November 21
1783 - With the Marquis d'Arlandes, Pilatre de Rozier made the first free flight in a balloon, reaching a peak altitude of about 3,000 feet and traveling about 5 1/2 miles in 20 minutes.
1789 - North Carolina became the 12th state.
1920 - The Irish Republican Army killed 12 British intelligence officers and two auxiliary policemen in the Dublin area; British forces responded by raiding a soccer match, killing 14 civilians.
1922 - Georgia's Rebecca Fulton was sworn into the U.S. Senate, becoming the first female U.S. Senator (though she only served for one day).
1967 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Air Quality Act.
1969 - For the first time since 1930, the U.S. Senate rejected a Supreme Court nominee, Clement Haynsworth.
1973 - The 18 1/2 minute gap in the Watergate tapes was revealed.
1979 - A mob attacked the U-S Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing two Americans.
1980 - An estimated 83 million TV viewers tuned in to the CBS prime-time soap opera "Dallas" to find out "who shot J.R." in one of the most watched events in television history.
1980 - Eighty-seven people died in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.
1985 - U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested and accused of spying for Israel. (Pollard later pleaded guilty to espionage and was sentenced to life in prison, but was released in 2015.)
1991 - Egypt's Boutros Boutros-Ghali was chosen to become secretary-general of the United Nations.
1995 - Balkan leaders meeting in Dayton, Ohio, initialed a peace plan to end 3 1/2 years of ethnic fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
2001 - Ottilie Lundgren, a 94-year-old resident of Oxford, Connecticut, died of inhalation anthrax; she was the apparent last victim of a series of anthrax attacks carried out through the mail system.
2012 - Israel and the Hamas militant group in Gaza agreed to a cease-fire to end eight days of the fiercest fighting in nearly four years.
2017 - Zimbabwe’s 93-year-old president Robert Mugabe resigned; he was facing impeachment proceedings and had been placed under house arrest by the military.
2020 - A federal judge in Pennsylvania tossed out a Trump campaign lawsuit seeking to prevent certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the state; in a scathing order, the judge said Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani presented only “speculative accusations.”
2021 - A man drove an SUV into a suburban Milwaukee Christmas parade, leaving six people dead and more than 60 injured. (Darrell Brooks Jr. was convicted of 76 counts, including six counts of first-degree intentional homicide; he would be sentenced to life in prison with no chance of release.)
2022 - NASA’s Orion capsule reached the moon, whipping around the far side and buzzing the lunar surface on its way to a record-breaking orbit with test dummies sitting in for astronauts in the first time a capsule visited the moon since NASA’s Apollo program 50 years ago.
Birthdays
23 - Isabel May (actress)
37 - Sam Palladio (actor/singer)
38 - Carly Rae Jepsen (singer)
39 - Jena Malone (actress)
39 - Lindsey Haun (singer/actress)
40 - Nikki Bella (professional wrestler)
40 - Brie Bella (professional wrestler)
48 - Jimmi Simpson (actor)
49 - Kelsi Osborn (singer)
50 - Marina de Tavira (actress)
51 - Rain Phoenix (actor)
52 - Michael Strahan (football player/TV host)
54 - Ken Griffey Jr. (baseball player)
57 - Troy Aikman (football player/broadcaster)
58 - Bjork (singer)
60 - Nicollette Sheridan (actress)
71 - Lorna Luft (actress/singer)
78 - Goldie Hawn (actress)
79 - Earl Monroe (basketball player)
82 - Juliet Mills (actress)
84 - Rick Lenz (actor)
86 - Marlo Thomas (actress)
89 - Laurence Luckinbill (actor)
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Today in Sports History - November 21
1925 - Red Grange plays his final game at the University of Illinois and then signs with the Chicago Bears.
1934 - The New York Yankees purchased the contract of Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco of the Pacific Coast League.
1949 - Bill Veeck sells the Cleveland Indians for $22 million to fund his divorce settlement.
1959 - Major league baseball lifted the ban on inter-league trade.
1982 - The National Football League (NFL) resumed its season following a 57-day players' strike.
