Today In History - November 21

1495 John Bale
1561 Carolus Scribani
1637 Catharina Questiers
1645 Johann Lohner
1683 Johann Michael Muller
1692 Carlo Fragoni
1729 Josiah Bartlett
1742 Alessandro Felici
1768 Friedrich Schleiermacher
1785 William Beaumont
1787 Samuel Cunard
1817 Richard Brooke Garnett
1828 William McComb
1831 John Franklin Miller
1853 Hussain Kamil
1854 Benedict XV, the 258th Pope
1861 Joao da Cruz
1863 Arthur Quiller-Couch
1863 Mina Dilis-Beersmans
1867 Vladimir N. Ipatiev
1870 Joe Darling
1870 Stanley Jackson
1871 Panayot Pipkov
1877 Louis Campbell-Tipton
1880 Franz Hessel
1886 Harold G. Nicolson
1894 Corinne Griffith
1898 Rene Magritte
1900 Alice Calhoun
1900 Jobyna Ralston
1902 Michail A. Suslov
1904 Coleman Hawkins
1905 David Moule-Evans
1907 Charles Korvin
1907 Jim Bishop
1908 Franz Pfnur
1912 Anne Bolt
1912 Eleanor Powell
1916 Sid Luckman
1917 Sem Presser
1920 Ralph Meeker
1920 Stan Musial
1921 Geza Anda
1921 Vivian Blaine
1922 Maria Casares
1929 Marilyn French
1931 Malcolm Williamson
1932 Jim Ringo
1932 Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
1933 Jean Shepard
1934 Laurence Luckinbill
1934 Peter Philpott
1936 James De Preist
1937 Marlo Thomas
1938 Robert Drivas
1939 Rick Lenz
1940 Natalia Makarova
1941 David Porter
1941 George Morren
1941 Juliet Mills
1942 Tweety Bird (the lucky cartoon character)
1943 Larry Mahan
1943 Phil Bredesen
1944 Dick Durbin
1944 Harold Ramis
1944 Marcia "Marcy" Carsey
1944 Richard J. Durbin
1945 Goldie Hawn
1946 Jonas Tomasson
1948 Lonnie Jordan
1949 Basil Williams
1949 Nickolas Grace
1950 Alberto Juantorena
1950 Bruce Laird
1950 Livingston Taylor
1952 Deborah Shelton
1952 Eamonn Coghlan
1952 Lorna Luft
1953 Tina Brown
1956 Mariana Simionescu
1956 Terri Welles
1958 Evert van Benthem
1958 Frank Edmonds
1958 Tim Robinson
1959 Colin Beashel
1959 Tim Wilkison
1963 Nicolette Sheridan
1964 Marjorie Judith Vincent
1964 Olden Polynice
1964 Thomas Everett
1966 Troy Aikman
1967 Dominic Lavoie
1967 Kelly Gallagher
1968 Andy Caddick
1968 Antonio Tarver
1969 Dahlia Salem
1969 Ken Griffy, Jr.
1970 Dahlia Salem
1970 Jorgen Gustafsson
1970 Justin Langer
1970 Keith Crawford
1971 Michael Strahan
1971 Ramondo Stallings
1971 Robert Flickinger
1973 Brent Smith
1973 Danny Kanell
1974 Casey Patton
1974 Tremain Mack
1975 Chad Levitt
1975 Cherie Johnson
1976 Saleem Elahi
1980 Danielle Hartsell

