Today In History: Dance Monkey, Dance

November 17.  On this day in history, the Suez Canal opened in 1869, forever changing global trade by linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas. In 1904, the first underwater submarine journey took place between Southampton and the Isle of Wight. By 1962, The Four Seasons topped the U.S. charts with “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” while President Kennedy dedicated Washington’s Dulles International Airport. In 1973, President Nixon famously insisted, “I’m not a crook,” during a meeting with Associated Press editors. Sony’s PlayStation 3 hit U.S. shelves in 2006, and in 2010 researchers successfully trapped antimatter for the first time. Music history marked 2020 with Shazam announcing “Dance Monkey” as its most-identified song. And that’s today’s Almanac, on Northwest Newsradio.