November 23rd, 2008

Today in History

2003:
Berkeley Breathed begins the comic strip Opus.

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

1958:
Have Gun, Will Travel debuts on radio.

1890:
King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to become Queen.

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.