November 21st, 1877:

Inventor Thomas Edison announces the invention of the phonograph, after testing the device by reciting a nursery rhyme...

1973:

President Richard Nixon's attorney reveals a White House tape recording related to the Watergate scandal contains an 18½-minute gap.

Experts who later study the damaged tape find evidence of several deliberate erasures. Nixon resigns from office the following year.

2001:

In a case that baffles investigators, Ottilie Lundgren, a 94-year-old woman in Connecticut, dies of inhalation anthrax.

She's the fifth and final victim of the anthrax scare following the September 11th attacks.

1985:

Jonathan Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, is arrested, accused of spying for Israel.

Pollard later pleads guilty and is sentenced to life in prison.

And, 1934:

In New York, the Cole Porter musical "Anything Goes", starring Ethel Merman, opens on Broadway.

Today in History, November 21st,_____,The Associated Press.