235 St. Anterus begins his reign as the Catholic Pope
496 St. Gelasius I ends his reign as the Catholic Pope
695 Pope Sergius names Willibrord as Archbishop Clemens of Friezen
1317 Frederik of Sierck/Zyrick becomes bishop of Utrecht
1492 The Pinta, under Martin A. Pinzon, separates from the Columbus fleet
1620 The Mayflower Compact is signed by the Pilgrims in Cape Cod
1620 The Pilgrim Fathers reach America: Provincetown Harbor, Mass
1654 Richard Johnson, a free black, is granted 550 acres in Virginia
1729 Netherlands signs the Treaty of Seville
1759 Battle at Maxen
1787 Andrew Jackson is admitted to the Bar
1789 North Carolina ratifies the constitution and becomes the 12th U.S. state
1794 Honolulu Harbor is discovered
1806 Decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with England
1813 Stettin surrenders to the Allied Armies
1818 Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine
1824 The first Jewish Reform congregation forms: Charleston, SC
1834 The HMS Beagle anchors at Bay of San Carlos, Chile
1837 Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times
1847 The Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan and 200 people die
1865 Shaw University forms in Raleigh NC
1871 Moses F. Gale patents a cigar lighter
1871 The first human cannonball is shot: Emilio Onra
1876 A Skirmish between HM Stanley's African expedition and the natives
1877 Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention: the phonograph
1902 Baseball's Philadelphia Athletics and the Phillies form professional football teams
1902 The first night football game is played
1905 The first game ever played in the Australian Tennis Open
1906 China prohibits opium trade
1914 The British Army conquerors Bazra
1918 Two German ammunition trains explode in Hamont, Belgium: 1,750 people are killed
1918 Polish soldiers organize a pogrom against the Jews of Galicia Poland
1920 Mussolini's squad begins its terror: Bologna, Italy
1922 Rebecca L. Felton is sworn in as the first female U.S. Senator
1924 British premier Baldwin cancels the labor contract with the U.S.S.R.
1933 The first U.S. ambassador to U.S.S.R., W.C. Bullitt, begins service
1934 New York Yankees buy Joe DiMaggio from the San Francisco Seals
1935 The first commercial crossing of the Pacific by a plane: China Clipper
1938 Belgian king Leopold III visits Netherlands
1938 Nazi forces occupy western Czechoslovakia and declared its people German citizens
1940 Nazi occupiers forbid building schools in the Netherlands
1942 Tweety Bird (aka Tweety Pie) debuts in the cartoon "Tale of Two Kitties"
1943 Seven Belgian ministers in London sentence King Leopold III
1944 Personnel and executive staff of Philips demonstrate for more food
1945 General Motors workers go on strike
1946 Georgi Dimitrov is elected the Premier of Bulgaria
1946 Harry Truman becomes the first U.S. president to travel in a submerged sub
1949 Bill Veeck sells the Indians for $22 million
1952 Dodgers pitcher Joe Black wins the NL Rookie of Year
1952 The first U.S. postage stamp in 2 colors is introduced
1955 Argentina asks Panama for the return of ex-president Peron
1959 Jack Benny (on violin) and Richard Nixon (on piano) play their famed duet
1960 Bob Scheffing signs to manage the Tigers after Casey Stengel refuses
1963 John F. Kennedy flies to Texas
1964 Pope Paul VI signs the 3rd sitting of the 2nd Vatican council
1964 World's longest suspension bridge "Verrazano Narrows" opens: New York City
1965 The first freighter arrives in Ashdod Port in Israel
1965 The U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
1966 The Dutch government of Zijlstra forms
1967 Phillip and Jay Kunz fly a kite to a record height of 28,000 feet
1968 The Supremes and Temptations release "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"
1968 Yoko Ono suffers a miscarriage
1969 The U.S. performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 Pete Rose wins the NL MVP
1973 President Nixon's attorney, J Fred Buzhardt, reveals the presence of an 18 minute gap in a White House tape recording related to Watergate
1974 The Freedom of Information Act is passed by Congress over President Ford's veto
1975 The Linda McCartney drug charges in the U.S. are dropped
1977 The first flight of the Concorde: London to New York
1977 Orioles first baseman Eddie Murray wins the AL Rookie of Year
1979 A crowd in Islamabad, Pakistan attacks the U.S. embassy, 1 person dies
1980 Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode: 83 million people watch
1980 A fire at MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84 people
1980 It is revealed that Kristen shot J.R. Ewing on "Dallas"
1980 John and Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum
1981 400,000 people demonstrate in Amsterdam against cruise missiles
1986 The Central African Republic adopts a constitution
1986 Army leader Desi Bouterse massacres a Moiwana village
1987 Actress Demi Moore marries actor Bruce Willis
1989 A law banning smoking on most domestic flights is signed by President Bush
1989 TV cameras are permitted in the British House of Commons
1990 Michael Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations
1991 Poet Maria Elene Cruz Varela is arrested in Cuba
1992 Oregon Senator Bob Packwood issues apology for 'unwelcome' sexual advances
1993 Neo-fascists MSI win 36% of the municipal elections in Rome
1995 Dow Jones closes above 5,000 for first time in history
1995 Israel grants jailed U.S. spy, Jason Pollard, citizenship