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This Day In History: November 21st

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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 d'Arlandes, 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.

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.

1942: The Alaska highway across Canada was formally opened.

1953: British Natural History Museum authorities announced that "Piltdown Man" was a hoax.

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.

1973: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon's 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.

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.

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 player's strike.

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.

1986: U.S. Attorney General Meese was asked to conduct an inquiry of the Iran arms sales.

1987: An eight-day siege began at a detention center in Oakdale, LA, as Cuban detainees seized the facility and took hostages.

1989: The proceedings of Britain's House of Commons were televised live for the first time.

1992: U.S. Senator Bob Packwood, issued an apology but refused to discuss allegations that he'd made unwelcome sexual advances toward 10 women in past years.

1993: The U.S. House of Representatives voted against making the District of Columbia the 51st state.

1994: NATO warplanes bombed an air base in Serb-held Croatia that was being used by Serb planes to raid the Bosnian "safe area" of Bihac.

1995: France detonated its fourth underground nuclear blast at a test site in the South Pacific.

1995: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 5,000-mark (5,023.55) for the first time.

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 Gore's 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 company's private antitrust lawsuits.

2002: NATO invited Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.

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