November 21st, 2008

Today in History

2002:
NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.

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

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

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).

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