November 23rd, 2008

Today in History

2003:
Berkeley Breathed begins the comic strip Opus.

1996:
The Republic of Angola officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Angola.

1990:
Punk rock band Bad Religion releases their seventh album, Against the Grain in the United States

1960:
The long-running serial, Ma Perkins, airs its last episode on CBS radio.

1869:
In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched -- one of the last clippers ever to be built, and the only one still surviving to this day.