November 21st, 2008

Today in History

1791:
Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to full general and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic.

235:
Anterus is elected Pope.

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

1922:
Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first woman United States Senator.

1877:
Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound (this is considered to be Edison's first great invention).