21st
November, on this day
164 BC Judas
Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean
family, restores the Temple
in Jerusalem. Events commemorated each year by the festival of
Hanukkah.
235 St
Anterus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1620 Plymouth
Colony settlers sign the Mayflower
Compact (November
11, Old.Style date )
1654 Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia
1783: Men fly over Paris. French inventor Jean
François Pilâtre de Rozier and François
Laurent, the Marquis d' Arlandes, make the first manned hot-air
balloon flight, traveling five miles over Paris in 25 minutes
1787 Andrew
Jackson admitted to the bar
1789 North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state
1791 Colonel Napoléon
Bonaparte is promoted to full general and appointed Commander-in-Chief
of the Armies of the French Republic.
1794 Honolulu
Harbour discovered
1818 Russia's Czar
Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine
1824 1st Jewish Reform congregation established, Charleston, SC
1837 Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times
1843 Thomas Hancock patents
vulcanised rubber
1847 Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200
1871 Moses Gale patents a cigar lighter
1877
Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention
1894 Port
Arthur massacre : Port Arthur, Manchuria falls to the Japanese,
a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War.
1905 Albert
Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon
Its Energy Content?", is published in the journal "Annalen
der Physik". This paper reveals the relationship between energy
and mass. This leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula
E = mc².
1916 HMHS
Britannic sinks in the Aegean Sea after a mine explodes, killing
30 people
1918 At the end of World War I, the German Fleet is surrendered to
Britain at its northern naval base at Scapa
Flow
1920 Bloody
Sunday during the Anglo-Irish
War
1922 Rebecca
Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the
first female United States Senator.
1927 Columbine
Mine Massacre : Striking coal miners were allegedly attacked with
machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
1933 1st US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service
1934 Cole
Porter's musical 'Anything Goes' opens in New York, making American
actress/singer Ethel Merman an overnight star
1935 1st commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China
Clipper)
1936 Britain gets its first television gardening programme: 'In Your
Garden' with Mr Middleton
1942 The completion of the Alaska
Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however,
the highway was not usable by general vehicles until 1943).
1945 General Motors workers go on strike
1946 Harry Truman becomes 1st US President to travel in a submerged
sub
1952 1st US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced
1953 The discovery of the Piltdown
Man skull by Charles
Dawson in Sussex in 1912 is finally revealed to have been a hoax
1958 In Britain, work starts on the Forth
Road Bridge in Scotland
1959 Jack
Benny (violin) and Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet
1964 World's longest suspension bridge "Verrazano
Narrows" opens (NYC)
1967 Phillip and Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet
1968 Yoko
Ono suffers a miscarriage
1969 - U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato
agree in Washington, D.C. on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control
in 1972. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. is to retain its
rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free.
1969 The first permanent ARPANET
link was established between UCLA and SRI.
1970 Vietnam War : Operation
Ivory Coast - A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son
Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American prisoners of war
thought to be held there.
1971 Indian troops partly aided by Mukti
Bahini (Bengali guerrillas) defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle
of Garibpur
1974 The Birmingham
Pub Bombings by the IRA kill 21 people. The Birmingham
Six were sentenced to life in prison for this but subsequently
acquitted.
1975 Linda
McCartney drug charges in US are dropped
1979 The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked
by a mob and set alight, killing four
1980 Lake
Peigneur drained into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced
Texaco oil probe was drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing
water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole. The
resulting whirlpool sucked the drilling platform, several barges,
houses and trees thousands of feet, to the bottom of the dissolving
salt deposit.
1980 Dallas' "Who
Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating
1980 Fire at the MGM
Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 87 people are killed and more than
650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history.
1980 John and Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum
1981 Olivia
Newton-John's "Physical," single goes to number 1 and
stays for 10 weeks
1985 United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan
Pollard is arrested for spying (he was caught giving Israel classified
information on Arab nations and was eventually sentenced to life in
prison).
1986
Iran-Contra Affair : National Security Council member Oliver
North and his secretary start to shred documents implicating them
in the sale of weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help
fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
1988 Canadian
federal election, 1988 : Canadians re-elect the Progressive Conservative
government of Brian Mulroney after an election campaign fought mainly
over the issue of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement.
1990 Charter
of Paris for a New Europe refocusses the efforts of the Conference
for Security and Co-operation in Europeon post-Cold War issues.
1990 Michael
Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations
1990 Signing of Declaration of "End of Cold war" in Paris
1995 The Dayton
Peace Agreement is initialled at the Wright Patterson Air Force
Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia
and Herzegovina. The agreement was formally ratified in Paris,
on December 14 that same year.
1995 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 5,000 (5,023.55)
for the first time.
1996 A propane
explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store and office building
in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 33.
2002 NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia
and Slovenia to become members.
2004 The second round of the Ukrainian
presidential election is held, unleashing massive protests and
controversy with regards to the election's integrity.
2004 The island of Dominica is hit by its most destructive earthquake
in history; the northern half of the island receives the most damage,
especially in the town of Portsmouth. It is also felt in neighboring
Guadeloupe, where one person is killed as a result.
