Melville's novel "Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale" was first published in the United States.
Glancing Backward
Today is Friday, Nov. 13, the 317th day of 2009. There are 48 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 13, 1909, 259 men and boys were killed when fire erupted inside a coal mine in Cherry, Ill. (Nearly as many miners survived the d
Today is Thursday, Nov. 12, the 316th day of 2009. There are 49 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 12, 1942, the World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal began. (The Allies ended up winning a major victory over the Japanese.)
Today is Wednesday, November 11, the 315th day of 2009. There are 50 days left in the year.
Glancing Backward Locally:
There is no glancing backward locally today, as 25 and 75 years ago was a Sunday, and 50 years ago was Veterans Day, all of which The
Today is Tuesday, Nov. 10, the 314th day of 2009. There are 51 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 10, 1775, the U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress.
Glancing Backward Locally:
25
Today is Monday, Nov. 9, the 313th day of 2009. There are 52 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 9, 1989, communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West; joyous Germans danced
Today is Sunday, Nov. 8, the 312th day of 2009. There are 53 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 8, 1909, the original Boston Opera House first opened with a performance of "La Gioconda" by Amilcare Ponchielli.
Glancing Backwa
Today is Saturday, Nov. 7, the 311th day of 2009. There are 54 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 7, 1917, Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional governme
Today is Friday, Nov. 6, the 310th day of 2009. There are 55 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 6, 1934, Nebraska voters approved a constitutional amendment which dissolved their two-chamber legislature in favor of a nonpartis
Today is Thursday, Nov. 5, the 309th day of 2009. There are 56 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 5, 1605, the "Gunpowder Plot" failed as Guy Fawkes was seized before he could blow up the English Parliament.
Glancing Backward
Today is Wednesday, Nov. 4, the 308th day of 2009. There are 57 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
One year ago, on Nov. 4, 2008, Democrat Barack Obama was elected the first black president of the United States, defeating Republican J
Today is Tuesday, Nov. 3, the 307th day of 2009. There are 58 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 3, 1900, the first major U.S. automobile show opened at New York's Madison Square Garden under the auspices of the Automobile Clu
Today is Monday November 2, the 306th day of 2009. There are 59 days left in the year.
Today's highlight in History:
In 1783, Gen. George Washington issues his "Farewell Address to the Army" near Princeton, New Jersey.
Glancing Backward
Today is Sunday, Nov. 1, the 305th day of 2009. There are 60 days left in the year. This is All Saints Day.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 1, 1765, the Stamp Act went into effect, prompting stiff resistance from American colonists.
Glancing Bac
Today is Saturday, Oct. 31, the 304th day of 2009. There are 61 days left in the year. This is Halloween. A reminder: Daylight-saving time ends Sunday at 2 a.m. local time. Clocks go back one hour.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Oct. 31, 1517, Martin
Today is Friday, Oct. 30, the 303rd day of 2009. There are 62 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Oct. 30, 1938, the radio play "The War of the Worlds," starring Orson Welles, aired on CBS. (The live drama, which employed fake break
Today is Wednesday, Oct. 28, the 301st day of 2009. There are 64 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Oct. 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Clevel
Today is Tuesday, Oct. 27, the 300th day of 2009. There are 65 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Oct. 27, 1787, the first of the Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for ratification of the U.S. Constitution, was publishe
Today is Monday, Oct. 26, the 299th day of 2009. There are 66 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Oct. 26, 1979, South Korean President Park Chung-hee was shot to death during a dinner party along with his chief bodyguard by th
Today is Sunday, October 25, the 298th day of 2009. There are 67 days left in the year.
Today's highlight
in history:
In 1936, Germany and Italy form the Rome-Berlin Axis.
Glancing Backward Locally:
25 years ago - 1984
The totem pole in Ulst
Today is Saturday, Oct. 24, the 297th day of 2009. There are 68 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
In Oct. 24, 1945, the United Nations officially came into existence as its charter took effect. (On this date in 1949, construction beg
Today is Friday, Oct. 23, the 296th day of 2009. There are 69 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Oct. 23, 1983, 241 U.S. service members, most of them Marines, were killed in a suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport
