November 23rd, 2008

Today in History

2003:
Berkeley Breathed begins the comic strip Opus.

1963:
The first episode of the science fiction television series Doctor Who debuts on the BBC.

1943:
The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

1936:
The first edition of Life is published.

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.