November 21

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

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and Observances

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
• 1990 - The Super Famicom is released in Japan
• 1992 - Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is released for the Sega Megadrive in Japan

• 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
• 1962 - Steven Curtis Chapman, contemporary Christian music star
• 1965 - Björk, singer, songwriter, actress
• 1966 - Troy Aikman, American football star
• 1969 - Ken Griffey, Jr, American baseball player
• 1973 - Brooke Kerr, American actress
• 1984 - Jena Malone, American actress

• 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
• 2002 - Günter Müggenburg, journalist

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