Today in History - November 21 1620 - The Mayflower reached Provincetown, MA. The ship discharged the Pilgrims at Plymouth, MA, on December 26, 1620. 1694 - French author and philosopher Jean Francois Voltaire was born. At age 65 he spent only three days writing Candide. 1783 - The first successful flight was made in a hot air balloon. The pilots, Francois Pilatre de Rosier and Francois Laurent, Marquis dArlandes, flew for 25 minutes and 5½ miles over Paris. 1789 - North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. 1871 - M.F. Galethe patented the cigar lighter. 1877 - Thomas A. Edison announced the invention of his phonograph. 1920 - Stan Musial (MLB) born 1922 - Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia was sworn in as the first woman to serve as a member of the U.S. Senate. 1929 - Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali had his first art exhibit. 1934 - The New York Yankees purchased the contract of Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco of the Pacific Coast League. 1934 - The musical Anything Goes, by Cole Porter, opened. 1938 - Marlo Thomas born 1942 - The Alaska highway across Canada was formally opened. 1953 - British Natural History Museum authorities announced that Piltdown Man was a hoax. 1960 - George Harrison was deported from Germany for being too young to perform there with the Beatles. 1962 - U.S. President Kennedy terminated the quaratine measures against Cuba. 1963 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, arrived in San Antonio, TX. They were beginning an ill-fated, two-day tour of Texas that would end in Dallas. 1963 - The Elvis Presley film Fun in Acapulco premiered. 1966 - Troy Aikman (NFL) born 1969 - Ken Griffey Jr. (MLB) born 1973 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixons attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, announced the presence of an 18½-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to the Watergate case. 1975 - Elton John received a star on Hollywoods Walk of Fame. 1979 - The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, was attacked by a mob that set the building afire and killed two Americans. 1980 - An estimated 83 million viewers tuned in to find out who shot J.R. on the CBS prime-time soap opera Dallas. Kristin was the character that fired the gun. (Texas) 1980 - 87 people died in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas, NV. 1982 - The National Football League (NFL) resumed its season following a 57-day players strike. 1983 - In Los Angeles, movie theatres premiered Michael Jacksons Thriller video. 1985 - Former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested after being accused of spying for Israel. He was later sentenced to life in prison. 1990 - Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall were married in Bali, Indonesia. 1993 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted against making the District of Columbia the 51st state. 1995 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 5,000-mark (5,023.55) for the first time. 1995 - The Beatles Anthology I set a first-day sales record, selling 450,000 units. 1999 - China announced that it had test-launched an unmanned space capsule that was designed for manned spaceflight. 2000 - The Florida Supreme Court granted Al Gores request to keep the presidential recounts going. 2001 - Microsoft Corp. proposed giving $1 billion in computers, software, training and cash to more than 12,500 of the poorest schools in the U.S. The offer was intended as part of a deal to settle most of the companys private antitrust lawsuits. 2002 - NATO invited Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
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