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-FranŤois Pil‰tre de Rozier and FranŤois 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 - RenŽ 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 - Mar’a CasarŹs, 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 - Bjšrk, 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

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