November 21

Sunday 21, 2004:

2004 - The second round of the Ukrainian presidential election is held, unleashing massive protests and controversy with regards to the election's integrity.

Thursday 21, 2002:

NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.

Tuesday 21, 1995:

1995 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 5,000 (5,023.55) for the first time.

Friday 21, 1986:

Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents implicating them in the sale of weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contras rebels in Nicaragua.

Thursday 21, 1985:

United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard is arrested for spying (he was caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations and was eventually sentenced to life in prison).

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.

Wednesday 21, 1979:

The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set afire, killing four. (see: Foreign relations of Pakistan)

Thursday 21, 1974:

1974 - George W. Bush is discharged from the US Air Force Reserve.

Saturday 21, 1970:

A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American POWs thought to be held there (there were zero Americans killed, but the prisoners had already moved to another camp; All US POWs were moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid).

Friday 21, 1969:

US President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato agree in Washington, DC on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. Under terms of the agreement, the US is to retain its rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free.

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, 1964:

Second Vatican Council: The third period of the Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes.

Wednesday 21, 1962:

The Chinese People's Liberation Army declared a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War.

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.

Saturday 21, 1942:

The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (the highway was not usable by general vehicles until 1943, however).

Friday 21, 1941:

The radio program King Biscuit Time is broadcast for the first time (it would later become the longest running daily radio broadcast in history and the most famous live blues radio program).

Wednesday 21, 1934:

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

Monday 21, 1927:

Columbine Mine Massacre: 500 striking coal miners, some with their families, were attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes

Tuesday 21, 1922:

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

Wednesday 21, 1877:

Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound (this is considered to be Edison's first great invention).

Thursday 21, 1861:

American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin secretary of war.

Monday 21, 1791:

Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to full general and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic.

Saturday 21, 1789:

North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state.

Friday 21, 1783:

In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, marquis d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight (flight time: 25 minutes, Maximum height: 100m, distance: 9 km).

Saturday 21, 235:

Anterus is elected Pope.

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