Nov 21 1694, Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire is born
Nov 21 1695, Henry Purcell, Baroque composer, dies
Nov 21 1783, Jean de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes, two Frenchmen, make the first free hot air balloon flight in Paris
Nov 21 1789, North Carolina becomes the 12th state
Nov 21 1898, Rene Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter, is born
Nov 21 1911, Suffragettes storm Parliament in London
Nov 21 1918, Parliament Qualification of Women Act is passed which allows women to sit and vote in the House of Commons in England
Nov 21 1920, Stan Musial, baseball player, is born
Nov 21 1922, Rebecca Felton of Georgia becomes the first woman US senator
Nov 21 1927, 5 miners are killed and 20 wounded when police use machine guns against striking Colorado miners
Nov 21 1934, Gloria Vanderbilt is ruled "unfit" for custody of her daughter
Nov 21 1937, Marlo Thomas, actress, is born in Detroit, Michigan
Nov 21 1942, Opening of the Alcan Highway
Nov 21 1945, Goldie Hawn, actress, is born
Nov 21 1964, The Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York is opened
Nov 21 1970, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Nobel laureate in physics, dies in Bangalore, India
Nov 21 1973, Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on Watergate tape
Nov 21 1980, 83 million people tune into the TV show "Dallas" to see who shot J.R.
Nov 21 1980, 87 people die in the MGM Grand Hotel fire in Las Vegas, Nevada
Nov 21 1992, 94 tornadoes touch down today in 13 states, killing 26 people and injuring 641
Nov 21 1992, The Anglican Church of Australia votes to allow women priests
Nov 21 1993, Bill Bixby, actor, dies of cancer
Nov 21 1995, The Bosnians, Croatians and Serbians sign the Dayton Peace Accords in Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio to divide up their lands, cease hostilities and form a democratic government
Dec 3 2004, The Supreme Court of the Ukraine annuls the Nov 21 presidential runoff election amid widespread accusations of cheating
Nov 21 2005,| Prime Minister Ariel Sharon quits right-wing Likud party that he helped to form over 30 years ago to form a new more centrist party
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