AP Highlight in History: On Nov. 21, 1877, inventor Thomas A. Edison unveiled the phonograph.
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1789
North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1922
Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia was sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.
1969
The Senate voted down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth.
1973
President Richard Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, revealed the existence of an 18 1/2-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.
1980
A fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas killed 87 people.
1985
Former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested, accused of spying for Israel. (He later pleaded guilty and is serving a life sentence.)
1989
The proceedings of Britain's House of Commons were televised live for the first time.
1991
The U.N. Security Council chose Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt to be secretary-general.
1995
The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 5,000 for the first time.
2000
The Florida Supreme Court granted Democrat Al Gore's request to keep the presidential election recount going.
2001
Ottilie Lundgren, a 94-year-old resident of Oxford, Conn., died of inhalation anthrax. The source of the anthrax has never been determined.
2002
NATO sought to expand its membership into the borders of the former Soviet Union as it invited seven former communist countries to join the alliance: Slovenia, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Bulgaria.
2004
Donald Trump's casino empire filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2004
The NBA suspended Indiana's Ron Artest for the rest of the season following a brawl in the stands during a game against the Detroit Pistons.
2005
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon broke away from the hardline Likud with the intention of forming a new party.
2007
Officials announced the recall of more than a half-million pieces of Chinese-made children's jewelry contaminated with lead.
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