November 22nd, 2008

Today in History

1942:
The situation for the German attackers of Stalingrad seems desperate during the Soviet counter-attack Operation Uranus and General Friedrich von Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th army is surrounded.

1968:
The Beatles release The White Album.

1943:
Lebanon gains independence from France.

1977:
British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.

1718:
Off the coast of Virginia, English pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle when a British boarding party cornered and then shot and stabbed him more than 25 times.