November 21

November 21 is the 325th day of the year (326th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 40 days remaining.

Events

• 235 - Pope Anterus elected
• 1620 - The Mayflower reaches Cape Cod
• 1783 - Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier[?] and François Laurent[?], the marquis d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight, over Paris.
• 1788 - North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th state of the United States.
• 1794 - Honolulu Harbor discovered
• 1877 - Thomas Edison invents the phonograph
• 1942 - Alcan Highway[?] completed
• 1953 - "Piltdown Man" proven to be a hoax
• 1964 - Verrazano Narrows Bridge[?], then the world's longest suspension bridge, opens.
• 1964 - Closing of third period of Second Vatican Council
• 1969 - First ARPANET link

Births

• 1694 - Voltaire, French philosopher (+ 1778)
• 1761 - Dorothy Jordan, British actress and royal mistress
• 1768 - Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, theologian, philosopher (+ 1834)
• 1878 - Gustav Radbruch, German law professor
• 1882 - Paul Niehans[?], physicist (+ 1971)
• 1898 - René Magritte, Belgian painter (+ 1967)
• 1902 - Foster Hewitt, Canadian radio pioneer (+ 1985)
• 1904 - Coleman Hawkins, jazz musician(+ 1969)
• 1912 - Eleanor Powell[?], actress, dancer (+ 1983)
• 1916 - Sid Luckman[?], American football player (+ 1998)
• 1920 - Stan Musial[?], baseball player
• 1920 - Ralph Meeker[?], actor (+ 1988)
• 1921 - Vivian Blaine[?], actress (+ 1995)
• 1922 - María Casarès[?], actress (+ 1996)
• 1931 - Malcolm Williamson, composer (+ 2003)
• 1933 - Joseph Campanella[?], actor
• 1938 - Marlo Thomas[?], actress
• 1940 - Dr. John[?], musician
• 1941 - Juliet Mills[?], actress
• 1944 - Harold Ramis[?], actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, producer
• 1944 - Earl Monroe[?], basketball player
• 1945 - Goldie Hawn, American actress
• 1952 - Deborah Shelton[?], actress
• 1965 - Björk, singer, songwriter, actress
• 1966 - Troy Aikman[?], American football star
• 1969 - Ken Griffey Jr.[?], American baseball player
• 1973 - Brooke Kerr, American actress

Deaths

• 496 - Pope Gelasius I
• 1555 - Georg Agricola German scientist
• 1695 - Henry Purcell, composer
• 1811 - Heinrich von Kleist, writer
• 1899 - Garret Hobart, Vice President of the United States
• 1916 - Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria
• 1937 - Howard Coffin[?], co-founder of the Hudson Motor Company[?]
• 1945 - Robert Benchley[?], writer, actor
• 1959 - Max Baer[?], boxer
• 1988 - Carl Hubbell[?], baseball star
• 1993 - Bill Bixby, American actor, director
• 1995 - Noel Jones, British diplomat
• 1997 - Michael Hutchence, Australian singer (INXS)
• 1999 - Quentin Crisp, writer, satirist, actor

Holidays and Observances

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