What are the important events that happened on November 21? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
November 21: Facts & Myths About This Day
November 21 is the 326th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 40 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 8, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 481,152 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectaicosahexagon’ day.
Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 69 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,353 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 21 Historical Events
- 1783 –In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
- 1877 –Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
- 1894 –Port Arthur, Manchuria falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War, after which Japanese troops massacre the remaining inhabitants of the city.
- 1927 –Columbine Mine Massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
- 1964 –Second Vatican Council: The third session of the Roman Catholic Church’s ecumenical council closes.
- 1977 –Minister of Internal Affairs Allan Highet announces that 'the national anthems of New Zealand shall be the traditional anthem “God Save the Queen” and the poem “God Defend New Zealand”, written by Thomas Bracken, as set to music by John Joseph Woods, both being of equal status as national anthems appropriate to the occasion.
- 1979 –The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set on fire, killing four. (see: Foreign relations of Pakistan)
- 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 Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
- 1995 –The Dayton Peace Agreement is initialed at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The agreement is formally ratified in Paris, on December 14 that same year.
- 2006 –Anti-Syrian Lebanese Minister and MP Pierre Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut.
Who were born on November 21?
- 1643 –René-Robert Cavelier de LaSalle French explorer (d. 1687)
- 1924 –Christopher Tolkien, British author
- 1927 –Georgia Frontiere, American professional sports team owner (d. 2008)
- 1943 –Phil Bredesen, American politician and 48th Governor of Tennessee
- 1944 –Harold Ramis, American actor/director
- 1962 –Steven Curtis Chapman, American musician
- 1968 –Inka Bause, German actress and singer
- 1973 –Brook Kerr, American actress
- 1979 –Kim Dong Wan, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
- 1989 –Fabian Delph, English footballer
Who died on November 21?
- 1730 –François de Troy, French portrait artist (b. 1645)
- 1811 –Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (b. 1777)
- 1874 –Mariano Fortuny, Spanish painter (b. 1838)
- 1922 –Ricardo Flores Magón, Mexican anarchist (b. 1874).
- 1945 –Alexander Patch, American general (b. 1889)
- 1957 –Francis Burton Harrison, American politician (b. 1873)
- 1982 –John Hargrave, British Social Credit advocate (b. 1894)
- 1990 –Dean Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1954)
- 2007 –Tom Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1928)
- 2010 –David Nolan, American politicial activist (b. 1943)
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