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Saturday November 22, 2014 This is the 326th day of the year, with 39 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: stomach growling The sound your growling stomach makes is called "borborygmi". It occurs when the stomach walls automatically squeeze together in an attempt to mix and digest food and there's no food there! The movement of gas through the intestines produces the gurgling sounds, too. In the resting state, there are usually about 200 milliliters of gas in the gastrointestinal tract. Its composition varies: between 20-90 percent is nitrogen, up to 10 percent is oxygen, up to 50 percent is hydrogen, up to 10 percent methane, and between 10-30 percent is carbon dioxide. The gases and digestive juices sloshing around inside the empty stomach and make a sound similar to word "borborygmi"!
Holidays Lebanon: National Day/Independence Day (from France 1943).
Feast day of St. Cecilia or Cecily, and Saints Philemon and Apphia.
Events 1497 - Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope in his search for a route to India.
1718 - English pirate Blackbeard (Edward Teach or Edward Thatch) was killed in a battle off the Virginia coast.
1847 - Astor Place Opera House, New York City's first operatic theater, was opened.
1906 - The SOS distress signal was adopted at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention.
1935 - The flying boat, The China Clipper, left San Francisco on the first transpacific air-mail flight.
1938 - The first coelacanth, a prehistoric fish thought extinct, was caught off the South African coast.
1943 - President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek met to discuss strategies for defeating Japan.
1946 - Biro ball point pens went on sale, invented by Hungarian journalist László Biro.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, shot to death while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald, suspected of assassinating the president, was arrested. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the 36th President of the United States of America.
1975 - Juan Carlos I was sworn in as King of Spain, two days after the death of General Francisco Franco.
1977 - Passenger service between New York and Europe on the supersonic Concorde began.
1986 - The U.S. Justice Department found a memo in Lt. Col. Oliver North's office on the transfer of $12 million to Contras of Nicaragua from Iranian arms sale.
1988 - The B-2 stealth bomber was revealed to Congress and the media.
1990 - Margaret Thatcher, the first female prime minister in British history, resigned after 11 years.
1996 - The 86-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa underwent heart surgery in Calcutta, India
2000 - Republican vice-presidential candidate Dick Cheney was hospitalized with what doctors called a very slight heart attack.
Births 1643 - René-Robert La Salle, French explorer of North America.
1744 - Abigail Smith Adams, wife of John Adams, second President of the United States.
1808 - Thomas Cook, English travel package pioneer.
1819 - George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), English novelist.
1889 - Wiley Post, American airman, first to fly solo around the world (1933).
1890 - French president Charles de Gaulle.
1899 - Hoagy Carmichael, American songwriter, pianist, singer.
1921 - Rodney Dangerfield, born Jacob Cohen, American comedian and actor.
1940 - Terry Gilliam, American director, and member of the comedy group Monty Python.
1943 - Billie Jean King, American tennis player.
1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis, American film actress.
1967 - Boris Becker, German-born professional tennis player.
Deaths 1718 - Edward Teach (Blackbeard), famous English pirate.
1916 - Jack London, American novelist and short-story writer.
1963 - John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States of America, assassinated.
1980 - Mae West, American stage and film actress.
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