NOVEMBER 21
1922: Writer and suffragist Rebecca Felton is sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate, having been appointed by Georgia Gov. Thomas Hardwick to replace the late Sen. Thomas Watson. At 87, Felton is the oldest freshman senator in U.S. history. She would only serve for one day before Watson's elected successor is sworn in.
1964:The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens to traffic.
1944: The "King of the Cowboys," western film star Roy Rogers, debuts in his own radio program, The Roy Rogers Show, on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
1973: White House counsel J. Fred Buzhardt discloses the existence of an 18 1/2-minute gap in the recording of President Richard M. Nixon's Oval Office conversations, which had been subpoenaed for the Watergate investigation.
1877:Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph.
1783:Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier and Francois Laurent made the first untethered hot-air balloon flight over Paris.
1995:For the first time, the Dow Jones closes above the 5,000 point mark.
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