November 21st, 2008

Today in History

1974:
1974 - George W. Bush is discharged from the US Air Force Reserve.

1934:
primarily negative bowling outside leg stump to a field of short-leg fieldsmen.

1964:
Second Vatican Council: The third period of the Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes.

1980:
1980 -Lake Peigneur drained into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe drilled into the Diamond crystal salt mine; water flowing down into the mine eroded the edges of the hole. The whirlpool created sucked the drilling platform, several barges, houses and trees thousands of feet, to the bottom of the dissolving salt deposit.

235:
Anterus is elected Pope.