Today in HistoryToday is Tuesday, November 21, the 325th day of 2006. There are 40 days left in the year.

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In 1918, the German High Seas Fleet surrendered at the Firth of Forth in Scotland, one of the key conditions of the First World War armistice signed on November 11.

IIn 1942, the Alaska highway across Canada was formally opened.

In 1964, the upper level of New York’s Verrazano Narrows Bridge, which connected Brooklyn and Staten Island, was opened.

In 1973, President 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.

In 1980, 87 people died in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas.

In 1985, former US Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested, accused of spying for Israel. (He later pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to life in prison.)

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“Never confuse motion with action.” — Ernest Hemingway, American author (1899-1961).