SomeFacts | November 21

On this day - November 21

Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, ...

235 — Pope Anterus succeeds Pontian as the nineteenth pope.

1386 — Timur of Samarkand captures and sacks the Georgian capital of ...

1620 — Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact (November ...

1676 — The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first ...

1783 — In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent ...

1789 — North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is ...

1851 — Mutineers take control of the Chilean penal colony of Punta ...

1861 — American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis ...

1877 — Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a ...

1894 — Port Arthur, China, falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory ...

1900 — Claude Monet's paintings shown at Gallery Durand-Ruel in ...

1902 — The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeat the Kanaweola ...

1905 — Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy ...

1910 — Sailors on board Brazil's warships including the Minas ...

1916 — World War I: Mines from SM U-73 sink HMHS Britannic, the ...

1918 — A pogrom takes place in Lwów (now Lviv); over three days, at ...

1918 — The Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 is passed, ...

1918 — The Flag of Estonia, previously used by pro-independence ...

1920 — Irish War of Independence: On "Bloody Sunday" in ...

1922 — Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, ...

1927 — Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly ...

1942 — The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan ...

1944 — World War II: American submarine USS Sealion sinks the ...

1945 — The United Auto Workers strike 92 General Motors plants in 50 ...

1950 — Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in northeastern ...

1953 — The Natural History Museum, London announces that the ...

1954 — People's Action Party, an eventual dominative political ...

1959 — American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term ...

1961 — "La Ronde" opens in Honolulu, the first revolving ...

1962 — The Chinese People's Liberation Army declares a ...

1964 — Second Vatican Council: The third session of the Roman ...

1964 — The Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge opens to traffic. At the time it ...

1967 — Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news ...

1969 — The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA ...

1969 — U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Satō ...

1970 — Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast: A joint United States Air ...

1971 — Indian troops, partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali ...

1972 — Voters in South Korea overwhelmingly approve a new ...

1974 — The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people. The Birmingham Six ...

1977 — Minister of Internal Affairs Allan Highet announces that the ...

1979 — The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, is attacked ...

1980 — A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, ...

1985 — United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is ...

1986 — National Security Council member Oliver North and his ...

1989 — Aeroflot Flight 37577 crashes on approach to Sovetsky Airport, ...

1990 — Bangkok Airways Flight 125 crashes on approach to Samui ...

1992 — A major tornado strikes the Houston, Texas area during the ...

1995 — The Dayton Agreement is initialed at the Wright-Patterson Air ...

1996 — Humberto Vidal explosion: Thirty-three people die when a ...

1998 — Finnish satanist Jarno Elg kills a 23-year-old man and ...

2002 — Arturo Guzmán Decena, founder of Los Zetas and high-member of ...

2002 — NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, ...

2004 — China Eastern Airlines Flight 5210 crashes after takeoff from ...

2004 — The Paris Club agrees to write off 80% (up to $100 billion) of ...

2004 — Dominica is hit by the most destructive earthquake in its ...

2004 — The second round of the Ukrainian presidential election is ...

2006 — Anti-Syrian Lebanese politician and government minister Pierre ...

2009 — A mine explosion in Heilongjiang, China kills 108.

2012 — At least 28 are wounded after a bomb is thrown onto a bus in ...

2013 — Massive protests start in Ukraine after President Viktor ...

2013 — Fifty-four people are killed when the roof of a shopping ...

2014 — A stampede in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe caused by the police firing ...

2015 — The government of Belgium imposes a security lockdown on ...

2017 — Robert Mugabe formally resigns as President of Zimbabwe, after ...

2019 — Tesla launches the SUV Cybertruck. A gaffe occurs during the ...

2019 — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is indicted on ...

2021 — An SUV plows through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, ...

2022 — A magnitude 5.6 earthquake on the Indonesian island of Java ...