Today is Friday, November 19, the 323rd day of 2010. There are 42 days left in the year.

On this date

In 1924, Sir Lee Stack, British governor of Sudan, is slain in Cairo, Egypt.

In 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean made the second manned landing on the moon.

In 1990, the pop duo Milli Vanilli were stripped of their Grammy Award because other singers had lent their voices to the "Girl You Know It's True" album.

In 1992, in a big concession to the South African government, the ANC offers whites a guaranteed share of power in negotiations on a new constitution.

Thought for Today

"My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed." — Christopher Morley, American author and journalist (1890-1957).