This Day in History
21 Nov 1272
Following Henry III of Englands death on November 16 his son Prince Edward becomes King of England.
21 Nov 1317
Frederik of SierckZyrick becomes bishop of Utrecht
21 Nov 1620
Pilgrim Fathers reach America Provincetown Harbor Mass
21 Nov 1620
Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims at Cape Cod [O.S. Nov 11]
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Ella Fitzgerald wins Amateur Night at Harlem’s Apollo Theater
On the evening of November 21 1934 a young and gangly would-be dancer took to the stage of Harlems Apollo Theater to participate in a harrowing tradit...
Men fly over Paris
French physician Jean-Franois Pilatre de Rozier and Franois Laurent the marquis d Arlandes make the first untethered hot-air balloon flight f...
Israeli spy arrested in United States
Jonathan Jay Pollard a civilian U.S. Navy intelligence analyst and Jewish American is arrested on charges of illegally passing classified U.S. security inform...
Millions tune in to find out who shot J.R.
On this day in 1980 350 million people around the world tune in to televisions popular primetime drama Dallas to find out who shot J.R. E...
Nazi chief architect requests POWs to labor for a new Berlin
On this day in 1941 Albert Speer Adolf Hitlers chief architect and minister for armaments and war production asks for 30000 Soviet prisoners of war ...
Westmoreland tells media the communists are losing
Gen. William Westmoreland commander of U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam tells U.S. news reporters I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965...
U.S. force raids Son Tay prison camp
A combined U.S. Air Force and Army team of 40 Americansled by Army Colonel Bull Simonsconducts a raid on the Son Tay prison camp ...
USC ends Notre Dame winning streak
On November 21 1931 the University of Southern California surprises Notre Dame with a last-minute game-winning field goal at the new Notre Dame Stadium in Sou...
Lincoln allegedly writes to mother of Civil War casualties
Legend holds that on this day in 1864 President Abraham Lincoln composes a letter to Lydia Bixby a widow and mother of five men who had been killed in the Civ...
Tom Horn is born in Missouri
The notorious hired killer Tom Horn is born on this day in 1860 in Memphis Missouri. Killing is my specialty Horn reportedly once said. ...
Voltaire’s birthday
On this day in 1694 Francois-Marie Arouet later known as Voltaire is born in Paris to a treasury officer and his wife.Voltaire studied law but abandoned it t...
Rocky premieres
On this day in 1976 Rocky starring Sylvester Stallone as the underdog prizefighter Rocky Balboa debuts in New York City. The movie which opened in theaters ...
Britannic sinks in Aegean Sea
The Britannic sister ship to the Titanic sinks in the Aegean Sea on this day in 1916 killing 30 people. More than 1000 others were rescued.In the wake of th...
Oliver North starts feeding documents into the shredding machine
National Security Councilstaff memberOliver North and his secretary Fawn Hall begin shredding documents that would have exposed their participation in a range...
Congressional report charges U.S. involvement in assassination plots
A Senate committee issues a report charging that U.S. government officials were behind assassination plots against two foreign leaders and were heavily involved...
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