November 21

Friday 21, 1980:

1980 -Lake Peigneur drained into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe drilled into the Diamond crystal salt mine; water flowing down into the mine eroded the edges of the hole. The whirlpool created sucked the drilling platform, several barges, houses and trees thousands of feet, to the bottom of the dissolving salt deposit.

Tuesday 21, 1967:

Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."

Saturday 21, 1953:

Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the skull of the "Piltdown Man", held to be one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, was a hoax.

Wednesday 21, 1934:

primarily negative bowling outside leg stump to a field of short-leg fieldsmen.

Tuesday 21, 1922:

Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first woman United States Senator.