21-Nov-1272 :: Prince EDWARD :: On this day, he became the king of England following the death of Henry III on November 16.
21-Nov-1789 :: North CAROLINA :: On this day, it ratified the US Constitution and was admitted as the 12th U.S. state.
21-Nov-1791 :: NAPOLEON Bonaparte :: On this day, he was promoted from Colonel to full General and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic.
21-Nov-1840 :: VICTORIA :: Born on this day, she was the Princess Royal of Great Britain and German Empress.
21-Nov-1870 :: JOE DARLING :: Born on this day, he was an Australian cricketer.
21-Nov-1877 :: THOMAS EDISON :: On this day, he announced his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.
21-Nov-1894 :: PORT ARTHUR Massacre :: Port Arthur, Manchuria fell to the Japanesein the First Sino-Japanese War.
21-Nov-1899 :: GARRET HOBART :: Died on this day, he was the Vice President of the United States.
21-Nov-1905 :: Albert EINSTEIN :: On this day, he published his paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", which revealed the relationship between energy and mass and led to the mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc².
21-Nov-1909 :: RAJA RAO :: Born on this day, he was an Indian writer of English-language novels and short stories.
21-Nov-1922 :: REBECCA Latimer FELTON :: On this day, she, from Georgia, became the first woman US Senator.
21-Nov-1939 :: MULAYAM SINGH YADAV :: Born on this day, he is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh.
21-Nov-1941 :: KING BISCUIT Time :: It is one of the longest-running daily American radio broadcasts in history and the most famous live blues radio program, a winner of the George Foster Peabody Award for broadcasting excellence. It was first broadcast on this day.
21-Nov-1942 :: ALASKA HIGHWAY :: Also known as the Alcan Highway, its completion was celebrated on this day.
21-Nov-1947 :: JAI HIND :: Independent India's first postage stamp with an inscription "Jai Hind" was released on this day.
21-Nov-1962 :: SINO-INDIAN WAR :: On this day, China declared a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War.
21-Nov-1963 :: THUMBA :: India's space programme made a modest beginning on this day, with the launching of the first unguided rocket from Thumba.
21-Nov-1964 :: VERRAZANO-NARROWS Bridge :: It was opened to traffic on this day (at the time it was the world's longest suspension bridge). It is a double-decked suspension bridge that connects the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City at the Narrows, the reach connecting the relatively protected upper bay with the larger lower bay.
21-Nov-1969 :: ARPANET :: The first ARPANET link was established on this day.
21-Nov-1969 :: OKINAWA :: On this day, US President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato agreed on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972; but US would retain its rights to nuclear free bases on the island.
21-Nov-1969 :: MUTESA II of Buganda :: Died on this day, he was the President of Uganda.
21-Nov-1970 :: JUSTIN LANGER :: Born on this day, he is an Australian cricketer.
21-Nov-1970 :: Chandrasekhara VENKATA RAMAN :: Died on this day, he was an Indian physicist and Nobel laureate.
21-Nov-1971 :: MUKTI BAHINI :: On this day, the Indian troops partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas) defeated the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur.
21-Nov-1979 :: ISLAMABAD :: On this day, the US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, was attacked and set on fire by a mob killing four persons.
21-Nov-1980 :: HOTEL ON FIRE :: On this day, a deadly fire broke out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada (now Bally's Las Vegas), killing 87 people and injuring more than 650 in the worst disaster in Nevada history.
21-Nov-1980 :: Lake PEIGNEUR :: On this day, it was completely drained into an underlying salt deposit because of a misplaced oil probe drilled into the Diamond crystal salt mine under the lake; the resulting maelstrom sucked the drilling platform, several barges, houses and trees thousands of feet, to the bottom of the dissolving salt deposit.
21-Nov-1981 :: PIET RINKE :: Born on this day, he is a Zimbabwean cricketer.
21-Nov-1985 :: JONATHAN Jay POLLARD :: He was a US Navy intelligence analyst, who was arrested on this day for spying (giving Israel classified information on Arab nations) and was eventually given life sentence.
21-Nov-1996 :: ABDUS SALAM :: Died on this day, he was an undivided India-born Pakistani physicist and Nobel laureate.
21-Nov-2001 :: SALAHUDDIN :: Died on this day, he was a King of Malaysia.
21-Nov-2002 :: NATO :: On this day, it invited Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
21-Nov-2004 :: EARTHQUAKE :: On this day, the island of Dominica was hit by its most destructive earthquake in history.
21-Nov-2004 :: IRAQ's EXTERNAL DEBT :: On this day, the Paris Club agreed to write off 80% (up to $100 billion) of the said debt.
21-Nov-164 BC :: Judas MACCABAEUS :: On this day, he, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restored the temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.