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First aerial voyage with Pilâtre de Rozier and d'Arlandes, Tissandier collection -
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"God Defend New Zealand"
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La Ronde in 1973
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| World Television Day | stub |
| 1783 – The first successful untethered flight by humans in a hot air balloon was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes in Paris. | Hot air balloon has unreferenced section; History of ballooning has multiple issues; Pilâtre de Rozier has no footnotes; d'Arlandes has no references |
| 1918 – Polish troops and civilians began a three-day pogrom against Jews and Christians in Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine). | multiple issues |
| 1962 – The Sino-Indian War ended after the Chinese People's Liberation Army declared a ceasefire. | not all viewpoints, external links |
| 1996 – A propane explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store in Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, killed 33 people and wounded 69 others when the building collapsed. | lots of CN tags (5) |
| 2006 – Lebanese politician Pierre Amine Gemayel, a vocal critic of Syria's military presence in and political domination of Lebanon, was assassinated in Jdeideh. | lead too short |
| 2013 – Massive protests started across Ukraine after President Viktor Yanukovych suspended signing the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement. | outdated |
| Bernardo Pasquini |d|1710| | ref improve |
| * 2008 – U Gambira, who led Burmese monks in the failed Saffron Revolution against military rule, was sentenced to 68 years' imprisonment. | source is clear a series of sentences were passed between 18 and 21 November, not all in one go |
Eligible
- 1386 – Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur captured and sacked the Georgian capital Tbilisi and forced King Bagrat V to convert to Islam.
- 1620 – The Mayflower Compact, the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony, was signed by 41 of the Mayflower's passengers while the ship was anchored in what is now Provincetown Harbor.
- 1877 – Thomas Edison announced his invention of the phonograph, a device able to record and play sound.
- 1920 – Irish War of Independence: On Bloody Sunday in Dublin, the IRA assassinated a group of British intelligence agents, and British forces killed 14 civilians at a Gaelic football match at Croke Park.
- 1922 – Rebecca Latimer Felton became the first woman to serve in the United States Senate, albeit for only one day.
- 1945 – Manzanar, a camp in California for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, was closed.
- 1950 – Two trains collided near Valemount, Canada, killing 21 people; the subsequent trial brought future prime minister John Diefenbaker to greater political attention.
- 1961 – La Ronde (pictured), the first revolving restaurant in the United States, was inaugurated.
- 1970 – Vietnam War: American forces raided the North Vietnamese Sơn Tây prison camp in an attempt to rescue 61 American POWs who were thought to be held there.
- 1977 – "God Defend New Zealand" became New Zealand's second national anthem, on equal standing with "God Save the King", which had been the traditional anthem since 1840.
- 2012 – A remote-controlled bomb exploded on a bus in Tel Aviv, Israel, injuring at least 28 people on board.
- 2015 – The Belgian government imposed a four-day security lockdown in Brussels based on information about potential terrorist attacks.
- Born/died this day: |Columbanus |d|615| William de Corbeil |d|1136| Anne de Xainctonge |b|1567| Henry Purcell |d|1695| Francis Folger Franklin |d|1736| James Hogg |d|1835| Alexander Berkman |b|1870| Joe Darling |b|1870| Mollie Steimer |b|1897| Jadunath Singh |b|1916| Stan Musial |b|1920| Victor Chang |b|1936| Leopold Berchtold |d|1942| Michael Strahan |b|1971| Annie |b|1977|
Notes
- Mayflower appears on November 19, so Mayflower Compact should not appear in the same year.
November 21: Armed Forces Day in Bangladesh
- 1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: After capturing the Chinese city of Port Arthur, the Japanese army began a massacre of the city's soldiers and civilians.
- 1959 – American disc jockey Alan Freed (pictured), who popularized the term rock and roll, was fired from WABC-AM for his role in the payola scandal.
- 1964 – The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, connecting Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City, opened to traffic as the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time.
- 1974 – Bombs exploded in two pubs in central Birmingham, England, killing 21 people and leading to the imprisonment of six people who were later exonerated.
- 2009 – An explosion in a coal mine in Heilongjiang, China, killed 108 miners.
- Voltaire (b. 1694)
- Hetty Green (b. 1834)
- Milka Planinc (b. 1924)
- Catherine Bauer Wurster (d. 1964)