1783 - With the Marquis d'Arlandes, Pilatre de Rozier made the first free flight in a balloon, reaching a peak altitude of about 3,000 feet and traveling about 5 1/2 miles in 20 minutes.
1789 - North Carolina became the 12th state.
1920 - The Irish Republican Army killed 12 British intelligence officers and two auxiliary policemen in the Dublin area; British forces responded by raiding a soccer match, killing 14 civilians.
1922 - Georgia's Rebecca Fulton was sworn into the U.S. Senate, becoming the first female U.S. Senator (though she only served for one day).
1967 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Air Quality Act.
1969 - For the first time since 1930, the U.S. Senate rejected a Supreme Court nominee, Clement Haynsworth.
1973 - The 18 1/2 minute gap in the Watergate tapes was revealed.
1979 - A mob attacked the U-S Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing two Americans.
1980 - An estimated 83 million TV viewers tuned in to the CBS prime-time soap opera "Dallas" to find out "who shot J.R." in one of the most watched events in television history.
1980 - Eighty-seven people died in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.
1985 - U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested and accused of spying for Israel. (Pollard later pleaded guilty to espionage and was sentenced to life in prison, but was released in 2015.)
1991 - Egypt's Boutros Boutros-Ghali was chosen to become secretary-general of the United Nations.
1995 - Balkan leaders meeting in Dayton, Ohio, initialed a peace plan to end 3 1/2 years of ethnic fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
2001 - Ottilie Lundgren, a 94-year-old resident of Oxford, Connecticut, died of inhalation anthrax; she was the apparent last victim of a series of anthrax attacks carried out through the mail system.
2012 - Israel and the Hamas militant group in Gaza agreed to a cease-fire to end eight days of the fiercest fighting in nearly four years.
2017 - Zimbabwe’s 93-year-old president Robert Mugabe resigned; he was facing impeachment proceedings and had been placed under house arrest by the military.
2020 - A federal judge in Pennsylvania tossed out a Trump campaign lawsuit seeking to prevent certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the state; in a scathing order, the judge said Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani presented only “speculative accusations.”
2021 - A man drove an SUV into a suburban Milwaukee Christmas parade, leaving six people dead and more than 60 injured. (Darrell Brooks Jr. was convicted of 76 counts, including six counts of first-degree intentional homicide; he would be sentenced to life in prison with no chance of release.)
2022 - NASA’s Orion capsule reached the moon, whipping around the far side and buzzing the lunar surface on its way to a record-breaking orbit with test dummies sitting in for astronauts in the first time a capsule visited the moon since NASA’s Apollo program 50 years ago.
Birthdays
23 - Isabel May (actress)
37 - Sam Palladio (actor/singer)
38 - Carly Rae Jepsen (singer)
39 - Jena Malone (actress)
39 - Lindsey Haun (singer/actress)
40 - Nikki Bella (professional wrestler)
40 - Brie Bella (professional wrestler)
48 - Jimmi Simpson (actor)
49 - Kelsi Osborn (singer)
50 - Marina de Tavira (actress)
51 - Rain Phoenix (actor)
52 - Michael Strahan (football player/TV host)
54 - Ken Griffey Jr. (baseball player)
57 - Troy Aikman (football player/broadcaster)
58 - Bjork (singer)
60 - Nicollette Sheridan (actress)
71 - Lorna Luft (actress/singer)
78 - Goldie Hawn (actress)
79 - Earl Monroe (basketball player)
82 - Juliet Mills (actress)
84 - Rick Lenz (actor)
86 - Marlo Thomas (actress)
89 - Laurence Luckinbill (actor)
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Today in Sports History - November 21
1925 - Red Grange plays his final game at the University of Illinois and then signs with the Chicago Bears.
1934 - The New York Yankees purchased the contract of Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco of the Pacific Coast League.
1949 - Bill Veeck sells the Cleveland Indians for $22 million to fund his divorce settlement.
1959 - Major league baseball lifted the ban on inter-league trade.
1982 - The National Football League (NFL) resumed its season following a 57-day players' strike.
