November 22nd in History
November 22nd
NOVEMBER 22, 1718
The pirate Blackbeard was killed in battle by a boarding party of British sailors off the coast of the Province of North Carolina.
1764 History credits James Hargreaves with inventing the first Spinning Jenny, but it had been designed and built years before by an obscure artisan from Leigh called Thomas Highs.
1946 The first Biro ballpoint pen went on sale, invented by Hungarian Laszlo Biro and manufactured by a British company.
1968 The Beatles release The White Album, a double album that contains both the soothing ‘ Blacbird’and discomfiting "Helter Skelter.."
And ,of course, Rocky Racoon.
NOVEMBER 22, 1718
The pirate Blackbeard was killed in battle by a boarding party of British sailors off the coast of the Province of North Carolina.
1764 History credits James Hargreaves with inventing the first Spinning Jenny, but it had been designed and built years before by an obscure artisan from Leigh called Thomas Highs.
1946 The first Biro ballpoint pen went on sale, invented by Hungarian Laszlo Biro and manufactured by a British company.
1968 The Beatles release The White Album, a double album that contains both the soothing ‘ Blacbird’and discomfiting "Helter Skelter.."
And ,of course, Rocky Racoon.
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