2004 The Paris
Club agrees to write off 80% (up to $100 billion) of Iraq's external
debt
2006 Anti-Syrian
Lebanese Minister and MP Pierre
Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut.
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Birthdates which
occurred on November 21st:
1495 John Bale
England, bishop/anti-catholic playwright (Kynge Johan)
1694 Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet], France, thinker
1785 William Beaumont surgeon (studied digestion)
1787 Sir Samuel Cunard founder (1st regular Atlantic steamship line)
1817 Richard B Garnett Brig Gen, killed during Pickett's charge
1854 Benedict XV 258th Roman Catholic pope (1914-22)
1863 Arthur Quiller-Couch editor (Oxford Book of English Verse)
1898 Ren‚ Magritte painter (This is Not a Pipe)
19-- Lisa Wilkinson actress (All My Children)
19-- Michael Cavanaugh NYC, actor (George-Starman)
1904 Coleman Hawkins virtually created tenor saxophone for jazz
1907 Charles Korvin Piestany Hungary, actor (Berlin Express, Ship
of Fools)
1907 Jim Bishop author (The Day Lincoln was Shot)
1908 Franz Pfnor Germany, slalom (Olympic-gold-1936)
1912 Eleanor Powell Springfield MA, actress/tap dancer (Broadway Melody)
1916 Sid Luckman NFL QB (Chicago Bears)
1920 Ralph Meeker actor (Anderson Tapes, Night Stalker)
1920 Stan Musial outfielder (St Louis Cardinal, 7 times NL bat champ)
1921 Vivian Blaine Newark NJ, actress (Guys & Dolls, Skirts Ahoy)
1927 Joseph Campanella NYC, actor (Dr Steffen-The Nurses, Lou-Mannix)
1932 Jim Ringo NFL center (Green Bay, Philadelphia)
1933 Henry Hartsfield Jr Birmingham AL, astro (STS-4, STS 41-D, STS
61A)
1933 Jean Shepard Pauls Valley OK, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
1934 Laurence Luckinbill Fort Smith Ark, actor (Delphi Bureau, Ike)
1936 James De Preist Philadelphia PA, conductor (Mitropolos 1964)
1937 Marlo Thomas Detroit MI, actress,[Mrs Phil Donahue](That Girl!,
Jenny)
1938 Robert Drivas actor (Our Private World)
1939 Richard Lenz Springfield IL, actor (Hec Ramsey, Scandalous John)
1940 Natalia Maskarova Lenningrad, ballerina (Kirov) defected 1970
1941 Juliet Mills London England, actress (Nanny & the Professor,
QB VII)
1943 Larry Mahan Oregon, rodeo champ (1967-70)
1944 Earl "the Pearl" Monroe Philadelphia PA, NGA Guard
(NY Knicks, Baltimore Bullets)
1945 Goldie Hawn Takoma Park MD, actress (Laugh-in, Private Benjamin)
1950 Alberto Juantorena Cuba, 400m dash (Olympic-gold-1976)
1950 Livingston Taylor Boston, rocker (I Will be in Love With You)
1952 Deborah Shelton Wash DC, actress (Dallas, Ocean Kill, Body Double)
1952 Lorna Luft Scarsdale NY, singer/actress (Where the Boys Are-1980)
1953 Tina Brown journalist publisher (Tatler)
1956 Mariana Simionescu Tirgu Neamt Romania, 1st wife of Bjorn Borg
1956 Terri Welles Santa Monica Ca, playmate of the year (Dec, 1980)
1957 Jim Brown rocker (UB40-Red Red Wine)
1959 Tim Wilkison Shelby NC, tennis player (WCT Atlanta finals-1986)
1963 Nicollette Sheridan Worthing England, actress (Paige-Knots Landing)
1964 Marjorie Judith Vincent Oak Park IL, Miss America (1991)
1975 Cherie Johnson Pittsburgh PA, actress (Cherie-Punky Brewster)
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Deaths which occurred on November 21st:
1555 Georgius Agricola mineralogist, dies in Germany at 61
1624 Jakob Bohme German philosophical mystic, dies
1817 Richard B Garnett killed during Pickett's Charge, Brig Gen
1899 Garret Augustus Hobart 24th VP, died
1916 Franz Josef of Austria, dies
1941 Juanita Spellini first woman executed in California
1958 Mel Ott NY Giant baseball star (1926-1947), dies at 49
1959 Max Baer US, heavyweight boxing champ (1934), dies at 49
1973 Allan Sherman singer, dies at 48 (Goodbye Muddah, Goodbye Faddah)
1981 Harry Von Zell TV announcer (Burns & Allen), dies at 75
1982 Lee Patrick actress (Henrietta-Topper, Maltese Falcon), dies
at 75
1987 James E Folsom (Alabama-Gov, 1947-51, 1955-59), dies at 79
1991 David "Sonny" Werblin AFL owner (NY Jets), dies at
81
2006 Film
director Robert Altman
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