NOVEMBER 20
1866: Mechanic and baby-carriage maker Pierre Lallement receives a patent for his rotary crank "boneshaker" bicycle. It is the earliest American patent awarded for a pedal-powered bike, leading many to recognize Lallement as the inventor of the bicycle.
1974:The United States Department of Justice files an anti-trust suit against AT&T - AT&T and its Bell System are forced to break up.
1929: Gertrude Berg stars as Molly in the premiere of The Rise of the Goldbergs, originally a radio program on the NBC Blue network. Berg, who also wrote the scripts, would move the popular Jewish American family sitcom to television in 1949.
1984: Michael Jackson attracts the largest-ever crowd to a Hollywood Walk of Fame unveiling, as he receives a star directly in front of Mann's Chinese Theater.
1985:Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
1962:The Cuban Missile Crisis ends. Soviet Union agrees to withdraw missiles from Cuba, and President Kennedy ends Caribbean quarantine
1947:NBC's political talk show "Meet the Press" premieres
1789:New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights (the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution of the United States).
1917:Ukraine declares itself a republic.
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